California State University, Fullerton. Oral History Program

Caroline Lyman Bayles was born 13 May 1890 in Scipio, Millard, Utah to Platte DeAlton Lyman and Adelia Robison. She grew up in Bluff, Utah and married Hanson Durham Bayles 20 December 1911 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. They had eight children. Caroline died 21 June 1984 in Blanding, San Juan, Utah.

Alfretta (Retta) James Hurst was born 10 October 1884 in Wilford, Apache, Arizona to Joseph Henry James and Elizabeth Salome Bloomfield. Her family moved to the Mormon colonies in Mexico when she was two-years-old. She married Oscar Parley Hurst 31 August 1902 in Dublan, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico. They lived in Mexico until the Revolution, then moved to Utah. They had eleven children. Retta died 22 December 1979.

Ellen Jane Nielson Lyman was born to Niels Peter Nielson and Florence Virginia Dutson on 15 November 1884 in Leamington, Millard, Utah. She married Frederic Stanley Lyman on 3 June 1910 in Salt Lake, Utah. They had seven children. Ellen died 30 October 1973 in Monticello, Grand, Utah.

Henry Mason Lyman was born 17 February 1888 in Oak city, Millard, Utah to Joseph Alvin and Nellie Grayson Roper Lyman. He married Tamar Black in 1911, Ethel Jamison in 1925 and Leah Brown in 1945. He helped to settle L.C. Ranch, north of Blanding, Utah. Henry died 21 September 1977 in Utah.

Mary Elizabeth Mathis Poole was born 22 September 1875 in Spartanburg, South Carolina to John Henry and Sarah Ann Crocker Mathis. She married John Simpson Poole 12 September 1894. Mary died 25 February 1976 in Blanding, San Juan, Utah.

From the guide to the Oral history interviews with Blanding pioneers, 1971-1973, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)