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Show The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration 213 to find the road over Buckskin Mountain blocked with snowdrifts. reluctantly returned to Lee's Ferry on the Colorado River, he acquaintances who were trying to get through to Utah. By adding his horse to their team and using a shovel on some of the deepest drifts, they managed to get over the mountain. As he met 11 Henry Tanner could have come by train if he had had the money, the Santa Fe Railroad came within a half mile of his town; but the extreme poverty of that Mormon colony ruled that out. It is not known what day he reached Payson, but he was in Hillsdale the night as of December 22 and left by horseback at 2 175 miles still ahead of him. a.m. December 23, with Payson while the reunion was still in session, managed can only be imagined. He expressed himself as being "well repaid for the journey, though it was a hard one on account of the snow in the mountains which was very deep." Somehow he reached but how he Sidney Tanner, the oldest of the sons, was made a patriarch to family and to Beaver County. He spent an entire afternoon giving blessings to family members, and it is hoped this included his son Henry who had practically risked his life to be present. the There must have been but little correspondence western Tanners and their relatives back East. between the A letter from Martin Tanner to the secretary indicates that he had received a number of the circulars, as he called them, and he was endeavoring to send them to other members of the family, but he knew little about his relatives in the East and was unable to give much help. His letter expresses real affection for his kindred, and he appears hungry for Henry news about the western Tanners. Here is the letter in full: Paulsboro, To Mrs. M. J. Tanner New Jersey, Dec. 16, 1884. Sec'y. reply to your circulars which we received in due time, not knowing the address of all of brother Wm. S. Tanner's family, we sent a portion of them to Moses E. Clark, the husband of Emily Tanner the eldest daughter of Wm. by his second wife Julia Tanner and ad requested them to forward them to those we didn't know their Fairview 126 is N. Ave., Jersey dresses. Moses E. Clark's address In City Heights, N. J. 12 Minnie Tanner Salisbury lives in Chicago. A letter addressed to her husband Wm. Salisbury, Chicago, will reach her. |
