Posted by:
ificouldhietokolob
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Date: July 19, 2016 04:56PM
My great-great grandfather started to "Zion" with his mom, dad, and 2 siblings in 1848 when the family joined the church in England. Waiting for the ship for the states in Liverpool, his father died. They went to the US without him. Shortly after arriving, his sister died of cholera in St. Louis. Then his younger brother.
Only he and his mom left. They hit the mormon trail from there. Both made it to Utah alive, but his mom didn't fare well, and died in Parowan 3 years later after being ill nearly the entire time they were in Utah.
This "call to gather in Zion" cost the lives of so many people. For a made-up, bullshit religion. The number of lives on the heads of Smith and Young are almost too many to count.
If these people want to really experience what the "pioneers" did, they should do it in period clothes, with period hardware, and without doctors or medicine. Of course, they won't...and even though they don't they STILL have people die on the treks, adding to the body count of Smith & Young & Company.
Sigh.
Here's g-g-grandpa's story (although a sanitized mormon version of it):
http://www.ldsinfobase.net/rh/history/histories/william_lefevre.html