John Tanner and his family

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377 Appendix miles Sidney and John during severely were marched to Richmond cold weather and kept three privation in a distance of weeks where thirty they sixty suffered very much from cold and company of others who had to cook for themselves and made all their bread in two small bake kettles. These prisoners were given in charge of Gen. Clark who made them a long pious speech, imploring the unknown God to have mercy on their souls. (General Clark has since died a pauper.) The following Feb. in company with the rest of the Saints who were driven out of the country we traveled into Ill. stopping twenty miles from Quincy where we staid one year then went into Iowa near Montrose where we took up land on the half breed tract and made a large farm. We were there six years in March and left in May. We were camped out at Winterquarters where we had our cabin where we had most of our things burnt. which was The saved - boys the range with the cattle had bedding and a few things were on some some bedding saved, but the containing my clothing with many other things were burned. I was left without a change of clothing except print for one dress. The next spring we put in a crop of corn at a place called the old chimnies. Staid there that summer and harvested one crop and the following spring started for the vallies. Our waggen boxes being burned with the cabin, had to be replaced with new ones. This was the spring chest of /48. Traveled in the called across the plains that summer with ox teams and arrived valley the 17th of October. Selected a farm on a tract or stream Cottonwood, the two streams coming from the canyons by that called North and South Cottonwood. We located between the Built a house that fall, where we lived until the spring of /51. We laid out a farm and raised two crops. The winter of /49-50 Mr. Tanner was taken down with rheumatism and after a long and painful illness died 29th of April, 1850. [Correct date seems to be April 13.] The spring of /51 we went to San Bernardino by the south route in Arrived there in June. We company with Amasa Lyman and his family. Cahoun at the until Pass, by which time land was name were two. camped arranged September for and the company moved on the ranch, since known as San Bernardino. The boys, Albert, Freeman, Joseph and Dan built us a house -Myron and Seth being then in the north, the mining portion of Cali­ fornia. Soon after we moved in a windstorm came which filled our lungs with sand and dust. The Indians objected to our location and we were counseled (called together) to move into town for safety. The people built their houses in the form of a fort and fortified them with pickets of wood driven in the ground. from the Sidney'S ten wanted to build over on a creek about a mile But had located. were Rich rest where Amasa and Charles C. Lyman