Daughter of Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee
Married Amasa Mason Lyman, 6 Sep 1844, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Children - Walter Clisbee Lyman, Fredrick Rich Lyman, Martha Lydia Lyman, Annie Lyman, Harriet Jane Lyman
Caroline Ely Partridge was the fourth child of Bishop Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee. Her father died during the persecution of the Saints in Nauvoo.
In her seventeenth year, on September 6, 1844, she became the first plural wife of Amasa Lyman. Later her sisters Eliza Maria and Lydia were also married to him.
Caroline and Eliza crossed the plains to Utah in 1848. They shared a log cabin their first winter in the valley with seven other people.
During Mr. Lyman's first journey to California in 1849, the sisters lived in a wagon box on their own lot, and Caroline taught school in Farmington for two months in order to buy food.
In the spring of 1851 when Amasa left for California the second time, Caroline went with him. Her first child, a daughter, was born nearly nine years after her marriage. She was named Martha. Two other children were born in Salt Lake, Fredrick and Annie. After Apostle Lyman's return from a European mission he moved Caroline to Fillmore and here she gave birth to Walter Clisbee and Harriet Jane.
When the youngest child was a year old the Lymans separated and Caroline reared her five children alone.
Eliza's son, Platte, was called to be bishop of Oak Creek. Fredrick and Walter accompanied him hoping to find work, so Caroline went with them to keep house. Very soon she bought a lot with a log house on it, and she and her family lived there until her sons were able to build a two-room adobe addition in front of the log room, which had two attic rooms used as bedrooms.
Caroline was chosen president of the Relief Society when it was organized in Oak Creek May 3, 1874. Her life was one of service to her family and friends.
On her seventy-ninth birthday she wrote: "Seventy nine years have passed like a dream and I wonder how many opportunities for doing good to my associates I have neglected. In all the years I have lived my desires have been to do all the good I could and as little evil as possible."
Early in her eighty-first year Caroline contracted pneumonia and passed away May 8, 1908, in the south room of the adobe house which her sons had built for her. She was buried in the Oak Creek cemetery by the side of her sister, Eliza, with whom she had lived so much of her life. — Gene L. Gardner
Married Amasa Mason Lyman, 6 Sep 1844, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Children - Walter Clisbee Lyman, Fredrick Rich Lyman, Martha Lydia Lyman, Annie Lyman, Harriet Jane Lyman
Caroline Ely Partridge was the fourth child of Bishop Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee. Her father died during the persecution of the Saints in Nauvoo.
In her seventeenth year, on September 6, 1844, she became the first plural wife of Amasa Lyman. Later her sisters Eliza Maria and Lydia were also married to him.
Caroline and Eliza crossed the plains to Utah in 1848. They shared a log cabin their first winter in the valley with seven other people.
During Mr. Lyman's first journey to California in 1849, the sisters lived in a wagon box on their own lot, and Caroline taught school in Farmington for two months in order to buy food.
In the spring of 1851 when Amasa left for California the second time, Caroline went with him. Her first child, a daughter, was born nearly nine years after her marriage. She was named Martha. Two other children were born in Salt Lake, Fredrick and Annie. After Apostle Lyman's return from a European mission he moved Caroline to Fillmore and here she gave birth to Walter Clisbee and Harriet Jane.
When the youngest child was a year old the Lymans separated and Caroline reared her five children alone.
Eliza's son, Platte, was called to be bishop of Oak Creek. Fredrick and Walter accompanied him hoping to find work, so Caroline went with them to keep house. Very soon she bought a lot with a log house on it, and she and her family lived there until her sons were able to build a two-room adobe addition in front of the log room, which had two attic rooms used as bedrooms.
Caroline was chosen president of the Relief Society when it was organized in Oak Creek May 3, 1874. Her life was one of service to her family and friends.
On her seventy-ninth birthday she wrote: "Seventy nine years have passed like a dream and I wonder how many opportunities for doing good to my associates I have neglected. In all the years I have lived my desires have been to do all the good I could and as little evil as possible."
Early in her eighty-first year Caroline contracted pneumonia and passed away May 8, 1908, in the south room of the adobe house which her sons had built for her. She was buried in the Oak Creek cemetery by the side of her sister, Eliza, with whom she had lived so much of her life. — Gene L. Gardner
Daughter of Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee
Married Amasa Mason Lyman, 6 Sep 1844, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Children - Walter Clisbee Lyman, Fredrick Rich Lyman, Martha Lydia Lyman, Annie Lyman, Harriet Jane Lyman
Caroline Ely Partridge was the fourth child of Bishop Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee. Her father died during the persecution of the Saints in Nauvoo.
In her seventeenth year, on September 6, 1844, she became the first plural wife of Amasa Lyman. Later her sisters Eliza Maria and Lydia were also married to him.
Caroline and Eliza crossed the plains to Utah in 1848. They shared a log cabin their first winter in the valley with seven other people.
During Mr. Lyman's first journey to California in 1849, the sisters lived in a wagon box on their own lot, and Caroline taught school in Farmington for two months in order to buy food.
In the spring of 1851 when Amasa left for California the second time, Caroline went with him. Her first child, a daughter, was born nearly nine years after her marriage. She was named Martha. Two other children were born in Salt Lake, Fredrick and Annie. After Apostle Lyman's return from a European mission he moved Caroline to Fillmore and here she gave birth to Walter Clisbee and Harriet Jane.
When the youngest child was a year old the Lymans separated and Caroline reared her five children alone.
Eliza's son, Platte, was called to be bishop of Oak Creek. Fredrick and Walter accompanied him hoping to find work, so Caroline went with them to keep house. Very soon she bought a lot with a log house on it, and she and her family lived there until her sons were able to build a two-room adobe addition in front of the log room, which had two attic rooms used as bedrooms.
Caroline was chosen president of the Relief Society when it was organized in Oak Creek May 3, 1874. Her life was one of service to her family and friends.
On her seventy-ninth birthday she wrote: "Seventy nine years have passed like a dream and I wonder how many opportunities for doing good to my associates I have neglected. In all the years I have lived my desires have been to do all the good I could and as little evil as possible."
Early in her eighty-first year Caroline contracted pneumonia and passed away May 8, 1908, in the south room of the adobe house which her sons had built for her. She was buried in the Oak Creek cemetery by the side of her sister, Eliza, with whom she had lived so much of her life. — Gene L. Gardner
Married Amasa Mason Lyman, 6 Sep 1844, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Children - Walter Clisbee Lyman, Fredrick Rich Lyman, Martha Lydia Lyman, Annie Lyman, Harriet Jane Lyman
Caroline Ely Partridge was the fourth child of Bishop Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee. Her father died during the persecution of the Saints in Nauvoo.
In her seventeenth year, on September 6, 1844, she became the first plural wife of Amasa Lyman. Later her sisters Eliza Maria and Lydia were also married to him.
Caroline and Eliza crossed the plains to Utah in 1848. They shared a log cabin their first winter in the valley with seven other people.
During Mr. Lyman's first journey to California in 1849, the sisters lived in a wagon box on their own lot, and Caroline taught school in Farmington for two months in order to buy food.
In the spring of 1851 when Amasa left for California the second time, Caroline went with him. Her first child, a daughter, was born nearly nine years after her marriage. She was named Martha. Two other children were born in Salt Lake, Fredrick and Annie. After Apostle Lyman's return from a European mission he moved Caroline to Fillmore and here she gave birth to Walter Clisbee and Harriet Jane.
When the youngest child was a year old the Lymans separated and Caroline reared her five children alone.
Eliza's son, Platte, was called to be bishop of Oak Creek. Fredrick and Walter accompanied him hoping to find work, so Caroline went with them to keep house. Very soon she bought a lot with a log house on it, and she and her family lived there until her sons were able to build a two-room adobe addition in front of the log room, which had two attic rooms used as bedrooms.
Caroline was chosen president of the Relief Society when it was organized in Oak Creek May 3, 1874. Her life was one of service to her family and friends.
On her seventy-ninth birthday she wrote: "Seventy nine years have passed like a dream and I wonder how many opportunities for doing good to my associates I have neglected. In all the years I have lived my desires have been to do all the good I could and as little evil as possible."
Early in her eighty-first year Caroline contracted pneumonia and passed away May 8, 1908, in the south room of the adobe house which her sons had built for her. She was buried in the Oak Creek cemetery by the side of her sister, Eliza, with whom she had lived so much of her life. — Gene L. Gardner
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