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Show Pioneer Woman Feted On 92nd Anniversary Mrs. Mary Ann Tanner one of Beaver county's oldest residents, was honored on her ninety-second birthday anniversary Friday of last week wit.'n an open house re-, re-, ception given at Beaver by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jacob T. Tanner, with whom she resides. Relatives and friends called at thj Tanner home during the afternoon after-noon and report an enjoyable time. Mrs. Tanner was born July 24, 1850, in Kanesville, Pottawattamie county, Iowa. When she was two years of age her parents and family, fam-ily, who were L. D. iS. converts, moved west to Utah. -Her parents were Jacob G. and Amy Larttee Chase Bigler. She was imarried to Ebenezer Tanner, iSeptember 19, 1868, in the L. 'D. S. Endowment house in Salt Lake City. They made their home in Holden for many years before coming to Milford, where they took an active part in the early development of this community. com-munity. Mr. Tanner died May 25, 1932. Mrs. Tanner has been an active L. D. S. church worker and is u member of a Nephi camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. A hip injury in recent years caused her to be bedfast. Six of her 11 'sons and daughters daugh-ters are living, Jacob T. Tanner of Beaver, Ebenezer and David Tanner of Milford, Abner Tanner of Provo, Mrs. LaVeme Ellison of Nephi and Mrs. Flossie Winn of Preston, Idaho. She has 00 grandchildren, grand-children, 40 great-grandchildren and two great-tgccatt-gTandcliil-dren. |