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Show Seth Benjamin Tanner 305 In the fall of 1876, Seth returned to Utah where he married Anna Maria Jensen, who would later accompany him to Arizona and assist him in raising his motherless children. Information has not been located regarding his bringing his family to Arizona. It is known he built a cabin on the Little Colorado River a few miles above Cameron, but the site exact or date is not known. The home was mentioned by Wilford Woodruff while on the in Arizona. It seems to have been on the route between underground the Little Colorado settlements and Tuba City, and this distinguished guest stopped there briefly to rest. Jesse N. Smith, president of the Snowflake Stake, made this brief note about the home: "Passed the place where Seth Tanner was planting corn and making improvements. It was, indeed, a lonely place, with the It seemed a lonely place. nearest Latter-day Saints many miles away, and one wonders why he chose to remain there alone. There is a wash which empties into the river from the northeast called Tanner Wash and a crossing of the river known as Tanner Crossing. "19 lonely place on the Little Colorado was about twenty-five Kopi and if Seth had his family there as one would it shows his complete confidence in his ability to get along This miles from Moen assume, more secure than who treated them with re with the Indians. Few frontiersmen would have felt he. Indians admired this spect and never took large, strong advantage of them. man May 1879, a party of explorers from Utah who where looking for a way through to the San Juan to establish a mission there, passed through the Moen Kopi country and made the acquaintance In recommended as one of the best qualified men of the area to guide them to their destination. They would be among hostile Indians in an extremely arid country and had to be unusually careful, but Seth and his friend Thales Haskell were equal to the task and brought the company to the Bluff-Montezuma area successfully. When the San Juan Mission was finally under of Seth B. Tanner. 20 He was instead of using the longer route throngh the Moen Kopi area, the leaders made the historic road through Hole-in-theRock, making them famous for their persistence if not for their good judgment. taken, Information about Seth B. Tanner in Arizona is too shadowy follow him with any degree of certainty. In 1884 he made an attempt to attend a Tanner reunion in Payson, Utah, at Christmastime, but turned back because of the deep snow on the mountains north to |
