Pt 35-B: Alma Dayer LeBaron, Lou Gehrig's Disease, and "Who Got the Button?" My maternal Grandpa, Mormon fundamentalist Alma Dayer LeBaron Sr. For Mormon fundamentalists, allowing everyone, including people of color and women, to have equal rights, is a sin against God.We were regimentally trained in blind obedience and self-sacrifice from our earliest memories. We…
Pt 35-A: Alma Dayer LeBaron, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and “Who Got the Button?”
Pt 35-A: Alma Dayer LeBaron Lou Gehrig's Diseaseand "Who Got the Button?" Maud Lucinda McDonald LeBaron, Joel Franklin LeBaron, and Alma Dayer LeBaron "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." Cardinal Mermillod Joel Franklin LeBaron -- namesake of his Great-uncle Joel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin Johnson's…
Pt 34-K: The LeBaron Madmen: Button, Button: Who’s Got the Button?
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-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…
Pt 34-G: The Mexico-LeBaron Madmen: Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?”
Incest Pedo-Plyg Ross Wesley LeBaron, Jr. with wife Diana Leany [1] Cousin Owen LeBaron, and (?) "POLYGAMY: Paid for primarily by your tax dollars!"Rebecca Kimbel "Religions are the smelters and founders of imagination. The more any religion’s imagination—Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim [Mormon], Buddhist—is shaped in an isolated bubble, or in a dark cave, the more…
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