Hannah Lyman (1825-1914)

LYMAN, WILLIAMS, BARROWS, MILLIKAN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/23/2014 at 10:03:29

Jackson Sentinel, February 12, 1914

OBITUARY

LYMAN-In York, Nebraska, on January 29, 1914, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Lyman Williams, Mrs. Hannah Barrows Lyman passed away at the age of 89 years. A brief service was held at the home, Rev. D. F. Lindsay, pastor of the Congregational church officiating. The body was accompanied to Maquoketa by Mrs. Williams and laid to rest by the side of her late husband, S. D. Lyman, in Mt. Hope Cemetery.

The funeral was from her old home at ten o'clock Saturday-just sixteen years after the day and hour of her husband's, conducted by Rev. V. H. Ruring, pastor of the Congregational church, who chose for his text, "The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."

The casket was surrounded by a wreath of palms and floral offerings, tokens of love and the esteem from friends in Maquoketa and from the late home in York. After the death of her husband, her sister, Miss Martha J. Barrows, who had been a missionary for over thirty years in Japan, returned and spent her furlough of three years with Mrs. Lyman.

Two years ago Mrs. Frank Lyman was married to W. K. Williams of York, Nebraska and Mrs. Lyman graciously accepted the invitation to share this new home where she received most tender care from them. A typical New Englander, she lived her serene life of unshaken faith in God.

In 1875, when Rev. and Mrs. Millikan and their five children first came to Maquoketa they were received into the Lyman home and of Mrs. Lyman they now write: "She has been a faithful friend through the 39 years that have followed. Although we could not see her, we shall miss her beyond measure. The west has never changed her gentle, strong, exact New England nature."