Brief Life History of Amasa Mason
When Amasa Mason Lyman Jr was born on 22 February 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Amasa Mason Lyman, was 32 and his mother, Louisa Maria Tanner, was 27. He married Hannah Olive Felshaw on 6 January 1867, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States in 1920 and Teasdale, Piute, Utah, United States for about 17 years. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 21 February 1937, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Teasdale Cemetery, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States.
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- Amasa Mason Lyman, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Amasa Mason Lyman, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- Amasa Mason Lyman, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1848 · Fire Destroys the Temple
On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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Reynolds, Roseanna 1857
Third wife of Amasa Mason Lyman, Jr, by Mary Lyman Hiskey (daughter) Roseanna Reynolds was born at pleasant Grove, or what used to be called Little Cottonwood, 23 May 1857. She was the daughter of e …
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