Albey Lyman Sherman by Martha Richards

Mary and Ellen Sherman were the daughters of Albey Lyman and Mary Elvira Swan Sherman. Albey was the son of Lyman Royal and Delcina Diadamia Johnson Sherman. Delcina was the sister of the noted Benjamin F. Johnson to whom we are indebted for our information about Lyman Royal Sherman.

Lyman was born about May 22, 1804 in western Massachusetts or eastern New York state. At marriage, January 16, 1829, was living in Pompfiet, Chautauqua County, New York. His son, Albey Lyman, was born in that town. Lyman met the Mormon Elders in 1831 and was soon baptized. Soon after joining the church he was ordained a High Priest. His next act was to join the Saints at Kirtland. His first test as a true Mormon came when he joined Zion's Camp and made the famous trip to Missouri in 1834. The writer's ancestor, Alfred Fisk, was also in that camp. Lyman and Alfred probably knew each other, for both were from western New York.

Albey Lyman Sherman

 

Albey Lyman Sherman death certificate

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Albey Lyman Sherman biography (by Mary Jones Brown?)

HISTORY OF ALBEY LYMAN SHERMAN

Grandfather lived in Nauvoo at the time when great persecutions were taking place, when the mob was after the Prophet Joseph Smith and other leaders of the Church. He witnessed the sorrow and mourning among the Saints when their beloved Prophet, Joseph Smith and Patriarch, Hyrum Smith were shot and killed by the mob. Grandfather was about fourteen years old at the time.
The persecution became so great that the Saints were threatened with their lives if they did not leave Nauvoo and the state of Illinois. So in the middle of the winter they left their homes, farms and everything they had except what few things they could take with them in their wagons and crossed the Mississippi River on the ice and made camp on the other side which was in the state of Iowa.

Albey Lyman Sherman and Mary Elvira Swan

Albey Lyman Sherman headstone

Albey Lyman Sherman biography

BORN: 30 October 1832 at Pomfret, Chautaqua, New York
PARENTS: Lyman Royal Sherman & Delcena Didamia Johnson
PIONEER: October 1854 before the 21st unidientified company (21 years old)
SPOUSE: Mary Elvira Swan
MARRIED: 10 June 1854 at the North Platte River
DIED: 18 September 1911 at Huntington, Emery, Utah

ALBEY LYMAN SHERMAN

The story of Albey Lyman Sherman begins in Pomfret, Chautauqua County, New York where he was born, 30 October 1832 and ends with his death at Huntington, Emery County, Utah on the 18 September 1911. His life’s journey of 79 years and 3,000 miles led from New York to Kirtland, Ohio in 1833 from there to Far West, Missouri, 1838 Nauvoo and 1840 Illinois across Iowa to Council Bluffs in 1849, where in June 1854 the long trek to Utah began concluding in pioneering in Payson, Santaquin, Fountain Green and finally Huntington, Utah.

Albey Lyman Sherman biography (by Mary Jones Brown)

ALBEY LYMAN SHERMAN

by Mary Jones Brown

Albey Lyman Sherman was born 30 October 1832 at Pomfret, Chautauqua County, New York, son of Lyman Royal Sherman and Delcena Diadamia Johnson. Pomfret was no far from Palmyra and Hill Cumorah from which Joseph Smith got the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated.

His parents were converts to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints before he was born, they being baptized in the fall of 1831, thus being among the earliest members.