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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. 23 asked "'here I was, to which she replied that I had gone fishing. Without stopping a moment to say one word to her, he ran a mile and a quarter and reached the dam where I was in a dangerous position likely to drown." "Subsequently as I grew older I came down with measles. My condition became very serious; I became unconscious; the folks de spaired of my life. I feel that I was healed through the gifts and This and some similar circumstances in my power of God. in created days my heart both a love and fear of God. They circumstances to me of God's manifestations and however early were they may appear to the minds of others, to me they had all the influence of a divine will actuating me more or less throughout life." When speaking of the Prophet Joseph, Myron Tanner became In his boyhood and young manhood days he had known the Prophet; he had seen him in the trying ordeals of Kirt enthusiastic. saw of the Prophet created within boy, a profound reverence for the man whom he admired and whose calling he had always looked upon as land and Nauvoo but what he the heart and mind of the "I express a feel ing of intense pride in the fact that my father and Joseph Smith " bore a resemblance to each other. to his children as they as made Concluding the statements "I am the father of he said: sembled at the old home at Provo, "He sacred. was a man among men" he said. Of my grandchil living and seven dead. There were dead. and dren there eight twenty-one living and to my wife first to born three six sons and my daughters first the Of three and five SOIlS wife family second daughters, three are dead, two sons and one daughter; of the second family The names of my children two sons and two daughters are dead. seventeen children, ten are now are as follows: My first wife's children in the order of their birth: Myron, Joseph Marion, John, Gertrude, Bertrand, Marv Elizabeth, Grace, Lewis and Arthur. are: Children born to my second wife in the order of their birth Sarah Ellen, Caleb, Maria, Abbie, Sidney, William, Freeman and Leonard. CHARACTERISTICS. At the time of his death Myron Tanner had served fifteen |
