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Show 318 John Tanner and His Family John Tanner -+ Freeman Everton Tanner + ANN ELIZABETH TANNER PERRY Ann Elizabeth Tanner Perry, daughter of Freeman Everton and Caroline Christine Tanner, was born April 19, 1879, in Payson, Utah. She was the second in a family of eleven. In the and ate chores pioneering period a large share of the things people wore produced by family members, and one of Ann Elizabeth's making shoes for the large family. She also learned early were was how to sew and make clothes, and she became an excellent dressmaker. This was to prove helpful to her financially after she married and moved to Salt Lake, as she did tailoring and dressmaking for many of the best-dressed women in the valley. Ann Elizabeth at one time worked at tailoring for Makoff of Salt Lake City. In June 1905 she married Charles Moore Perry, and the couple blessed with four children Mary Glennetta, Walden Charles, James Freeman, and Dean Tanner. was - Soon after their marriage the Perrys moved to Salt Lake where they resided for a short time, then they moved to Cottonwood where they opened a grocery store. This prospered for a time, but they finally sold the store and moved to Salt Lake and opened a boarding house. Charles Perry died in July 1942, and as the children were all grown and could manage without her assistance, she gave up the boardinghouse and rented her rooms. She later sold her large house and moved into a smaller one. At and a a time in life when most less active life, women this ambitious would have women sought retirement entered upon a new Having hired out as a companion to an elderly woman in California, she used her spare time and learned the art of ceramics and turned out lovely works of art. She purchased a kiln and fired her own work. She was now past seventy years of age, but this was not career. the end. At seventy-three she took up china painting, lamps and vases. At the age of seventy-five, on her making beautiful days off she took |
