Joel LeBaron
| Joel LeBaron | |
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| President of the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times | |
| September 21, 1955 – August 20, 1972 | |
| Predecessor |
Benjamin F. Johnson (as claimed by LeBaron Family) |
| Successor | Disputed: (including) Verlan LeBaron Ervil LeBaron Ross Wesley LeBaron |
| End reason | Killed by brother |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Joel F. LeBaron September 23, 1923 La Verkin, Utah, United States |
| Died | August 20, 1972 (aged 49) Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico |
| Cause of death | Gunshot |
| Parents |
Alma Dayer LeBaron, Sr. Maude Lucinda McDonald |
Joel Franklin LeBaron (June 9, 1923 – August 20, 1972) was a Mormon fundamentalist leader in northern Mexico. He was murdered by a member or members of a rival church which was headed by his brother Ervil LeBaron.
LeBaron was born in La Verkin, Utah, the eighth of 13 children born to Alma Dayer LeBaron, Sr. and Maude Lucinda McDonald. At the time of Joel's birth, the LeBaron family were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Joel was baptized into the LDS Church in 1931 in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, where the LeBarons had moved when Joel was an infant.
Beginning in 1936, the LeBaron family became close to Joseph White Musser, a leader of the young Mormon fundamentalist movement in Mexico. In 1944, the family was excommunicated from the LDS Church for teaching and practicing plural marriage. For the next 11 years, the family were members of Rulon C. Allred's Apostolic United Brethren.
In 1955, Joel LeBaron and two of his brothers established the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times in Salt Lake City, Utah with Joel as President of the Church. Upon returning to northern Mexico, their parents and most of the members of the LeBaron family joined the new church. In 1967, Joel's brother Ervil LeBaron was removed from leadership in the church when he began to preach that he, and not Joel, was the proper leader of the church.
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