Isaac C. Haight
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| Born |
Isaac Chauncey Haight May 27, 1813 Windham, New York, United States |
| Died | September 8, 1886 (aged 73) Thatcher, Arizona, United States |
| Spouse(s) |
Eliza Ann Snyder (m. 1836) Mary Spring Murray (m. 1849) Eliza Ann Price (m. 1853) Annabella Sinclair MacFarlane (m. 1853) Elizabeth Summers (m. 1858) |
Isaac Chauncey Haight (May 27, 1813 – September 8, 1886), an early convert to the Latter Day Saint Movement, was a colonist of the American West remembered as a major conspirator of the Mountain Meadows massacre.
A constable in the city of Nauvoo in Illinois, Haight was the first member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to hear of the death of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint Movement, when the messenger delivering the news rode up to the Nauvoo Temple, which Haight at the time was guarding.
Emigrating with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to Utah in 1847, the following year Haight and about fifty others were sent by Brigham Young about 300 miles south from Salt Lake City to establish the city of Parowan. Among these settlers was Parley P. Pratt and George A. Smith, who also established a winter home there.
At the time of the massacre, Haight was the Stake President over several Wards in the area. He served in the Utah Territorial Legislature and was the mayor of Cedar City, Utah. Haight was in command of the Second Battalion, Tenth Regiment (or Iron County Militia), in which capacity he ordered the massacre of September 11, 1857, of the Baker-Fancher party of emigrants during the Utah War.
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