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The Darger family (Joe, Vicki, Valerie, and Alina Darger) is an independent fundamentalist Mormon polygamous family living in Utah, United States.They went public after years of being secretive about their polygamous lifestyle to promote the decriminalization of polygamy in the United States as well as to help reshape the perception of polygamy following the prosecution of Warren Jeffs. [1]
Rockland Ranch (also known as "The Rock") is a fundamentalist Mormon, polygamous community in Moab, Utah. [1] The community was founded in 1977 by Robert Dean Foster (d. 2008 [1]) as a place for fundamentalist Mormons to live and practice plural marriage out of the public eye. [2] There were fifteen families involved in the community's ...
Thomas Arthur Green (June 9, 1948 – February 28, 2021) [1] [2] was an American Mormon fundamentalist in Utah who was a practitioner of plural marriage. After a high-profile trial, Green was convicted by the state of Utah on May 18, 2001, of four counts of bigamy and one count of failure to pay child support .
A former member of the church told one outlet it was the largest raid he'd seen since 1953 -- when every adult male in town was arrested for polygamy. Top polygamous leaders busted in Utah food ...
In 1998, about 40,000 people living in Utah were part of a polygamist family, or about 1.4 percent of the population. [44] Polygamists have been difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to ...
All bore him children. Bowen was a school teacher in both Utah and Wyoming before migrating to Mexico in 1890 — under prophetic direction, in order to legally enter into the practice of U.S.-banned polygamy — with his first wife and children. Bowen's plural wives included Mary Theresa Thompson (1868-1957), Harriet Cazier (1870-1894), Dora ...
Addam Swapp was born on 6 April 1961 in Salt Lake City, Utah to conservative Mormon parents. Before discovering the Utah polygamist John Singer, Swapp had already been acquainted with the idea of Mormon fundamentalism as his father had introduced him to a small group in Manti, Utah. When he was 17, Swapp heard on the news about Singer's fight ...
The sect was founded by Frank Naylor and Ivan Nielsen, who split from the Centennial Park group, another fundamentalist church over issues with another prominent polygamous family. The church is estimated to have 200–300 members, [ 2 ] most of whom reside in the Salt Lake Valley .