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Show The Tanners and the San Bernardino Mission the fort two years when we moved was of logs down and house which over to Warm putting Creek, pulling 181 our it up there. acres of land there and the boys put in crops. While lived in the fort my daughter Sariah, age 12 years and eight that was in 1853. We lived there about three years months died when the boys bought some land about a mile from that location and in the fall of /56 built a comfortable house to which we moved the following February. 32 I bought twelve we - From Myron's Biography a little is learned of his and Seth's activities. They left Salt Lake in the fall of 1850 shortly after their father's death and worked in the gold fields "at McDowell's Hill about four miles above Mormon Island." By applied industry and economy I was able in two and a half years to lay by $1,250. In the fall of '52 I went to San Bernardino. My brothers, Seth, Freeman and Joseph had also been at work with what we had saved we began fencing, stockraising, and trading. In '56, however, my brother Seth drew out and began coal mining in San Diego." There are a few other snatches of information, such as a letter from Freeman to George A. Smith who was in Salt Lake stating that his brothers were on their way with a band of horses which they wanted to sell, but more especially that they were in the market for a wife apiece. It was on this trip that Myron met and a year later married Jane Mount. This further complicated the partnership at San Bernardino, as Myron settled in Payson instead of returning to California." With Myron and Seth gone from the farm, Freeman took over the care of the stock including the saddle horses, and Joseph managed the farm. David Dan, the younger brother, because of his age was not included in the partnership but assisted one and then the other of the brothers as his help was needed. During the stay in San Bernardino, Dan grew from a lad to a man. No longer would his brothers be able to treat him as a boy. Albert, about whom is known so little, crosses the stage a few times in San Bernardino. His name appears on the list of those who were in the fort in 1852, which signifies that he had left the gold fields and had chosen the pursuit of agriculture. He is mentioned by Hosea Stout in 1853 as furnishing horses to assist a party up Cajon |
