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Show 164 John Tanner and His Family fornia searching for gold. They would later join the California Mis sion. The next three boys, Freeman Everton age twenty-one, Joseph Smith age eighteen, and David Dan age thirteen aided their mother and the 437 pioneers who were making the trek to southern California. Elizabeth had a girl, her youngest child, Sariah, who was eleven. She would accompany her folks to California, but she would sadden the home with her early death.' Counting the three men already in California, this added up to a total of twenty-three of John Tanner's family who were a part of the San Bernardino Mission. During the period of their residence in Cali fornia, this number would be increased by the birth of six grandchil dren and nine great-grandchildren. 5 Two of the Tanner men did not join the California group; John Joshua did not reach Utah until the fall of 1851 after the California Mission departed. Had he been with it, he would have added eight and if Nathan had also gone along he would have added nine. It has been impossible to learn why these Tanner families remained in Utah while the rest joined Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich in the mission, but a good guess would be that they took over the farm in South Cottonwood after their father's death and found it to their advantage to remain. * * * came to the Mormons chiefly from Samuel Brannan who had taken a shipload of Saints around South America and landed in San Francisco Bay, and members of the Mormon Battalion who had crossed much of the continent on foot and then marched more than half the length of California. Information about California two sources: The Samuel Brannan information is dealt with first. In 1846 when it became certain that the Saints would leave the settled portion of the United States and settle in the West, the church leaders authorized Samuel Brannan to take a shipload of Saints, largely those living in the New York area, to the West Coast by water. Brannan rented a ship called the Brooklyn with a captain and crew month and left New York the same day the hard began crossing the Mississippi River on the ice in their pressed westward trek from Nauvoo. There were 238 Saints aboard the ship, and the journey required six months to complete before landing in the San Francisco Bay, July 31, 1846.6 for $1,200 a Saints |
