Allen Joseph Stout resolved to avenge the blood of Joseph and Hyrum Smith while there remains descendants of their murderers on the earth.
Allen Joseph Stout, Journal, 6, typescript, Harold B. Lee Special Collections
But I there and then resolved in my mind that I would never let an opportunity slip unimproved of avenging their blood upon the head of the enemies of the church of Jesus Christ. I felt as though I could not live I knew not how to contain myself, and when I see one of the men who persuaded them to give up to be tried, I feel like cutting their throats. And I hope to live to avenge their blood and then their children and children’s children to the fourth generation as long as there is one descendant of the murderers upon the earth.