Roswell Lyman was the father of Amasa Mason Lyman, a leader in the Mormon church and a close associate of Joseph Smith. Amasa led a company of pioneers across Iowa to Winter Quarters and on to the Salt Lake Valley. He was sent to the California gold fields and led the colonization of San Bernardino, becoming the town's first mayor before returning to Utah. Amasa was a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles from 1842 to 1867.
Roswell Lyman married Martha Mason, daughter of Perez and Martha Barney Mason on Mar 14, 1810 in Lebanon, Grafton, New Hampshire. They probably spent most, if not all, of their early married years on the Mason farm in Lyman Town, Grafton Co., New Hampshire.
A painful series of misfortunes beset the family as a family member, Elias spent considerable labor and family funds establishing a substantial farm north of Lebanon, New Hampshire. In 1814, just as the land was becoming productive, a man arrived from Connecticut with proof of prior claim on the property. Discouraged and broke, the thirty-six year old Elias left his wife and two daughters to seek better opportunities in upstate New York, where the Erie Canal was being constructed. His family heard nothing from him for more than a year. Roswell, then thirty, volunteered to go in search of him in the fall of 1815.
In about 1820, Roswell wrote to inform his mother that Elias had died of smallpox that year, while partly in his care, near Utica, New York. That was the last anyone ever heard of him. A cousin later wrote to Amasa that "they (Elias and Roswell) were fine men in the prime of life and well-thought of in the community where they lived, but why they left and why they never returned has always remained a mystery." Sometime later, apparently before 1822, word drifted back that Roswell too had died of an illness in the distant southwest, perhaps Louisiana. A differing report had him murdered at New Orleans. It seems clear however, that he died, for in May 1822, Martha married Isaiah Emerson.
This information is from the book, Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate, A Study in Dedication, written by Edward Leo Lyman, published by The University of Utah Press.
Roswell Lyman married Martha Mason, daughter of Perez and Martha Barney Mason on Mar 14, 1810 in Lebanon, Grafton, New Hampshire. They probably spent most, if not all, of their early married years on the Mason farm in Lyman Town, Grafton Co., New Hampshire.
A painful series of misfortunes beset the family as a family member, Elias spent considerable labor and family funds establishing a substantial farm north of Lebanon, New Hampshire. In 1814, just as the land was becoming productive, a man arrived from Connecticut with proof of prior claim on the property. Discouraged and broke, the thirty-six year old Elias left his wife and two daughters to seek better opportunities in upstate New York, where the Erie Canal was being constructed. His family heard nothing from him for more than a year. Roswell, then thirty, volunteered to go in search of him in the fall of 1815.
In about 1820, Roswell wrote to inform his mother that Elias had died of smallpox that year, while partly in his care, near Utica, New York. That was the last anyone ever heard of him. A cousin later wrote to Amasa that "they (Elias and Roswell) were fine men in the prime of life and well-thought of in the community where they lived, but why they left and why they never returned has always remained a mystery." Sometime later, apparently before 1822, word drifted back that Roswell too had died of an illness in the distant southwest, perhaps Louisiana. A differing report had him murdered at New Orleans. It seems clear however, that he died, for in May 1822, Martha married Isaiah Emerson.
This information is from the book, Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate, A Study in Dedication, written by Edward Leo Lyman, published by The University of Utah Press.
Roswell Lyman was the father of Amasa Mason Lyman, a leader in the Mormon church and a close associate of Joseph Smith. Amasa led a company of pioneers across Iowa to Winter Quarters and on to the Salt Lake Valley. He was sent to the California gold fields and led the colonization of San Bernardino, becoming the town's first mayor before returning to Utah. Amasa was a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles from 1842 to 1867.
Roswell Lyman married Martha Mason, daughter of Perez and Martha Barney Mason on Mar 14, 1810 in Lebanon, Grafton, New Hampshire. They probably spent most, if not all, of their early married years on the Mason farm in Lyman Town, Grafton Co., New Hampshire.
A painful series of misfortunes beset the family as a family member, Elias spent considerable labor and family funds establishing a substantial farm north of Lebanon, New Hampshire. In 1814, just as the land was becoming productive, a man arrived from Connecticut with proof of prior claim on the property. Discouraged and broke, the thirty-six year old Elias left his wife and two daughters to seek better opportunities in upstate New York, where the Erie Canal was being constructed. His family heard nothing from him for more than a year. Roswell, then thirty, volunteered to go in search of him in the fall of 1815.
In about 1820, Roswell wrote to inform his mother that Elias had died of smallpox that year, while partly in his care, near Utica, New York. That was the last anyone ever heard of him. A cousin later wrote to Amasa that "they (Elias and Roswell) were fine men in the prime of life and well-thought of in the community where they lived, but why they left and why they never returned has always remained a mystery." Sometime later, apparently before 1822, word drifted back that Roswell too had died of an illness in the distant southwest, perhaps Louisiana. A differing report had him murdered at New Orleans. It seems clear however, that he died, for in May 1822, Martha married Isaiah Emerson.
This information is from the book, Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate, A Study in Dedication, written by Edward Leo Lyman, published by The University of Utah Press.
Roswell Lyman married Martha Mason, daughter of Perez and Martha Barney Mason on Mar 14, 1810 in Lebanon, Grafton, New Hampshire. They probably spent most, if not all, of their early married years on the Mason farm in Lyman Town, Grafton Co., New Hampshire.
A painful series of misfortunes beset the family as a family member, Elias spent considerable labor and family funds establishing a substantial farm north of Lebanon, New Hampshire. In 1814, just as the land was becoming productive, a man arrived from Connecticut with proof of prior claim on the property. Discouraged and broke, the thirty-six year old Elias left his wife and two daughters to seek better opportunities in upstate New York, where the Erie Canal was being constructed. His family heard nothing from him for more than a year. Roswell, then thirty, volunteered to go in search of him in the fall of 1815.
In about 1820, Roswell wrote to inform his mother that Elias had died of smallpox that year, while partly in his care, near Utica, New York. That was the last anyone ever heard of him. A cousin later wrote to Amasa that "they (Elias and Roswell) were fine men in the prime of life and well-thought of in the community where they lived, but why they left and why they never returned has always remained a mystery." Sometime later, apparently before 1822, word drifted back that Roswell too had died of an illness in the distant southwest, perhaps Louisiana. A differing report had him murdered at New Orleans. It seems clear however, that he died, for in May 1822, Martha married Isaiah Emerson.
This information is from the book, Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate, A Study in Dedication, written by Edward Leo Lyman, published by The University of Utah Press.
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