The Monument that Wasn’t

After the mob pushed the last Saint from Nauvoo across the Mississippi River, the Anti Mormon Party thought it would be appropriate to raise a monument to the “six brave men that died” during the battle of Nauvoo. The monument never materialized, however, historian Annette P. Hampshire suggested a fitting name had the monument been built. What did she say the monument should be titled?

a.      Good Riddance

b.      Cleansing Nauvoo

c.       Monument to Mobocracy

d.      The End of Ole Joe’s Kingdom

Yesterday’s answer:

a.      The first failed Arizona mission of 1872

Brigham Young stated the following in regards to the 1872 failed Arizona Mission (The Church tried the mission again in 1877 and was successful at establishing present day Snowflake, Woodruff, Taylor, and other towns): “Had we sent the sisters of the Relief Society, some of our pioneer sisters, they would have held that place and accomplished the mission. But instead we sent a passel of squaws down there—some of our pets whom we have raised in Salt Lake City. [We have] raised them on a feather pillow with silver spoons in their mouths. Men that don’t know anything about a hard days’ work or a privation—and they came away because the sun shone hot and the wind blew! Can you imagine such faint hearts! They gave up their inheritance without a stroke.”

Brigham Young, quoted in Martha Cragun Cox, “Biographical Record of Martha [Cragun] Cox, 1928-1930,” typescript, 127-28, LDS Church History Library.