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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. 8 During those strenuous days of farm life. the missiooary requirements of the Church entered the home of John Tanner and he and his son Henry in 1844, were called on a mission to the Albert, another brother also older than Myron, struck out This left Myron in charge of affairs at home. his of efforts, he says: ''The season was an unusually Speaking East. in life for himself. wet one, and the weeds grew thrifty than ever period late, and the more excessive rains made the harvest before. usual The success that had attended the farm work when father and all the sons I felt the dissatisfaction of my were there did not come to me. father who seemed to blame me, thinking that I had not worked as hard as I should. My further labors and devotion to his inter all feelings of blame; and as time went on, he began to realize that I had done as well as others, and from the further fact that two of the boys were taken from ests however in time overcame in order that they might work most of the season breaking prairie in order to payoff our obligations on the note mentioned in a preceding paragraph, he realized that an uncommon task me had been placed upon me." For something like four years there was a lull in the perse cutions of the Saints, and a little time given to provide for their Myron, speaking material and intellectual welfare. days said: "I was permitted of his school to attend school in Kirtland for a short weeks in Nauvoo, and in school-boy days." the midst of the troublous times experienced by the Saints before their final enforced departure for the west, time. In 1844 I went to school 1845, ten weeks. Myron was in That seven completed my active part in the movement which carried the Saints from Nauvoo over the Mississippi into Iowa. To him was intrusted the moving of famililies whose heads were either absent or unable He took an The splendid financial reputation and busi had always been a matter of pride Tanner ness integrity of John incidents supporting the busi related to his son who frequently to render aasistanee. ness was honor in which his father was held. "In the days of the exodus from Nauvoo," charged with the responsibility of moving and household I went to the effects of ferryman a number Myron said, "I over the stock of families from Nauvoo. to make arrangements for his services, |
