Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: April 05, 2016 03:07PM
I've never read my grandfather's wiki entry. Just did that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rulon_JeffsI'm a grandson of the "Zola" mentioned. Growing up I heard that Rulon was raised polygamist, left his father's group to join the mainstream, went on a mission, was asked to extend his mission at his own expense, didn't like being pressured like that but still came home and married my grandmother.
Then, my grandmother wanting her husband to have a relationship with his family invited her father in law over for weekly Sunday dinners. In the course of those conversations (between father and son) Rulon re-converted to polygamy and began pressuring my grandmother to accept his marrying a plural wife.
This is my families story. It may be mythology but I tend to believe it. We visited Rulon in his Sandy compound (which became Alta Academy) several times in the 80s when I was growing up. I think my father had it right on Rulon's earlier existence.
But I have no way to inform Wiki of it and I can't confirm it.
So, at least RfM knows the family story. The Wiki story sounds bogus. Like Rulon didn't hear about polygamy until 1940???? Yeah, right.