A little diversion from Cane Creek

A little diversion from Cane Creek, Mormons still came to preach in Tennessee after the Cane Creek incident, an account of David Patten below on one of his visits to Tennessee. For those who hunted the backwoods for decades, Pattens story may have seemed strange even for the 1900's.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/412190/musings_on_sasquatch_in_mormon_folklore.html?cat=37

In 1938 Tennessee, high ranking church leader David W. Patten has a rather outrageous encounter with a creature; below is Elder Patten's well-documented experience, as originally recalled and narrated by Abraham O. Smoot:


"As I was riding along the road on my mule I suddenly noticed a very strange personage walking beside me.... His head was about even with my shoulders as I sat in my saddle. He wore no clothing, but was covered with hair. His skin was very dark. I asked him where he dwelt and he replied that he had no home, that he was a wanderer in the earth and traveled to and fro. He said he was a very miserable creature, that he had earnestly sought death during his sojourn upon the earth, but that he could not die, and his mission was to destroy the souls of men. About the time he expressed himself thus, I rebuked him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by virtue of the Holy Priesthood, and commanded him to go hence, and he immediately departed out of my sight..."

The account was originally published in a biography, titled The Life of David W. Patten by L.A. Wilson, then more famously recounted in Spencer W. Kimball's hardcore The Miracle of Foriveness. It was apparently Patten's understanding (it is unclear whether the creature was forthcoming with the identification information, or if it Patten's conjecture) that the creature was a descendant of the biblically cursed and marked Cain

Response to Amateur Mormon Historian: The Cane Creek Massacre

This blog is as a response to Amateur Mormon Historian: The Cane Creek Massacre. A link to their blog is located on the side bar. Another View Point is intended not to stir up Anit-Mormon feelings, but to tell the other side of the story as to the events at Cane Creek, and the wider scope of events which were molding and shaping our country at the time.

The good people of Hickman County, were not savages, or heathens; for the most part they were God fearing people, who loved, protected their families, worked their farms and worshiped God as taught in the Bible. They also were not people who were exposed to the various religious experimental groups which would flourish in the North, and soon fade away. The Northern areas were experiencing the start of many experimental religious groups, of various living arrangements, during the time Mormonism was founded.

Many of the people in Hickman County were the children’s, children of the Protestant Reformation, and worship God as taught by their ancestors.