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Show Freeman Everton Tanner Seth 1858. was thirty Charlotte was 315 when he married Charlotte Levi in the fall of nineteen. Freeman was past thirty-one when he married Sarah Elizabeth Wilkerson in 1861; Sarah was nineteen. After something less than a successful marriage this couple was divorced February 25, 1875. Freeman, who was now forty-five, married Caroline Christine Ras mussen, a girl born in 1856 and twenty-six years younger than he. Joseph Smith Tanner was twenty-seven when he married Eliza beth Haws in 1860. She was seventeen. exception in the family, was twenty-three marriage to Rebecca Moore in 1861. She had David Dan, the real at the time of his just turned seventeen. the custom of the time and the urging of church of Elizabeth Beswick Tanner were a little late in sons the leaders, This may have been due to a lack of eligible girls in San marrying. Bernardino. With two of the boys thirty and one thirty-one at the Considering marriage the author is inclined to agree that they needed a help from George A. Smith or someone. George A. might have asked Freeman a question which was raised in an early time, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" time of little But if the men were a little overage, the girls were not. Due to social pressures, a girl felt out of place if she reached the age of eighteen and was still unclaimed." Beswick Tanner, in referring to the family in San Bernardino, a comfort says: "They all worked hard and were near to having able home and a few comforts of life," when they were recalled to 9 Utah by President Young. Ber During the early months of 1858 while many of the San the that rumor a to nardino Saints were moving back spread Utah, Utah force by way of United States was sending a military against One version of the rumor was that the force was pro from ceeding up the Colorado River and would prevent the Mormons send to President led rumors Young retreating to Mexico. "These ascertain and to a of men under Amasa M. investigate the Pacific. Lyman party what likelihood there was of attack from this Colorado river quarter. Lyman's party consisted of nineteen men in all; they left Cedar City on the 1st of March, and returned in the latter part of May.'?" Of special interest concerning fact that Freeman E. Tanner this was one scouting expedition, is the men. They de- of the nineteen |
