Sharing our Links to the Past
by Wally and Frances Gray

Ellen King (Mrs. Stephen Alonzo Lyman) (1865-1964)

From 100 Years on the Muddy,

Arabell Lee Hafner, comp.

Art City Publishing Company, Springville, Utah, 1967

pp. 268-269

Ellen King Lyman was the first child born in Deseret, Utah (west of Fillmore), March 22, 1865, which was about one month before the assination of President Abraham Lincoln.  After marrying Stephen Lyman they moved to Price, Utah, then to California.  It was in 1916-17 that they came to Moapa Valley to live and raise their six children.  They witnessed many hardships in their pioneering days, but lived a happy life together and celebrated their golden wedding anniversary December 24, 1937 in Logandale.  Stephen passed away in 1939, and Ellen continued to be a good neighbor, helping many people with their troubles and illnesses.  She pieced many quilts until her eyesight failed her, but her memory remained keen, and she was able to recite poetry she had learned as a child until she was 96 years old.  She lived with her daughter, Priscilla Rice, and on her 99th birthday she received many cards from friends wishing her well.

She had seen many changes take place in the valley including methods of travel from ox cart to jet planes; the coming of radio, television and telephones; sewing machines, and modern machinery on the farms taking the place of hand cradles and sythes.

Grandma Lyman, as she was known, passed away June 26, 1964, at 99 years of age.

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