Yell Meeting House

Small Replica of the Utah Site

Cairn Yell Meeting House (see below)

Sign on Meeting House

Rock with Inscription

Rustic Memorial with inscription

If you see white men dressed as Indians, Duck!

Our Escorts

My Mom with Survivor Descendants

Lining Up

Along the Original Trail

Enjoying Evening Sunshine

Arrival at the Destination

BBQ Wagon in background

Singing Time

Relaxing in the Shade

Enjoying the Shade

Family Togetherness

Burr Fancher

Auction Time

Auctioneer from California

Political Speech

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Yell Meeting House

1.  On the cross: “Vengeance is mine.  I will repay saith the Lord”

2.  On the stone:  Here 120 men, women and children were massacred in cold blood early in September 1857.  They were from Arkansas.”

3.  On the large wooden sign: “The Mountain Meadows Massacre”

“Early in 1857, a large wagon train, known as the Fancher-Baker train left Caravan Spring (south of Harrison) and headed for California.  They camped at this site enroute to intercept the Cherokee trail at the Grand Saline in Indian Territory.”

            “Months later, the wagon train came under siege by the Mormons and Indians in Southwest Utah at a place called Mountain Meadows.  On September 11, 1857, the Mormons brutally murdered 121 men, women and children after assuring their protection.  Only 17 small children were spared from the massacre.”

            “The dead were left exposed to the elements until 18 months later, when U.S. Army troops led by Major James H. Carlton buried the remains in several mass graves.  A cross and stone were placed over one such gravesite containing 34 of the victims.  This is a scaled replica of Carleton’s original cairn.”

            “The surviving children were brought back to Arkansas and spent their first night at the site of the old Yell Lodge.  On September 25, 1859, the orphaned children were united with relatives in the Carrollton town square.”

            “In 1861, Brigham Young and his entourage visited the Utah gravesite.  He saw the words on the cross and said, ‘Vengeance is mine and I have taken a little.’  Then Young raised his arm in the Danite sign of the square and within minutes his followers completely destroyed the monument.  Presently, the LDS Church owns the grave at Mountain Meadows, Utah.  They control the interpretation of the massacre.  This replica of the original grave marker allows Arkansas relatives to memorialize the victims and interpret the massacre in their home state.”

Sponsor, Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation, Inc.