History of Lehi

Sharing our Links to the Past
by Wally and Frances Gray

History of Lehi

Published by the Lehi Pioneer Committee

Written by Hamilton Gardner

The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1913

pp. 698-699

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Lydia Alice Walters (Mrs. Elias Albert Bushman Jr.) (1884-1976)

Lydia Alice Walters Bushman, daughter of Bonde N. Walters and Bengta Holmgren, was born September 2, 1884, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Her parents joined the Latter-day Saints Church in Sweden and came to Utah about 1869.

She attended the Pleasant Grove Public Schools and the Brigham Young University, and was a teacher in the Pleasant Grove Schools. She was also active in Church work.

From the time of her marriage to Elias Albert Bushman, Jr., in 1908, until his death in 1936, she lived in the Lehi First Ward where at various times she was teacher and president of the Primary and Relief Society organizations, and served on the Stake Primary Board of the Alpine Stake and later of the Lehi Stake. She and her husband spent eighteen months as missionaries in the California Mission.

Their first child died in infancy. After Albert’s death, she and the other children, Glen, Myrle and Phyllis, moved to Huntington Park, California. Here she has made new friends and has taken an active part in the Relief Society Organization as a Visiting Teacher, Class Leader, and President.

While her work outside the home has been mostly in Church activities, she has always been interested in community progress.

At present she lives in Hawthorne, California, and is a member of the Centinela Ward, Inglewood Stake.

[She died October 16, 1976.]