Daughter of Austin Ship Mayhew and Martha Jane Walker
Wife of Myron Eliphus Lance, married 6 Dec 1900 in Giles, Wayne, Utah
History. Caroline was raised to womanhood in Giles, Utah, where the family moved when she was a small child.
December 6, 1900, she married Myron Eliphus Lance and to this union were born 14 children, including two sets of twins.
She moved about 1910 with her husband and children to Duchesne County, where they were among the first settlers of that country. There they endured many hardships, as did everybody at that time while getting their farms under cultivation.
She just lived at Midview. Later at Duchesne they also owned a farm at Antelope, which her husband farmed until his death in 1930. After the passing, she tried to farm alone with her large family of children but soon had to give it up as it was too hard for her.
She moved to Twin Falls, Idaho in the year of 1933, where she lived until her passing away on Nov. 17, 1935.
She will long be remembered for her readings of poetry, which she dearly loved. She was hardly ever in a group that she was not asked to give a reading to entertain them. She was also a good seamstress and made all her children's clothes including her boys' shirts and overalls. She now has 38 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and 9 living children.
By Ilda Mae Lance Shirts, daughter
Daughter of Austin Ship Mayhew and Martha Jane Walker
Wife of Myron Eliphus Lance, married 6 Dec 1900 in Giles, Wayne, Utah
History. Caroline was raised to womanhood in Giles, Utah, where the family moved when she was a small child.
December 6, 1900, she married Myron Eliphus Lance and to this union were born 14 children, including two sets of twins.
She moved about 1910 with her husband and children to Duchesne County, where they were among the first settlers of that country. There they endured many hardships, as did everybody at that time while getting their farms under cultivation.
She just lived at Midview. Later at Duchesne they also owned a farm at Antelope, which her husband farmed until his death in 1930. After the passing, she tried to farm alone with her large family of children but soon had to give it up as it was too hard for her.
She moved to Twin Falls, Idaho in the year of 1933, where she lived until her passing away on Nov. 17, 1935.
She will long be remembered for her readings of poetry, which she dearly loved. She was hardly ever in a group that she was not asked to give a reading to entertain them. She was also a good seamstress and made all her children's clothes including her boys' shirts and overalls. She now has 38 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and 9 living children.
By Ilda Mae Lance Shirts, daughter
Family Members
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Austin Ship Mayhew Jr
1869–1945
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Elijah Walker Mayhew
1871–1940
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Martha Medora "Dora" Mayhew Gibbons
1873–1945
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Berthenia "Bertha" Mayhew Stoddard
1876–1952
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Cordelia Mayhew Knight
1879–1957
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Ernest/Earnest Mayhew
1881–1881
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Walter Franklin Mayhew
1885–1958
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Robert Ray Mayhew
1888–1971
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Luella Mayhew Pedersen
1891–1926
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Otto Benjamin Mayhew
1893–1925
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Shelby Rufus Mayhew
1899–1967
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Artie Eliphus Lance
1902–1923
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Ilda Mae Lance Shirts
1903–1988
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William Orson "Bill" Lance
1905–1944
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Homer Austin Lance
1908–1981
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Myron Rex Lance
1909–1911
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Gale Alby Lance
1911–1972
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Ray Charles Lance
1913–1987
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Arzy Mayhew Lance
1916–1995
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Ila Lance
1918–1918
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Darl Mayhew Lance
1919–1995
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Carl Mayhew Lance
1919–1997
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Dortha Lance
1921–1921
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Martha Lance Sievers
1921–2012
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Melvina Lance Bigelow
1923–1998
