Lydia Emma Whipple

1887 - 1977  (90 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has 90 ancestors and 30 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Lydia Emma Whipple
  Birth	16 Feb 1887	Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States
  Christening	7 Apr 1887	Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States
  Gender	Female
  Initiatory (LDS)	2 Jun 1909	SLAKE
  FamilySearch ID	KWC2-6WH
  Death	26 Oct 1977	Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  Burial	31 Oct 1977	Lakeside Cemetery, Navajo, Arizona, United States
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  Person ID	I161424	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Willard Whipple,   b. 16 Mar 1858, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States d. 5 Apr 1941, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Emma Melissa Oliver,   b. 21 Sep 1867, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States d. 29 Aug 1948, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	23 Sep 1884	Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States
  Family ID	F18766	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Augustus Hansen,   b. 23 Aug 1884, Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 16 Jun 1957, McNary, Apache, Arizona, United States (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	2 Jun 1909	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Children	1. Hans Stanley Hansen,   b. 22 Jul 1911, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 23 Jul 1911, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 0 years) + 2. Lynn Herman Hansen,   b. 21 Aug 1913, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 21 Jan 1982, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 68 years) + 3. Dona Hansen,   b. 30 Jun 1915, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 20 Nov 2012, Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States (Age 97 years) + 4. Ross Wells Hansen,   b. 14 Dec 1916, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 27 Dec 1993, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States (Age 77 years)   5. Gus Adsersen Hansen,   b. 15 May 1918, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 3 Apr 1971, Joseph City, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 52 years)   6. Whipple Bruce Hansen,   b. 19 Sep 1919, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 20 Dec 2004, Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States (Age 85 years) + 7. Elda Hansen,   b. 8 Jan 1921, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 14 Nov 1972, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 51 years)   8. Dean Oliver Hansen,   b. 27 Jul 1923, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 4 Nov 1989, Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States (Age 66 years) + 9. Loma Hansen,   b. 12 Jul 1925, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 1 Apr 2018, Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 92 years)   10. Boyd Legra Hansen,   b. 29 Jul 1927, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 25 Mar 2006, Parker, Douglas, Colorado, United States (Age 78 years)   11. Lora Hansen,   b. 14 Aug 1930, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 19 Aug 1930, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 0 years)   12. Blain Hanwill Hansen,   b. 10 Nov 1931, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 17 Feb 1932, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F41068	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 May 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 16 Feb 1887 - Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States Christening - 7 Apr 1887 - Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 2 Jun 1909 - SLAKE Marriage - 2 Jun 1909 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death - 26 Oct 1977 - Logan, Cache, Utah, United States Burial - 31 Oct 1977 - Lakeside Cemetery, Navajo, Arizona, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Autobiography of Lydia Emma Whipple (Taken from her book “:Our Lives”) I, Lydia Emma Whipple Hansen, was born about 6 pm Wednesday, the 16t h o f February 1887, in a one room log house that my father had built o n hi s homestead which he took up in 1885. My parents were Willard Whippl e Sr . and Emma Melissa Oliver Whipple. I weighed 8 lbs at birth and 16 l bs th e day I was a year old. My father and mother were not married in the temple and they decide d t o go to the Manti Temple. We went with two span of houses and one wag on . We had a double bed wagon with a new wagon cover and bows. There w a s a bed spring in between the two wagon beds with room under the bed f o r all the other things that we had to take. The back of the wagon was m ad e into a chuck box with a door that let down and made a table. We kep t ou r cooking utensils in it and also some of the food. The wagon was ma de t o be very comfortable. There were four children; Harriet, Willard, N anc y and myself. We left the 4th of August, 1897. We arrived at the bi g Colo rado River the 15th of August. We had to be ferried across the river and when we arrived there that Su n day morning, father fired a shot from his gun to tell the people tha t w e wanted across. The man that lived at the ferry was named Emmit. H e too k us to his home, gave us a fine dinner and then told us that we co uld he lp ourselves to the grape vineyard that they had. Some of the grap es wer e ripe and ready to eat. I shall never forget how good that fres h fruit t asted. That trip was a great event in the lives of us children. We went to t h e Manti temple the 15th of September, 1897, where mother and father rec ei ved their endowments and were sealed and we children were sealed to th em . The Temple was a beautiful place. It stood on a hill with terraced s tep s leading up to it. After the session was over, we were taken on a to ur o f the temple. We went to the top of the tower. We arrived home the fore part of October. It snowed the night that we g o t home. After we moved to Showlow in November, 1903, we had better school and c h urch advantages. The Showlow Ward had been reorganized on the 3rd of Au gu st, 1903, with James Clark Owens as Bishop and Frank Ellsworth and Wil lar d Whipple as counselors. The Ward had been without a Bishop since th e dea th of Father Hansen in 1901. (Hans Nielsen Hansen) I had never had any MIA (Mutual Improvement Association) work and whe n t hey organized the MIA I was made President on 29 Oct. 1904. The house that we bought in Showlow was well built. There were four roo m s all the same size and in a row with no middle doors between them. Ea c h room had a long closet across the back and there was a porch all acro s s the front. It was a plastered house, and we enjoyed the smooth wall s th at we could wallpaper, they looked like something to the side of th e lo g rooms that we had been living in. Later we built a kitchen on on e end o f the porch. There were no shows to go to, so we had to make our own fun by dancin g o r having parties at private homes. Seems to me that most of the parti es w ere at our house. We did other things for fun too; such as going hor sebac k riding, having baseball games and shooting matches. Father and mother did not have much chance at education and they did a l l they could to help us children. Most of all, I think they instille d i n us that it was necessary in this day and age. Long before we left the ranch they bought a pack of drygoods from a ped d ler who went around selling different materials in a bundle or pack. Th i s one had some beautiful dress pieces in it and mother told me one da y wh en we were looking at them that she was going to save one certain pi ece t o make me a dress when I got old enough go to the Academy. That i s what t he high schools were called in those days. The schools were buil t and fin anced by the Church. There was one in Snowflake . In the fall of 1905, it was decided that I would go to the Academy. Th e s tudents from other towns had to live with some people in Snow-flake . The y found a place for me to stay with the Lewis -Hunt family. They we re ver y nice people and I loved them like my own folks . In the summer of 1907 while I was home, I started going with my future h u sband. The first time that I ever went with him was to the 4th of Jul y da nce. After that he began dating me and about the fourth time that h e date d me he proposed. I treated it lightly for I was not ready to ge t married . I wanted to finish my high school and I was not sure that h e knew wha t he wanted. He had been in the crowd that I went with ever si nce we move d to Showlow and thought that he was quite a ladies man. He w ould go wit h first one girl and then another. We girls had a saying, "Wh o is going w ith Gus tonight?” I was going to make sure. that I was no t like some o f the others that he went with and then dropped . I told him that I was going to finish my school and that if he wante d m e as his girlfriend it was all right under those conditions. I went b ac k to school and we did not correspond. When I graduated 5 May 190 8 I wrote and invited him to the exercises. He came. When I came home in t h e summer he still dated me and wanted an answer now that I had finishe d s chool. We planned a little on getting married that June, but mother w as p regnant and Harriet and Jesse were planning on getting married s o I decid ed that I would not feel right marrying and leaving Mother. W e just wen t together that next year and got a little better acquainted . We enjoye d the winter together, going to what entertainment there was . All my doub ts of his not making up his mind to settle down fled. We qu ite enjoyed ou r plans of getting married in June . The nearer it carne time for us to get married, the harder it seemed f o r Gus to get the money to go to Salt Lake City to the Temple. Money wa s s carce, and his work netted him more produce than cash. He said we wou ld h ave to get married and go to the Temple when we could afford it. I i nform ed him that we would wait until we could get the money for I was no t gett ing married outside the Temple. That nearly broke us up. He finall y got s ome signer and borrowed the money-$175.00 from the Northern Arizo na Ban k in Snowflake. I made my own wedding dress and my clothes for going to the city . Gus left horne the evening of the 27th of May with his very good team Bu c k and Jim. He stayed at our house that night. Jesse and Harriet had co m e up from the ranch where they had been living.. Mother said Harriet w a s in labor.. The baby was born just a few minutes after midnight. I ha d t o help Mother deliver the baby, a boy named Rulon. It was a new exper ienc e the night before I was to leave to get married . We left Showlow the morning of the 28th, going as far as Snowflake . The next morning we went to Holbrook. We arrived in time to buy our tra i n tickets and do a little shopping. We took the train at 11:00 AM. On t h e way we fell in with a couple, Frank and Frances Lewis, from Ramah, N e w Mexico who also were on their way to Salt Lake City to get married . W e enjoyed them very much. We got into Salt LakeTuesday afternoon an d go t a room at the Daly Hotel and had to hurryand get our marriage lice nse b efore the office closed. they only married couples on Wednesdays . We went to the Temple at 7 AM the next morning and did not get out unt i l 3 PM. There were thirty-five couples married that day and we were th e l ast. We were married by John B. Winder. After the ceremony was over h e co ngratulated us and told us that if we had as much patience all throu gh ou r married life as we had that day, we would be al l right. It was a long day. After we got out of the Temple, we went to a restaurant to eat. Of cours e , going to a restaurant in a city was strange to us and we were tryin g t o decide what to order when an elderly man across the aisle from us t ol d us to order the special dinner that he had. I a m sure that he could see that we were just a couple of country kids and wa n ted to help us. The food was so good and we enjoyed our wedding suppe r al l to ourselves. The Monday after we were married we went to Provo to visit some of the r e latives. They took us all over Provo to see the other relatives. We sta ye d a week or ten days and arrived in Holbrook Sunday morning 15th of Ju ne . We loaded up our belongings in Showlow and slept the next night at M oth er Hansen's in Woodland. Gus had planted a garden before he left an d I wa s so proud of it when we got home. It was a nice garden. He wa s a good fa rmer and gardener. The next day we moved into the vacated Woodland Schoolhouse. I wante d a h ome of my own and nice things, but I knew before I married him wha t the c onditions would be and I did not hesitate . In those days, they did not have wedding showers as they do today. We re c eived very few wedding gifts. I had already bought a set of dishes an d ha d a few other things. Father gave us a cow and mother gave us a sett ing h en and a setting of eggs which we had good luck i n hatching. Aunt Retta gave us a set of silver teaspoons. Sr. Woolford ga v e me two yards of red flannel and a platter. Grandmother Oliver gave m e h er rolling pin and a small milk strainer. Joseph Whipple gave us si x kniv es and forks and that was about the amount of ou r wedding gifts. We were happy together and I was happy to come to the o l d farm to help make a living and rear a family. I wanted to marry a far me r for I loved the soil and to see things grow. We both liked to ride h ors es and did a lot of it together. I went with him t o hunt cows whenever I could. Before we had children we did the milking, c o oking and dishwashing together. We lived in the school house most of the summer but finally decided th a t it was too far away from Gus' work and that it was best for mother Ha ns en not to be alone as she was not well. We moved in one of her back ro om s and lived there a year. Then we moved into a ten t house southwest of her place. We lived there a year. OUr first baby Ha n s Stanley, was born there the 22.July 1911.. He was a nice baby but di e d the evening of the 23rd. We felt terrible over the loss of our baby , bu t had to accept it graciously as the will of the Father . Lynn was born the 21st of Aug. 1913. We were so happy to have another ba b y. There was a great fear within me that he would die. I am sure tha t I n ever took my hands off him day or night for two weeks. After that t he fea r began to leave.We sort of spoiled Lynn when he was a baby in roc king hi m to sleep. We both enjoyed it so much and he loved it. His fathe r woul d take him and he would put his little face between the arm and bo dy of h is father and go to sleep that way. I was so fortunate to hav e a husban d that loved his babies and children as they grew older. He wa s never to o tired to take care of them when they needed him day or night . Mother Hansen was never very well and she got worse and we moved in wi t h her. After she passed away we enjoyed living there. The place had no t b een homesteaded. Father Hansen had applied for it and after he passe d awa y mother applied for it but the application was turned down each ti me bec ause the reservation line had not been established. After they sur veyed i t we finally got the patent. (From the Funeral talk by Dona Hansen Ison) Lydia and Gus loved and grew such beautiful flowers. Fall was her favori t e season. She loved to walk in the woods and enjoy the beautiful color s . I might just add right here that Don and Willie knew how great she lo ve d this and so they have presented her with this floral piece. Wheneve r an y of the family came home she wanted to picnic in the woods. She sai d th e ranch was sacred to her, and she hoped it would remain in the fami ly a s long as any of them lived. Lydia worked in the Relief Society most of her life as President, secret a ry and teacher. Many are the days and nights she spent caring for the s ic k and the dying. During the typhoid and diphtheria epidemics she spen t ma ny hours helping those who suffered so greatly. She would not eat o r drin k while caring for these people and she would go home and change h er clot hes at the back of the house before she entered so that she would n’t expo se her family to the dread diseases. She was always ready and wi lling t o help where help was needed and seemed to have the ability to b e calm i n times of stress. She became known as “Aunt Lydia” to friends a nd relati ves alike. She loved and cared for her younger brothers and sisters as if they we r e her own. She loved and cherished her role as wife and mother. She bel ie ved in keeping records and doing genealogy. She kept a journal most o f he r married life. She was inspired to do this by her father and her gr andfa ther. She had passed that desire on to some of her children and gra ndchil dren. She published a book entitled “Our Lives” and she and her si ster Al zada published a history of their father, Willard Whipple. By example, she taught her children to love the Lord, to live within the i r means and to be self-reliant. Time was when she would go to church a n d count her children and if one was missing, she would go out and brin g h im in. Twelve children, eight boys and four girls were born to Lydia and Gus. F i ve children have preceeded her in death. Her husband passed away in 195 7. Just a year ago while living in Idaho, with her daughter, Dona, she h a d a stroke which left her unable to communicate. Twenty days later sh e wa s struck with a massive heart attack and the docter said there was n o wa y she could live through the day, but it wasn’t her time to go. Thre e wee ks ago she fell and broke a hip. She survived surgery, but in her w eakene d condition pneumonia took over. She passed away October 26th, 197 7 in Hy rum, Utah, while living with her daughter, Loma. She has returned to her beloved “Hills of Home” to be laid to rest. Sh e i s survived by seven children: Lynn and Glenna of Provo, Utah; Ross an d Do na of Caldwell, Idaho; Loma of Hyrum, Utah; Bruce, Dean and Boyd al l of L ittleton, Colorado; thirty nine grandchildren and sixty-six grea t grandch ildren. She is also survived by two brothers, Charles and Melvi n Whippl e and sister Alzada Stratton. She was ninety years old, eight mo nths an d 10 days. Wednesday was a significant day in her life. She was born on Wednesday , m arried on Wednesday and died on Wednesday. It is interesting to not e tha t in her ninety hears she has seen great changes in the world. Sh e firs t traveled by horses and buggy. And she has lived to see men wal k on th e moon. We honor our mother for enduring to the end and pointing the way for o u r eternal happiness. SOME EXCERPTS FROM HER JOURNAL (For the details of their married life we refer you to the book Lydia wr o te called “Our Lives” 20 June 1957 This is the hardest day of my life, to lay my beloved companion away i n t he grave. We took him to the church house where he lay in state unti l th e funeral at 10:00 a.m. The house and recreational hall were fille d to ca pacity and some were sitting in the hall with friends and relativ es all o ver the country. There were many floral offerings sent and som e gave mone y instead of flowers. The Relief Society sisters sent food an d everyone w as so nice. I shall never forget the kindness of the many pe ople who wrot e the letters of condolence and the many nice things that e veryone did fo r me. The pall bearers were his six sons. July 1957 To my Dear Companion that has been called home: It’s just 50 years ago today since we went together for the first time , t o the 4th of Juloy Dance. It seems such a short time that we were pri vile ged to live and love each other. I am grateful that it was not you t hat w as left and had to suffer so, as I am. Yes, sweetheart, we had ou r ups an d downs but they only bro9ught us closer together. Remember ho w happy w e were together a year ago today—how we enjoyed each others com pany. Reme mber how we thanked God many times in our prayers that we ha d been permit ted to be together as long as we were. Now I have to do it alone and am still thankful for our lives togethe r . I hope that I will prove worthy to be with you over there, where the r e is no more separation. I am grateful for the Plan of Salvation that t ea ches us the way of life and death. Goodnight. I still love you. You we r e a wonderful husband to me. Mom