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Show Louisa Maria Lyman 263 a small clearing in the forested hills about four miles northwest of Northwest Bay on Lake George. Her parents settled Wardboro, there briefly on their move from Greenwich, before moving to Bolton Landing. Nothing remains to identify the place but a small cemetery containing a few permanent grave markers. Two of John's children, Maria and Martin Henry, were born in this lovely, lonely spot over looking Lake George, where now only deer hunters venture. 2 Maria may have had no memory of affluent times at Bolton Landing. Wardboro, but only of the It was here she grew to womanhood and met her first and only love, Amasa M. Lyman, the Mormon missionary who called at the Tanner home some time after the family had embraced Mormonism. more I Maria raised in a home dominated by brothers understand the emotional rarely makeup of a girl. Her mother died when she was less than seven years old, which added still further was a lonely girl, who to her loneliness. When Amasa M. Lyman, himself alone in the world and emo insecure as Maria, came into the Tanner home, there grew tionally between them a bond which no one can explain and which lonely hearts alone can understand." Maria was but a child, some would have said, but she was- old beyond her years, and so was the handsome Amasa, four years her senior, who had already left his family to cast his lot with the questionable Mormons. as Maria was sixteen years of age at Christmas time in 1834 when the Tanners moved to Kirtland, Ohio to join the main body of the Latter-day Saints. A few months later she received the following letter from Amasa M. Lyman who had recently returned from service in Zion's Army in Missouri: Kirtland, Ohio, May 31, 1836. Dear Sister: While the mantle of night is spread around the works of nature, I take my pen that through its silent language I might communicate to you some of the feelings of my heart. a wanderer, and desiring to enjoy the blessings that would result from the society of a companion who would participate with me in the changing scenes of life, if you desire or feel willing Having been |
