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264 John Tanner and His to with below. converse answer me on the subject of Family matrimony, please write your It is with the belief that I would be happy in your company that I write you. Receive this from your friend, A. To Miss L. M. Tanner Please answer Lyman this tomorrow. Maria wrote her affirmative answer on the bottom of the letter containing the silent proposal. They were married ten days later, on June 10. When Maria passed her personal papers to her son Francis Marion Lyman sixty-five years later, the part Maria had added was 4 missing. Francis Marion could see where the scissors had clipped it. Few brides ever remained ever more entered constant matrimony with greater hopes, and throughout life under such trying few cir­ cumstances. year and a half fol­ lowing her marriage; it would still be two weeks before she turned eighteen. Taking on the cares of parenthood so young and under the circumstances, Maria, who was striving to find happiness in a world Maria's first child, a daughter, was born a which made the quest difficult, must have been sobered. She was a home, and the husband she adored was on first call from the church leaders and could give attention to his wife only after he had without fulfilled his church assignments. Even so, Maria was more fortunate than many; her father, who of the best managers in the church, saw his daughter had the necessities and frequently saw his son-in-law was provided for. John Tanner was genuinely fond of Amasa Lyman and readily ac­ cepted him as a son. The acceptance of "Elder Lyman" and later was one "Apostle Lyman" extended to every member of the family, a fact5 which made it easier for Maria to accept their continuing assistance. In 1837 Amasa and Maria decided to move to Missouri. It probably at the insistance of the prophet that the move was made. Amasa and Maria with their infant daughter, as well as her brother Nathan and his wife Rachel, moved to Far West, Missouri, and joined Sidney and John Joshua and their families who had been there was . nearly two years."