Through an older cousin, Mrs. Charm has been learning about her paternal ancestry. An aunt already was pulling together the maternal side with a few interesting revelations but no scandals so far. Today Mrs. C. discovered her paternal great great uncle, Richard Jenkins Davis, an elder in the early Mormon church.
Born in Wales, he helped recruit some of the thousands of Welsh converts who emigrated to Utah in the 1850s. He returned to Wales in the 1870s to recruit scores more. So far so good. He even has a nice journal with daily entries to read. Then we found that, by the time he died in 1892, he had accumulated four wives. At the same time. Understandably, some of them didn’t get along, so they didn’t all live together. Still…
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