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Show Myron Tanner 285 the oldest of the children of Elizabeth Beswick and was born into a home which his mother described John Tanner. and the family wealthy. 1 It was the time of John as comfortable Myron was He Tanner's greatest affluence. Myron was too young to have been much concerned with the coming of the Mormon missionaries to his home and the subsequent embracing of the gospel by his parents and the older members of the family. 2 When the move to Kirtland was made in December 1834, he and he would have had little notion of what just past eight, taking place. He went to school for a time in a was was "little red school house, between his home and the temple," where he received the meagre 3 The education available to children of pioneering communities. three short terms he attended at professional teachers, received, though he did was By he was a the Kirtland, under dedicated but non about all the formal education he ever attend school for a short time in Nauvoo. family moved to Far West, Missouri, in 1838, twelve, and began to share the anxieties and dangers of the time the lad of unpopular Mormons. At Far West, Missouri, he tells of being sent with an older brother into Clay County, to secure it possible, sufficient supplies of wheat for food and planting. As wheat was in short supply, they were near able to obtain only the hunger line. a limited amount, and the family was always age Myron witnessed the the Saints, and since the in the midst of the conflict, he knew what it was At this tender and and mobbings family entire impressionable persecutions heaped upon was to come face to face with violence. His closest encounter with tragedy was the day he accompanied his father to a gristmill twelve miles distant to grind corn. The story is told in the chapter "Into Troubled Missouri," of how his father saw the mob coming and sent Myron to hide in the brush. After spending the night hiding in a neighbor's home, he made his way home to report that his father had been beaten over the head with a gun and to go the from incidents through. But this young man was nurtured in such was he when time he was eight until he enlisted in the Battalion severely injured. Quite twenty.' an experience for a twelve-year-old boy |
