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Can't find Mormon pioneer Parley Parker Pratt (Arkansas)

The exhumation of Parley Parker Pratt ended Tuesday when archaeologists couldn’t find the Mormon church leader’s remains.

Robert J. Grow, Pratt’s greatgreat-great-grandson, said there were no signs of Pratt, and the digging ended around 4 p.m....

Pratt was an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his dying wish was to be buried in Utah.
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