Lucy D. M. Allen's Father Delivered from a Mob by the Power of the Lord
Published October 13, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Millennial Star Research
Lucy D. M. Allen, in a testimony recorded in the Woman's Exponent, recalls that her father and others were taken by a mob to be shot because they were 'Mormons,' but were delivered by the power of the Lord.
In Their Own Words
“I was married to Joseph Stewart Allen, in Lima, Hancock Co,, III.; passed through many of the persecutions and mobbing of the Saints; saw my father, with others, taken by the mob to be shot because they were ‘Mormons’; but they were delivered by the power of the Lord. — Millennial Star 67:28”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 13 July 1905 (Vol. 67, No. 28). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1905-07-13_67_28 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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