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This document represents the
actions and beliefs of some ancestors in the Hand family who embraced the tenets of the
Mormon religion (The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints). Those tenets are
incompatible with the teachings of the Bible even though Mormons claim that it is part of their
doctrinal beliefs. Just a few major Mormon beliefs that differ from the Bible are listed as
follows:
1. Mormons state there is no triune God or Trinity, only many seperate gods: pantheistic
belief.
2. Mormons believe that Christ was once a man like all human beings, but became a God.
3. Mormons formerly believed that the literal father of Jesus Christ was Adam.
4. Mormons believe there is no "original sin" but humanity is only responsible for sins committed
in this life.
5. Mormons believe there is no hell for the unrepentant.
6. Mormons believe a person can be "saved" by proxy baptism (baptism for the dead).
7. Mormons believe that after death they will be gods, just like Christ and God the Father, and
will rule over their own domains (planets).
8. Mormons believe in the process of "continuing revelation" through the presidency of the
church, that has allowed the Mormon Church to contradict earlier beliefs, i.e., sidestepping the
doctrine of polygamy when it was a doctrine implicitly preached by Joseph Smith.
9. The Mormons believe that when there is a conflict between Mormon tenets and the
Bible teachings, the Bible is incorrectly translated and Mormon tenets take precedence. The Bible
is authoritative only when it is correctly translated (according to the Mormon church) and agrees
with pre-determined Mormon doctrines.
With this information in mind, you may continue to read this family history document.
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Marker Number Six
Erected Aug. 2. 1935
COVE FORT
from HEART THROBS OF THE WEST
Volume Six
1945
Compiled by Kate B. Carter
Completed April 12, 1867, by direction of
Brigham Young, with L.D.S. Church funds, as a travelers' way station and refuge from the
Indians.
Ira M. Hinckley built the Fort and maintained it as a hostelry and residence until 1877.
Previously known as Willden's Fort, it has been a convenient camping site for President Young
and travelers.
Charles Willden built two houses, a dugout and a corral, in 1861, accommodating three families.
Nine acres of grain and many trees were planted. A well within the Fort, supplied culinary water.
Cove Creek outside, furnished irrigation water. One of the twelve original rooms was a telegraph
station.
Cove Fort, established as a hostelry and place of refuge on the main route south and west, was
built on property purchased by the L.D.S. church in 1867. The area had been settled in 1860 by
Charles Willden and two other families. Ira N. Hinckley took his wife and children to the
property and built the fort, which was completed shortly after the outbreak of the Blackhawk
Indian war. It includes 1975 blocks of volcanic stone, 34,342 feet of hand hewn lumber and 1875
bushels of lime. It was used until 1877 by the Hinckley family. One room was used for a
number of years as a station for the Deseret telegraph company. The walls inclose 100 square
feet of land, and are 18 feet high, four feet thick at the base and two feet thick at the top. Gates
are on the east and west side, commanding a strategic pass. Six rooms are built along both the
north and south walls of the for.
It was the mecca of safety to the stage coach with its passengers and United States Mail, housed
the freighter from Pioche, Nevada with his load of gold bullion and was the resting place of
travellers on their way to Southern Utah and California.
Seldom there is a man or woman who does not stop to hear the unique story of the old fort as you
enter you feel a sort of sacredness. The old well still stands in the center, surrounded by large
trees planted by pioneer hands. The houses inside the Fort can still be used. It is one of the
places in Utah that must be sacred. It stands as a real monument to pioneer life, to pioneer forts
and to the people who lived in them.
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