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Show Sidney Tanner 237 with the rise and growth of this southern California city. His name is recorded as one who assisted in building the original fort; he was elected to the City Council in 1856; and he was made a member of the stake High Council in 1857. ly identified The extent of his land holdings checked, but since he had in San Bernardino has not been and several daughters who were acquired considerable land. Sidney seems to have spent most of his time freighting, and it was on one of his freighting trips in September of 1857, as he was returning a married at the time it is Utah, that he form came son he likely upon the Mountain Meadows Massacre. not permit him and his freight implicated in the tragedy did William Mathews, to companion, ing Those see the actual scene, but delayed them until darkness and then conducted them around the scene of the bloodshed." It was Sidney Tanner and William Mathews who first brought the news of the frightful deed to San Bernardino. When Apostles Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich were released and recalled to Utah in 1857, Sidney was one of these who assisted in the move. Included in the company was a man to become the builder of the tabernacle organ. He brought pipe organ built in Australia which was pre sented to the people of Utah as a gift from the Saints in Australia. It was freighted to Salt Lake by Sidney Tanner and was installed in famous in the church with him had as a the north end of the old Tabernacle. Ten years later a new and larger pipe organ was built under Ridge's direction which was installed in the present Tabernacle. In the spring of 1858 when Brigham Young recalled the entire California Mission, Sidney decided to settle in Beaver, a new community with excellent grazing potential. A number of the Shepherd families, relatives of his wife, also settled in Beaver. With the return of the San Bernardino colony to Utah, John Tanner's family began to scatter. Sidney settled in Beaver, John Joshua and Nathan were in the Salt Lake Valley, Louisa Maria was in Fillmore, and Albert remained in California. Of the Elizabeth Beswick family, Myron built his permanent home in Provo, Seth moved to north Ogden and later to Arizona, and the three youngest sons Freeman E., Joseph S. and David Dan settled close together in Payson. Dan later moved to Indianola. - It would be town or city as a interesting to know why a person selects a certain home. place to settle when he moves from his former |
