Sanford Lyman

LYMAN, COWELL, SNYDER, MCCARTHY

Posted By: Sherry Isley (email)
Date: 6/12/2007 at 17:42:48

Sanford Lyman
Sanford, for many years a well-known resident of Praire township and in later years of this city, died at his home on Liberty street Friday night, November 9, 1928, near the midnight hour. Mr. Lyman had long been a sufferer with heart trouble and his death was hastened by an attack of pneumonia. Funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon from his late residence, the Rev. C.A. Hyde officiating. Members of Manchester lodge, No. 165, A.F.&A.M. with which he was affiliated, conducted the services at the grave in Oakland cemetery.
Mr. Lyman was a son of C.W. Lyman, one of the early settlers of this county, and was born in Prairie township May 14, 1860. He was therefore in the 69th year of his age. Upon attaining manhood he was married in 1883 to Miss Ella Cowell and they lived on a farm south of Manchester until 1908, when they removed to a home in this city. Four children, all of whom survive, were born to this marriage; Archie, Clarence, Oba and George Lyman all of this place.
Mrs. Lyman passed away in 1910 and on September 25, 1912, Mr. Lyman was married to Mrs. Eva Snyder. To them a daughter, Martha, now twelve years of age, was born. The widow, the children named, a sister, Mrs. T.J. McCarthy, whose home is south of Manchester, a brother, Fred Lyman of Dayton, Ore. and four grandchildren survive the husband and father.
The nearly seventy years which mr. Lyman had passed in this county covered its development from a straggling prairie community to a populous and highly modernized settlement. That life witnessed all of the remarkable progressive steps in science, invention and transformation of home life which mark it as the most amazing era in history. Mr. Lyman devoted most of his mature years to farming, always with success. He was highly thought of in the township where his activities centered, being invested with various postions of trust by his neighbors and fully meriting the confidence reposed in him. In the political life of the community he was for many years active and aggressive and he retained to the last his lively interest in the affairs of his county, the state and the nation. Many of us feel that in his death an old and valued friend has gone, one who will be missed and long remembered. The members of his family have the sincere sympathy of his and their friends.
Source: 'Manchester Press' 1928, November 15