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05-09-2007, 04:57 PM | #1 | |
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Murder of Parley P. Pratt
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http://jared.pratt-family.org/parley...hen-pratt.html (but left out the actual murder) http://www.shareyourstate.com/arkansas/prattmemory.htm (summary of version above but includes the murder scene) Interesting stuff and a good read. If this account is true, the whole thing follows the simple model: 1. LDS church teaches a simplistic or partially untrue or exagerrated version of a story (PPP is murdered by being shot in the back by an anti-Mormon. No reference to real death blow of stab in the chest or reference to the years of back story between PPP and his murderer and his wife) 2. Anti-Mormon version fills out some historical details of the story but only enough to villify Mormons. (PPP was killed by a jealous husband of the polyandrous wife--his 9th--he stole away.) 3. More detailed version shows PPP was not really such a bad guy after all. Eleanor, the wife, had tried unsuccessfully for years to leave her alcoholic husband or get him to sober up. He never did. He beat her, and tried to get her locked up in an insane asylum. She found LDS missionaries and joined the church. LDS actually told her to be respectful of her husband and try not to upset him with LDS worship as he was livid over her conversion. PPP befriends her as a priesthood leader but apparently nothing sordid going on. This takes place over a period of years. Finally her husband steals her kids away. She lives alone for some time and considers herself divorced though not officially. She goes to Utah. Marries PPP. She goes back to steal back her kids. Husband is enraged. Sets out to kill PPP and his ex-wife. PPP endures a sham trial over the episode and is acquitted. Husband chases down unarmed PPP and kills him. This whole deal, if I interpret it correctly, kind of goes to the SIEQ innoculation theory that we ought to just teach the correct, detailed version instead of the glossed over version. |
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05-09-2007, 05:12 PM | #2 | |
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Pratt, Steven "Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt" (1975) 15:2:225, BYU Studies. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/do...OPTR=448&REC=8 |
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05-09-2007, 05:19 PM | #3 |
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Interesting summary. Thanks for posting that, Jay.
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05-09-2007, 05:30 PM | #4 |
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What happened to Hector McLean? Was he convicted for the murder?
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05-09-2007, 05:32 PM | #5 |
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I haven't read Pratt's biography by Scott & Maureen Proctor...has anyone here?
Does the book address his murder at all? I'd be interested to know what stance the book takes.
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I am a product of not paying toom uch attention in sunday school and yet I was aware fo the facts of version three. Not sure how I knew this, but it would seem that someone attempted to 'innoculate' me in the past, at least as far as Bro. Pratt. SO, the truth is out there.
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05-09-2007, 05:40 PM | #7 |
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One other interesting bit. Brigham Young had advised Parley to leave the situation alone. Parley didn't leave the situation alone.
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05-10-2007, 03:03 PM | #8 |
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Did the people in Utah realize that Parley had moved in on another dude's woman? Seems to me that if they had realized that, they wouldn't have been so upset. They would have just figured he had it coming to him.
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05-10-2007, 03:21 PM | #10 |
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Actually I didn't read it. I just felt like posting something random about PPP, and coincidently enough it ended up in a thread that Santos had started about PPP. What are the odds of that?
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