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| Maria Louisa Tanner Lyman |
1st wife of Amasa Mason Lyman
Their children are as follow:
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| Matilda Lyman |
Born 14 November 1836, at Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio.
Died 24 March 1903, at Greenville, Beaver County, Utah.
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| Francis Marion Lyman |
Born 12 January 1840, at Goodhope, Hancock County, Illinois.
Died 18 November 1916 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
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| Ruth Adelia Lyman died as a child |
Born 1 August 1843, at Shokokon, Hancock County, Illinois.
Died 27 February 1848, at Florence, Douglas County, Nebraska.
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| Amasa Mason Lyman Jr. |
Born 22 February 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois.
Died 21 February 1937, at Provo, Utah County, Utah.
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| Marie Louisa Lyman |
Born 8 May 1849, at Little Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Died, 5 July 1877, at Beaver, Beaver County, Utah.
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| Lelia Deseret Lyman |
Born 21 Jan. 1852, at San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California.
Died 14 June 1904 at Fillmore, Millard County, Utah.
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| Love Josephine Lyman |
Born 25 April 1854, at San Bernardino, San Bernadino County,
California. Died 26 May 1940 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
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| Agnes Hila Lyman |
Born 5 December 1857, at San Bernardino, San Bernardino County,
California. Died 29 March 1881 at Fillmore, Millard County, Utah.
History of Maria Louisa Tanner Lyman
MARIA LOUISA TANNER LYMAN, born in Norwich, New York, 28 November 1818, was daughter of John Tanner and Lydia Stuart. Her childhood was spent on her father's farm on the beautiful shore of Lake George where, in her thirteenth year, the family joined the Latter‑Day Saints and moved three years later to Kirtland, Ohio. Here on the tenth of June 1835 she was married to Amasa Mason Lyman.
She endured gamely the hardships and homelessness his missionary work entailed upon her. From their temporary quarters in Kirtland, they moved with many of their co‑religionists to Missouri in 1838 and went through the fury of Governor Bogg's infamous exterminating orders.
When the Lyman's escaped to Illinois with their little family, Maria still carried on bravely through the privations she had to meet as the wife of one of the church leaders. Being one of the Quorum of Apostles, Amasa accompanied Brigham Young and his pioneers on their initial trip to the Rocky Mountains, and Maria went through a year and a half of homelessness and great hardships before she came into the shelter of a rude log cabin in Salt Lake City. With this prospect of a resting place, she and her children did what they could to make a home while the husband and father filled a mission to California.
She accompanied her husband to San Bernardino and partook of all the hardships of crossing the perilous desert. At the end of seven years they had built there, by great toil and effort, their nearest approach so far to a home, but the coming of Johnston's Army to Salt Lake City made it necessary for them to return to the main body of their people, and they crossed back over the desert to the east to make another beginning.
They stopped in Farmington and later found shelter in Salt Lake City, but the making of another permanent place had to wait while Amasa went as one of the Twelve to preside over the European Mission. Still hopeful of having a comfortable abiding place, the Lyman’s began in 1863 to make a home in Fillmore, Millard County, Utah. Maria Tanner Lyman, though spare built and frail in appearance, had a cheery disposition and a great tenacity of life. Besides caring for her own eight children she mothered three orphans, and was never content when not ministering to the comfort of some of her loved ones. Her long schooling in adversity made her an expert economist; she could find ways to live and prosper in poverty and privation. She lived twenty‑eight years as a widow, retaining all her faculties, and spent the latter part of her life with some of her children in Salt Lake City where she died May 3, 1906, at the ripe age of eighty‑seven.
(Taken from the Tanner Family Book by Maurice Tanner.)
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