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Show Sidney Sidney's decendants at children, 98 grandchildren the census showed he was Tanner 239 the time of his death numbered 22 64 great-grandchildren. In 1942 the father of 22, grandfather of 121, and great-grandfather of 317, great-great-grandfather of 416, and great a total of 1,001. Careful estimates great-great-grandfather of 125 - indicate his total decendants now number in author has not checked to excess of 3,800. how many of Sidney's The remained in but descendants Beaver, they have scattered widely in found A states. sizeable number remained in and are to be many California and large numbers are to be found in Idaho and southern Arizona. But, of course, the largest see number are living 'in Utah. John Tanner Sidney Henry t Tanner t Martin Tanner t ROLLIN C. TANNER Rollin C. Tanner has been selected as a Sidney Tanner Family. He was born in of the worthy representative Joseph City, Arizona, east of present Joseph February 9, 1886, in the Old Fort, a half mile City. This was ten years after the founding of the River settlements. The colony was still struggling Little Colorado for it existence, and it would be another twenty years before its fate would be known with certainty. Rollin grew up in the little town of his birth, and witnessed the struggles of the settlers as they fought to secur€ the dams and divert the obstinate waters from the river to the thirsty desert land. He had the usual educational opportunities offered by a frontier community where schools were taught by dedicated but usually poorly trained teachers. In 1907, at the age of twenty-one, he was called on a mission to the Southern States where he spent two and a half and returned with an honorable release and a good record. years For the next fifteen years he entered into various pursuits make his place in the sun, but with modest success. trying to |
