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Show Payson, Utah her sister whom sons, we - the Home of the Tanners called aunt Polly, Freeman, Joseph and Dan, and and a some them all to live with us, and it made the only a poor little unit among them. hired Mother's three He brought large that I was girl, hired family 191 men. so Poor Jane, who had hoped for a reasonable amount of privacy practically crowded out of her home by large friendly family from San Bernardino. If Jane did not already with her the husband, was now know it she would soon learn that when you married one of the sons of Mother Elizabeth Beswick, you married the whole family, including Aunt was and the hired help. Jane admitted, "They were all good all kind to me, but were so different than those I accustomed to that I seemed to lose my individuality." Polly people and were The overcrowding by Mother Elizabeth and the brothers-in-law would only last a couple of years, for Myron would acquire property in Provo and move his wife and family to that location. But Jane's lack of privacy would pursue her even there and, though in a different form, would try her soul even more." While the family resided in San Bernardino, Myron, Freeman, Joseph together as partners. This relationship continued when Myron came to Utah and married. With the coming of the rest of the family in 1858 it became desirable to liquidate the hold ings in California so their property would be closer. This proved no easy task, however, and Myron made a number of trips to California worked and for this purpose. While he was on one such trip, Mary Jane tells of an attempt to her second child, Joseph Marion blessed. Since they were living get about three miles from the ward house, it was too far to walk, and there was no one who volunteered to take her. A neighbor woman who had two children, neither of whom had been blessed, also wished to make the trip to how they got there: meeting for the same purpose. Mary Jane tells The hired boy said if we would ride after the steers he was breaking he would take us to town. We accepted his offer and he yoked them on the wagon. We started out in great glee, determined to make the best of a bad situation. We felt some be drawn by a we came to a anxiety, however, in loading our precious freight to couple of wild steers. All went nicely, however, until narrow bridge over a deep creek. As we had not full |
