Background
LeBaron was born in Louisiana Verkin, Utah, the eighth of 13 children born to Alma Dayer LeBaron, Senior and Maude Lucinda McDonald.
LeBaron was born in Louisiana Verkin, Utah, the eighth of 13 children born to Alma Dayer LeBaron, Senior and Maude Lucinda McDonald.
In 1967, Joel"s brother Ervil LeBaron was removed from leadership in the church when he began to preach that he, and not Joel, was the proper leader of the church. Ervil was tried and convicted in Mexico for Joel"s murder, but the conviction was overturned.
