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Show 160 John Tanner and His Family 25Ibid p. 109. Virginia McBride, Charles R. McBride Memorial (Honolulu, Hawaii, 1971), p. 76. Louisa Maria Lyman, then eighty-seven years of age is men tioned by this author in connection with the issuance of the Woodruff Manifesto. "Wilford Woodruff issued his historic Manifesto in 1890, bringing an end to polygamy in the Mormon church. Whatever anguish and dismay it caused to others, the Mani festo was received with rejoicing by the women of one household. Rhoda Lyman [first of Francis Marion Lyman's three wives] was busy in the kitchen, with her daughter Alice McBride, and Marion's aged mother [Louisa Maria Lyman], when a neighbor burst in with the news. The older women threw their arms around Alice and wept for joy that she would never have to endure the anguish of seeing her hus band bring home another wife. Each of them had married young, only to have their dreams destroyed by polygamy. They had respected the other women, and sympa Now she and her mother-in-law thized with them, but they lived in bitterness were overjoyed that her daughter would never have to live in polygamy. 26Given to the author by Patience Thatcher of Logan. 21See chapter, "Mississippi to Missouri," this volume. John Tanner and sons Sidney and John Joshua were made compassionate bishops in Iowa. 28The three daughters-in-law were the wives of Sidney, John Joshua, and Nathan. .• . 29Luke 9: 62. . . |
