Scott turned up shot to death after leaving a note indicting BeckyLyn on a chatroom:Įnter Jordan, BeckyLyn’s gay son, who was forcibly removed from Mesadale by the Prophet’s guard at the age of 14 and told to make his own way in the world. In Ebershoff’s 2008 novel, the title The 19th Wife refers to Ann Eliza Young, one of Brigham’s wives and a staunch opponent of polygamy, and to BeckyLyn Scott, the 19th wife of a modern polygamist from a fundamentalist sect of “First Saints” who live in Mesadale, Utah. As one of the characters in the novel notes, it is likely he had 52-55, but “removed from the total tally were the wives who had died, who were barren, or whom Brigham no longer had sexual relations with.” (Photo of Brigham Young, courtesy of PBS) Perhaps, more accurately, Brigham Young was clear on the number of wives he had, but no one else was because the number changed so frequently depending on how many were active wives. Just how many wives does one guy need? When it came to Brigham Young, one of the “founding fathers” of the Mormon church, the answer was never very clear, at least according to David Ebershoff’s novel, The 19th Wife.
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