Alice B. reviewed on 4/27/2012 + 3558 more book reviews

The author's Great-Great grandmother was Jean Rio Baker, who came to Utah from England. Mrs Baker and her family were converted by Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Missionary who lied and denied being a polygamist although he was. He did not tell the Bakers about the polygamy, or the autocratic reign of Brigham Young, who took Mrs. Bakers piano and all her money. By the time of the Mountain Meadows massacre, she wanted to leave Mormonism, but Brigham Young did not allow it. He was the driving force behind this massacre. Eventually, her whole family including herself left Mormonism, except her son, William and his first wife and children, Eventually, the Mormon church would betray him for being a polygamist and he spent the rest of his life in jail. Ironically, It was Wilford Woodruff who betrayed him for being a polygamist

.Jean had a harsh life in Utah. When a Mormon man she was nursing asked her to go to San Francisco with him and she stayed their in happiness the rest of her life.

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