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Show Payson, they - the Home of the Tanners 187 settlers had considerable trouble with the Indians and protection. However, after a long period of turmoil, and their Lamanite brethren finally came to terms. The built Utah a new fort for and his Myron wife, Mary Jane Mount, seem to have been the first of the Tanners to settle in Payson. As related in the chapter on San Bernardino, Myron and Seth had driven a band of horses from that settlement to Salt Lake to sell, but as explained by Freeman in his letter to George A. Smith what they were really after were wives," Neither Myron nor Mary Jane tell the circumstances of their meeting, but both agreed it was "love at first sight" and a proposal and ac ceptance came in short order." When Myron approached Brigham Young with a request for recommend for a church wedding, he learned quickly that Brigham Young looked with strong disfavor on any Mormon maid being taken from Utah to California. Myron was quick to understand and post poned his marriage while he went to San Bernardino to arrange his business affairs so he could come to Utah to settle as well as marry the girl of his choice. a couple were married May 22, 1856, with no home to go to, prospects. But Myron had friends in Payson whom he had met on one of his trips to Salt Lake, and he had an opportunity to look the country over to see its potential for live-stock grazing, which The and no was his chief interest at the time. Since both Myron and Mary Jane have left written accounts of adequate details of their first home in experiences, Payson. Mary Jane's journal will be quoted extensively not only for the light it throws on members of the Tanner family, but also on the life of the pioneers of that period. their there are summer of 1856 was known as the grasshopper famine, and will always be remembered as a period of suffering, never equaled in the history of the territory. Flour was scarce and expensive, often costing as much as 50 cents a pound if it could be purchased at all.' The Mary before, but most of it. Jane's mother had "laid in" a supply of flour the year as neighbors were in short supply had given or loaned and Jane lived at the mother's home for about a month and then started for Payson on the sixteenth of July, "traveling that Myron |
