Elizabeth Tantam Bull 60 done Elizabeth Tantam was born at Birmingham, Warwickshire, England on May 3, 1816. Her father William Tantam, a rich jeweler of that place, and her mother was Sarah Brown Tantam, a very wise and good woman. After she was fourteen she lived with her married sister, Sarah, the wife of Richard Whitehouse, a wealthy man of that city, and looked after her children for her. (Richard and Sarah Whitehouse are the ancestors of the well known Whitehouse family of New York). Sarah Whitehouse being a waman of means was able to give her younger sister Elizabeth every advantage and raise her to the life of a lady which no boubt made pioneering doubly hard for her. But she accepted her lot without a murmur and carried her end of the burden cheerfully although a woman of delicate health. She was married to Daniel Bull in Birmingham in 1841. Some time later she joined the L.D.S. Church without the knowledge of her husband; and when he discovered what she had done he was very angry at first, but just one week later (1844) joined himself and became forever after a most loyal defender for the faith. Both grandfather and grandmother Bull had previously attended the aristocratic St. Paul's Episcopal Church of St. Paul's Square in Birmingham; so when she joined the "Mormons" it was considered a terrible come down' by her friends and relatives. In fact I remember seeing a poem which they sent to her once with these lines underscored: "I once was as pure as the snow but I fell. Fell like a snowflake from heaven to hell." 61 In 1845 she came to Nauvoo with her husband and went through the persecutions incident to those trying times. During the battle of Nauvoo. while her husband was away helping to fight the mob she stayed alone with her children in a log house around which the bullets were flying like hail. Going out on the porch for some clothes she narrowly escaped being hit by a bullet which just grazed her head. So, running back she seized her children and took refuge in the cellar until the fighting was over. In 1849 they moved to Quincy, Illinois, where they had the misfortune to lose two of their family of three, Joseph and Eliza, whom they buried there when they came to Utah in 1850. Only one child, Charles, who was born in England in 1842 now remained to them. Crossing the Plains must have been a terrible experience for this gentlewoman, reared in luxury in one of England's largest cities. One of these experiences was a buffalo stampede, from which they emerged unharmed, the buffalos all clearing the oxen and wagons in their mad rush. On the banks of the Sweetwater River in Wyoming she gave birth to twins girls, one, Winona Jane, dying a few hours after birth, and the other, Sophronia Ann, coming with her parents to Utah. The family lived for eleven years in Salt Lade City, taking active part in the social and communal life of that city until 1860 when they were called by Brigham Young to go pioneering once mor moreup in the Weber Vally. Grandmother did her share toward stocking the family larder by raising turkeys, chickens and garden stuff. The first asparagus and tomatoes I ever saw was in her garden. 62 Elizabeth Tantam Bull died in Morgan on March 16, 1886, and lies buried by the side of her husband there. Evelyn B, Christensen.