Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857

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If you are wondering what that pile of rocks are on the banner at BehindZionCurtain.com, that is a mound built to memorialize a massive grave for over 120 innocent men, women and children that were killed while unarmed by Mormon leaders in Southern Utah in 1857.

The reason that I put that mound on the website, is as a protest to the LDS church not allowing the family members of the victims to properly mourn or give proper burial to their ancestors.
The LDS church owns the property where the current mound is now. But in the late 1850s a rock cairn was built with a cross on top in the exact same place as the LDS owned memorial is now. But Brigham Young in a fit of rage, ordered that the memorial be torn down. Since it has been rebuilt, the LDS church has prevented the family of the victims from erecting the signature cross that Major J. H. Carleton had originally constructed on the memorial, to give reverence to the faith of the victims who were buried there.
It should be noted that the LDS church does not consider the cross a sacred icon, and it is not worn by LDS and you will not find a cross at any LDS church or temple.

This is what the original cairn would have looked like:

Mountain Meadows Massacre Cairn

Mountain Meadows Massacre Cairn

The MMMF (Mountain Meadows Massacre Foundation) have constructed a replica of the original memorial in Carrollton Arkansas. See pictures at this link: MMMF Replica Memorial

It is my opinion that the LDS church are in the wrong for the massacre back in 1857. They are also wrong for restricting the family members of the victims from properly honoring their ancestors.
SHAME ON YOU LDS!

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2 Responses to “Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857”

  1. Rhonda Pace says:

    I am a descendant of many of the pioneers who lived in Southern Utah at the time of the massacre. My ancestors are among the leaders of the area, those who took children in afterward, and probably some of the perpetrators as well, although most personal histories deny that they were there. I too believe it was a terrible tragedy.

    There are many angles to any given story and often the loudest is wrongly considered the most correct. Much attention has been given to the victims of the massacre and not enough to the political and social pressures that caused to to occur.

    However, these travelers were not as innocent as they have been made out to be. I have unpublished letters written by my ancestors which tell how this wagon train had an ox die in the Fillmore area. When the Indians asked for the ox so they could eat it, members of the wagon train poisoned it before they gave it to them, causing sickness and death in the Indian tribe. The Indians were outraged and demanded revenge, which in their culture meant a life for a life.

    By the time they reached the Cedar City area it was obvious to the Indians that they would be leaving the area. The Indians claimed that if they could not get their revenge on the wagon train, then the lives of local settlers would be taken to balance the score.

    These people had been told to live at peace with the Indians which they had been doing for several years,and hoped to continue to do. I do not condone what the Mormon settlers did, but I believe they were victims of their place in history. Should they protect the wagon train at the expense of their own lives? A difficult question at any time.

    Biased posts like this one only tell facts from one angle and continue predjudice where it does not belong. Shame on YOU.

    • This is a tragedy in and of itself. You are making excuses for these murderers who killed over 120 UNARMED men, women and children. The indians didn’t shoot the pioneers at point blank range after they had surrendered! That was ALL on the cowards who were known as Mormons.
      Your unpublished letters are BS, and irrelevant. The indians had a small part in the overall crime.

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