Alma Dayer LeBaron Sr.

He later moved to Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, to continue his education, and there met his first wife, Barbara Baily.

However, LeBaron's religious beliefs soon alienated his wife who left him, taking their child and moving to Salt Lake City to be with her mother.

[5] The following year, both he and his wives were excommunicated "for violative conduct", the LDS Church disciplinary council being held at La Verkin, Utah, Onie Jones's hometown.

[6] In response, LeBaron and his two wives and eight children moved back to Colonia Juárez, where he sought work as a painter and doing odd jobs and was described as an "energetic" and "hard-working" man.

At various times, seven of them would believe himself to fulfill the premillennial demi-messianic priesthood office or offices such as the One Mighty and Strong, the Presiding Patriarch in All the World, according to a professed Right of the Firstborn (equating to Joseph Smith Jr.'s mantle as leader of the early Latter Day Saint Council of Fifty).