Mountain Meadows group investigates Idaho skull

By David Holsted

Harrison (Ark.) Daily Times

Published: Tuesday, May 19 2009 12:18 a.m. MDT

A skull with a bullet hole in it found in an Idaho pawn shop has

raised speculation that it might be connected with the 1857 Mountain

Meadows Massacre.According to Scott Fancher of Harrison, the

attorney for the Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation (MMMF), an

organization made up of people who are descendants, collateral

descendants and historians of the event, the skull was found in a box

labeled \"Mountain Meadows\" and addressed to a Gordon G. Sims.The MMMF, along with Mountain Meadows Association and the

Mountain Meadows Massacre Descendants, other organizations devoted to

the memory of the event, have expressed interest in the skull. The

organizations are working with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Saints (Mormons) in an effort to make the massacre site a National

Landmark.Fancher went on to say that, when discovered in

February, the skull was turned over to the Idaho archaeological

department, as prescribed by law, for testing.

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