Lyman-Anderson Roots
Lura Lyman’s Roots
Pluma Anderson (Haverfield), Dunseith, North Dakota, 1907.
Pluma Estelle Anderson (Haverfield), the mother of Ruth Elizabeth, Edna Fern Gladys, Lyman Arthur, Robert Allen, and Lela Mern, was born April 9th, 1891, in Rolette County, North Dakota.
Pluma’s mother, Lura Lyman (Gardner/Anderson), was born in 1868, four years after her brother Emerson. They were most likely born in Lambton Shores, a county in Ontario, Canada, near Lake Huron, where their parents, Lucretia Ward and Robert N. Lyman, were married in the town of Bosanquet.
Little is known about Lura and Emerson’s early years. Emerson told his nephew Roy, Pluma’s younger brother, that he and Lura had native ancestry. It is not clear whether this ancestry came through their father, Robert N. Lyman, or their mother, Lucretia Ward. However, the fact that their paternal grandmother Lucy Lyman is not registered on any documents prior to her marriage suggests that she may have been aboriginal. There was at the time and continues to be a large population of Ojibwe in the vicinity of Lambton Shores, and the Stony Point Ojibwe Reserve is nearby.
Pluma’s mother, Lura Lyman (Gardner/Anderson), was born in 1868, four years after her brother Emerson. They were most likely born in Lambton Shores, a county in Ontario, Canada, near Lake Huron, where their parents, Lucretia Ward and Robert N. Lyman, were married in the town of Bosanquet.
Little is known about Lura and Emerson’s early years. Emerson told his nephew Roy, Pluma’s younger brother, that he and Lura had native ancestry. It is not clear whether this ancestry came through their father, Robert N. Lyman, or their mother, Lucretia Ward. However, the fact that their paternal grandmother Lucy Lyman is not registered on any documents prior to her marriage suggests that she may have been aboriginal. There was at the time and continues to be a large population of Ojibwe in the vicinity of Lambton Shores, and the Stony Point Ojibwe Reserve is nearby.
Gravestone of Robert N. Lyman, Ward Cemetery, Lambton Shores, Ontario. The words on the bottom, a variation on a poem often used on gravestones at the time, are:
A faithful friend ... A husband dear
A tender parent lieth here
Great is the loss that we sustain
But hope in Heaven to meet again
Thanks to Lindsay Alpaugh of Alpaugh Memorials, Forest, Ontario, for helping to decipher this poem.
A faithful friend ... A husband dear
A tender parent lieth here
Great is the loss that we sustain
But hope in Heaven to meet again
Thanks to Lindsay Alpaugh of Alpaugh Memorials, Forest, Ontario, for helping to decipher this poem.
Gravestone of Lucretia Burton Ward, Plot 134, North Ridge Cemetery, Lockport, N.Y. Lucretia’s first husband, Robert Lyman, was the father of Emerson and Lura. Lura was the mother of Pluma and her brother Roy.
The marriage between Robert N. Lyman and Lucretia Ward apparently did not last long. According to the 1880 census Lucretia was then living with another partner, Esquain Burton, in Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan, and had given birth to his son, Walter, in 1869. This was only a year after Lura’s birth and three years before Robert N. Lyman passed away and was buried in the Ward Cemetery in Lambton Shores.
While it is not known for sure where Emerson and Lura were born, the 1880 census indicates that they were living in Wilson, Niagara County, New York, at that time, with their mother, Lucretia, who was reportedly born in Canada, their stepfather Esquain Burton, who was born in New York, and Lucretia and Esquain’s three children: Walter, ten; Viola, seven; and Erwin Alva, two. Emerson was fifteen at this time, and Lura was eleven.
While it is not known for sure where Emerson and Lura were born, the 1880 census indicates that they were living in Wilson, Niagara County, New York, at that time, with their mother, Lucretia, who was reportedly born in Canada, their stepfather Esquain Burton, who was born in New York, and Lucretia and Esquain’s three children: Walter, ten; Viola, seven; and Erwin Alva, two. Emerson was fifteen at this time, and Lura was eleven.
Data from the 1871 Ontario Census: Lyman family in Bosanquet, Lambton, Ontario
Lura Lyman and Harvey Gardner, her first husband, circa 1885, Lockport, Niagara County, New York.
The census states that Emerson and Lura were born in Canada, although another source states that Lura was born in Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan, the location of the births of her half-siblings, seven-year-old Viola and ten-year-old Walter, who is just one year younger than Lura. Two-year-old Erwin Alva was the only one of the children to be born in New York. The 1880 census indicates that Esquain was a farmer, as was his stepson Emerson. Lucretia was a housekeeper with her two youngest children with her at home, and Lura was attending school along with her half-brother Walter.
When Lura was about 17, she married Harvey Gardner, whose family also farmed in Niagara County, and they moved to farm their own homestead near Dunseith in Rolette County, North Dakota. Emerson Lyman also went to that region and was hired by the Dunseith public school as a teacher.
Lura and Harvey had a daughter, Lucretia, who was named after Lura’s mother. Lucretia was only about two years old when her father, Harvey Gardner, was lost in a blizzard and froze to death. His body was found by neighbors, one of whom was Fred Anderson. Lura and Fred were married within another year and had two children, Pluma and Roy.
Sadly, Lura passed away at the age of 29, leaving three children motherless. Lucretia was sent back to New York to be raised by her father’s family, and Pluma and Roy were sent to live with the parents of their father Fred Anderson in Missouri for a time.
When Lura was about 17, she married Harvey Gardner, whose family also farmed in Niagara County, and they moved to farm their own homestead near Dunseith in Rolette County, North Dakota. Emerson Lyman also went to that region and was hired by the Dunseith public school as a teacher.
Lura and Harvey had a daughter, Lucretia, who was named after Lura’s mother. Lucretia was only about two years old when her father, Harvey Gardner, was lost in a blizzard and froze to death. His body was found by neighbors, one of whom was Fred Anderson. Lura and Fred were married within another year and had two children, Pluma and Roy.
Sadly, Lura passed away at the age of 29, leaving three children motherless. Lucretia was sent back to New York to be raised by her father’s family, and Pluma and Roy were sent to live with the parents of their father Fred Anderson in Missouri for a time.
Emerson Lyman, circa 1888. Emerson was a pioneer teacher in Dunseith, North Dakota. His sister Lura’s son Roy Anderson was one of his pupils.
Fred Anderson’s Roots
Pluma and Roy Anderson with their paternal grandparents, two aunts, an uncle, and an infant cousin, in Missouri, circa 1900. Their father, Fred Anderson, sent them to live there after the death of their mother, Lura Lyman (Anderson).
Fred Anderson, Pluma and Roy’s father, came north from his parent’s farm in Chariton County Missouri to homestead near Dunseith, North Dakota. His Great-Grandparents, James Anderson and Mary A. Carson, emigrated from Tyrone County, Northern Ireland with two sons, William and Benjamin Lucius, some time after 1841 (Benjamin was born on October 10, 1841), and had another son, John, who was born in 1850 in Pennsylvania. James and Mary died after 1870 in Van Buren Township, a charter township in Wayne County, Michigan.
James and Mary Anderson’s son, Benjamin Lucius, married Pluma Estelle Lockwood on September 7, 1867, in Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where she had been born on December 19, 1847. (Edna Fern included Pennsylvania Dutch as part of her ancestral origins, so the Lockwood family might have brought this strand to the mix.) Benjamin and Pluma moved on and settled twelve miles north of Salisbury in the unincorporated community of Bynumville, Bee Branch Township, in Chariton County, Missouri. (The 1880 Chariton County census records that Pluma reported that her father had been born in Vermont and her mother in New York.)
Benjamin and Pluma Lockwood Anderson had eight children; Fred—who was born in Chariton County, Missouri, around 1868, a year after they married—was the oldest. Benjamin Levi was born in 1869 in Wayne County, Michigan, where his grandparents lived; the other six were born in Chariton County, Missouri. Mary (who only lived to six years of age) and William Edward were born in 1873; Jane (Jennie) was born in 1876, Etta in 1878, Clint “Christian” in 1881, Frances Cora in 1886, and Edith in 1889. (Descendants of James Anderson, compiled and researched by Vance Bailey.)
Fred Anderson was the first of his family to move north from Missouri to Dunseith, North Dakota, seeking his own homestead. Fred was followed by William and his wife Myrtle in 1898. Sometime after 1903, Clint and his wife Hattie Susan (Bailey) and their baby Pearl settled on their own homestead four miles east of Dunseith, adjoining William’s homestead, which was five miles east of Fred’s.
Sisters Etta and Jane (Jennie) also moved north from Missouri to be close to their brothers. Etta married Charles M. Cupp who lived in Rolla, Rolette County, 22 miles east of Dunseith, and Jane married Ezral Bushong. (William and Jane and many of their descendents are buried in the Riverside Cemetery west of Dunseith; Etta is likely buried in a Rolla Cemetery. The others left the Dunseith area before they passed away.)
James and Mary Anderson’s son, Benjamin Lucius, married Pluma Estelle Lockwood on September 7, 1867, in Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where she had been born on December 19, 1847. (Edna Fern included Pennsylvania Dutch as part of her ancestral origins, so the Lockwood family might have brought this strand to the mix.) Benjamin and Pluma moved on and settled twelve miles north of Salisbury in the unincorporated community of Bynumville, Bee Branch Township, in Chariton County, Missouri. (The 1880 Chariton County census records that Pluma reported that her father had been born in Vermont and her mother in New York.)
Benjamin and Pluma Lockwood Anderson had eight children; Fred—who was born in Chariton County, Missouri, around 1868, a year after they married—was the oldest. Benjamin Levi was born in 1869 in Wayne County, Michigan, where his grandparents lived; the other six were born in Chariton County, Missouri. Mary (who only lived to six years of age) and William Edward were born in 1873; Jane (Jennie) was born in 1876, Etta in 1878, Clint “Christian” in 1881, Frances Cora in 1886, and Edith in 1889. (Descendants of James Anderson, compiled and researched by Vance Bailey.)
Fred Anderson was the first of his family to move north from Missouri to Dunseith, North Dakota, seeking his own homestead. Fred was followed by William and his wife Myrtle in 1898. Sometime after 1903, Clint and his wife Hattie Susan (Bailey) and their baby Pearl settled on their own homestead four miles east of Dunseith, adjoining William’s homestead, which was five miles east of Fred’s.
Sisters Etta and Jane (Jennie) also moved north from Missouri to be close to their brothers. Etta married Charles M. Cupp who lived in Rolla, Rolette County, 22 miles east of Dunseith, and Jane married Ezral Bushong. (William and Jane and many of their descendents are buried in the Riverside Cemetery west of Dunseith; Etta is likely buried in a Rolla Cemetery. The others left the Dunseith area before they passed away.)