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Show John Tanner and His Family 28 Elisha Bently and William Stewart do not appear to have af filiated with the church, although records are not sufficiently complete to state this with certainty. Matilda, who married Jared Randall, moved to Kirtland, Ohio, with their family during the Mormon oc but it cupancy which would suggest possible Mormon affiliation, is also possible that the Randalls came to Ohio to be near the family. East. Martin was sent on Mormons. Tanner appears to have joined the church as he mission at one time, but he did not come West with the Henry a 6 Because of the difficulty obtaining necessary in deal extensively with the involved in formation the author has decided not to four children who did not embrace Mormonism and move West. This omission is not due to any bias toward those who are or are not Latter-day Saints, but entirely to the inability to gain sufficient and satisfactory documents and other information which would do them justice. On occasion, in this John Tanner story, one or another of them as they cross the stage and the wish is they had will be mentioned crossed it more often. Bently Tanner, the oldest of John's children, was mar September of 1828, to Arvilla Ellis who bore him three child Elisha ried in ren. The oldest child died at the age of ten and the other two married. 7 never William Stewart Tanner married Harriet Carter in August 1829, who gave him one daughter. Harriet died August 29, 1830, after which William was married a second time to Julia Green Wilbur, on March 29, 1836. This couple had seven children, three sons and four daughters." The John Tanner Family gives the following account of William Stewart Tanner. living in South Georgia, near plantation with his son-in-law William Salisbury. He was supervising the plantation at the out break of the Civil War and was forced to abandon it because being a northerner and in sympathy with the [northern] cause, he had to flee with his family. They barely escaped with their lives and had to leave all their possessions behind. At the time of the Civil War he Atlanta, where he He was was a milling grain and flour. These activities, with the Washington County carrying [Greenwich],farming interested in that of later was interested in on |
