Why Grandma started with the old mill

When Grandma started digging at John D. Lee's mill, it wasn't
to put in flowers. I there was nothing to mark where the mill
that preceeded the mill where grandpa had grown up, playing
with the Piede children and trying to stay out of trouble despite his pals Parley Pracker Pratt and Merlin Tut who was found under a bush and burned down the Tithing Barn. She dug much deeper and she and grandpa reconstructed it on paper from what they'd found. We had a Matheson for Governor then, and she had him down for a proper dedication.

The day they set the millstone in the monument, she uncovered
50 feet of drainage pipe with a grandchild.

If the old mill had never existed, there was no reason to
tell the events that happened there, things that were threatened there, conclusions drawn about what would happen if
word of the massacre reached the California and later the Eastern Papers. Matters, it might be hoped, would be settled,
the Soldiers posted well away from Mormon settlements, the new, unelected, territorial governor seated.

There was a bit of a leak, something a woman blogging on an ephemeral site got almost to saying but stopped--her Great
grandfather's family had been living in California when news
of the massacre became general and were driven out to settle in Parowan. He dressed like a reporter and took a notebook
and stood with the reporters during the hanging. She didn't
think she should say on the web what her great grandfather
heard.

A few days later I read that John D Lee had been given one last chance to say Brigham Young had ordered him to massacre
the immigtants, he refused and they hung him. John D. Lee was sealed to Brigham Young as his son--that came from Gene England in a 1976 class on the Mormon Novel.