Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Colofornian
re: For Emmeline Wells, there was a sort of happy ending that was denied many others. As Van Wagoner recounts, in his final years, her frail and aging husband, Daniel, seeking tender care and companionship, returned to Emmeline’s home and side, after mostly ignoring her for 40 years. In her eyes, that probably counted as a blessing due after decades of suffering.)))

Yuck. How is this a happy ending? Why didn't he stick with his teenaged nurses? Maybe she fed him some arsenic.

Sad story, but we are headed in this direction with the wide acceptance of same sex marriage. Polygamy has a long history, and is legal in Ontario, Canada to suit the perversions of the Muslims. We'll see it in Michigan, first...

5 posted on 07/02/2011 6:33:18 PM PDT by Mamzelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Mamzelle
re: For Emmeline Wells, there was a sort of happy ending that was denied many others. As Van Wagoner recounts, in his final years, her frail and aging husband, Daniel, seeking tender care and companionship, returned to Emmeline’s home and side, after mostly ignoring her for 40 years. In her eyes, that probably counted as a blessing due after decades of suffering.))) Yuck. How is this a happy ending? Why didn't he stick with his teenaged nurses? Maybe she fed him some arsenic.

What do you expect of Daniel Wells? He left his first wife in Nauvoo when the Mormons headed West. He took on six wives in Utah -- Emmeline being the seventh. Five years after marrying her, he made massacre history by being third in charge of the militia that engaged in an outright terrorist act vs. children, moms & dads. See: Mormon Shooters and Clubbers: General DANIEL HANMER WELLS

According to that site: DANIEL HANMER WELLS, a MORMON SHOOTER and CLUBBER, Commander-in-Chief of the territorial militia, the Nauvoo Legion, it is not known as to how much knowledge Wells had prior to the attack that took place at Mountain Meadows. However, as third in command in the military hierarchy, he, as well as his superiors, George A. Smith , and Brigham Young , are culpable under the military rules of accountability. Further, there is little question that he and superiors were involved in the cover-up that followed the brutal and cowardly slaughter. The LDS Church has knowingly sponsored, endorsed, and forever immortalized these butchers into history. Wells was born on October 27, 1814 in Trenton, New York to Daniel Wells and his wife Catherine Chapin. When he grew up he married Eliza Rebecca Robison on March 12, 1837 in Commerce (later Nauvoo), Illinois. The couple made their home in Nauvoo and Wells was a "Jack Mormon", a term applied to non-church members, who defended the church and its members. He was personal friends with Joseph Smith which helped him get elected to the Nauvoo City Council and later as a judge. After his friend, Joseph Smith, was killed in June, 1844 and the Mormons were expelled from the area, Wells decided to join the church. Made an official church member in 1846, Wells remained in Illinois until 1848, when he went to Utah and began working toward the organization of the State of Deseret. However, his wife, Eliza, who never participated in plural marriages, did not accompany him. In Utah, Daniel, on the other hand, would take six wives. In the year of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Wells was ordained as an Apostle, was the second counselor to Brigham Young, and the commanding officer of the Nauvoo Legion, the territorial militia. Later he would preside over the church's European missions while living in Great Britain and when he returned to Utah Territory was elected mayor of Salt Lake City in 1866, a position he held until 1874. In 1872 Wells was arrested for being an accessory in the murder of Robert Yates, a murder that occurred in 1857 at the mouth of Echo Canyon. Though a man named Bill Hickman would eventually confess to killing Yates, Wells was the official commanding officer of the military operation which resulted in the death of Yates, thereby making him an accessory. However, a year later the charges were dismissed. In 1879 he was jailed for failing to disclose information regarding the various polygamist marriages he had performed. Jailed for a couple of months and accessed a $100 fine, he was released.

Ya gotta understand these polygamists were criminals; and many of them were mass murderers as well.

But, they probably were "nice" mass murderers.

8 posted on 07/02/2011 6:52:46 PM PDT by Colofornian (The Mormon church regards 100% of the founding fathers as apostates from the 'true' church)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]

To: Mamzelle

Polygamy has a long history, and is legal in Ontario, Canada to suit the perversions of the Muslims.
______________________________________________

Why just the Moslems ???

Theres a lot of Mormons in Ontario who like that kind of perversion also


11 posted on 07/02/2011 7:10:58 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson