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Show 336 John Tanner and His Family granddaughter of Leatha Susan related to the author that her grandmother had told her that Dan's first wife Rebecca Estella had made every effort to pursuade her to marry David Dan and was The immensely pleased when the second marriage took place. A 12 author finds this difficult to accept, their husbands to themselves. as most wives preferred having the second marriage did not result in a permanent of the few divorces in the early family resulted. A copy of the summons served upon David Dan Tanner may be of historical interest to his descendants. In any union, and case one LEGAL SUMMONS Territory of Utah) County of Sanpete Leatha S. Tanner) Plaintiff David Dan Tanner) Defendant The people of the Territory of Utah send Greetings to David Dan Tanner, Defendent. You are hereby required to appear in an action brought against you by the above named plaintiff in our said Probate Court at the Court house, Manti City, Utah Ter. within ten days exclusive of the day of service on you of this summons, if served within the County, and if not within the County but within the First Judicial District of the Ter. of Utah, within twenty days, otherwise within forty days or judgment will be taken against you according to prayer of plaintiff. This action is brought to obtain decree in divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and the care and custody of Alice S. Tanner, Effie M. Tanner and of George A. Tanner, together with alimony and costs of this suit. Witness the Hon. Jas. A. Allen, Judge, and the seal of our said Court affixed at Manti City, Sanpete County U. T. this 1st day of February, 1882.13 William G. Reed, Clerk of the Probate Court of Utah Ter. Sanpete County, Since polygamous marriages were never legal in Utah, it is difficult to understand how the Manti Court could grant a divorce from a marriage which never legally existed in the first place. But it |
