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Show Sidney Lyman it is learned he had a Tanner home near 233 that of John Tanner, at Montrose, and that numerous relatives and other Saints were welcome there. By this date Sidney was thirty-seven years old and very much like his father. Those who accepted the hospitality of John Tanner did with his father. Sidney sister, Louisa Maria, who was Amasa M. Mormon married to Lyman, whom the church kept Apostle R time. the of much on the go much at home with Sidney as seemed especially solicitious of his felt as they trek across Iowa, Sidney, who like his father, had bet and ter teams wagons than most was kept busy going from one rescue There were those who needed food, an ox or another. mission to a thimble for a wheel. Sidney found it difficult or mule, a king bolt, members of the family because of the extra other the with to stay During the chores he was "bishop," ing "that a directed. obliged to do. He was rewarded by being designated a Brigham stated a man was entitled to who was will property should be disposed of in any way the Lord title his "D much misfortune in the west ward movement as did Sidney. James Monroe, a toddler just under two years of age, died March 16, 1846, and was buried at Richardson Point, Iowa. The second death was that of Sidney's wife, Louisa who died29, 1846, leaving an infant, Mason None of the Tanners had Tanner, as September Conlee, Lyman, quite old, who died soon after. And finally Sidney C. bright-eyed lad of six, died on the Platte River in 1848. three months a Sidney endured year period. four deaths There has recently - come his wife and three children to light an original - in a two letter written by Sidney Tanner, from Winter Quarters, to his wife's parents, James and Elsie Conlee. The Conlees had not joined the Mormon church and and Louisa left Bol appear to have been antagonistic. When Sidney in 1834, with their two children, the Conlees, ton for Kirtland, Ohio, hated to see them move so far away. Then with each move, endeavor to remain with the church, they increased the distance naturally, in an separating them. in 1846 when the Conlees learned that their daughter seven in son-in-law, together with their grandchildren (now West Far the for number), were about to leave civilization and depart letter worded wrote a sharply with the Finally and questionable Mormons, they expressing their displeasure. |
