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Show Albert Miles Tanner 281 The author is glad for the reconciliation, and also to be given this brief glimpse of Albert, as he moved in to lend a helping hand where it was needed. John Tanner would have been pleased and very proud. Sidney Tanner and Louisa Maria Lyman, full brother and sister of Albert, were in San Bernardino, and there must have been - at the reunion. It has not been possible to learn, however, if there were any financial arrangements made between Albert and any of his relatives in San Bernardino." Albert was an independent soul and it would be safe to venture that he used the gold he had brought from the north to purchase a piece of land, stock it with rejoicing livestock (principally horses), and set up bachelor quarters until his in 1855. The John Tanner Family credits Albert with being the first ap pointed sheriff of Sacramento, and states that he "conducted the first He also opened the first hotel famous trial held at Sutter's fort and at Sacramento, opened a freight line from Sacramento to the marriage . . . mines." No documentation for these items has been found, but there seems no good reason to doubt them." His marriage to Lovina Bickmore in San Bernardino in 1855 in dicates that he spent a number of years in that Mormon colony, but his children were all born elsewhere. Probably more than any of his brothers, with the possible exception of Seth, Albert seemed unable to settle down and remain in one place for long. The first child, Richard Robert, was born in San Juan, California; the next two, Harriet Lovina and Gilbert Lafayette, were born in Carolitos, Cali born in Jackson County, Oregon; and in born Christina Frances Carolitos, California. Nettie Sariah was born in Salinas, California, and the last three, Rufus Albert, Mattie, and Ellen Priscilla, at Santa Paula, California. fornia; Matilda Adeline was was Albert seems Hosea Stout in his to a enterprising and resourceful person, likely to succeed. He is mentioned by November 3, 1853, as giving assistance to have been an much like his father and one journal of party going up Cajon Pass, which indicates the Albert use of horses. probably had a good supply of horses." There is no record available of his ever coming to Utah where his older brothers John Joshua and Nathan settled. But they made occasional trips to California, and it is quite possible they may have met him. However, Albert remained the most nearly separated from his kinfolk of any. From the time of his enlistment in the Mormon Battalion he was no one of the closeknit "one man's family" so longer characteristic of the Tanner family. |
