Flake, Lucy H. (Lucy Hannah), 1842-1900

Mormon pioneer and early Arizona colonizer.

From the description of Journals, 1894-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122621835

Lucy H. Flake (1842-1900) was a Mormon pioneer and early Arizona colonizer.

From the description of Lucy H. Flake journals, 1894-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367553690

From the guide to the Lucy H. Flake journals, circa 1894-1899, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Lucy Hannah White (later Flake) was born on August 23, 1842, in Walnut Grove, Knox, Illinois. Her parents were Samuel David White and Mary Hannah Burton White. She married William Jordan Flake (1839-1932) on December 30, 1858, in Cedar City, Iron County, Utah. She passed away on January 27, 1900, in Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona.

From the description of Lucy H. Flake letter, 1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 368061197

Lucy Hannah White was born on August 23, 1842, in Walnut Grove, Illinois. Her grandparents had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while still in England, and Lucy and her family crossed the plains to Utah in 1850, settling first in Lehi and then Cedar City. She married William Jordan Flake (1839-1932), whose family had helped settle San Bernardino, California, in Cedar City in 1858. William worked on the St. George Temple, and while attending the dedication ceremony was called on a mission to Arizona. The family, including Lucy and William's eight children and William's plural wife, Prudence Kartchner, left Utah in 1877. They settled with William Allen's United Order camp before founding a new settlement, which Erastus Snow named Snowflake in their honor. Lucy was actively involved in a variety of community endeavers, including with the Relief Society of Snowflake, for which Lucy was chosed as Primary President for the Stake in 1895. Lucy died in Snowflake on August 12, 1932, two days after the death of her husband.

From the description of Autobiography of Lucy H. Flake, 1894. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 676830949

From the description of Diaries of Lucy H. Flake, 1894-1900. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 647768839

Lucy Hanna White Flake (1842-1900) married William Jordan Flake in 1932. They had thirteen children together.

Lucy Hannah White (later Flake) was born on August 23, 1842, in Walnut Grove, Knox, Illinois. Her parents were Samuel David White and Mary Hannah Burton. She married William Jordan Flake (1839-1932) on December 30, 1858, in Cedar City, Iron County, Utah. She passed away on January 27, 1900, in Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona. Her children were James Madison (1859-1946), William Melvin (1861-1861)*, Charles Love (1862-1892), Samuel Orson (1864-1864), Mary Agnes (1866-1909), Osmer Dennis (1868-1958), Lucy Jane (1870-1952), Wilford Jordan (1871-1871)**, George Burton (1875-1878), Roberta (1877-1981), Joel White (1880-1977), John Taylor (1882-1973), and Melissa (1886-1886).

* Some of these children whose birth and death years are the same lived for a few months.

**Another Wilford Jordan is shown same birth and death dates, only in 1872 instead of 1871.

From the guide to the Lucy H. Flake letter, 1883, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)