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Show The John Tanner Children 31 Winter Quarters, Nebraska. The last thirteen were born in South 21 Cottonwood, Utah. John Joshua had finally settled down. Nathan was born in 1815, in Greenwich, New York. He mar total of five wives and produced eighteen children. Like his two older brothers, he had children born in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, and like John Joshua, the last twelve were born in Utah, mostly in the Cottonwood area." ried a Louisa Maria (Lyman), the only daughter of John Tanner to marry and come West, was married to Amasa M. Lyman, early Mormon apostle who adopted the Tanner family and was in turn adopted by them. Louisa Maria became the mother of eight child one in Ohio, three in Illinois, one in Utah, and three in Cali fornia. Like her three older brothers who were identified with Mor monism, the birthplace of the children is in itself a story." ren - Albert Miles Stewart, was Tanner, the youngest child of the second wife Lydia not married at the time of the western movement. He the Mormon Battalion and crossed the continent to California where he married and remained the rest of hi's life. 24 joined Of the children of Elizabeth, two died in infancy and one, came West with the family but died in her girl thirteenth year in San Bernardino, California. The other five child ren Myron, Seth Benjamin, Freeman Everton, Joseph Smith, and David Dan were all single and mostly too young to marry. They all came West in the Mormon migration, and eventually became the heads of large families. eight named a Sariah, - -, When all of John's children were married and had their families, he had a total of 183 grandchildren who are recorded in the John Tanner Family book. The oldest of his children, Elisha Bently Tan ner, born in 1801, was forty-two years older than his youngest, Francis, born in 1843. The oldest of John's grandchildren, Henry John Randall, born January 19, 1830, was seventy-five years older than the youngest, Sterling Elmer Tanner, born August 2, 1905. the Some comments of Nathan Tanner about the antededents of family are of interest. At the family reunion in Payson, Utah, in 1844, he said: "We have descended in part from English descent, a cross from the Stuart family of Scotland, and that of Miles Standish, one of the first settlers in America, and who endured the with hardships of settling our country in early referring to the children of Lydia Stewart. times.'?" Nathan is here |
