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Show John Tanner and His 188 day as elder far Cottonwood, as Family ten miles from Salt Lake where two of his brothers, Nathan and John Joshua resided.:" We took with us a loaf of bread, and left with my mother five of flour, that being the last of our provisions. pounds from San Bernardino, staid with my mother to attend to business and provide for her which he did by purchasing a few pounds of flour at a time as occasion af forded, paying sometimes as high as fifty cents a pound. Freeman, who had recently arrived It was quite dark when we arrived at Cottonwood, and I was intro duced to a large family as their aunt. I had never been called aunt before or thought how it would sound, and it seemed strange to 6 see so many strange faces and hear them call me aunt Jane. John Joshua and Nathan lived in close proximity to each other presented "aunt Jane" with sixteen or of them as old as Aunt Jane. No some and nieces, eighteen nephews and between them could have wonder she nephews was and Had she been able to meet all her they would have overwhelmed. those yet unborn, nieces, including 'j numbered ten times sixteen. Jane continues: "Like those we had left, they were without bread, they had an abundance of milk and vegetables, things I had been deprived of so long they were a great treat to me and I hardly missed but the bread.:" John Joshua and Nathan were living in the best tradition of John Tanner on a farm raising food. They would help keep faith "Your child with the promise made to their father by the prophet ren shall never beg bread.?" - - The newlyweds reluctantly left the warmth of the elder brother's homes, and two days later were in Payson. "We stopped at the home of a friend, while we looked around for a house to live in." Jane neglects to identify their friends, but continues her story: There owner was an empty log house standing in the fort offered kindly floor being us the use of ... It row which the low, dirty place, part windows with, a large fire was a of the taken up to fasten the in one corner, with jamb broken down, and filled with dirt and ashes. The prospect was not inviting, and it is no wonder I sighed to as I looked in and thought it would do for a few days. place |
