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50 years ago
President David O. McKay departed from Salt Lake City April 30, 1952, for Georgia, where he was scheduled to dedicate a monument to the memory of a missionary, Elder Joseph Standing, who was killed by a mob on July 21, 1879. "An attractive but durable monument has been erected on the spot where Elder Standing was killed," reported the Church Section of Wednesday, April 30, 1952. "It is located in a woods, near a spring, just out of Varnell Station, near the northern boundary of Georgia." The monument inscription noted that Elder Standing's companion, Elder Rudger Clawson, who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, was unharmed in the incident.
