The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-01

England. She ran away from her hus
band there when the girls were small
and came to Utah as Il convert TO Nor
monlsm. Here she married as n polvpa
nous wife man named Coons, anC
tney went to Mexico together, where
CoonS died. In about the year 1900 sh,
married polYgamously Elder j. j. Wal
ser. The entire family have been most
dlSgracetully mixed in the polvcamous
mess, some of their doings having beer
extremely indiscriminate and uncleap.
Elder Thomas Carroll. formerly OF
Pacheco, Mexico, but now OF Grayson
Utah, married Mrs. Effie Rowley OF
Pacheco as his second wife in 1904. She
was originally daughter of Elder War
ner Porter of Pacheco. 1t is said that
recently Carroll has deserted her. His
legal wife was Miss Amy Black,
Elder Willard Carroll, father of James
and Thomas Carroll, in 1902 married as
HI! his see second wife a Mrs, McConkys a
widow. She was daughter of Jeffer.
son Slade of Kline, Colorado. BY Car.
roll she has two children, the oldest
being a boy of about seventeen. She
now lives at Dublan, Mexico, and bears
the name of her first husband Car
roll has been dead five years,
Elder Charles Whipple was married in
ond wife They are both living at
Juarez, Mex
Elder Alma p. Spilsbury of Juarez,
Mex, married as a second wife Jane
Smith, the ceremony being performed
about 1898. His first wife was Jane
Redd
Elder Daniel skousen, in March, 1901
married as his second wife Miss Sarah
Ann Spilsbury, daughter of Alma p.
spilsbury. She was very young and
was bound out TO Skousen as domestic
for five years, that action having been
taken by her father against her pro.
test. About year after her contracted
slavery she was announced to be the
plural wife of the lecherous Skousen.
Elder Alonzo Taylor of Juarcz, Mex,
was married polygamously TO Miss Kate
Spllsbury as his second wife. She also
was daughter of Alma p Spilsbury
and the permission for the unlawful
marriage was granted by the late Apos-
tic a. O, Woodruff, who was in Mexico
at the time and engaged in similar law
breaking. The first wife of Apostle
Woodruff died at Mexico City OF small
pox, and Taylor and the Spilsbury girl
had assisted In nursing the unfortunate
woman IN her illness. 1T was as re-
given permission by the apostle to
break the law aud offend God
During the year 1909 Elder F.. l..
Taylor, father of AIonzo. polygamous1y
married as his third wife a Mrs. Scott
of Juarez, whose first husband is still
living at that place.
1T was IN the year 1907 that former
Bishop Robinson of Dublan took as his
plural wife Miss Maud Header The
lady is now a member of The faculty
of the Juarez stake academy.
Elder Professor Warren Longburst is
of the Juarez academy faculty. In De
ccmber, 1909. he took as a second wife
Miss Eva Alfred of .Juarez. This young
lady one day suddenly left Juarez sup.
posedly to go to FL Paso, Tex. TO be
treated for blood poison in her hand,
which she carried in a sling Long
hurst was missed about the same time.
Shortly afterwards they were discov-
cred in the Salt Lake temple by a cou-
pie from Juare2, who were there to be
married The hand of Miss Alfred
was no longer in a sling, and the plural
marriage ceremony was marrcd by no
disturbing circumstance of any other
nature.
Elder William Galley Sears. late of
Dublan, Mex, but now living in Salt
Lake. married Miss Athelia Call as his
plural wife in September, 1906. while
Joseph +. Smith, president of the Nor
mon church, was attending the confer
ence at Juarez. where the unlawful
marriage occurred 1t is said that Mt
this very time Joseph F. Smith an
nounced that the elders had been per-
mitted to take too many polvgamous
wives, and the Gentiles were beginning
TO talk about it, and for that reason
more care must he exercised.
ElderProfessor Guy c. Wilson is and
has been for many years president Of
the Juarez stake academy, His legal
wife lives in Provo. where he left her
when he went to Mexico to take charge
of the church educational institution
named. On March l3, 1902. at Juarez,
he married as his second wife Miss Me-
Essa Stevens. In April. 1903. he mar
ried as his third wife Miss Anna WINS,
daughter of Apostle Anthony w. Ivins,
the apostle performing the ceremony
Elder Peter Skousen of Dublan, Mex.
as his second wife a widow
named Mrs. Anna Robinson. This was
long since the manifesto, He took her
from Mexico to Canada, where the
woman now remains, although Skousen |
has returned to Dublan. where he is liv- |
ing with his first and legal wife,
Elder Ed Turley of Juarez. Mex. in
the year 1902. married as his second |
wife Mrs. Annie Walser, widow whose
husband had been killed in a lumber |
mill accident in the wear preceding |
Originally her name was Miss Annie |
Eyring.
Elder Joshua Stevens of Pacheco,
Mex. married as his second wife n Mrs.
Pearson, widow from Chuichuipa, This
occurred in 1898
Elder Alma Stevens, formerly of
Pacheco, but now of Ciudad Juarez.
Mexico. in the spring of 1897 married
Miss Mary Boice as his second wife
both parties being sealed TO each other
during the same year in the Salt Lake
temple.
Elder Albert Merrill, residing at Brig
ham City, Utah, was married polyga.
nously since the manifesto, the cere-
nony having been peri formed in the
Logan temple by his father the late
Apostle Mariner w. Merrill Later this
nan deserted the woman, leaving her
with a child to care for, so the neigh,
oors say.
Elder Thomas %. a civil engineer
whose first family live at Manassa,
Colorado, took second wife about 1904,
1ho has borne to him four children.
,he oldest being about five years of
tge aud the youngest Ca pair of twins)
lbout eight months. They live at
Iuarez, Mexico, where Thomas spends
part of his time, the rest being spent