George Darling Watt’s incestuous relationship and other shocking relationships among the early LDS
In a previous Blog I talked about a Newspaper article that I found dated May 2 1874. LDS missionaries had hired a hall on the Isle of Man to present their message, but after their presentation an elderly man came forward and shared a statement of his acquaintance Mr. William Hill, formerly a respected shopkeeper in Manchester. William Hill and his wife Keziah had emigrated to Utah in 1851 after joining the church in Manchester and as I mentioned in my previous Blog Parley P. Pratt took William’s wife Keziah to be his tenth wife. In William’s statement he also talks about several other moral disgraces that he experienced during his journey to and sojourn in Utah. Even though some of the facts are not completely accurate, such as the quote that Martha Brotherton was proposed to by Joseph Smith instead of Brigham Young, I was able to discover that stories were based on fact. Here follows is an excerpt from his statement. - “I remember,” said he, “an emigration coming into the vall...