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Show John Tanner and His 292 Family was made in our family by Myron marrying She is an English girl named Ann Crosby. Of this I can say but little. It is a heart history which pen and ink can never trace. It was a great trial, but I believed it to be a true principle and summoned all my fortitude to bear it bravely.'?" 19, 1866, a change another wife. The new wife was brought to their home where she lived for time until a new and more commodious house was completed, whereupon the new home was given to Mary Jane and the old one became the property of Ann, the second wife. If there is anything worse than having your husband bring home a plural wife, it is probably being the plural wife. It would be interesting if a "Heart history" written by Ann Crosby was available. some As if he did not generously provided relatives from England, already have sufficient problems, Myron to bring a number of Ann's destitute means their abode with Ann. and upon their arrival in Utah, took up journal is most candid about how she Jane's felt: sad day for him [Myron] when they came. Her sister was married to Isaak Higbee, but her mother continued to live with her. They had not been there long before they commenced sowing dissention in the family which increased until all intercourse between It was a soon the two houses ceased. 27 Myron struggled bravely to make a happy life in spite of insurmountable obstacles. It is doubtful he was either the best or the worst of Mormon polygamists. Jane comments: "He spent a portion of his time at her home, and provided for us as near alike as possible.'?" But sharing a husband with another woman is a "matter of the heart" as Jane put it, and no matter how fair and impartial the husband, problems were bound to arise. Looking back upon the experience, Jane stated that she believed she and Ann could have made a go of it if Ann's family had not come to drive a wedge between them. But occasions for conflict and heartaches were ever present and when it was not Ann's folks it was for something a few weeks else. on "Myron is making his home account of her health and I but I try not· to allow myself to be entirely with Ann feel somewhat lonely, unreasonable. "29 There is little doubt that Jane and Ann and Myron all tried hard to be reasonable under circumstances which made reason difficult, |
