As they were moving traveling to Utah, some US Army officers met them and asked for vo,lunteers to go anf fight the Mexicans...
Brigham Young made a deal with them for payment for each man who went...
THen he ordered I think it was 500 to go...
Brigham Young promised the men that he would make sure their wives and childrfen were well looked after...
The money was signed over to the greedy paws of Brigham Young...(for “safe keeping”)
The families never saw any of it...Typical BY...
They actually suffered because their men were not there to help them get to Utah and to live after they got there......
But of co9urse it was the Missourians fault...
or was it tjhe Ohioans fault ???
Anyone but Brigham Young...
When it came to distinguishing what went into Brigham's personal pockets, and what was the church's, even faithful Mormon authors recognize that "The major problem...which took two years to straighten out after his death, was trying to determine what was in his name and what belonged to the Church. Brigham had never seemed greatly concerned about the distinction, and that's the reason he resigned his position as trustee-in-trust for the Church four years before his death. (George W. Givens, 500 More Little-Known Facts in Mormon History, p. 157)
Givens says: "Non-Mormons...have always contended that Brigham Young enriched himself at the expense of his followers to the tune of several million dollars. In fact, Ann Eliza Young's divorce lawyers, trying for a sizable settlement, estimated his wealth at 8 million dollars."
Brigham countered to those attorneys that he had "only" $600,000. We have to remember this was 1873 non-inflationary dollars! Young's lawyers says Young exceeded $40,000 income per MONTH! (Young claimed less than $6,000 per month).
Some say Ann Eliza was wife #19....or #27...looks like the actual # was that she was one among 52!