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Show The Bolton-Lake George Home 43 among its numbers 15,000 of his descendents, including a great Nathan E. Tanner, who is in the first presidency of the church at Salt Lake City. grandson, Tanner [John] came to Northwest Bay from Greenwich in 1818 and moved to Bolton Landing in 1825. He had 21 children and was a man of wealth and influence. When Mormon missionaries visited Bolton in 1832, it been Tanner's intent to demonstrate what he thought in their teaching. Instead he became a convert. have fallacies seems to were In the spring of 1834, [This was at Christmas time 1834] his family and ten other wagons of members formed a train in the rye fields where the town filtration plant is now located in back of the Bolton Episcopal Church. John Tanner's wagon train arrived in Kirtland, Ohio, in time to save the mortgage on the Temple Block of the church. He was instru mental in building the first temple. He went with the Mormons to Missouri and was in Missouri on October 27, 1838, when Governor Lilburn Boggs issued the order that Mormons were to be extermi nated or driven from the state. Tanner went on to help with the Nauvoo, Illinois, Temple and to suffer the persecutions of the mobs that burned the edifice and drove the Mormons from Nauvoo to the Salt Lake Valley. Until recent years, those who became Mormons usually moved west and joined the main body of the church, Phillip J. Harris, branch president, notes. After Tanner's time, there is no record of any local organization until about eight years ago, when the Glens Falls Branch was formed as a dependent branch of Schenectady. Now an independent branch of purchase to commemorate the Rockwell Roads, will be held Chapter 180 members, the congregation meets of the five-acre site at Haviland and Sunday Three - in the Grange Hall.' 1 Notes -Information from Dora D. Bullock, Glens Falls, New York. 2A town is somewhat like one of our townships though not a regular size 3Bolton Landing is the only village of any importance in the town of Bolton. +See any good colonial history. 5William H. Brown, History oj Warren County, New York (Glen Falls, New York, 1963). 6Nathan's "Reminiscences." |
