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Show John Tanner and His 244 Family book of 1942. This of course, is true, but the omission due to lack of information and not done intentionally. Family was John Joshua was the second in age, of John Tanner's children West with the Mormons. He was seven years of age when who the family moved from Greenwich to Bolton. John J., along with came the family, spent the next four years in the hilly wooded area four miles above Northwest Bay, known as Wardboro. Later they moved to Bolton Landing, where John J. grew to manhood. Nothing is known of his life as a boy except that he grew up in the home of John Tanner, known to be a sucessful farmer and an active Baptist laypreacher who was highly respected in the area. It is safe to assume that he was acquainted with the Mormon missionaries Jared and Simeon Carter, and that he had much the same experiences as the other Tanners in joining the Latter-day Saints. He would have been twenty-one years of age at the time of that important event, but there is no information as to his reactions. prophet made the request that young and middle-aged join a military force which he was marching to the persecuted Saints in Missouri. It is not known how the In 1834 the able-bodied relief of the men selection was made, but John J. and Nathan volunteered from the Tanner family and traveled to New Portage, Ohio, where the troops were being assembled. Along with 150 men, they left New Portage about to May 8 and began the long Independence, Missouri. march of nearly a thousand miles Since the story of Zion's Camp has been told in another it will not be repeated except to say that John Joshua's work appears to have been entirely satisfactory. He was commended along with a few others on his mature conduct when the frightening cholera struck. Under similar circumstances full-grown men have been known to panic and run, but John Joshua and his brother ministered to the sick and buried the dead.' chapter, Following the advise of the prophet, the Tanner brothers re mained in Missouri a year to assist the hard-pressed Saints. They then returned to Kirtland where they found their folks who had moved while they had been in Missouri. Later that year, 1835, John J. married Rebecca Archibald Smith a Bolton girl, who apparently had also moved to Kirtland." This ial life. fortunate Rebecca came from a substant young man starting out in The next year Nathan also married into this fine family." family was a marriage; and she had much to offer a |
