(Tribune file photo) Vera Johnson Black's children, left to right, Wilford, Orson, Francis, Emily, Lillian, Elsie and Spenser. The children were placed in state custody after the 1953 raid on Short Creek, which lead to a Utah Supreme Court case that set precedent and is still a cause célèbre for polygamists and their detractors.
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