Rudger Clawson and Joseph Standing

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Mormon missionaries Rudger Clawson (left) and Joseph Standing are pictured in 1878. In 1879 Standing was killed by a mob in Whitfield County as he and Clawson were traveling to a church conference in Chattooga County.

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Rudger Clawson and Joseph Standing

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