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None of the survivors of the Willie and Martin handcart companies ever left the Church

 

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Chad M. Orton, an archivist with the LDS Church's family history department has researched the members and found that there were some who apostatized. There is a quote in which a survivor claimed that no one ever left, but he mispoke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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