[fproy2222]

“What are your answers to the questions you asked me?”

Start here,

Members of the militia entered the shop and found 10-year-old Sardius Smith, 7-year-old Alma Smith (sons of Amanda Barnes Smith), and 9-year-old Charles Merrick hiding under the blacksmith’s bellows. Alma and Charles were shot (Charles later died), and a militia man known as “Glaze, of Carroll county”, killed Sardius when he “put his musket against Sardius’s skull and blew off the top of his head.”[24] Later, a William Reynolds would justify the killing by saying, “Nits will make lice, and if he had lived he would have become a Mormon.

[Widget Jr]

That's the Haun's Mill massacre, October 30, 1838, Missouri. Mountain Meadows Massacre was. September 7, 1857, Utah.

19 years apart and 900 miles away. That is grasping at straws.

[Elsie]

Later, a William Reynolds would justify the killing by saying, “Nits will make lice, and if he had lived he would have become a Mormon.

 Seems that was a saying that would perculate through society...

At dawn on November 29th, 1864, he and 700 men reached the edge of Black Kettle's camp on the banks of Sand Creek. Many of them were drunk from the whiskey they had swallowed to warm them during an icy all-night ride. One of William Bent's sons, Robert, was riding with Chivington, commandeered at gunpoint to show the way to the Cheyenne camp. Bent's other children -- Charles, Julia and George -- were all inside the camp.

Some regular army officers protested that to attack the peaceable village would betray the army's pledge of safety. Chivington ignored them. "Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians," he said. "Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice." He ordered the attack.