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Show SKETCH OF AN ELDER'S LIFE. CHAPTER PARENTAGE OF ELDER JOHN TANNER-HIMSELF BIRTH AND AND 1. TWO CHILDREN ARE BITTEN BY A MAD DOG THEY ARE lIEALED-HE BECOMES WEALTHY-AFFLICTED UNKNOWN DISEASE-PHYSICIANS' FAIL TO CURE HIM-"MORMON" ELDERS VISIT HIM-HE IS CONVERTED WITH -IS MIRACULOUSLY HEALED-GOES TO KIRTLAND RFEELY GIVES MONEY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHURCH -H[S ELDER'S CERTIFICATE. JOHN TANNER, ELDER Tanner, and son of Joshua and Thankful F. M. Lyman, was grandfather of Apostle At born August 15th, 1778, in the state of Rhode Island. the age of thirteen years his parents moved to Greenwich, Washington county, New York, where, at the death of his father, who was a farmer, he took charge of the business and settled his father's estate. Early in the year' of 1800, he married Tabitha Bently, by whom he' had a son, Elisha, born The mother died on the 9th of the follow March 23rd, 1801. married Lydia Stewart, by whom afterwards He month. ing he had nine children, eight sons and one daughter, One evening in 1808, when he returned home fromhis work, he found that two of his children had been bitten by his dog, which had gone mad, and in attempting to confine the dog, he Realizing immediately also was bitten on the calf of the leg. that he had no time to lose, he grasped a pair of sheep-shears, and cut out the affected parts and filled the wound with salt. He thus succeeded ia saving his own life; and, with the aid of 1.. |
