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278 John Tanner and His Family families, attest to the superior training they received. Elizabeth no doubt, a superior wife and mother. personality is Either too little or The human understand. a difficult piece was, of mechanism to too much can be done in the care plant, and the results are often puzzling. Nothing place of the warmth of a mother's love, and Albert imagined he had been cheated by his mother's death. of this tender take the can may have John and Elizabeth must have been anxious and troubled about Albert's rebellious attitude and wondered how they had failed him, but they knew they had done their best. diaries and journals give little notice to Albert, few instances where he is mentioned. Nathan mentions him in connection with the troublesome days in Missouri in 1838, when he sent Albert, then thirteen years old, to Far West for salt fol­ lowing the butchering of a beef. He cautioned Albert to stay away from the brush as mobbers might be in hiding and would try to get Available but there are a his horse. "The boy went and on his return some men came out of the bush and called to him, but he made his escape." Eliza Partridge Lyman, who mentions members of the Tanner across Iowa, includes Albert a few family many times in the trek times. As related in a previous ing Father John, Sidney, John chapter, Johua, the Tanner and familes, includ­ Nathan, had farms not emigrating Saints made their first Sugar in such haste that they lacked food for left Nauvoo camp. Many themselves and forage for their teams and cattle. On February 18, Creek where the far from 1846, Eliza made and some this entry: "Albert Tanner Hi potatoes from his fathers. brought a load of hay Albert was making himself useful with his team or one he had borrowed from his father. By this date, February 1846, he was nearing his twenty-first birthday, and very likely had good horses and vehicles of his own. For more than two years he had been "on his own" and he seems to have been a wise manager and able to accumulate property. It is known from one of Eliza's comments that he was living with some of the Lyman folks. Eliza says: "Our family wife consists of seven person, namely, Amasa Lyman and his Dionitia, Daniel P. Clark and wife, Henry Rollins, Albert Tanner and myself.?" There is every reason to assume that Albert was in the Lyman­ Tanner group in the trek across Iowa, and that he was doing what the other Tanners were doing; helping those who needed help most.