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Show John Tanner and His 86 Family took up their land outside the city limits where it was more plentiful and less expensive and lost no time in fencing, putting up buildings, and planting. The second contingent of the Tanner family to move to Missouri left Kirtland in 1837. It consisted of Nathan and his wife and Louisa Maria and her husband, Amasa M. Lym.an. They were taken to their destination by Jared Randall, husband of Matilda Tanner, whom they employed to move them. They reached Far West late in the fall and were welcomed by Sidney and John Joshua. The entire group were so destitute that it was necessary for them to seek employment, which they found at Fort Leavenworth, about forty miles away. Nathan's comment: "We worked at this time with a will to prepare for the winter worked for $10.00 per month about 21h months with Sidney Tanner and John Joshua Tanner and Amasa M. Lyman." ... No further mention is made of Jared Randall who probably re family was located. It is regrettable so little is known about Matilda and Jared Randall and their family. Matilda was born in 1804 while the family was at Greenwich, New York. In 1829 she married Jared Randall of Bolton, New York, who was four years her senior. The first two of their six children were born in Bolton, the next was born in Northumberland, Ohio, in turned to Kirtland where his 1836, and the last three to Kirtland would no supporting by occasioned the family. evidence a were suggest desire born in some Kirtland, Ohio. Their moving with Mormonism, but relationship be found, and the move may have been Matilda's part to be near her father and can on When John Tanner left Kirtland for Missouri, the farm was purchased by Jared Randall, "for about one-third the amount it cost him in the beginning.?" Nathan's reaction to the choice of land his brothers Sidney and John Joshua had purchased near Far West was enthusiastic: "We had found a paradice, the land was deliteful and my brother had secured sum good timber in Clinton County nearby, had built houses, broke up land and was then makeing rails to fence the land."! He noted that a his and Amasa's arrival, where the fence material on rail-splitting party they was were invited to being prepared. John Tanner had followed the prophet's counsel to assist the with all his might by tarrying in Kirtland. His older sons had cause |
