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Polygamy Leadership Tree: Religious Ideal Grows, Branches Out Polygamy leadership tree: Religious ideal grows, branches out ooted in the early ministry of LDS Church Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The Rfounder Joseph Smith (shown right), polygamy ranks of the Apostolic United Brethren number was later denounced by the church but embraced by about 7,500. The Kingston family has fundamentalists, who now number in the thousands. approximately 1,200 members, and about 2,000 About 10,000 claim membership in the Fundamentalist belong to the Centennial Park, Ariz., group. Benjamin T. Johnson The Church of the CHART KEY Left for Mexico, was Alma First Born Joseph Smith Dayer LeBaron's great uncle 1929-1934 Alma Dayer LeBaron LDS Church founder Dates indicate 1886-1951 (died in ’51). length of leadership The Early LDS Church He established or practice Galeana settlement near Galeana, Mexico, that Although a part of early became Colonia LDS doctrine and LeBaron Indicates practiced by leaders Chihuahua leadership split such as Brigham Young, John Taylor Joel LeBaron M E X I C O and new group's polygamy fell from Proclaimed he had a vision in 1886 1955-1972 formation favor in the mainline church — though it was Verlan LeBaron continued by 1972-1981 Indicates fundamentalists such Church of the Lamb alignment with of God as John W. Woolley and Now organized as a the FLDS church his son, Ervil LeBaron* brotherhood with no John W. Woolley single leader Lorin C. Woolley 1971-1981 He said Taylor gave him the authority to perform pural marriage Independent Fundamentalists Indicates new There are thousands of descendants of the John Singer polygamous group Council of Friends. Died in 1979 shootout formed Shown at right are just a few Alex Joseph Lorin C. Woolley independent John Woolley's son led the group from individuals and Established The Confederate 1929-34. He created a “Council of groups who espoused Nations of Israel Friends” by ordaining John Y. Barlow, J. polygamy. The Kingston Family Leslie Broadbent, Louis Kelch, Joseph Ogden Kraut W. Musser, LeGrand Woolley and Charles Fundamentalist author Charles Elden Kingston Zitting as high priests. who died in 2002 1935-1948 Established Davis County Cooperative Short Creek Community Fred Collier Society in Bountiful, Utah (now the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) Fundamentalist author who in 1981 lamented lack J. Leslie Broadbent of access to LDS Church archives 1934-1935 Addam Swapp Alive, serving prison term John Ortell Kingston Apostolic United Brethren 1948-1987 Rulon C. Allred John Y. Barlow 1954-1977 1935-1949 Established a church in Bluffdale, Cedar City, Rocky Ridge Ron & Dan Lafferty and in Montana Dan serving a life sentence Paul Kingston for murder of sister-in-law 1987-present and her daughter; Ron is on death row in Utah Joseph White Musser Centennial Park, 1949-1954** Arizona Owen Allred Charles Zitting Marion Hammon^ 1977-present 1954** 1984-1988 Presiding elder of Apostolic United Jim Harmston Brethren Manti, Utah Alma Timpson Founder, The True & Living 1988-1998 Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days John Timpson 1998-present Royston Potter Leroy S. Johnson Murray police officer fired 1954-1986 in 1982 for having plural wives The Naylor Group, Bountiful, Salt Lake Valley British Columbia Jim Oler Winston Blackmore An FLDS bishop Leads another group Rulon Jeffs Tom Green * Ervil LeBaron was excommunicated by his brother Joel LeBaron. Ervil later 1986-2002 ordered church members to kill Joel and Rulon C. Allred. Ervil died in prison in 1981. Serving up to a five-year ** Joseph Musser was presiding elder after John Y. Barlow's death. The council sentence for felony disagreed with his decision to appoint Rulon C. Allred in 1951; by 1952, Musser had bigamy and child non- separated from Short Creek. Charles Zitting, with Leroy S. Johnson, oversaw the support convictions Short Creek group during this period; Zitting died in 1954, four months after Harold & Ray Blackmore succeeding Musser. ^ Marion Hammon and Alma Timpson were dismissed from the FLDS in Started a colony in Hildale/Colorado City. They formed their own group at Centennial Park, near Warren Jeffs Creston, British Columbia, Colorado City on the Arizona side of the state line. Canada 2002-present Sources: “The Forgotten Kingdom” by David L. Bigler; “The Polygamists: A History of Colorado City” by Benjamin Bistline; “Mormon Polgyamy: A History” by Richard S. Van Wagoner; “History of Priesthood Succession” by Rulon Jeffs; “Mormon Focus” magazine, 2003 Text by Brooke Adams, graphic by Todd Adams / The Salt Lake Tribune.
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