JOHN ALEXANDER WILDEN - A MORMON SHOOTER AND CLUBBER. In September 1857, Willden participated in the Mountain Meadows Massacre and was a private in Company F in Cedar City.
In September 1857, John Willden was a private in the same platoon with his father Charles and brother Feargus in Company F in Major John Higbee's 3rd Battalion.
According to John D. Lee , "Alexander" Wilden arrived at Mountain Meadows with a company from Cedar. [There is no "Alexander Willden" in the Willden family. However, Frank Beckwith concluded that "Alexander Wilden" is John Alexander Wilden.] In the company with Willden were Joel White , William Stewart , Benjamin Arthur and Charles Hopkins. Also Lee stated that he saw Willden firing on the emigrants from under a shade tree in mid-week. Biographical Sketch
The above information was obtained from the The 1857 Iron County Militia Project , "Mormonism Unvailed," by John D. Lee
History of Millard County, 105-106; Monuments to Courage, 58; Noall, "Mormon Midwives," Utah Historical Quarterly, 10/1-4 (1942); Lee, Mormonism Unveiled ; Lee Trial transcripts; FamilySearch.org.
