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Show 370 John Tanner and His Family Hyrum said it would be all right. He sold to Foster for about $300.00 in stock at cash price. At the April Conference in 1844 he was called on a Mission to the Eastern States, and before starting he went to Nauvoo and saw the Prophet Joseph, and when he met him on the street he handed him his note for the $2,000.00 loaned in Kirtland, January 1835, to redeem the Temple farm. The Prophet asked what he wanted done with it, and father Tanner answered, "Bro. Joseph you are welcome to it." The Prophet laid his right hand heavily upon his left shoulder and said, "God bless you Father Tanner, your children shall never beg bread." He went upon his mission about the first day of May and was in the East when the Prophet and Patriarch were assassinated and he returned early in the fall. A judgment was obtained against him in the sum of $700 in the District Court of Lee County, Iowa, on account of the $30,000.00 note he had signed with the Prophet in Kirtland about the year 1835 and he succeeded in compromising the case with $100.00, the clear receipt of the same follows here: of Iowa District Court Trriory 1 SS Holbrook & Firm for the un of Philip Vale V.S. John Tanner I hereby certify that the Defendent, John Tanner has this day paid hundred Dollars in trade on account of the judgment rendered against him in the District Court for Lee County, and I agree to accept this sum as his proportion of the notes on which said judgment is rendered and to look to the other parties to said notes for the payment of the balance due thereon. October 17th, 1845 Holbrook & Firm By Philip Vale, their attorney one materially in the building of the Nauvoo Temple from the commenced till it was finished, and after it was dedicated he received his Endowments, sealings and second ann ointing. In the spring of 1846 he sold out his home at a nominal price, pre paratory to journeying to the Rocky Mountains with the Saints, compelled to leave the City of Joseph, Nauvoo. With the means thus obtained he fitted up comfortable teams and wagons, and started West about the middle of May joining the westward bound stream of Latter-day Saints in their exodus from Illinois. He aided time it was |
