Col William Horne DAME

1819 - 1884  (65 years)

• Name	William Horne DAME
  Prefix	Col
  Born	15 Jul 1819	Farmington, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	20 May 1842
  Also Known As	DAIM
  Noteworthy	One of the masterminds behind the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  Occupation	1st mayor of Parowan, UT, member Utah Territorial Legislature, Commander of Iron and Washington County Militia District
  Religion	Mormon
  Census	1870	Parowan, Iron, Utah
  Residence	1880	Parowan, Iron, Utah
  Died	15 Aug 1884	Utah
  Person ID	I35887	Main
  Last Modified	30 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Jeremiah DAME,   b. 26 Jul 1791, Farmington, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 8 Sep 1855, Farmington, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Susan HORNE,   b. 10 Jul 1800, Farmington, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 3 May 1868, Farmington, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 67 years)
  Married	30 Dec 1818	Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Family ID	F480	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lovina ANDREWS,   b. 3 Jan 1823, Trumbull County, Ohio ,   d. 29 Jul 1892, Parowan, Iron, Utah  (Age 69 years)
  Married	5 Dec 1839	Hancock County, Illinois
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F12599	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Lydia Ann KILLIAN,   b. 18 Oct 1850, Pottawattamie County, Iowa ,   d. 27 Nov 1933, Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho  (Age 83 years)
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F12604	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Virginia Lovina NEWMAN,   b. 4 Jun 1839, Alton, Madison, Illinois ,   d. 1891, Parowan, Iron, Utah  (Age 51 years)
  Married	1859	Parowan, Iron, Utah
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F12605	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 4	Sarah Ann “Sally” CARTER,   d. ?
  Married	10 Feb 1856	Utah
  Divorced	1880	Utah
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F12606	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 5	Mary PEARSON,   d. ?
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F12607	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 6	Laura Elvira,   b. 6 Oct 1836, Hancock County, Illinois ,   d. ?
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F12608	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 7	Elizabeth EMERSON,   d. ?
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F1217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 8	Mary FARRINGTON,   d. ?
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F1219	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 15 Jul 1819 - Farmington, Strafford, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  William Horne Dame With his three wives

  
  

• Notes

  Col William H. Dame was named by John D. Lee as one of the principle masterminds behind the Mountain Meadows Massacre on 11 Sept 1857. http://www.mtn-meadows-assoc.com/jdlconfession.htm See also Maj James Henry Carleton’s report at http://www.mtn-meadows-assoc.com/Carelton/maj.htm. —— The movie “September Dawn” is a fictional version of this event and is not totally accurate. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473700/ —— The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass slaughter of the Fancher-Baker emigrant wagon train at Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, by a local Mormon militia and members of the Paiute Indian tribe on September 11, 1857. The incident began as an attack, quickly turned into a siege, and eventually culminated in the murder of the unarmed emigrants after their surrender. All of the party except for seventeen children under eight years old were killed -- about 120 men, women, and children were killed, but precise numbers have been debated. After the massacre, the corpses of the victims were left decomposing for two years on the open plain, the surviving children were distributed to local Mormon families, and many of the victims' possessions were auctioned off at the Latter-day Saint Cedar City tithing office. Initially intending to orchestrate an Indian massacre, local militia leaders including Isaac C. Haight and John D. Lee conspired to lead militiamen disguised as Native Americans along with a contingent of Paiute tribesmen in an attack. The emigrants fought back and a siege ensued. When the Mormons discovered that they had been identified by the emigrants, Col. William H. Dame, head of the Iron County Brigade of the Utah militia, ordered their annihilation. Intending to leave no witnesses of Mormon complicity in the siege and also intending to prevent reprisals that would complicate the Utah War, militiamen induced the emigrants to surrender and give up their weapons. After escorting the emigrants out of their hasty fortification, the militiamen and their tribesmen auxiliaries executed the emigrants. Investigations, interrupted by the U.S. Civil War, resulted in nine indictments in 1874. Only John D. Lee was tried in a court of law, and after two trials, he was convicted. On March 23, 1877, a firing squad executed Lee at the massacre site.