Missouri Mob Kills 17 Mormons

On the afternoon of October 30, 1838, the most lamentable and tragic
episode of the Mormon-Missouri War took place at an isolated Mormon settlement in eastern Caldwell County known as Haun's Mill. Seventeen Latterday Saint civilians were killed and another fourteen wounded by an extralegal force composed of over two hundred men acting under the leadership of
Thomas Jennings of Livingston County. The circumstances relating to the
events, and the tragic loss of life inflicted by these county regulators upon
a non-threatening and almost entirely defenseless community, illustrate the
extremes to which the public majority would go to remove an unwanted religious minority from their society