John Tanner and his family

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367 Appendix hand upon father Tanner's shoulder and commanded him in the of the Lord to "arise and walk;" he then arose but dare not put his afflicted foot to the floor, when Jared told him to put his foot to the floor, in the name of the Lord, and he did so, and was instantly healed, and the next day he walked without crutches or help a quarter of a mile right name to Lake and George was baptized by Simeon Carter, and walked back home, praising the Lord. As soon as the Word of Wisdom was tea and coffee and the the use of tobacco, field, and he never used them any made known to him he quit use of liquor in the harvest more while he lived. of 1834 he fitted out his two sons, John J. and Nathan and sent them up to Kirtland where they joined Zion's Camp and went up had a team and wagon each, with a number one outfit. to Missouri; In the spring they A little later in the season he fitted out seven families and sent them up to Kirtland or Missouri. In the fall of that same year he sold his two large farms and 2200 acres of timber land preparatory to moving to Missouri in the coming About the 15th of December he received an impression by dream spring. needed and must go to the Church at his family, and straight way set about Christmas On day he began his journey with all getting ready to start. his worldly effects, and traveled in the dead of winter the distance of 500 miles to Kirtland where he arrived about the 20th day of January, 1835, On his arrival in Kirtland he learned that the time on the sabbath or vision of the once in the night that he was West, which he told to day. impression that he must move west to the Church, the were met in prayer meeting and asked the brethren and Prophet Joseph Lord to send them some brethren with means who could assist them to lift the mortgage that was on the farm upon which the Temple was being built. after his arrival in Kirtland, on the invitation from the The next he received the day Prophet, he and his son Sidney met with the High Council, when they were informed that the farm before mentioned was under mortgage and the and was about to be foreclosed. He loaned the Prophet $2,000 mortgage took his note with interest, with which amount the farm was redeemed. Temple Committee $1300.00 in mdse at cost prices in New York and took their note for the same. Hyrum Smith was one of the Committee, Reynolds Cahoon and Jared Carter, were the other was over and above two. This amount and that loaned to the He loaned to the Prophet his liberal donations to the building of the Temple. He also signed a note with the Prophet Joseph and others for interest $30,000.00 for goods purchased in New York in which he had no and was only a surety. In Kirtland he bought two farms and made a home, which he had them in to mortgage as he had let his money go till he could not pay for full.