Hawn's Mill massacre

Hawn's Mill Massacre
Part of Missouri Mormon War and Mormon Wars
"Haun's Mill" by C.C.A. Christensen
LocationFairview township in eastern Caldwell County, Missouri
Coordinates39°40′13″N 93°50′21″W / 39.670241°N 93.839035°W / 39.670241; -93.839035
DateOctober 30, 1838
About 4 p.m.
Weaponsmuskets and rifles
Deaths17 Mormons
Injured15, plus 4 of the attackers
Perpetrators~240 Livingston County, Missouri Regulators, Missouri State militiamen, and anti-Mormon volunteers
The Haun’s Mill stone is now in Breckenridge, Missouri
A millstone shortly after being recovered
This marker and the red millstone were intended to mark the well where the victims were buried. In 1941 the landowner moved them, unaware that he had moved the marker from over the burial point. The exact location of the well is now not known.

The Hawn’s Mill Massacre (also Haun’s Mill Massacre) occurred on October 30, 1838, when a mob/militia unit from Livingston County, Missouri, attacked a Mormon settlement in eastern Caldwell County, Missouri, after the Battle of Crooked River.[1] By far the bloodiest event in the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, it has long been remembered by the members of the Latter Day Saint movement. While the spelling "Haun" is common when referring to the massacre or the mill where it occurred, the mill's owner used the spelling "Hawn" in legal documents.[2]

  1. ^ Quinn, D. Michael (December 2012). The Mormon Hierarchy. pp. 99–100.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Baugh was invoked but never defined (see the help page).