Author(s): Sue Jensen Weeks

History

In April, 1866, at the height of the Black Hawk Wars, Mormon settlers in the new village of Circleville, Utah, took a number of Paiute Indians hostage and subsequently murdered twenty-six men, women and children. Sue Jensen Weeks' great-great-grandfather, James Tillman Sanford Allred, was one of those responsible. Her great-aunt later married one of the few Paiute survivors, David Monson. Weaving together the strands of family history, letters, diaries, eye-witness testimonials, and reminiscences, Sue Jensen Weeks traces a path through the shadows and pain of one of the more significant events in the near annihilation of Native American peoples in Utah. Sue Jensen Weeks was born in Provo, Utah and lives now in Salt Lake City.