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Show CHAPTER 14 CUhe Tanners and the ,San Bernardino Mission The San Bernardino settlement is one of the most interesting by the Mormon church. An account of it is included here because most of the Tanners who came West with' the Mormons were a part of it. and controversial of all the colonies founded John Tanner, of course, was not among the settlers, the year before, but he would be well represented in the the following members of his family. as he died colony by and his wife, Julia Ann Shepherd, together with their children, five of whom were the orphaned children of Louisa Sidney seven Conlee who died at Winter Quarters. Some of these children were grown and would soon have families of their own. Allen Benedict was born in 1831 and was twenty years of age; Lydia was eighteen; Emma Smith fifteen, Mary Louise thirteen, and Elsie Elizabeth eleven. Sidney'S second wife, Julia Ann Shepherd, had two children, Julia Ann and Albert Miles when the trip to California began. Three more of her children were born in San. Bernardino.' Louisa Maria Lyman, wife of the Lyman, had a family of four children. fifteen to two." ranking apostle, Amasa M. They ranged in age from Albert Miles Tanner was already in California as he had not Utah following his discharge from the Mormon Battalion, 3 but he would join the settlement in California. come to Mother Elizabeth, widow of John, had six living children. Myron, age twenty-five, and Seth Benjamin, two years younger, were in Cali- |
