Blaine M. Yorgason Quotes

Stories Of Hiding Out And Near Captures Abound, Including A Humorous Account Of President Wilford Woodruff Escaping Capture Because He Was Weeding A Garden At The Squire Home Near Downtown St. George Wearing An Oversized "Old Mother Hubbard" Dress And Bonnet Sewn For Him By Young Sister Emma Squire. She Wrote: "Soon After Our Marriage The President Of The Church, Wilford Woodruff, Came To Live With Us. It Was The Time Of The Raid, When The Government Took The Property Away From The Mormon People...and They Were Hunting All The Men That Had Plural Wives And Putting Them In Jail. ... We Had Some Neighbors That Knew We Had Someone Staying With Us, And They Were Very Anxious To [discover] Who It Was. ... [So] I Made [President Woodruff] A Mother Hubbard Dress And Sun Bonnet And...dress[ed] Him Up ... And Disguise[d] Him So He Could Come [and Go]. ... We Called Him Grandma Allen So The People Wouldn't Know.

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