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In 1886 John Taylor had a revelation to continue plural marriage. The Woolley family was in attendance and was charged to help him. They were pivital in the founding of Short Creek and early Mormon Fundamentalism but their name is not commonly found amongst the principal figures today. What became of the Woolleys? Tom Bennett, …