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333 David Dan Tanner nephews, but were as old or older than Dan willing to fellowship and do battle with David Dan. When the family left for California he would not have the company of the children of John Joshua and Nathan, but those of Sidney and Maria would all be going along so Dan would not lack for playmates. Dan's nieces and were and were At the time of the still a boy of thirteen. to San Bernardino in move In the fall of 1852 when 1851, Dan Myron and was Seth gold fields and the boys combined their wealth and formed a partnership to purchase land and cattle, the parnership included Myron, Seth, Freeman, and Joseph; David Dan was still he was only fourteen he was left out. a boy from the came - - shrewd and wise mother to whom he could go strength, and she seems to have provided the support he could not obtain elsewhere. Elizabeth states that Dan assisted with the building of their home in the old fort in San Bernardino. She But Dan had a when he needed of land which the boys had their farm and stock, so planted. boys 5 he and his mother owned twelve acres. also states that she cleared and did Dan - purchased twelve acres If the older With the recall of the settlers from San Bernardino in the spring 1858, Dan turned twenty. He was no longer the boy or baby of the family, and he had come through the experience of "being left out" with no visible scar. of When the family arrived in Payson, Myron brought them all to his home at the herd grounds," about three miles from town. The house had four rooms, two on the ground floor and two upstairs. It made quite a housefull. There were the five brothers, a hired girl \ and two hired men, and her sister Aunt Myron's Polly - wife Jane and a small baby, Elizabeth a total of eleven adults and one child. Gradually the men moved away; Myron to Provo, Seth to north Ogden, and Freeman and Joseph to Payson. This left Dan in pos­ session of the home at the herd grounds, and in January 1861 he married his sweetheart Rebecca Estella Moore who would become the mother of fourteen children. Dan was but twenty-three years of age and his bride was seventeen, a different pattern from his older brothers who were late in marrying. 13, 1844, in Handcock County, Illinois. Her parents, John Harvey and Clarissa Jane Moore, were among the early converts to Mormonism and Rebecca Estella were Moore in Nauvoo when the was born November Prophet Joseph was killed.