skeptic
3rd January 2006, 01:45 PM
Some of the last words uttered by “Nephi Johnson” at his death bed; as Juanita Brooks attempting to interview him but arriving too late for her history research on the Mountain Meadow Massacre. (Forward by Jan Shipps vii, The Mountain Meadow Massacre)
Nephi Johnson at age 24 was called to Mountain Meadows as an Indian interpreter to help manage the Indians who were unable to do away with the emigrant party (120 men, women and children) by themselves. The original plan was to stir up the Indians to commit the crime. Now a new plan was to be put in place.
The Southern Utah Post Mormons will be privileged to a lecture from a direct descendant of Nephi Johnson about Nephi Johnson’s history and his testimony at the trial of John D. Lee revealing more of the Mormon Church’s involvement in the massacre.
The lecture will be this coming Sunday January 8th, 2 PM at the St. George Holiday Inn. 850 So. Bluff, St. George Utah.
When asked by Isaac C. Haight what he would do with the property, Nephi Johnson advised to Haight to burn the property. (Nephi Johnson affidavit, notarized by Judge David H. Morris, St. George Utah in 1906.) The wagons and their loads, even the bloody clothes, were taken to Cedar City, and stored in the “tithing office”, and later sold at auction. (MMM by JB pg. 84)
Looking forward to the lecture- SoUtSkeptic
Nephi Johnson at age 24 was called to Mountain Meadows as an Indian interpreter to help manage the Indians who were unable to do away with the emigrant party (120 men, women and children) by themselves. The original plan was to stir up the Indians to commit the crime. Now a new plan was to be put in place.
The Southern Utah Post Mormons will be privileged to a lecture from a direct descendant of Nephi Johnson about Nephi Johnson’s history and his testimony at the trial of John D. Lee revealing more of the Mormon Church’s involvement in the massacre.
The lecture will be this coming Sunday January 8th, 2 PM at the St. George Holiday Inn. 850 So. Bluff, St. George Utah.
When asked by Isaac C. Haight what he would do with the property, Nephi Johnson advised to Haight to burn the property. (Nephi Johnson affidavit, notarized by Judge David H. Morris, St. George Utah in 1906.) The wagons and their loads, even the bloody clothes, were taken to Cedar City, and stored in the “tithing office”, and later sold at auction. (MMM by JB pg. 84)
Looking forward to the lecture- SoUtSkeptic