Welcome to our Tanner Family page. This is my husband's side. It has been a real challenge to find information on them. At this point, we don't have very much information on them. I will just jump in and start naming them! For more info on them, check out the gedcom on
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Our line starts with my husband,
JUSTIN TANNER. Justin likes to do blacksmithing and tinker with metal. If he can't cut it with a tourch or weld it, he doesn't want to do it.
Tanner's Forge is our business site that you can check out his art and knives on.
STEVE TANNER is my father-in-law. He likes to write poems and carve. He is also an excellent sketcher. He and Granny,
MAURINE E. HOLLINGSHEAD, like to collect and trade Native American art. They have a wonderfull collection of rugs, jewelry, pottery and Hopi Kachina dolls. They are working on getting a webpage, but haven't yet.
Steve's father,
DALLAS JOHN TANNER, was born September 28, 1915 in Yorktown, Bureau, Illinois to
ROBERT and
MYRTLE ELIZABETH (WILDMAN) TANNER. He was their third and final child.
ROBERT GERALD or
JERRY, as he was called, was born May 5, 1910 in Yorktown , Bureau, Illinois. He died in May 1994 in Oklahoma.
BURDETTE ROLLAND was born June 6, 1914 in Yorktown also. He died July 2, 1914. I am not sure which cemetery he is burried in, but I have a picture of the grave and headstone. Dallas married
JEAN FLORENCE COOK (PARRISH) September 10, 1938 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. For more on the Parrish family, visit our
Parrish page. I never met Dallas, as he died in 1987, the year before Justin and I met. I have never met anyone that had a bad word to say about him. He was well liked by all that new him. He enjoyed hunting for arrow heads and other artifacts, back when it was legal to. He had an extensive collection that was all cataloged with the location and date of when it was found. The thing that made him the most proud of his collection, was the fact that he never dug for it. Everything he found, he found on the surface. After his death, the collection was donated to the Dan O'Laurie Museum in Moab, Utah. Dallas and Jean had two sons,
Uncle Bob - Charles Robert, and Steve.
ROBERT and Myrtle were married February 23, 1909 in Morrison, Whiteside, Illinois. Robert was a cobbler. They owned a shoe shop in Kansas City Missouri. He also owned a poolhall at one time, I think it was in Illinios. Robert is a hard one to trace. He is listed in the 1900 Whiteside Co. Illinois Census as being an orphan. He was born March 1, 1884-87, depending on which record you look at, in either New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, or Ireland. I am leaning more to New York at this point. I believe he came to Illinois on an Orphan Train. There is a book in Uncle Bob's possesion that says that he was placed in an Episcapalian Childrens home in New york, and later lived with the Smith family in Illinois. I haven't seen the book and am just going off of what I have been told.
I do know that He had at least one brother and sister. I have an old photo album with pictures of them in it.
JOHN J. or
JACK, was born December 14, 1877 and died July 22, 1959 in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester, New York. He was married to
LORETTA C. (unknown). She was born September 26, 1882 and died June 28, 1957. They are buried at the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Hasting's-On-Hudson, Westcherster, New York along with one of their daughters,
Loretta M. (Tanner) Murray, and her husband,
JAMES J. MURRAY. Loretta was born January 19, 1905 in New York, and died August 1, 1984 in Westchester Co. New York. James was born June 26, 1906 and died May 2, 1963. Jack and Loretta also had daughters
KATHERINE( she had at least 2 daughters,
Betty and
Irene) and
LUCILLE (she was married to a John unknown), and a son,
ROBERT NICKOLES who was born December 23 and married a
Kitty that had a daughter from a prior marriage.
His sister,
ELIZABETH (TANNER) BRADLEY, or
AUNT LIZZIE, had at least one son,
IRVING. He was married to a lady named
PAULINE unknown. They lived in Oneida, New York. She may have been older than Jack. I am uncertain of their parent's names, as everything I have lists something different.
John and Elizabeth are one possibility, but I don't think this is the right one, as a picture that a cousin sent has Jack's birthday listed as Father Tanner, and Loretta's for Mother Tanner. I think that these are the siblings, and not the parents. Another possibility is
Robert and Louisa. They are listed on Robert and Myrtle's marriage license.
Robert and Jane are listed on his death certificate.
About the only other things I have found are some pictures of
Anna Campbell and her
daughter Bella that say that Anna is Robert's aunt on his mother's side. The pictures are taken in Dungannan, County Tyrone, Ireland. I don't know the time frame though. Family tradition says that they were Irish, and that Robert went back to Ireland to visit family. And the last possibility I have is a census record I found for New York City, NY 1880. It lists a
THOMAS R.(born in NY, but parents from Ireland) and
MARY J. TANNER (born in Ireland) with children
William age 7,
Lizzie age 4, and
John age 3. I am looking into this right now.
Well, that is all the info I have on my TANNER's. I will be adding pictures as time permits, so check back.
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