Hmmm...this is new to me, Fred. Are you saying that friends and relatives of the Fanchers were guilty of these acts...THOUSANDS??? Are you talking about Winter Quarters? If so, click HERE Winter Quarters is in Nebraska.
The Fanchers were from Arkansas, where Parley Pratt died. From Wiki:
"On a preaching mission in the southern United States in 1857, Pratt was being tracked by Hector McLean, who was upset with Pratt for marrying his legal wife Eleanor McLean. Pratt had met Eleanor a few years earlier in San Francisco, California, and she later left Hector and moved to Utah where she married Pratt.[2] Though for religious reasons she considered herself "unmarried", Eleanor was not legally divorced from Hector at the time of her Celestial marriage to Pratt.[3]
McLean pressed criminal charges, accusing Pratt of coming between him and his legal wife. Pratt managed to evade him and the legal charges, but was finally arrested in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He was tried before Judge John B Ogden, but was only charged with stealing children's clothes. He had helped his wife Eleanor retrieve her children who had been taken from her by McLean. Judge Ogden acquitted Pratt of the charges against him and released him. However, shortly afterward, on 13 May 1857, he was killed by Hector McLean on a farm northeast of Van Buren, Arkansas. Pratt was buried near Alma, Arkansas."
The mormons were incensed at the death of Pratt. Your post sounds like a half-true lie to me.
The scene, a waterfront bar in San Francisco
Parley: Well hello there, whuts yer name?
Eleanor: Eleanor
Parley: Hello, I’m Parley, Where ya frum?
Eleanor: Arkansas
Parley: Whuts yer sign?
Eleanor: Dunno, whuts a sign?
Parley: Hold muh hand, I’ll give ya a sign....Halalulu! Now yer muh speshul heavenly wife.
Isn’t it ‘Fred’ who is constantly accusing folks of half-truth lies? Is the ol’ sod now ‘lying for the lord’ with a half-truth lie of his own, so he doesn’t count his half-truth as a lie?