HENRY
Henry eventually lost his home in Eagle Valley due to 20 years of back taxes owed the State of Nevada. He tried to prevail upon Brigham Young to pay the tax debt out of Church funds, but Brigham refused to become involved in a secular dispute. Before it was over with Henry got himself ex-communicated and moved clear up to the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon. It was land that had been the ancestral home to Chief Joseph's band of Nez Perce. In 1888 a diphtheria epidemic blew through the Wallowa Valley and killed Henry's wife and three of his children.
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