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Show The Tanners in Arizona and the Southwest 203 never heard his father Henry Martin complain about have "what might been," had the family been permitted to remain in San Bernardino, even though he knew some of his older sisters who had married and remained in California were eating oranges and grapefruit while he was lucky to have a poorly formed shriveled apple. If someone had brought up the subject Henry would The author probably the Paul who said: "I have learned, no matter what the circumstances to be content." It is hard to be content on a farm in Joseph City, and most of those who had come had also have quoted left. But the not entirely Apostle Dozen" tried to emulate Paul, and if they did agree, they kept their feelings well under cover." "Spartan Seth B. Tanner did not have as large a family as some of his brothers. He had seven children, thirty grandchildren, and in 1942 (the time of the publication of the John Tanner Family), 121 great-grandchildren and 19 great-great-grandchildren, for a total of 185. This is far below that of some of his brothers as will be shown in another chapter. On this same date Henry M. Tanner had 17 children, 77 grand children, and 48 great granchildren. Henry, of course, was a nephew of Seth and 24 years younger. Later statistics on the Henry Tanner show that in 1964 the great-grandchildren had increased from 48 to 247 and there were 90 great-great-grandchildren, making a total of 432. While the number of children per family has decreased family in the case of Henry his married children have aver considerably aged 6.6 per family, the married grandchildren numbered 3.2 children per family. Henry Martin Tanner's descendents number more than 500 at the time of the publication of this book. - It will require some genealogical work by the members of the Seth Tanner family before an accurate estimate of the present size of the family can be made. With the breakup at Tuba City, the' family scattered. Seth settled briefly in Joseph City, but later moved to. Taylor where he died in 1918. Frederick, the oldest son to remain in Arizona, settled in Joseph City where he remained the rest of his life. Joseph Baldwin moved to New Mexico where the remainder of his large family of thirteen children were born. Most of his family still reside in the Southwest. Two of the grandchildren of Henry Tanner remain in Joseph but they constitute only about three percent of his total descen dents; a large proportion of the family are in Mesa and Phoenix. City, |
