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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — The Haun's Mill Massacre should be called the Hawn's Mill Massacre. Jacob Hawn, owner of the Hawn's Mill, was never a Mormon. BYU Professor Alexander L. Baugh discussed these two historical corrections in his presentation at the Mormon History Association conference in Independence on Saturday morning. With 17 Mormons killed and 14 Mormons injured, Baugh explained that the massacre on October 30, 1838 was the "singular most tragic event in terms of loss of life and injury enacted by an anti-Mormon element against the Latter-day Saints in our entire church's history." ...Baugh has researched the Hawn's Mill...