JoLene did great on identifying the graves. The pictures turned out beautiful! In fact some of them I put into my picture folder on my computer. Hurray for technology.
Just more info about Julia. She was the second wife of ancestor, Sidney Tanner. 1846 was an year of mixed feelings for Sidney Tanner. His toddler son, James Monroe Tanner, died in March on the journey to Winter Quarters. Mason was born in July. Wife, and mother, Louisa Conlee Tanner, died in September at Winter Quarters. Mason, the young baby born in July, died in October. Then Sidney married Julia Shepherd in December of the same year in Winter Quarters.
Julia was only seventeen years of age when she married Sidney. She immediately had six children to care for. It was probably a challenge especially since the oldest one Allen B. (our ancestor) was only two years younger (15)than his stepmother. And maybe another challenge with the second child who was three years younger (13). The rest of their siblings were likely more accepting of Julia as their mother. They were age 12, age 10, age 7, and age 5. Six months after Julia and Sidney were married, the youngest child, who was now six, died in 1848. Within sixteen months, ancestor, Sidney Tanner, had lost his first wife and three children.
Regarding Alicia Tanner, she was sister to Grandma Clark. She was born in March 1905 and died three days later. Then her mother Alice Tyler Tanner (Grandma Clark's mother too) died three months later in June 1905.
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