Musician, Writer, and Mormon Fundi, Esther LeBaron-McDonald Spencer "Whether your memoir ever gets published isn't finally the point. There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with getting published. Whatever we call the form–autobiography, memoir, personal history, Family history–writing about one's life is a powerful human need."Writers are the custodians of memory, and…
Pt 34-J: The LeBaron Madmen: Button, Button: Who’s Got the Button?
My Grandpa Alma Dayer LeBaron's five youngest sons, "The Mexico-LeBaron Boys:" Left to right: Floren, Alma, Verlan, Joel, and Ervil "Now, I don't go along with either Joel's movement or Verlan's movement or Ervil's; and now there's a Floren, another brothren, and he's trying to start a movement."Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr.(Alma Dayer LeBaron's second-oldest son)…
Pt 34-I: The LeBaron Madmen: Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?”
Hangdog-face Pedo-plyg Alex Joseph with his 12-year-old child bride---part of his harem [1] "I was once the world's greatest polygamist and I got cut out by Alex Joseph. He is smarter than I am. He's got more wives than I have ... He's in the herb business ... Ginseng ..."Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr [2] I…
Pt 34-H: The Mexico-LeBarons and Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?”
Continued from "Pt 34-G: The Mexico-LeBarons: Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?" Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr., age 24ish, with first wife Thelma Cox and daughter Elena (Courtesy of "Family Search" and Mary Bonnelle Taylor) "I hold the patriarchal keys of Joseph Smith's house. My mother's still alive and she never favored me. My father gave…