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Show 319 Freeman Everton Tanner lessons in oil scenes - a painting and soon number of which had her house decorated with were sparkling prizes. shown at local fairs and took Even these successes were not her greatest achievements. This vivacious woman was a natural entertainer the life of the party wherever she went. Whether entertaining at the State Prison or in her own ward, she brought a ray of sunshine to all she met. Even as she approached her eightieth birthday she drove her own automo bile to and from California to visit her families in Utah. She died February 26, 1961. - The Freeman Tanner are proud of this family and all the John granddaughter of John Tanner Chapter Twenty-Six - Tanner relatives Notes "The letter will be reproduced later in this chapter. 2Beswick M. Tanner, "Freeman E. Tanner Biography." (Copy in possession of author). It is borrowed largely from various "Tanner" sources but does contain a small amount of new material not found in the other books. 3The first years in the valley may not have been too rosy. See Jenson, Histori. cal Record, p. 333. 4"Freeman E. Tanner Biography." !)Ibid. 6Ibid. 70riginalletter in HDC., type copy in possession of author. 8Mary Jane Mount, Journal, p. 105, tells of the church pressure on single people to marry. "Every single person was expected to marry and a great many unsuitable marriages were made." 9"Freeman Tanner Biography." pp. lORoberts, Comprehensive History, vol. 4, 229-30; Jenson, Historical Record, p. 258. p. 371; Lyman,Amasa Mason Lyman, l1"Freeman E. Tanner Biography." 12Ibid. See also Mary Jane Mount, Journal, p. 94. l3"Freeman E. Tanner Biography." 11 Enterprise Star (Payson), January 1, 1892. lfJ"Freeman E. Tanner Biography." 16See chapter 2 for more complete census. |
