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Show Louisa Maria Lyman 269 When the cattle were drove down from the rushes, your Stear that Father Shepperd let you have got strayed & has not been found yet. Neither has the other 2 that were gone. Sidney says the others are doing tolerable well. Another letter was written under date of June 13, 1847, and sent forward with the same courier as the first letter. Instead of Respected Companion, it began, Dear Husband, and apparently the concluding. paragraph was as follows: When I commenced this letter I thought I should not send the one that I had been wrighting all last week, but I have written so far and have not copied any of the particulars that are in that letter [nor] have I time to do so. When you read them you can do what you please with them. For I am almost through with them & I deliver them into your charge." Pray for us dear Amasa that we live in union & my little ones may be spared that we may meet to see good days. My prayer and best wishes you have always, so farewell. Louisa M. Lyman Maria crossed the plans in 1848 with her family and lived for a a rude log cabin in Salt Lake, until the call came to Amasa to lead a mission to San Bernardino. In California it looked for a time like the dream of a home for Maria and some of Amasa's other wives was at last to be realized." However, the recall of the time in colony in 1858 blasted that dream and the Lymans returned to the main body of the Saints. Many additional disappointments were in store for this durable daughter of John Tanner. "During the early period of the settlement of Utah, it was customary for members of the Council of Twelve to be assigned posts in various localities to preside in a general way and assist in establishing settlements and have general supervision in their respective districts.'?' In this connection Amasa M. Lyman was located in Fillmore. For a time it looked as though happier days might be in store for Maria, and that there would be a home of some permanence. And then the roof fell in. well up in the Quorum of the Twelve a man of considerable power and influence. During the had church in the no one quarter century he had been an apostle, worked harder or suffered more. But for some reason which puzzled "false doctrine," which included the everyone, he began Amasa, by this time, and was was preaching |
