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Fundamentalist Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints FLDS: Rulon Jeffs

Winston Blackmore Dept: The sisters are fourth-generation fundamentalist Mormons. Their grandfather, LeRoy, was one of the early presidents of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints FLDS , according to Vancouver Sun. "We came several times after that in the next two years. I was working and out of school and I wanted to get on with life," Marjorie said Wednesday. "I had a meeting with then-FLDS president Rulon Jeffs and told him I wanted to get on with my life get married and marjorie Johnson was 19 and her sister 20 when on the same day in 1990, they married Winston Blackmore, the bishop of Bountiful. Two years earlier, the sisters met Blackmore when they came to Canada from Hildale, Utah with their father, two mothers, 31 children and a few other relatives. They visited Bountiful and Rosemary, the Alberta town where their father had once lived. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.