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Show John Tanner and His 322 Family Hyrum Tanner, born February 17, 1887, at Payson, Utah. Tanner, born December 3, 1888, at Payson, Utah. 5. Veatrice Tanner, born July 5, 1890, at Payson, Utah. 6. Sarah Agnes Tanner, born August 4, 1892, at Payson, Utah. 7. Leland Scott Tanner, born February 16, 1895, at Payson, Utah. 8. Jennie Mabel Tanner, born September 24, 1896, at Payson, 3. Janette Fern 4. Utah. Arnold Franklin Tanner, born August lona Tanner, born June 28, 1900, at Clarice Tanner, born July 22, 1902, Lucille Tanner, born May 23, 1905, 9. 10. 11. 12. 3, 1898, at Payson, Utah. Payson, Utah. at Payson, Utah. at Payson, Utah. He was married for the third time to Ellen Elizabeth Fogelstrand October 9, 1885, at Logan, Utah. She was born November 22, 1886, in Sweden. The couple had six children: Hazel Elizabeth 1. Tanner, born October 22, 1888, at south Cot- tonwood, Utah. Florence Ellen Tanner, born July 30, 1891, at Payson, Utah. Leroy Tanner, born November 4, 1894, at Payson, Utah. Clarence Homer Tanner, born August 12, 1897, at Payson, 2. 3. 4. Utah. Blanche Tanner, born February 18, Sterling Elmer Tanner, born August 5. 6. Joseph Smith Tanner joined the church after he was 1901, at Payson, Utah. 2, 1905, at Payson, Utah. the first of John Tanner's children born and the last to be born in Bolton.' He was year old when the family moved to Kirtland, five and Ohio, years old when they moved to Missouri. During the six year stay in Iowa at Montrose, he grew from age seven to thirteen, and this was the period when he began to be aware of a little more than a and to make himself felt among his brothers. things around him Joseph states that when his father took up land on the Half Breed Tract near Montrose he had no teams, so he bought "six bulls and made oxen, there being no other stock available."? He also states they did plowing for others to earn feed for their animals. Joseph paints a remember distinctly almost exclusively cooked in a picture of abject poverty for the family: "I very during those years [1840-46J, our diet consisted of rye and corn meal mixed and made into bread, bake oven, and a loaf would weigh from ten to fifteen pounds.:" they It is easy to overstate the adverse conditions of the family; had been through some rough times, having given everything |
