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A Modern Cain and Abel Story. A life she termed half joy and half sorrow.
Born to parents who had childhood memories of the Civil War, Maud’s life began in 1892; just two years after the Mormon Church Manifesto had forbidden plural marriage.
Educated in the LDS High School in Salt Lake City, she, paradoxically, gained a love for that controversial principle.
In Salt Lake Maud read newspaper reports telling that President Joseph F. Smith had paid a $500 fine for a son who was born years after the Manifesto; yet the church continued to deny its practice.
She married Dayer LeBaron, helped him get a plural wife, fled to Mexico to avoid his arrest, and continued giving birth to children.
Dayers family lived nearly twenty years in Colonia Juarez, ostracized for living plural marriage, in a town that early Mormons had made as a place of refuge for polygamists.
With grown sons, Maud and Dayer left the Mormon colony to pioneer a remote area on homestead land. There her son Joel began a church and became the beloved leader of a new community.
Ervil, a younger brother, enraged at Joel success, no longer supported him.
A modern Cain and Abel story ensued, breaking Maud’s heart.
Born to parents who had childhood memories of the Civil War, Maud’s life began in 1892; just two years after the Mormon Church Manifesto had forbidden plural marriage.
Educated in the LDS High School in Salt Lake City, she, paradoxically, gained a love for that controversial principle.
In Salt Lake Maud read newspaper reports telling that President Joseph F. Smith had paid a $500 fine for a son who was born years after the Manifesto; yet the church continued to deny its practice.
She married Dayer LeBaron, helped him get a plural wife, fled to Mexico to avoid his arrest, and continued giving birth to children.
Dayers family lived nearly twenty years in Colonia Juarez, ostracized for living plural marriage, in a town that early Mormons had made as a place of refuge for polygamists.
With grown sons, Maud and Dayer left the Mormon colony to pioneer a remote area on homestead land. There her son Joel began a church and became the beloved leader of a new community.
Ervil, a younger brother, enraged at Joel success, no longer supported him.
A modern Cain and Abel story ensued, breaking Maud’s heart.