John Tanner and his family

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378 John Tanner and His Family to pull their house down and move them into the fort. We lived in the fort two years when we moved over on Warm Creek, pulling our house which was of logs down and putting it up there. I bought twelve acres of land there and the boys put in crops. While we lived in the fort my daughter Sariah, aged 12 years and eight months died that was in 1853. We lived there about three years when the boys bought some land about a mile from that location and in the fall of /56 built a comfortable adobe house to which we moved the following - February. The next fall a revolution was made in the affairs of the church caused by a raid of the U. S. troops on the people of Utah which made it necessary to call in all the outside branches. Accordingly the people of San Bernardino were requested to move back to Utah. My son Myron had in the meantime married and located at Payson, Utah. We once more broke up our homes and journeyed back. In the spring of /56 my sister Polly Cook joined us at San Bernardino. Her and her husband, Edward Cook sailed from New York to reach San Bernar­ dino v.i.a. Panama. At Panama her husband was taken sick and died and after a long illness she succeeded in reaching San Francisco where she lay in the hospital six weeks when she had an opportunity of coming to us at San Bernardino. Traveling was then accomplished by sailing vessels at sea and by stage on land. We sent money to defray her expenses. Just as we were prepared to move she fell and dislocated her hip from which she ever after remained a cripple and walked with crutches until her death in the fall of 1877. When I started I was forced to leave Polly on account of her sick­ ness. Maria Lyman and some others not being able to start when I did took charge of her when she was able to travel. My son Myron met us and brought us to his home at Payson. Six weeks later my sister joined us there. My son was located on the herd ground three miles from town. I remained there until the fall of /59 when I moved into town and kept house for my son Joseph until his marriage the following February. Free­ man was married that spring about May. That spring I had a severe attack of inflamitary rheumatism from which I was a long time recovering. My son Dan married the following winter. The summer of 60 my son Myron bought a home in Provo where he located his family. The summer of /61 I went to live with my son Dan at the herd ground and kept dairy; I remained there two years. Polly lived sometimes with me at Dans and sometimes divided her time between my son Joseph at Payson and Myron The to at Provo. of /63 I went with Dan and his family to Cherry Creek That fall we moved back to the herd ground and Dan summer keep dairy.