The Mormon church in Salt Lake City is sending an envoy to Arkansas to meet with descendants of victims of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.
A meeting will take place Friday in Carrollton in northwest Arkansas, but the church won't comment on what will be discussed.
Members of the Fancher-Baker wagon train coming from Arkansas and heading to California were attacked September Fourth, 1857 during a stop in southwestern Utah. After a week of gun skirmishes, the group was tricked into a fake truce by a local Mormon leader and killed.
Three months ago, groups petitioned the church to seek National Historic Landmark status for the Utah site where 120 people died.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has twice declined previous appeals to seek landmark status for the site.
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