While the Mormon church officially banned polygamy in 1890, it persisted in some communities, especially those in Mexico. Soon enough, hundreds, then thousands, traveled south. The church's then-president, Brigham Young, first sent members to Mexico in 1875 to look for places to settle, according to the Mormon Encyclopedia available on Brigham Young University's website. Mexico seemed like a haven at the time, a place where the group could continue practicing plural marriage. Groups first began migrating to the country because of a crackdown on polygamy in the United States. The burned out car where nine family members of the La Mora Mormon Community died in Mexico.Īmerican Mormons first started settling in northern Mexico in the late 1800s.
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