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Show The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration 215 in the East." Some of the relative-conscious Tanners in Utah kept up of correspondence with relatives in the East, but this was some sort infrequent and reached only a few. It is interesting to speculate whether this lack of correspondence occasioned by coolness between the eastern Tanners and their Mormon relatives in the West, or was just the human element which marks our carelessness about writing." was At a reunion held fourteen years later, August 15, 1898, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Randall, oldest son of Matilda Tanner Randall, were in attendance. They were from Willoughby, Ohio, near Kirtland, where the Randalls had lived since the Mormon evacuation of 1838. It is assumed there was a cordial feeling existing between them and their Mormon relatives in Utah, though there is no information." Also in attendance at the reunion of 1898 was Seth B. Tanner City, Arizona. This time there was no snow to block his of Tuba way since the reunion was held in August. Seth was his son Joseph Baldwin Tanner and his family. accompanied by The secretary for the 1898 reunion considered it of sufficient importance to include the names of those from out of town." In ad dition to the Randalls from Ohio and the Seth and Baldwin Tanners from Arizona, the following are listed: Apostle F. M. Lyman, wife and mother; Dr. J. M. Tanner of the Agricultural College; Hon. William H. King, Member of Congress, and wife; Mrs. F. S. Richards; Barlow Ferguson, and family; Elder Nathan Tanner, Salt Lake; Nathan Tanner Jr., and Nathan A. Tan ner and families of Ogden; F. C. Thompson and family, Salt Lake; Sheriff Lindsay and family, Park City; Myron Tanner, Provo. a rather elite group and it is wondered if there Tanners present who were from out of town. This sounds like were less prominent Chapter Seventeen - Notes -Quote from Territorial Enquirer, (Journal History HDC January 6, 1885). 2The Payson Opera House was newly completed. 3Devout Latter-day Saints these Tanners. +The child was Lydia Jane, born at Far West, Missouri. She died November 3, 1872, at Salt Lake City, Utah. |
