John Tanner and his family

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202 John Tanner and His Family did not take their stock, paying them only for houses, corrals, orchards, canals, dams and reservoirs. The following is the amount received by Seth and each of his children: Seth B. and Annie M. Tanner $ 1,775 Annie M. and Seth B. Tanner 1,200 John and Julia Tanner 2,325 Frederick and Ann E. Tanner 2,325 Joseph Henry B. and Nora Tanner W. 4,725 (Elizabeth Tanner) Despain Total to all members of Seth's Total to all Tuba City family settlers 1,700 14,050 48,000 Seth who had gone to Arizona when he was forty-seven years of age seventy-four. Not much in a material way for the long years of toil. But there were others who were less well off. was now Henry homesteaded a quarter section of land east of Joseph and built a frame house on the land. Whether it would have been City worth more or less than the amount paid to Seth and Annie is not known, but land was cheap and probably not worth more than $20.00 an acre. There is a bit of cruel irony in this whole financial affair. Seth had been in San Bernardino from 1851 to 1858 and had been called back to Utah when San Bernardino was closed out. Then seventeen years later he a mission to Arizona where he was The between San Bernardino and the contrast expected stay. Little Colorado country is about as extreme as one can imagine. Henry and Eliza were both born in San Bernardino and probably would have remained there but for the order of Brigham Young for the faithful to return. What a difference making a living on a farm was asked to take to in San Bernardino and Joseph City.