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252 John Tanner and His Family 1824, 1894, Albion, Oswego County, at Grantsville, at 10, 1849, Lewis, as New York and died October 7, couple had no children. married for the third time to Persis Tippets April City, Utah. She was born March 15, 1821, Essex County, New York. The couple had four children Nathan at The Utah. was at Salt Lake follows: 1. Alva Amasa Tanner, born December 26, tonwood, Utah. 2. Martin Henry Tanner, born 1849, April 26, 1852, at south Cot­ at south Cotton­ wood, Utah. 3. Harriet Persis Tanner, born June 10, 1856, at south Cotton­ wood, Utah. 4. Abigail Lodicia Tanner, born March 18, 1858, at Farmington Utah. time, Sarah Littley, June 28, Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born June 18, 1841. The Nathan married for the fourth 1857, at couple had 1. one Sarah child. Littley Tanner, born January 28, 1859, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Nathan ber The was 28, 1863, couple married for the fifth time to Mary Peacock Novem­ City, Utah. She was born June 27, 1849. at Salt Lake had two children: 1. Rosetta Tanner, born October 12, Utah. 2. Isabelle Utah. 1866, Tanner, born January 28, 1869, at south Cottonwood, south Cottonwood, at more known about Nathan than other members of the He because a number of his writings have been preserved. family was third in age of those who joined the Latter-day Saints and came West, and he has left a brief account of the Tanner family conversion to Mormonism. There is Like the older of the John Tanner children, he was born in Greenwich, Washington County, New York. He was three years old when the family moved to Wardboro in the hills above Northwest Bay