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  • Name LYMAN, Maria 
    Birth 9 Aug 1886  Thurber, Wayne, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    WAC 16 Nov 1965  MANTI Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Death 22 Mar 1974  Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 25 Mar 1974  Richfield City Cemetery, Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
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    Person ID I52475  Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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    Father LYMAN, Amasa Mason Jr ,   b. 22 Feb 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationNauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United Statesd. 21 Feb 1937, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Mother REYNOLDS, Roseanna Haskins ,   b. 23 May 1857, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationPleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United Statesd. 17 Aug 1923, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 16 May 1877  Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F26010  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family KING, Volney Emery ,   b. 5 Jun 1878, Kingston, Piute, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationKingston, Piute, Utah, United Statesd. 14 Feb 1962, Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 9 Aug 1904  Cainsville, Wayne, Utah Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 5 sons and 4 daughters 
    Family ID F18903  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2022 

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    • Third wife of Amasa Mason Lyman, Jr, by Mary Lyman Hiskey (daughter)

      Roseanna Reynolds was born at pleasant Grove, or what used to be called Little Cottonwood, 23 May 1857. She was the daughter of early Mormon Pioneers, John Reynolds and Mary Haskin. Mary had been married twice before to Jones and Childs. Roseanna was the last and only child born to her mother after she had married John Reynolds. Reared in dire poverty, she learned early in life to do the work at hand and do it cheerfully.

      Her parents died one month apart, leaving her to the mercy of a wild, new country at the tender age of about fourteen years. At the time of her parents death they lived at Moroni, Sanpete county, Utah. Here her mother was buried. Her father was at Beaver at the time and was not well. On learning of his wife’s passing, he collapsed and also died before Roseanna could reach him.

      From then on for several years Roseanna was shifted from one relative to another. She had ten half brothers and sisters by her father’s other wives, and several by her mother and her two former husbands. However, her life was lonely and very hard as was many others in the early days of Utah. [one relative abused her, she became pregnant and delivered a daughter]. No hardship could quell the dauntless courage and spirit of Roseanna. She spun yarn, wove clothes, made dresses, overalls and did every conceivable thing to help herself and others.

      During the year of 1877 she met Amasa Mason Lyman Jr. They were married 16 May 1877 at Panguitch, Garfield county, Utah. They started out with a ready-made family with his 2 children and her daughter. Their first four children were born at Panguitch, Utah.

      In 1883 they moved to Thurber, Piute county, (Now Bicknell, Wayne county). For Roseanna poverty was the result of every move, and she would often say it was the “Mother of Invention” and that “Experience was a dear school but fools would learn no other”.

      In the new settlement where every one was homesteading, Amasa and Ann (as their friends and neighbors knew them) settled to a life of hard work and privation. In the summer they dairyed, milking from 25 to 60 cows belonging to some of the more prosperous settlers. They made cheese and butter to eat, sell, or barter for other necessities of life.

      Hunting and fishing was the great game and pleasant pastime along with the singing and story telling of Amasa. As a farmer he often told friends he was a “successful failure”. As a glove maker, tailor, dress-maker, and all master of many arts, Roseanna took the prize. Capable, courageous, patient to a fault, she fought every obstacle of pioneer life and won with a smile. Cheer was her great asset.

      By now Amasa in his hunting trips for cattle, horses, deer, and etc., had located a dairy called Haw’s Dairy on the South side of the Boulder Mountain on the West Boulder Creek. Here they moved during the summer of 1889.

      This was an extremely hard life for Roseanna. She was over-worked with the large family, milking cows, churning, washing on a wash board, and living in a cabin. She came down with rheumatism and lay for weeks in greatest agony unable even to feed herself. However, at the end of the summer she was able to get back to their home with the winter’s supply of butter and cheese, aching, swollen joints and a heart-filled with disappointment.

      During June of the following year they loaded all their belongings on a wagon and moved about forty miles south [withouth a road] over the Boulder Mountain. Here they homesteaded a piece of land on a cold high rocky bench, thickly covered with black boulders, oak brush, scrub pines, cedars, and sage brush[not a workable farm today]. For shelter they strung a wagon cover up between several trees and there unloaded the few belongings they had. They had left part of their things at Oak Creek, about half-way over the mountain because their were no roads and the horses were too poor and weak to pull the load.

      With this start, Roseanna had a wide field to develop ability and one that would tax the ingenuity of the greatest minds of the age. The author remembers very well this scant shelter and how the old Charter Oak stove was set up. There was some difficulty getting the pipe to stand with small scraps of wood that could be spared from the wagon, boxes, etc. There was a rickety home-made table and a few stools, benches and boxes to sit on. We all slept on the ground, with barely enough bedding. There - the children grew larger; the patches of oak and sage grew smaller. In time some ground was cleared. Corn and a few ordinary vegetables were planted.

      In the meantime progress was slowly moving toward getting out a set of house logs, and in due time a 14 x 18 foot cabin was laid up. Three ridge poles and the regular dirt roof, two windows, one door, and a large roughly built fireplace completed the house where Roseanna was to live for the next fifteen years. In 1891 she gave premature birth to twin girls, born 5 days apart without aid or help of anyone but her husband. The babies were born dead and were buried on top of a high hill a half mile south of their home. [A grandson, Truman Lyman, said that the first one came, but no placenta. That worried Roseanna so she sent Amasa over the mountain to Bicknell to get medicine to bring the placenta. When the placenta came so did another little girl, dead. Roseanna never got over feeling that she had caused the death of the second baby.]

      Two years later they moved to Escalante, Garfield county, Utah to get the children in school and also to be able to get help from a midwife. Her fifth son and eighth living child was born 27 November 1892, they named him Maurice Lyman.

      Two winters were spent there. The children old enough, attending school. At the end of the second winter, the family returned to their homestead in Boulder. A son Amasa was born on 23 October 1894, the first living white child to be born in Boulder. Mother Lyman was unattended by any skilled help. She sent a child a mile or more to ask her nearest neighbor, a woman who had never had a child or been with anyone who had, to come and help her. She was sick three days. Her husband had gone to Price, Utah, with some horses. So almost alone she went through the ordeal with her usual courage and cheer.

      The years they lived there were spent in dire poverty. At no time did the family have enough clothes to keep them warm. Their food consisted mostly of corn bread and deer meet, and molasses, with nothing but a coffee mill to grind the corn. A real treat was good bean soup with bacon rinds cooked in it. Mother Lyman tanned deer skins and made buckskin gloves by the hundreds. She also made shoes, moccasins, buckskin shirts and breeches. The author’s memory of her first new hat was straw braided by her mother. She made her own candles, soap, salt, yarn, lye from cottonwood ashes, starch from potatoes. that would surprise the modern woman of today - she made her own yeast cakes. At one time she made the three oldest boys trousers and jackets of common grain sacks, and hats of pieces of old canvas wagon cover.

      Once when her husband was away, the family was so near starvation that Mother Lyman waded through snow up to her knees for miles looking for a deer that her husband had wounded and thought would not be able to go far. At last she found it dead, of course, and frozen. She cut off a hind quarter, took it home and fed the children. Time and space does not permit telling one hundredth part of the suffering and privation her family lived through. She of course sensing it more than anyone else.

      After about fifteen years on the homestead they made another move. This time they settled at Cainville, Wayne county, Utah. There was a full grown orchard, soil good for gardening, and with many old time friends and congenial neighbors. Mother Lyman was in her seventh heaven. With church and school nearby, the opportunity her religious nature naturally craved, was here at last. She blossomed into smiles of real joy. The next May, in her 48th year, at Teasdale, Utah, under care of grandma Williams, a midwife, she gave birth to a stillborn baby boy, her fourteenth and last child, making nine living and five stillborn children.

      Mother Lyman’s joy in her home at Cainville was short. Her husband was not satisfied and moved her back to Boulder. There they stayed another two years, then came Mother’s revolt. She decided that her younger children were going to high school. Their few belongings were taken by team and wagon to Ephraim, Sanpete county, Utah. She and the boys spent the next four winters there, a memorable time for her and the best ever for the boys. In the summer they returned to Teasdale, Wayne county. And finally when the boys had graduated they settled there in a new modern home of four large rooms and a bath.

      Happily she spent her time knitting, making gloves, quilts, dresses and various other things. Then the strain of years of work and worry began to tell on her. Her blood pressure shot up, causing several hemorrhages of the brain and one time she was in a stupor for three days. Her doctor ordered her to a lower altitude. Her husband took her to St George, Washington county, Utah. She spent one winter there working in the Latter-day Saint Temple. While there she was on a strict diet. She reduced her weight from 245 pounds to 210. She returned home much improved and happier but on the following October 15th, 1916 her only unmarried son Reynolds, age 34 years died from injuries received riding a large wooden scraper. This was a hard blow for her, however she became reconciled to her loss. Her health did not hold up and she frequently suffered dreadful hemorrhages from the nose.

      She was Teasdale Ward Relief Society President for eight years, but had to give it up on account of ill health. Late in the Summer of 1921 cancer started in her right breast, caused from bruises received when she was 27 or 28 years old. She suffered intense agony, but continued uncomplaining and singing (Count your many Blessings), until 17 August 1923 when she passed away. She was buried at Teasdale, Wayne county, Utah.

  • Sources 
    1. [S48] GEDCOM File : MASHarris 8.ged, 19 Dec 2003, Standard Examiner (Reliability: 0).

    2. [S53] Unknown.