An Englishwoman in Utah - the story of a life's experience in Mormonism (1880) (14768260062)

Identifier: englishwomaninut00sten (find matches)
Title: An Englishwoman in Utah : the story of a life's experience in Mormonism
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Stenhouse, Fanny, 1829- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Subjects: Stenhouse, Fanny, 1829- Lee, John Doyle, 1812-1877 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Mormons and Mormonism Mountain Meadows Massacre, 1857 Women, Mormon Women in the Mormon Church
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library



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hisfather, tearing her from him by violence, blew out her brains.Another unhappy girl is said to have kneeled to this samemonster Lee, entreating him to spare her life. He draggedher into the bushes, stripped her naked, and cut her throatfrom ear to ear, after shehad suffered worse at his hands thandeath itself. About half an hour was probably occupied inthe butchery, and every soul of that company was cut off,excepting only a few little children who were supposed to betoo young to understand or remember what had taken place.The unfortunate victims were stripped, without referenceto age or sex, and then left to rot upon the field. There theyremained until torn and dismembered by the wolves, when itwas then thought prudent to conceal such as lay nearest tothe road. An eye-witness subsequently visiting the spotsaid :— The scene of the massacre, even at this late day, was horri-ble to look upon. Womens hair in detached locks and inmasses hung to the sage bushes and was strewn over the
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre. 25$ ground in many places. Parts of little childrens dresses andof female costume dangled from the shrubbery, or lay scatteredabout, and among these, here and there on every hand, for atleast a mile in the direction of the road, by two miles east andwest, there gleamed, bleached white by the weather, the skullsand other bones of those who had suffered. A glance into thewaggon, when all these had been collected, revealed a sightwhich never can be forgotten. The remains were subsequently gathered together by MajorCarleton, the United States Commissioner, who erected overthem a large cairn of stones, surmounted by a cross of redcedar, with the inscription thereon : Vengeance is mine: Iivill repay, saith the Lord; and on a stone beneath were en-graved the words :— Here 120 men, women, and children were massacred incold blood, early in September, 1857. They were fromArkansas. It is said that this monument was subsequently destroyedby order of Brigham Young,