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Show Seth Taylor, Arizona, Benjamin Tanner 307 small town in which he lived but a and where he is almost a short time completly unknown. His family of seven children was the smallest of any of John Tanner's family who came West, but a number of his children have large families and it is estimated that at the time of this writing his number descendants nearly eight hundred, mostly living in the Southwest. John Tanner t Seth Benjamin Tanner + JOSEPH BALDWIN TANNER Baldwin Joseph Levi Tanner, was Tanner, born son of Seth January 9, 1868, Benjamin at north and Charlotte Ogden, In 1872 his mother died and he with his brothers and sisters raised by stepmother, a Utah. were Anna Maria Jensen Tanner. In 1875 his father, Seth, was called on a mission to the Little Colorado county to assist in exploring the area to learn if a success ful Mormon colony could be planted there. Seth became infatuated with the desert country and the various Indian tribes and made this his permanent home. was known, grew up in Tuba City Indians. He spoke their language as and counted among his friends as many Indians among the Joseph Baldwin Navajo and Hopi naturally his Joe, as as as own whites. In 1888, when he was twenty, he and Nora Almeda Foutz, a team to St. George, Utah, to be neighbor girl-sweetheart Temple. The first seven children of this born in Tuba. With the closing of were of thirteen, large family the Mormon settlement at Tuba in 1902-03, the family moved to Kirtland, New Mexico, where a home was established. In November of 1913, there occurred one of the most thrilling Little Singer, an Indian medicine events of Joe's eventful life. into a man-polygamist got quarrel with Dinet- Tsocie, another Indian over some The latter reported to Mr. Shelton, the land. grazing United States Indian agent, the fact that Little Singer had three a married in the Mormon drove |
