Walter Clisbee Lyman

Brief Life History of Walter Clisbee

When Walter Clisbee Lyman was born on 1 October 1863, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States, his father, Amasa Mason Lyman, was 50 and his mother, Caroline Ely Partridge, was 36. He married Sylvia Ann Lovell on 4 October 1883, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Bluff, San Juan, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 19 July 1943, in Moab, Grand, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Blanding, San Juan, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Walter Clisbee Lyman
1863–1943
Elizabeth Finlinson
1867–1916
Marriage: 16 December 1891
Ethel Lyman
1893–1959
Marvin Finlinson Lyman
1894–1972
Zola Lyman
1896–1948
Lucille Lyman
1899–1899
Susan Lyman
1901–1994
Raymond Finlinson Lyman
1903–1991
Lynn Finlinson Lyman
1905–1992
Margaret Lyman
1908–1999
George Finlinson Lyman
1910–1965
Barton Finlinson Lyman
1914–1983

Sources (48)

  • Walter Clisbee Lyman, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Mr. Walter C Lyman, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Walter Clisbee Lyman, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1878

More than two decades later, in 1878, permanent settlers returned to Moab to establish farms and ranches. As the community evolved, a Mormon ward and a community school were established in 1881. Construction of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad between Denver and Salt Lake City brought the railroad to within thirty-five miles of Moab at Thompson Springs and provided a much-desired railroad connection.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land (see Layman ).

Swedish: habitational name, formed with man ‘man’, for someone from any of several places whose name is beginning with Ly- (e.g. Lyhundra, Lydinge, and Lynäs).

Americanized form of German Leimann (see Leiman ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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