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Show 102 John Tanner and His Family It took everything we could spare, except what we needed for the barest necessities of life, to relieve ourselves from the obli gations of this note which was paid in the year 1845.11 Joseph. Doctor Joseph M. Tanner who edited the Myron Tanner Bio graphy makes the following comment about the payment of the note: What portion of this note was paid by John Tanner does not appear, but from the circumstances of the fact that he and his boys were enterprising and successful, these four years, the amount must have been considerable. From the Biographical Encyclopedia a different picture is given of the settlement of the note which Father Tanner had signed as surety. Here is the Biographical Encyclopedia account: The Church up to this time, owing to the extreme adversity through which it had been called to pass, had been unable to pay the notes in full for the $30,000 which Father Tanner had signed as surety, and he was called on to pay this, and judgment obtained against him in the sum of $700, in the district court of Lee County, Iowa; but he succeeded in effecting a the credi compromise whereby tors agreed parties for judgment accept $100 as his share in full, and look the remainder. 12 to to the other The fact that John Tanner was able to satisify the judgment him for so nominal an amount, that is $100, if this is accepted as the correct figure, may have been due to the fact that a number of the brethren, including the prophet and took of the against Hyrum, advantage national bankruptcy law to save themselves from oppressive lawsuits. And, while there is no evidence that John Tanner took advantage of this law, the knowledge that he could do so if he chose may have accounted for the "compromise" which reduced the from $700 to judgment $100. The other event which worried Myron, was the calling of his father and other members of his family, on missions in 1844. This was an unusual It missionary call and requires some explanation. Latter-day Saints to learn that in 1844, Joseph Smith was nominated by his people as a candidate for the presidency of the United States, and Sidney Rigdon was selected as his running mate." Of course, there was little expectation that he would be elected, may come as a surprise but the Saints felt that to many they had been ill-treated by the government, |
