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MORMON SHOOTERS AND CLUBBERS
AT THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACE
WILLIAM SLADE
The LDS Church has
knowingly sponsored, endorsed,
and forever immortalized these
butchers into history. 
 

Photograph Contributed by
MARK MOULTON.

 
 
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WILLIAM SLADE, a MORMON SHOOTER AND CLUBBER, was a sgt. in the third Washington platoon in Harrison Pearce's Company I in John D. Lee's 4 th Battalion; born in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, the son of William Rufus and Julia Higganbotham Slade. Soon his family moved to the Republic of Texas. They joined the Mormons and some time in the late 1840s or early 1850s, they immigrated to Utah.
William Slade was a county commissioner in Washington County, 1857-59. "William Slade" was listed in the 1859 federal arrest warrant. This could be either the father, William Rufus Slade, or the son, William Slade . Biographical Sketch
Information on the above Mormon Shooter and Clubber, was obtained from the following: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, page 1116; The 1857 Iron County Militia Project, Mountain Meadows Massacre Assassins, Bagley, Backus, Lee and Shirts.  
List of Victims killed by WILLIAM SLADE and his Mormon Brethren
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