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Show Preface The Tanner name as one would expect leads the list with a total of 530 or 13.3 percent. Brown was second with 252 or 6.4 percent. There were 102 .Maxfields, 95 Thompsons, 93 Andersons, 87 Chap pels, 72 Smiths, 70 Lindsays, 70 Gwilliams, 65 Craners, 64 Godfreys, and 60 Hansens. The extent to which this family has mixed with prominent church families is of interest. In addition to the 72 Smiths there are 34 Taylors, 29 Grants, 24 Richards, one Cannon, one Snow, and no Kimballs or Woodruffs." If other branches of the John Tanner family have intermarried to the same extent as Nathan's, there are about 4,000 family names among his descendants, and an educated guess would place the living descendants of John with seven or eight non-Tanner names for every one with the Tanner name. Among those with the Tanner name, the most popular given John (16) ; Nathan (14); and Francis, James, and Mary (12) each. There are a good number with the names Lydia, Emily, Richard, and Robert. Some of the old family names are also pre served such as Philomelia, Pardon, Patience, and Persis. names are : Preface - -See Notes especially chapter two of this volume. 2Pp. 14-23 written by Nathan Tanner, Jr. 3There are eleven pages. Scraps of Biography will be found in most university libraries in Utah and in many Latter-day Saint homes. +Ienson, Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 4 pp. 799-802. 50bert C. Tanner is president of the Board of Directors of the John Tanner Family Association. 6Joseph M. Tanner, Biography of Myron Tanner, (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1907). "The board is composed of one or more members from each of the ten child ren of John Tanner who came West with the Mormon migration. 8Patience Thatcher lives in Logan, Utah. 9Sidney Tanner's letter to his in-laws in New York is in the author's possession and will appear in Chapter 19. 1·oJohn Tanner Family p. 207. llThe present author thinks this estimate of 1,000 is unduly pessimistic. 12The first work on a project of this kind is always the hardest. 13See charts at the close of the chapter "The Tanner Children." l40f course not all those with names like Smith or Taylor are members of prominent church families. xi |
