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The Elm Hotel and the Udall Family

By Makoto Hunter, Brigham Young University
In 1911, David Udall returned with his family to St. Johns, Arizona with the intent to stay. They had first lived in St. Johns in 1880, but David’s plural marriages to both Ella Stewart and Ida Hunt led to his prosecution and imprisonment. His…

Polygamist Flight from St. Johns

By Makoto Hunter, Brigham Young University
In July 1884, the David, Ella, and Ida Udall family of St. Johns, Arizona was optimistic about the future. The Udalls were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (then often nicknamed Mormons), and they were also polygamists,…

Three Conversions to Mormon Polygamy: David, Ella, & Ida Udall

By Makoto Hunter, Brigham Young University
In 1882, Ella Stewart Udall and her husband David King Udall had a happy life as a frontier couple. David ran a store in St. Johns, Arizona and led their local congregation, and they had a two-year-old daughter, Pearl. But on May 25, the family…
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