Andrew Wood Cowley wasn't afraid of anything. However after two consecutive sentences at the Utah Federal Penitentiary for the same offense-cohabitation with his four wives, he was frightened. Would he survive his second term in federal prison under its severe conditions of double bunking, poor food and lack of sanitation? Now double jeopardy for the same offense is illegal but at the turn of the century it happened. Which of his four faithful wives would he give up? Why hadn't his prison walls come tumbling down when he prayed?
His wife Mary had buried five sons and a daughter. Which of his nineteen living children would he deny? His dead children gave him a reason for living. He had to live worthily to see them in the resurrection. The former bishop had taken up drinking prior to his arrest by the federal marshall. With four wives and nineteen living children, who wouldn't?
How did his four wives: Mary, Jane, Anne, and Rachel provide for his children without him? Download Polygamy, was it Worth Dying For?