The Latter Day Church of Christ[1] is a Mormon fundamentalist denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement,[2] and is most commonly known as the Kingston Clan or the Kingston Group. The church was created in 1977 by the joint owners of the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc.,[3] a cooperative created in 1941 and used by the Kingston Clan to manage and hold the financial assets of the group. The Latter Day Church of Christ is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and claims to maintain the beliefs and teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with a few caveats. The primary difference is that they participate in polygamy. Plural marriage is practiced among the community and there have been numerous legal issues regarding this in the state of Utah. Most familiar of these are the civil cases against Kingston Clan members for having polygamous relationships with members of their own extended family, including underage girls. For example, Kingston Clan member Jeremy Ortell Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for having taken a 15 year old girl, LuAnn Kingston, who was both his cousin and his aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994.[4] There are approximately 2000 members of this group[5]. The Kingston Clan has a doctrine of intermarriage which began with the second leader of the group, John Ortell Kingston, who at the age of 30 married his niece, Coreen Gustafson and his half-sister, Kathleen Tucker.
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Kingston Group Assets
The Utah holdings of the Davis County Cooperative[6] are estimated at more than $200 million,[7] including the following:
- A-1 Disposal
- AAA Security
- Advance Vending
- AM Security Alarm Co.
- American Digital Systems
- ANR Company Inc.
- Bail Bond Specialists
- Best Distributing Amusement Games
- C.O.P. Coal Development Co.
- C.W. Mining Co. (Related entities: Co-Op Mine; CoOp Mining Co.)
- Coalt Inc.
- D.U. Company Inc.
- Davis County Cooperative Society Inc.
- East Side Market
- Family Stores True Value
- Fidelity Funding Corp.
- Fountain of Youth Health & Athletic Club
- Garco Industrial Park
- H.K. Engineering Inc.
- Hiawatha Coal Co. Inc.
- Holtz Inc.
- IA Castle Corp.
- K.C.P.C. Inc.
- K.J.E. Inc.
- Kearns Property Company
- Kingston & Associates
- Kingston Dairy
- Kwik Industries
- Little Red School House Montessori
- Michael's Shoe Repair and Men's Store
- Mountain Coin Machine Distributors
- N.U.B. Corp.
- National Business Management Inc.
- P.P.M.C. Inc
- PGAC Inc.
- RE Company Inc.
- Speciality Consulting Services Inc.
- Spectrum Inc.
- Spiffy Ice & Cold Storage
- Sportsman's Bail Bond Specialists
- Sportsman's Fast Cash
- Sportsman's Pawn Shops
- Standard Industries Inc.
- Standard Restaurant Equipment Company
- The Washakie Ranch
- U.P.C. Inc
- West Deep Creek Irrigation & Power Co.
- Westwood Inc.
- World Enterprises
Leaders
- Paul Elden Kingston, (1987– )
- John Ortell Kingston (1944–1987)
- Charles Elden Kingston (1935–1947)
- Charles W. Kingston (founding patriarch, supported leaders from 1935 until his death in 1975)
See also
References
- ^ Utah business entity number 689669-0140.
- ^ http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy/The_Primer.pdf
- ^ Utah business entity number 561222-0140.
- ^ http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/26/utah.polygamy.ap/index.html
- ^ Moore-Emmett, Andrea (2004). God's Brothel. Pince-Nez Press, 28. ISBN 1930074131.
- ^ http://www.xmission.com/~plporter/lds/kingston.htm#Holdings
- ^ Moore-Emmett, Andrea (2004). God's Brothel. Pince-Nez Press, 85. ISBN 1930074131.
