Haun's Mill Massacre - Aftermath

Aftermath

After the massacre, Philo Dibble stated that "Brother Joseph had sent word by Haun, who owned the mill, to inform the brethren who were living there to leave and come to Far West, but Mr. Haun did not deliver the message." Of the matter, the LDS prophet-president Joseph Smith recorded, "Up to this day God had given me wisdom to save the people who took counsel. None had ever been killed who abode by my counsel." Then he recorded that innocent lives could have been saved at Haun’s Mill had his counsel been received and followed.

Although participants in the massacre boasted of their acts for years, none of the Missouri attackers were ever brought to trial, and the Latter-day Saints' efforts at receiving justice in the Missouri courts failed.

Through 2012 the grounds of the massacre are maintained as a historic site by the Community of Christ. In May 2012 it was announced that the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had acquired the property from the Community of Christ. The church had also acquired the Far West burying ground from the Community of Christ.

This event was dramatized in the Latter-day Saint film Legacy.