Lydia Ann Lake

Brief Life History of Lydia Ann

When Lydia Ann Lake was born on 13 May 1832, in Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Madison Lake Jr., was 43 and her mother, Philomela Smith, was 38. She married Price Williams Nelson on 31 December 1850, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1858 and lived in Pine Creek, Gila, Arizona, United States in 1880 and Apache, Arizona, United States in 1920. She died on 14 January 1924, in Eagar, Apache, Arizona, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Eagar Cemetery, Eagar, Apache, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Price Williams Nelson
1822–1902
Lydia Ann Lake
1832–1924
Marriage: 31 December 1850
Edmond Nelson Sr
1851–1946
Samantha Nelson
1853–1923
Price Williams Nelson II
1855–1946
Lydia Ann Nelson
1856–1944
Loraina Nelson
1859–1947
Jane Nelson
1861–1910
Hyrum Nelson
1863–1938
James Mark Nelson Sr.
1865–1907
Alvin David Nelson
1867–1937
Thomas George Nelson
1870–1875
Levi Nelson
1872–1923
Wilford Bailey Nelson
1874–1949
Philomelia Nelson
1876–1876

Sources (68)

  • Lydia A Nelson in household of Edmond Nelson, "United States Census, 1920"
  • George Lake in Birth's of Family of Philomila Smith - Appendix Brigham City Arizona Terr - Vol III George Lake Missionary Journal
  • Sonora, Mexico, Civil Registration Marriages, 1857-1950

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1856

Historical Boundaries: 1856: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, Utah, United States

Name Meaning

English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.

English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).

North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).

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

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Story Highlight

Nelson, Lydia Ann Lake, [Autobiography], in Roberta Flake Clayton, comp., Pioneer Women of Arizona, 432.

RELATED COMPANIES James Lake Company (1850) In the summer of 1850 we went forth again in the time to join a company of saints moving to the Valley. My father [James Lake] was chosen captain of fifty. …

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