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The John Tanner Children 29 his active life time with later days spent at the "Salisbury Andover, Massachusetts, where he passed away with pneumonia, April 25, 1875.!) occupied Place" at North Matilda Tanner married Jared Randall, May 16, 1829, at Bol­ ton, New York. Their family consisted of six girls and two boys." The date they moved to Kirtland, Ohio, is unknown, but their third child, Maria Louisa, was born in Northumberland, Ohio, in 1836, 11 suggesting they came soon after John and his family moved there. When Nathan Tanner and Amasa M. Lyman left Kirtland, Ohio, for Far West, Missouri, in 1837, Jared Randall was engaged to move them" He did not remain in Missouri with his brother-in-law, but returned to Kirtland where the parents of Matilda still resided. In 1838, when John and Elizabeth left Kirtland for Far West, Missouri, Matilda and Jared Randall remained behind and purchased the farm owned by John Tanner, but not yet paid for in full." And finally there is information that Louisa Maria Lyman, the sister of Matilda Randall, went back to Kirtland in 1887 to visit her sister after an absence of fifty years. Within a year, thereafter, only on April 17, 1888, Matilda died at Kirtland, Ohio." That the Matilda Randall family kept in touch with their rela­ tives in the West, however infrequent the correspondence, is shown by the fact that Henry J. Randall, Matilda's oldest child, attended the John Tanner family gathering in Payson, Utah, on August 15, 1898. Henry John Randall was not only Matilda's oldest child, but also John Tanner's oldest grandchild." Martin Henry Tanner, born March 1, 1822, at Bolton, New York, married Annie Clark Brown, April 6, 1953, at New York City. There is no information of what happened to him between 1846, when his father's family left for the West, and the date of his mar­ A letter was received from him in answer to an invitation sent him to attend the reunion held in Payson at Christmas in 1884.17 At that time he resided at Paulsboro, New Jersey, a small town across the Delaware River from Chester, Pennsylvania. Very little is known about him, but this letter will be printed in this volume." riage." Of the children who came West, five Sidney, John Joshua, were the children of Nathan, Louisa Maria, and Albert Miles John's second wife, Lydia Stewart, and with the exception of Albert Miles, were all married at the time of the westward movement. None of the Beswick children were married, and with the exception of - -