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Show 331 David Dan Tanner 1. George 2. William Albert Tanner, born October 12, 1871, at Payson, Utah. Henry Tanner, born December 2, 1874, at Payson, Utah. Alice Susan Tanner, born December 13, 1875, at Payson, Utah. Joseph Samuel Tanner, born November 19, 1878, at Payson, Utah. Effie Melissa Tanner, born May 4, 1880, at Payson, Utah. 3. 4. 5. David Dan Tanner the youngest of John's children who family. His birth in Kirtland occured during the hectic last year the family was in Ohio, which saw the prophet, his brother Hyrum, and Brigham Young flee the scene lived to maturity to escape violence. formerly was and raised This was well-to-do-Tanner of poverty and Dan was thousand mile a impoverishment of the beginning of a long siege the time of the and the family, hardship. a babe in trip to Far arms when the family made the West, Missouri, wagons because their entire fortune had been spent in finish the temple and save the Kirtland bank. By the law of averages Dan had painful with borrowed horses and no more an than a attempt to fifty-fifty chance of survival, but it was Philomelia, a three-year-old sister, who lost out in the battle for life, and David Dan, a three-month-old baby survived. How Elizabeth, his mother, and the other Mormon mothers as well, managed to nurse her baby through the terror-filled days in 1838 in Missouri has not been told. But descendants of David Dan, who value their earthly existence, can give thanks to his resourceful mother and a kind providence. By the time he was two years of age, David Dan had traveled from Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri (a distance of ap proximately a thousand miles)' thence to New Liberty, Illinois, near Quincy (two hundred miles), and finally to Montrose, Iowa (another hundred miles). All this in a slow moving covered wagon, with sanitary facilities nonexistent. During the six years spent by the Tanners at Montrose, Iowa, David Dan changed from a two-year-old toddler to an adventurous lad of eight. The trip across Iowa in 1846 as the Saints were expelled from their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois, and began the treck to the West was merely an interesting incident to him. A child of this age needs food for his stomach, clothes to keep him warm, and a sense of love and security to be content. David Dan, unlike most of the members of the family probably enjoyed the trip. 1 2 |
