The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher wagon train. The massacre occurred in the southe
The 1999 burial site monument
Panorama of the area in 2009
Isaac C. Haight— Stake President, battalion commander, director of Deseret Iron Company.
Philip Klingensmith- a Bishop in the church and a private in the militia. Participated in the killings. After disaffiliation from the LDS Church he turned state's evidence against his fellow conspirators.
The Baker–Fancher party was a group of American western emigrants from Marion, Crawford, Carroll, and Johnson counties in Arkansas, who departed Carroll County in April 1857 and "were attacked by the
Mountain Meadows Massacre
…Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher wagon train. The massacre occurred in the southern Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows, and was perpetrated by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ…
Fanchers' livestock brand, a monogrammed J-F. Registered in 1852 at Tulare County, California—intended destination of ill-fated Baker–Fancher party—to Captain Alexander Fancher's older brother John
The Page family: siblings Lewis (rear), L to R – Samuel, Clarissa (Coffman), and John. Left the Baker–Fancher party before arriving at Mountain Meadows. Taken before 1918 in Clarksville, El Dorado County, California.
The site of the massacre, as seen through a viewfinder, from the 1990 Monument
Survivor Nancy Saphrona Huff (4) was taken away along with her family's possessions by John Willis to reside at his house until she was returned to relatives in Arkansas two years later.