By Beth Shumway Moore

The Haun’s Mill Massacre is a small part of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The little-known event that occurred on October 30, 1838, at Haun’s Mill, Missouri, is perhaps only a foot-note in that larger story, but it looms large in the tumultuous events that shaped the attitudes and beliefs of the nineteenth-century adherents called Mormons, who followed the teachings and revelations of their prophet, Joseph Smith.

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