Was he a murderer or a Saint? Just becuase he was Joe and Briggy's bodyguard, Mormons seem to have elevated hiim as a Saint.

I found these statements a bit funny on the Porter Place website:

"Porter Rockwell had four wives but was never a polygamist." - WTF?

At Porter Rockwell’s funeral, Apostle and future Church President Joseph F. Smith spoke and said the following about Porter –

“They say he was a murderer; if he was he was the friend of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and he was faithful to them, and to his covenants, and he has gone to Heaven and apostates can go to Hell…"

"Porter Rockwell was yesterday afternoon ushered into Heaven clothed with immortality and eternal life, and crowned with all glory which belongs to a departed saint. He has his little faults but Porter’s life on earth, taken altogether, was one worthy of example, and reflected honor upon the church. Through all his trials he had never once forgotten his obligations to his brethren and his God."

I have a niece who just had a baby boy and named him....wait for it....Porter! Yeah, I'm still cringing over that.

Four wives and not a polygamist? Must not have been all at once. Did he kill them off, one at a time?

He is a total bad guy. Look into Bill Hickman, another of Young's killers.

One-of-my-g-g-aunts-was-one-of-his-sister-wives-ly yrs,

S

I've always admired Porter. Some friends and I were once going to create "The Orin Porter Rockwell Gun and Quilting Society."