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“Her name,” advised Tibb, “is as distinctive as her story: Artemisia Foote. She was named after her grandmother, a girl at Hawn’s Mill in western Missouri where Mormons were massacred in 1838 - men and little boys cornered in a blacksmith shop and shot like fish in a barrel. They say the girl screamed while her father slid his friends down the well, one by one for mass burial. I’ve never met the granddaughter, but she carries a lot of intrigue in Kane County, and a bit of baggage. She’s back in the Foote homestead as I mentioned, not far from the Plantation. She goes by her middle name ‘Sidnie,’ but most people just call her

‘ The Virgin Lamb.’ ”

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