Memories have always been important to me. I have written a number of my own down for my nieces and have even had one about my father published in the book, “Tin Tub Baths and The Ragman.” I have realized that it is important to understand the background of family members. As a genealogist you will find that birth, marriage, and death is what is commonly recorded. Finding facts about people's personalities and life stories is more difficult. Often memories die with the people we love. I decided to salvage what I could from those I have been closest to by listening when they speak.
These memories were first forged in ink when I decided to begin interviewing my grandparents, Floyd and Dorothy Tanner. Since then I have also included other Tanner relatives and chronicled a number of stories told by these great people. After telling some of these stories to others, I was informed that people would be interested in hearing them.
I have compiled a chronicle of the lives of those listed below from interviews and memories of other family members. As memories are from the point of view of one person, your memory or memory of their stories may vary from what is written here. I cannot change what I have been told so I have learned to live with what has been written with the hopes these words will honor those who have gone before us.
Amos & Mary (Faulkner) Tanner - Info from Olive Sammons
William & Lucy (Mason) Tanner - Memories of Marie Brumagin
Charlie & Arlie (Gross) Tanner - Memories of Floyd Tanner
Adelford & Edith (Chaffee) Gross - From Edith's Diary
Kenneth & Marie (Tanner) Brumagin
Floyd & Dorothy Tanner
Raymond F. Tanner
Robert Tanner
Tina (Tanner) Curtis
These memories were first forged in ink when I decided to begin interviewing my grandparents, Floyd and Dorothy Tanner. Since then I have also included other Tanner relatives and chronicled a number of stories told by these great people. After telling some of these stories to others, I was informed that people would be interested in hearing them.
I have compiled a chronicle of the lives of those listed below from interviews and memories of other family members. As memories are from the point of view of one person, your memory or memory of their stories may vary from what is written here. I cannot change what I have been told so I have learned to live with what has been written with the hopes these words will honor those who have gone before us.
Amos & Mary (Faulkner) Tanner - Info from Olive Sammons
William & Lucy (Mason) Tanner - Memories of Marie Brumagin
Charlie & Arlie (Gross) Tanner - Memories of Floyd Tanner
Adelford & Edith (Chaffee) Gross - From Edith's Diary
Kenneth & Marie (Tanner) Brumagin
Floyd & Dorothy Tanner
Raymond F. Tanner
Robert Tanner
Tina (Tanner) Curtis
William Tanner & Lucy Mason Tanner
(From a series of interviews with Floyd A. Tanner)
William Tanner had a gentle, patient, and quiet personality. He set goals and was committed to those goals. He was a farmer with a substantial piece of land on Fenno Road in Amity Township. In politics, he was a republican but was too busy with farming to run for office or even serve in the military. He began farming with 150 acres but ended up with a total of 300 acres on the south side of Fenno Road (10433). The original acreage was purchased by his father, Amos Tanner, from A. Lockwood in 1883, specifically for William. This is where he built the Tanner homestead including house and barn. Later, he bought the “Johnson Hill Lot” (Jonathan A. Hill) on the north side of Fenno Road (10546) to the corner of Stewart Hill Road (10554). Uncle Amos lived in this (10546) house first, then Charlie. Floyd was born in this house, which still stands. Charlie later bought his father's farm across the road.
(Note: Floyd remembered, when he was very small, perhaps a toddler, his father repairing the floor in the dining room. He was completely replacing the floor boards so there was a hole where the old boards had been removed. He said he could remember laying on his belly with his hands clutching the edge of the board and peering down into the hole in the floor. It was probably his earliest memory which he relayed to me in the late 1990s. He was born in 1914. )
William was born May 8, 1863 and married Lucy Mason on December 25, 1880. He attended Wayne Valley Evangelical United Brethren Church (now Wayne Valley United Methodist). He went to school at the Hubbell school house on Beaverdam Road. He died May 30, 1927.
William Tanner had a gentle, patient, and quiet personality. He set goals and was committed to those goals. He was a farmer with a substantial piece of land on Fenno Road in Amity Township. In politics, he was a republican but was too busy with farming to run for office or even serve in the military. He began farming with 150 acres but ended up with a total of 300 acres on the south side of Fenno Road (10433). The original acreage was purchased by his father, Amos Tanner, from A. Lockwood in 1883, specifically for William. This is where he built the Tanner homestead including house and barn. Later, he bought the “Johnson Hill Lot” (Jonathan A. Hill) on the north side of Fenno Road (10546) to the corner of Stewart Hill Road (10554). Uncle Amos lived in this (10546) house first, then Charlie. Floyd was born in this house, which still stands. Charlie later bought his father's farm across the road.
(Note: Floyd remembered, when he was very small, perhaps a toddler, his father repairing the floor in the dining room. He was completely replacing the floor boards so there was a hole where the old boards had been removed. He said he could remember laying on his belly with his hands clutching the edge of the board and peering down into the hole in the floor. It was probably his earliest memory which he relayed to me in the late 1990s. He was born in 1914. )
William was born May 8, 1863 and married Lucy Mason on December 25, 1880. He attended Wayne Valley Evangelical United Brethren Church (now Wayne Valley United Methodist). He went to school at the Hubbell school house on Beaverdam Road. He died May 30, 1927.