tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post3948573490040232078..comments2024-03-21T07:58:02.168-05:00Comments on Amateur Mormon Historian: Crockett County Mobbing Part 2Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-73826038992286206152013-04-13T21:30:21.636-05:002013-04-13T21:30:21.636-05:00It is a handwritten record book of the Southwest T...It is a handwritten record book of the Southwest Tennessee Conference. It includes meeting minutes, baptisms, and a few historical pieces like this. I can send you the reference by email tomorrow. Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-38253354425761375372013-04-13T21:29:50.987-05:002013-04-13T21:29:50.987-05:00It is a handwritten record book of the Southwest T...It is a handwritten record book of the Southwest Tennessee Conference. It includes meeting minutes, baptisms, and a few historical pieces like this. I can send you the reference by email tomorrow. Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-19581869625467701092013-04-13T21:06:26.155-05:002013-04-13T21:06:26.155-05:00This is great! My great grandfather is Asahel L. F...This is great! My great grandfather is Asahel L. Fuller, who appears in this account. (Notice that the middle initial is L as in Luther, not S.) I have the accounts of this incident from the Deseret News and from the Southern Star, but I've never seen this one before. What is the name of the book (or source)?Dale Tophamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13236573449659666257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-20316878832756575572009-07-09T12:33:32.664-05:002009-07-09T12:33:32.664-05:00Thanks for the "heads up" on this. I'...Thanks for the "heads up" on this. I'll have to look it up. That story sounds just like the stuff I'm looking forBrucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-80142404720746355902009-07-07T19:59:43.193-05:002009-07-07T19:59:43.193-05:00Thank you for your account of exactly what a beati...Thank you for your account of exactly what a beating involved. I particularly admired the composure of the missionaries' offer to be taken to a court of law. The story resonated with me because my great grandfather, Charles A. Hickenlooper, also served a Southern States mission 1895-97. The opposition in Tennessee was particularly fierce. My ggrandfather and his companion, Elder Ogden, were instructed by the mission president to canvass Columbia City, just 35 miles from where the elders were shot in 1884. They were the first missionaries to return to the area. One of their experiences was printed in the Deseret News 1 Sep 1934 and reprinted recently as "I know who you are."Jean Ohaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09555847248651821223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-34369104853379922032009-07-02T20:12:54.658-05:002009-07-02T20:12:54.658-05:00I know just the type of historian about which you ...I know just the type of historian about which you are talking. So many of the untrained 19th century historians I have read are like that though. Even outside the Church. So to a degree I can forgive them since they were a product of their times. Still I'm with you and wish more were like this Elder, who for some reason has chosen to remain anonymous.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-44990261039434597872009-07-02T18:19:29.504-05:002009-07-02T18:19:29.504-05:00I've come back to reread this. It's that p...I've come back to reread this. It's that powerful. The elder who recorded this noticed so many details that make it vivid -- not just the bloodiness, but the details of what the elders had done before going to bed, and the length and thickness and variety of tree from which the withes were cut. It's those details that make it so powerful. It seems uncommon for its time, and is a lesson to recorders of history: How often have such accounts been written that skip over the physical details and instead talk about how the mobbers will stand before the bar of justice, and how the Lord will wreak judgement on them, and on the land, and ... You know what I mean, all the lessons or morals readers are supposed to draw from the incident, and only the most general descrription of the incident itself. Way to go, elder!Ardis E. Parshallhttp://www.keepapitchinin.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-28422389968551259832009-07-01T19:18:58.108-05:002009-07-01T19:18:58.108-05:00Ardis,
Yes, Door slamming is nothing compared to ...Ardis, <br />Yes, Door slamming is nothing compared to this. I've had used needles thrown at me. That doesn't compare. Why do you suppose that is?<br /><br />Tod, <br />There is a part three, and maybe a part 4, we'll see if I can pull it together.<br /><br />Joe, <br />I'm glad you felt it was worth reading. I wasn't sure if I should post a disclaimer about its graphic nature.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-14123931270975038462009-07-01T15:33:24.105-05:002009-07-01T15:33:24.105-05:00Thank you Bruce. This is an important account you ...Thank you Bruce. This is an important account you have made available to people. Thank you for adding to my knowledge about these brave peoples experience.Joe Geisnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689345359391003683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-8034616635034391812009-07-01T11:50:39.358-05:002009-07-01T11:50:39.358-05:00Thanks again Bruce. Is there a part 3? What happen...Thanks again Bruce. Is there a part 3? What happened to the branch if/after the elders left?Tod Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00839443291699465031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-75187356837943445392009-07-01T08:48:46.851-05:002009-07-01T08:48:46.851-05:00You read occasionally about elders and members bei...You read occasionally about elders and members being whipped ... but this is the most detailed description of how that was done that I have ever read. Thank you, Bruce, for finding and posting it. <br /><br />It makes having the door slammed in your face a little tame, doesn't it?Ardis E. Parshallhttp://www.keepapitchinin.orgnoreply@blogger.com