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In a pair of attacks, gunmen opened fire on three SUVs, first upon a Chevrolet Tahoe and subsequently two Chevy Suburbans, that were carrying American Mexican independent fundamentalist Mormons [20] [1] of the extended LeBarón family, [21] en route the paved highway near Galeana, Chihuahua (after which Christina Langford planned to drive her ...
The Church of the Firstborn (or the "LeBarón family") is a grouping of competing factions of a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous family community that had settled in Chihuahua, Mexico, by Alma Dayer LeBaron Sr. by 1924.
An 18-vehicle caravan carrying about 100 members of an offshoot Mormon community leaving their homes in Mexico after a violent attack arrived in Arizona on Saturday.
The Mormon colonies in Mexico are settlements located near the Sierra Madre mountains in northern Mexico which were established by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) beginning in 1885. [1]: 86–99 The colonists came to Mexico due to federal attempts to curb and prosecute polygamy in the United States.
Mexican officials have arrested a man in connection with last year’s horrific massacre of three Mormon moms and six children on a rural road in the northern state of Sonora. Identified only as ...
Shot and stabbed by Hector McLean, the ex-husband of one of Pratt's plural wives: 50 July 21, 1879 Varnell, Georgia Joseph Standing (missionary) LDS Church Mob murder 24 August 10, 1884 Cane Creek, Tennessee William S. Berry (missionary) LDS Church Mob assassination 46 August 10, 1884 Cane Creek, Tennessee John H. Gibbs (missionary) LDS Church
Robert Elmer Kleasen (September 20, 1934 – April 21, 2003) was an American who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1975 for the murder of two missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, near Austin, Texas.
Martyrs in Mexico: A Mormon Story of Revolution and Redemption. (Provo: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2018). F. LaMond Tullis. Mormons in Mexico: The Dynamics of Faith and Culture. (Provo: Museo de Historia del Mormonismo en Mexico A. C., 1997) F. LaMond Tullis. "Mexico" in Arnold K. Garr, et al., ed. The Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History.