Daughter of Oliver Walker and Nancy Cressy
Married Amasa Mason Lyman, Jul 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
No children.
History - Diontha was a thorough, consistent Latter-day Saint to the day of her death. She was a renowned nurse in every community where she lived. She had the care and guardianship of her devoted mother all the later and dependent years of her life. Her home was with the Lyman family in Nauvoo, Florence, Nebraska Salt Lake City, San Bernardino, California and Minersville, Utah.
She was a pioneer into, Utah 1848, and in California in 1851. She was driven out of Nauvoo by the mob without resources, but with her sick sister, Mrs. Horace S. Alexander upon her hands. She could only gather in her apron a few articles of food as she fled.
Mr. Alexander became one of the Mormon Battalion. On their way Mrs. Lyman and her sister took refuge in a vacant house, where they prepared a cup of coffee and food for themselves and Isaac Morley and a companion who had escaped from the mob and been hiding in a corn field for days and were sick from living on green corn alone. Mrs. Lyman discovered six or eight of the mob approaching and warned the brethren to flee and hide, but they declined to go saying they can only kill us. They had not strength to go any further. While watching at the door the mobbers ordered her away or they would shoot. She upbraided them for pursuing sick women and tagging them after driving them from their homes. She challenged them to shoot as she had but once to die. The mobber shot overhead to frighten her out of the door, but she kept her post and the mob were ashamed and withdrew.
The next day Mrs. Lyman found it necessary to move to another vacant house for the comfort of her sick sister, where she could be more quiet. An intruder came and abruptly peered into the window, pushing the shawl aside that covered the opening. The second time he did that Mrs. Lyman dashed a cup of boiling hot water full in his face and he went jumping and howling away. His companions told him it served him just right.
Mrs. Alexander died at Winter Quarters, with her two weeks old son laid in her arms, on that hillside where so many of the Saints were laid away to rest. Mrs. Lyman was intimately acquainted with the Prophet and Patriarch Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Her faith was unquestioned.
Seventeen days before her death she received her final blessing at the hand of Elder Francis M. Lyman, assisted by two patriarchs.
Journal Entry - Friday 12th Dionitia has moved her bed to her brother in law's house where she will stay for the present to take care of his children, as they have been deprived of their mother by death. - Journal of Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman
(Her sister, the children's mother, was Nancy Reeder Walker Alexander, d 28 Jan 1847)
Married Amasa Mason Lyman, Jul 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
No children.
History - Diontha was a thorough, consistent Latter-day Saint to the day of her death. She was a renowned nurse in every community where she lived. She had the care and guardianship of her devoted mother all the later and dependent years of her life. Her home was with the Lyman family in Nauvoo, Florence, Nebraska Salt Lake City, San Bernardino, California and Minersville, Utah.
She was a pioneer into, Utah 1848, and in California in 1851. She was driven out of Nauvoo by the mob without resources, but with her sick sister, Mrs. Horace S. Alexander upon her hands. She could only gather in her apron a few articles of food as she fled.
Mr. Alexander became one of the Mormon Battalion. On their way Mrs. Lyman and her sister took refuge in a vacant house, where they prepared a cup of coffee and food for themselves and Isaac Morley and a companion who had escaped from the mob and been hiding in a corn field for days and were sick from living on green corn alone. Mrs. Lyman discovered six or eight of the mob approaching and warned the brethren to flee and hide, but they declined to go saying they can only kill us. They had not strength to go any further. While watching at the door the mobbers ordered her away or they would shoot. She upbraided them for pursuing sick women and tagging them after driving them from their homes. She challenged them to shoot as she had but once to die. The mobber shot overhead to frighten her out of the door, but she kept her post and the mob were ashamed and withdrew.
The next day Mrs. Lyman found it necessary to move to another vacant house for the comfort of her sick sister, where she could be more quiet. An intruder came and abruptly peered into the window, pushing the shawl aside that covered the opening. The second time he did that Mrs. Lyman dashed a cup of boiling hot water full in his face and he went jumping and howling away. His companions told him it served him just right.
Mrs. Alexander died at Winter Quarters, with her two weeks old son laid in her arms, on that hillside where so many of the Saints were laid away to rest. Mrs. Lyman was intimately acquainted with the Prophet and Patriarch Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Her faith was unquestioned.
Seventeen days before her death she received her final blessing at the hand of Elder Francis M. Lyman, assisted by two patriarchs.
Journal Entry - Friday 12th Dionitia has moved her bed to her brother in law's house where she will stay for the present to take care of his children, as they have been deprived of their mother by death. - Journal of Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman
(Her sister, the children's mother, was Nancy Reeder Walker Alexander, d 28 Jan 1847)
Daughter of Oliver Walker and Nancy Cressy
Married Amasa Mason Lyman, Jul 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
No children.
History - Diontha was a thorough, consistent Latter-day Saint to the day of her death. She was a renowned nurse in every community where she lived. She had the care and guardianship of her devoted mother all the later and dependent years of her life. Her home was with the Lyman family in Nauvoo, Florence, Nebraska Salt Lake City, San Bernardino, California and Minersville, Utah.
She was a pioneer into, Utah 1848, and in California in 1851. She was driven out of Nauvoo by the mob without resources, but with her sick sister, Mrs. Horace S. Alexander upon her hands. She could only gather in her apron a few articles of food as she fled.
Mr. Alexander became one of the Mormon Battalion. On their way Mrs. Lyman and her sister took refuge in a vacant house, where they prepared a cup of coffee and food for themselves and Isaac Morley and a companion who had escaped from the mob and been hiding in a corn field for days and were sick from living on green corn alone. Mrs. Lyman discovered six or eight of the mob approaching and warned the brethren to flee and hide, but they declined to go saying they can only kill us. They had not strength to go any further. While watching at the door the mobbers ordered her away or they would shoot. She upbraided them for pursuing sick women and tagging them after driving them from their homes. She challenged them to shoot as she had but once to die. The mobber shot overhead to frighten her out of the door, but she kept her post and the mob were ashamed and withdrew.
The next day Mrs. Lyman found it necessary to move to another vacant house for the comfort of her sick sister, where she could be more quiet. An intruder came and abruptly peered into the window, pushing the shawl aside that covered the opening. The second time he did that Mrs. Lyman dashed a cup of boiling hot water full in his face and he went jumping and howling away. His companions told him it served him just right.
Mrs. Alexander died at Winter Quarters, with her two weeks old son laid in her arms, on that hillside where so many of the Saints were laid away to rest. Mrs. Lyman was intimately acquainted with the Prophet and Patriarch Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Her faith was unquestioned.
Seventeen days before her death she received her final blessing at the hand of Elder Francis M. Lyman, assisted by two patriarchs.
Journal Entry - Friday 12th Dionitia has moved her bed to her brother in law's house where she will stay for the present to take care of his children, as they have been deprived of their mother by death. - Journal of Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman
(Her sister, the children's mother, was Nancy Reeder Walker Alexander, d 28 Jan 1847)
Married Amasa Mason Lyman, Jul 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
No children.
History - Diontha was a thorough, consistent Latter-day Saint to the day of her death. She was a renowned nurse in every community where she lived. She had the care and guardianship of her devoted mother all the later and dependent years of her life. Her home was with the Lyman family in Nauvoo, Florence, Nebraska Salt Lake City, San Bernardino, California and Minersville, Utah.
She was a pioneer into, Utah 1848, and in California in 1851. She was driven out of Nauvoo by the mob without resources, but with her sick sister, Mrs. Horace S. Alexander upon her hands. She could only gather in her apron a few articles of food as she fled.
Mr. Alexander became one of the Mormon Battalion. On their way Mrs. Lyman and her sister took refuge in a vacant house, where they prepared a cup of coffee and food for themselves and Isaac Morley and a companion who had escaped from the mob and been hiding in a corn field for days and were sick from living on green corn alone. Mrs. Lyman discovered six or eight of the mob approaching and warned the brethren to flee and hide, but they declined to go saying they can only kill us. They had not strength to go any further. While watching at the door the mobbers ordered her away or they would shoot. She upbraided them for pursuing sick women and tagging them after driving them from their homes. She challenged them to shoot as she had but once to die. The mobber shot overhead to frighten her out of the door, but she kept her post and the mob were ashamed and withdrew.
The next day Mrs. Lyman found it necessary to move to another vacant house for the comfort of her sick sister, where she could be more quiet. An intruder came and abruptly peered into the window, pushing the shawl aside that covered the opening. The second time he did that Mrs. Lyman dashed a cup of boiling hot water full in his face and he went jumping and howling away. His companions told him it served him just right.
Mrs. Alexander died at Winter Quarters, with her two weeks old son laid in her arms, on that hillside where so many of the Saints were laid away to rest. Mrs. Lyman was intimately acquainted with the Prophet and Patriarch Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Her faith was unquestioned.
Seventeen days before her death she received her final blessing at the hand of Elder Francis M. Lyman, assisted by two patriarchs.
Journal Entry - Friday 12th Dionitia has moved her bed to her brother in law's house where she will stay for the present to take care of his children, as they have been deprived of their mother by death. - Journal of Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman
(Her sister, the children's mother, was Nancy Reeder Walker Alexander, d 28 Jan 1847)
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