The famous great-great-grandpa of Mitt Romney may finally be returning home to Utah.

The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports that a judge gave permission for Parley Parker Pratt, an original member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, killed in Arkansas 1857, to be disinterred. The Pratt family hopes to move the remains to the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Crawford County Circuit Judge Gary Cottrell says the family can move Pratt if they can confirm the remains found with ground-penetrating radar is their ancestor. The site holds three or four other people. The judge told Robert Grow, a descendant, “The problem here is, you’d be asking me to possibly disinter bodies that weren’t kin to you."

The estranged husband of Pratt's 12th wife tracked the church leader down and killed him. Archeologists hope to identify the remains later this month by the gunshot and stab wounds. Pratt’s dying wish was for his body to be returned to Utah. He would be buried with four of his 12 wives. Grow told the judge:

We’re here desiring to close a chapter in our family’s history. It’s been a long time.