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| Martha Lydia Lyman |
In 1860 she moved with her family to Farmington, Davis County, Utah. One instance she told later to her children was that the wind was so strong it blew a window out so they put the feather bed in it to keep out the weather.
The family moved to Fillmore, Millard County, Utah in 1863. While living there, Martha and her half-brother, Theodore, took it upon themselves to help rid the home of stink-bugs. They were so numerous they made bags of denim and would fill them with the bugs and burn them. All the girls were required to knot so much every day to help their mother.
Martha made a visit to Oak City, staying with her half brother Platte D. Lyman. She saw a young man walk down the sidewalk and remarked what a big nose he had. She wasn't too impressed by him. But this man was Alvin Roper who later became her husband.
When she was 16 years old she had an attack of epilepsy, but she didn't have any more until after she was married.
The three Partridge sisters who had married Amasa Mason Lyman, left him when he was excommunicated from the Church. They moved on 7 May 1872 to Oak City where their son's had property interest, bringing their mother to live with them.
She married ALVIN ROPER who was born 17 February 1853 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Their marriage took place in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Alvin was called to St. George to work on the Temple. After two years working on the Temple, Alvin came back and he and Martha continued to live at her mother's while a home was being built of adobe for them. This was their winter home and summers where spent on the flat. They endured many hardships and had scanty foods. Out at the flat they lived in a one room log house with a dirt floor and roof. When it rained, mud would come through.
Martha had an epileptic spell and fell on the rock hearth, her hair almost touching the coals. Mary, who was 9 years old, managed to rescue her from the heat. Martha continued to have these spells so her mother took her baby, Caddie, to raise which she continued until she (Caddie), was married at 17 1/2 years of age.
Children of Martha and Alvin Roper: Mary Caroline Roper, Effie Roper, Caddie Roper, Hettie Roper, Ida Roper, Lem Roper, Bert Roper, Twiss Roper, Frankie Roper and Kirt Roper.
Martha Lydia Lyman was a woman of great faith and she witnessed many healings through the Priesthood and spiritual faith. She was an ardent reader of the scriptures to her husband and nine children. She made every effort to instill her strong testimony of the gospel in her children and encouraged them in every way to be active in the church. She has related many faith promoting instances to her posterity. Perhaps the most satisfying one to her was when her father, Amasa Mason Lyman, cam to her in a dream wherein he was calling for help. She heard and saw him and had the impulse to embrace him but he warned her there was a great, yawning chasm between them which made it impossible.
He requested her to appeal to his son, Marion (Francis Marion who was a apostle) to have him reinstated in the Church. When Marion came down on a church duty she related the instance and told him how distressed her father was and she was so impressed that she felt it a real message.
When her mother Caroline Ely passed away, 7 May 1908 in Oak City, Marion requested Martha to relate this dream again to President Joseph F. Smith who was in attendance at the funeral. This was done at Harriet Lovell's home after the funeral. President Smith was greatly impressed and said, "Well, Marion it looks like your father has suffered long enough. We will see what can be done for him. As a result her father, Amasa Mason Lyman, was reinstated into the church with all his former blessings, by proxy.
Alvin died January 1912 at Oak City, Millard County, Utah.
Martha lived to see all her children endowed in the Temple and shortly after her youngest son Kirt was sealed to his wife, she became ill with heart trouble and died on 29 April 1922 at their home in Oak City, Millard County, Utah at the age of 69 years.
SOURCE:
Book: Lyman Family History, Volume 2, compiled by Melvin A. Lyman, M.D., p. 135-137; Records of Afton M. Faust and written by Amy Finlinson Faust, granddaughter. Transcribed and condensed by Diane Finlinson Miller.
Descendancy
Daughter of Amasa Mason Lyman and Caroline Ely Partridge
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