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Show 276 John Tanner and His John Tanner wasted no time in Family remarrying as he needed a wife to look after his motherless children. The John Tanner Family as a mother.' says Albert loved his stepmother who looked after him, this statement was made, but It is not known on what authority stepmother it was little unusual as there are There is many cases of this kind on record which are otherwise. no question but that Elizabeth Beswick took good care of her hus band's orphaned children, but the notion is questionable that she was that unusual stepmother who was able to make her stepchildren feel the warmth of her love like her own flesh and blood. More on if he did love his a this later. Albert was seven years of age when the Mormon missionaries, Jared and Simeon Carter, called at the Tanner home. There is no indication at what time Albert became conscious of religious matters or when he joined the church; but it is assumed that he did join the church. He was approaching ten when the family moved to be with the main body of the church in Kirtland, Ohio. John Tanner was in Kirtland from early 1835 until 1838, at which time he went to Missouri. This was the formative time in Albert's life, but nothing is known of how he felt or how he reacted to his religious or social enviroment. in Missouri, he turned thirteen. This was one of the most trying years in all Mormon history, but available sources furnish almost no information about Albert or how he felt about things. Then there was a year in New Liberty, In Illinois, 1838, while the family near in 1840. On was Quincy before the family moved to Montrose, Iowa, Aprll4, 1840, Albert turned fifteen, he was growing up. As the mother in most Latter-day Saint homes can testify, a boy who has passed through his formative years until he arrives at the age of fifteen is extraordinary if he has not faced a lot of problems. Did Albert have more or less problems than the average? Did he still, at the age of fifteen love Elizabeth as a mother? When John Tanner married Elizabeth in 1825, most of the orphaned children were at home. As they married and began leaving -Elisha Bentley, in 1828, William Stewart and Matilda in 1829, Sidney in 1830, John Joshua and Louisa Maria in 1835, and Nathan it left more room for Elizabeth's family. By the time the in 1836 family moved to Iowa in 1840, only two of John's children by his previous marriage, Martin Henry age eighteen and Albert Miles age - |
