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Show 405 Appendix married Nov. 15, 1878, to Jane, Harrington of American Fork. In we have resided twenty years. daughter 1860, we of Lois and Leonard E. removed to Provo, where John our third son was born Apr. 4, 1861, and died Apr. 11, 1861. In the fall of 1861 we received our endowments and sealings in the House of the Lord. Sept. 20, 1862, a little daughter was born. We called her Gertrude. She died on the 22. of Feb, 1865. Bertrand Amasa was born Nov. 5, 1864. Bessie, or as recorded Mary Elizabeth was born March 31, 1867. Grace Lillian was born July 16, 1869. Lewis William, born Jan. 23, 1872. Arthur Leroy, born Jan 25, 1875. These are my children, and their Geneologies and from whom, under the blessing of God, I hope to have a large posterity who will live to claim my legacy. married Ann Crosby for his second wife. Ellen, born March 16, 1867. Caleb born Sept 9, 1868. Maria, born Apr. 30, 1870. Abbie Louise, born May 7, 1872. Died Sept 6, 1873. Sidney Crosby, born Nov. 4, 1873, Died Oct 4, 1874. William Myron born June 16, 1865. Freeman Dan, born Feb. 23, 1875. Leonard, born. In the summer of 1867, we received our second annointings. I have been with the "Church" forty years. Have shared in its persecutions and its blessings. I have been healed by the prayer of faith and power of the priesthood many times. Have recieved the blessings and ordinances of the Church and spent many years honored and happy. I have been twelve years president of the Relief Society of the third ward of Provo City, and feel that I can bear my testimony to the truth of the gospel. I have lived fifteen years in poligamy, which is a severe trial to our fallen nature, but God has sustained me, and I feel to rejoice that I am counted worthy to suffer for Christ's sake, that I may recieve a glory and exaltation in the celestial kingdom of our God. May 19, 1866, Myron Their children were Sarah I know that it is for the purification and exaltation of the human family, and I would not turn back that leaf of my history. I feel to thank God for all His past mercies and glorify Him in all things, hoping to receive an exaltation in the eternal worlds, where I shall have gone long before this meets your eye. It is proper to say something of my husband whose name is mutualy entitled to a place in this memorial. Myron Tanner, son of John Tanner (Who was the son of Joshua Tanner,) and Elizabeth (Beswick) Tanner, was born June 7, 1826, in the town of Bolton Warren Co. N.Y. His parents embraced the gospel, and removed to Kirtland Ohio, when he was about eight years old. He was one of a family of twenty one children sixteen of whom were boys. His father, John Tanner, had by his first wife, one son, Elisha. She died and he married again, by which was born twelve children, four of which died young. The others are as I follows. William, Grew . to manhood • |
