CLARK LYMAN DIES AT WYOMING HOME
Word was received here on Tuesday morning by relatives that Clark Ward Lyman, 41, former resident of Parawan, had died in Otto, Wyoming of Spotted (tick) fever. He leaves a widow, Maude Stubbs Lyman, and ten children, two of whom are married.
Clark's father Charles R. Lyman, also a native son of Parowan, died of the same malady in the same locallty a few years ago. This fever, which usually is fatal, is caused by the bit of a species of sheep tick which infests sections of Wyoming.
None of the details concerning Clark's tragic death are available as this is written, - merely the bare facts of his death. The sympathy of the community will go out to the bereaved family in the loss of a kind husband and father.
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Clark Ward Lyman Passes Away
ReplyDeleteClark W. Lyman, a well known stock grower of the Otto country passed away on Monday morning at 1 o'clock, following an illness which extend over a couple of weeks, death being due to tularemia commonly known as deerfly infection [and rabbit fever]
Services were held yesterday from the L.D.S. church at Otto, of which he had been a member for many years. A large crowd gathered to pay their respects to their deceased neighbor and friend, and genuine sorrow was reflected on the faces of all.
Greybull Standard Thursday, May 28, 1931
The following obituary from the Greybull Standard
"Clark W. Lyman was the son of Charles R. Lyman, a pioneer in the Cowley district of the Big Horn Basin. He came to Wyoming as a boy and worked on the Sidon Canal and helped earn a farm and built a home in Cowley. He was born in Parowan, Utah 45 years ago. His wife was also from Parowan but most of his married life has been spent in Wyoming. They have a family of 10 children, two of whom are married and living in Otto. Mr. Lyman was a prominent and successful rancher, specializing in pure-bred sheep. He has a legion of friends among the best people of the basin. His untimely death comes as a shock to his family and friends as he was a very vigorous and robust man. He was a man of unusually tender nature, having acted as nurse during the influenza epidemic a number of years ago. He counted among his close friends many patients who felt they owed their recovery to his skill. During his sickness he was surrounded by a host of loving friends and relations, who did for him all that could be done. He is survived by his immediate family and one sister and one brother."
Grant L. Sanders interview Isabelle Lyman on 1 June 1960 and recorded his mother’s words about her father Clark:
“Clark Lyman was a great singer, he was an Irish tenor. Oscar, his brother sang with him a lot. As Oscar was dying with the flue he, Oscar sang “The Holy City.” After Clark got over the flu, he went around Parowan and helped others who had the flu. He also liked to dance and he taught all of his children to dance. He took his whole family to all the dances.”
"Clark never attended Church, but taught his children the gospel. He would not allow criticism of General Authorities or other Church leaders. Supposedly when Clark was a young man a bishop had kicked him out of church and told him never to come back. He never did.
Whenever he butchered an animal, he always made sure the neighbors had a good piece of meat, even before his kw family got any.
He was an outspoken person and always said what he thought whether people liked it or not.”
Clark traveled with his father to Cowley in 1901 but returned to Parowan sometime prior to his marriage on 12 May 1903 to Maude Stubbs. During this time, he worked for his uncle, William H. Lyman tending sheep. His son Scott Stubbs Lyman was born in 1906. They then moved to Cowley thinking he could find better work. But apparently that did not pan out so they moved back to Parowan just before Isabelle was born November 24, 1908. Clark continued minding and learning about sheep from his uncle.
ReplyDeleteIn February 1912 homesteaded the following land in Iron County, Utah:
N1/2SE1/4, SE1/4SE1/4 Section 12 S.L.M. The land entry serial number was 09365. (Parowan Times November 15, 1916)
On November 17, 1914 he made additional Homestead land entry Serial number 013395 for W1/2NE1/4, NE1/4NE1/4 SECTION 13 T34ST10W S.L.M. (Parowan Times November 15, 1916) It was Clark’s intention to make a 3 year proof to establish claim on this land.
The Parowan Times received a letter from Maude Lyman on April 14, 1919 which indicates that Clark and family were in Otto, Wyoming by April 1919
“We [are] just in receipt of a letter from Mrs. Maude Lyman of Otto, Wyoming, who was only recently a resident of this City. She is well and wants to have the times mailed to here each week, stating that she enjoys very much learning of the happenings of Parowan.”
They made this move because Clark was not able to support the family on the dry land homestead in Parowan. From Maude’s writings, they miss living in Parowan.
Records show that he returned the land to the Government in 1919. He lived in Wyoming from 1919 to his death in 1931 or 12 years. He lived in Parowan from his birth in 1887 to 1901 (14years). From his Marriage to 1919 except for a brief time between Scott and Isabelle’s birth he lived in Utah.