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Show 335 David Dan Tanner When I was about 11 years old, a company of English emigrants Payson and settled. Father had a few cows and was making cheese, but he stopped making cheese and gave the milk to the emi to came grants. When Rebecca for the first time. It was was married two years later Mother Elizabeth fifteen years old, she and David Dan met a case of love at first sight and they were on January 10, gives In her "Reminiscences" us a few 1861. of the family history. Payson reunion in 1884 glimpses related at the as she said: of 1861 I went to live with my son Dan at the herd and ground, kept dairy; I remained there two years. Polly lived sometimes with me at Dans and sometimes divided her time between my son Joseph at Payson and Myron at Provo.'? The summer It is quite possible that the widowed mother felt a bit more at home with Dan than with any others. Dan had needed her most and Elizabeth continued her comment: women like to be needed. of 1863 I went with Dan and his family to Cherry keep dairy. That fall we moved back to the herd ground and Dan bought a place in town and built me a house adjoining his We were there that winter and the following spring went to own. Tintic to keep dairy. We came in and lived through the winter at the home we had built in Payson. We lived there three years keep then took the herd to Spanish Fork canyon and I The summer Creek to ing dairy. They came to . reside with Joseph. 11 Like most of the Tanner men, Dan was interested in livestock and general agriculture, and in his case dairying was his special interest. He would take his dairy herd out where pasture was best and move his butter and cheese equipment along. He was reputed to be an excellent cheese maker. His faithful mother assisted the family in this enterprise Six of John of plural family principle joined his had waited child. on for Tanner's number of years. sons who came West embraced the wife, Leatha Susan Taylor, Previous to this she 1870. 19, September wives. on a Dan's second the first wife during her confinement with her fourth |
