10 Facts About Seth Tanner

Seth Benjamin Tanner was a Mormon pioneer, miner, and early settler of Arizona.

Seth Tanner was the son of John Seth Tanner and Elizabeth Beswick.

Seth Tanner was born in Bolton Landing, New York, and was with his father's family as they were driven across the United States from place to place with the early Mormons.

Seth Tanner married Charlotte Levi in 1858 in Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah, and they settled in North Ogden and had seven children.

Seth Tanner later returned to Utah Territory and married Anna Maria Jensen in 1876, then moved his family to Arizona, to an isolated cabin on the Little Colorado River near Tuba City, on the present-day Navajo reservation.

Seth Tanner helped with the Hole-In-The-Rock expedition; he joined the expedition as a guide for the initial exploring party, guiding them up to the Bluff area after they had reached Moenkopi in the Navajo country.

The whole expedition would have been much better off had they followed the route which Seth Tanner showed them, instead of taking the insane "short cut" down through the hole and across the redrock country.

Seth Tanner was a modest man but he was always thoughtful of others, and during his travels and life-long experiences when he was associated with others in travel, he was generally set apart as a hunter and fisher and to provide meat for the company.

Seth Tanner engaged in prospecting and mining in the area, but does not seem to have had too much success in these ventures.

Seth Tanner died in Taylor, Arizona at the age of 90.