Saturday, April 11, 2015

Return to Arkansas after 2 years--The smaller children who survived the Mountain Meadows Massacre

At least the Dunlap and Fancher children are related to our Cokers. Several Coker cousins were massacred.

The Glasgow, Missouri, Weekly Times on 29 September 1859 quoted the Oseola Democrat of the 10th: William C. Mitchell from Marion County had passed through Oseola with "15 of the children rescued from the Mormons who captured them at the time their parents were inhumanly murdered at the Mountain Meadow Massacre, in Utah."

"Mr. Mitchell obtained the children at Fort Laramie, whither they were brought by majors Whiting and Jarvis.''Vengeance cries to Heaven to redress these wrongs; for 'whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall be shed."

Someone in Mt. Pleasant, Carroll Co. Arkansas on 14 September 1859 wrote to the Little Rock Arkansas Weekly Gazette which published the letter on 24 September 1859: "Col. Mitchell has arrived home with the surviving children of the Mountain Meadow massacre, except two of the oldest who were detained at Salt Lake City as witnesses. He will deliver them to their nearest relatives on to-morrow, at Carrolton--the most of them belonging in this and Marion county, and I believe the remainder in Johnson. I was intimately acquainted with the most of the persons killed in that train, and it almost chills the blood in my veins to think of the horrible affair, and how those little fellows have suffered. It does seem to me that our Government at least ought to make ample provision for the education and raising of those children."

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