Exhumation of Parley Pratt
Using precise archeological tools, workers near Van Buren, Ark., have carefully begun exhuming the remains of early Mormon leader Parley Parker Pratt. Workers hope to uncover the Mormon martyr's bones this week.Pratt's remains will be returned to Utah for reburial next to four of his 12 wives.
"We're being very careful," said Robert Grow, Pratt's great-great-great grandson. "We're taking photos and marking everything we find."
The estranged husband of Pratt's 12th wife stabbed Pratt twice in the chest and shot him in the neck after tracking the couple down in 1856. Pratt lived long enough to ask to be buried in Utah.
3 Comments:
Bury him in El Dorado.
Marrying other men's wives usually leads to trouble, even if God wants you to do it.
Your "competition" has discussions about how they can't find his body, he has been resurrected. You know, like Christ. If so, he had his coffin attached to his rising body. The idea was to dig another grave and plant Pratt's pratt next to one of his 12 wives. Yuk.
I quess, in those days, it was cheaper by the dozen.
Question: how come Joey Smith has not been excommunicated posthumously for his bedding children and other men's wives? As I understand it, he ever "married" those other women. Just slept with them. If so, shouldn't he be excommunicated like so many other have been over the years?
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