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Show David Dan Tanner 337 may have granted support money for the minor children." As Utah County continued to increase in population, Dan sought pasturage at more distant places. His herds were driven up Spanish Fork Canyon as far as Thistle Junction, then south into Sanpete County where he found favorable grazing at Indianola. In 1879 he bought 120 acres on the west side of Indianola and built a home which is still being used. Indianola is more than 6,000 feet in elevation and the winters are cold. The author spent Christmas in 1916 with his cousin Ray Tanner in Indianola and Fairview and the thermometer dipped temperature for the 25 to degress below zero, not The first winter in Indianola Dan lost because of the an unusual area. of the weather, but it extremity Utah and all livestock men lost heavily. heavily was a in his cattle bad winter all Dan's income came from as Indianola was too cold for general principally dairying But natural in feed for cattle and abundance, agriculture. hay grew was plentiful all months of the year when not covered with snow. over family to Indianola there were families the and seven Mormon families. Indian in valley twenty There was little fear of the Indians and a number of their children attended the school provided by the white settlers. When Dan Tanner moved his Rebecca, youngest daughter of Dan and Rebecca, points and their Indian friendly neighbors. She says that a number of the Indians, particularly the old and handicapped who lived nearby, came to the Tanner home for at least one meal a day and were always fed. The Indians spoke of David Dan as "heap good friend Tanner.'?" David Dan served in the bishopric of his ward two and a half Hettie up the relations between the settlers years, from the summer of 1881 to the fall of 1883. Rebecca Estella active during the same period in the Relief Society presidency. Their other public activities were limited because of the sparse population. In 1905 the family moved back to Payson because of was the ill health of Rebecca. Dan moved to Provo to be cared for by Fotland. The author met this youngest son of John Tanner at the Fotland home in 1917 and took a picture with his Brownie camera the results of which will be shown on another page. Dan was then in his seventy-ninth year and had but In his declining years his daughter Annie Clara - Tanner's year to live. With his passing only one of John to be children remained Seth Benjamin who lived ninety. He one more - |
