On October 13, 1838, life for the settlement of Haun's Mill was not the same on Shoal Creek. It was a late Indian summer and a red sun was sinking for the evening. A militia of Men with painted faces in that of the savage style was bombarded it. The settlement's stillness was broken and many ran and hid in crooks of the bluffs of the Grand River while darkness suffocated them. No one knew from moment to moment, hour to hour if God would deliver them from the bloody hands of the Missourian government. The massacre was a turning point of the Mormon war that brought the inevitable submission of...
On October 13, 1838, life for the settlement of Haun's Mill was not the same on Shoal Creek. It was a late Indian summer and a red sun was sinking for...
