Lydia Rosanna Young (1862-1915)
Rosanna's daughter Wilma wrote:
“I remember the loving care Mother gave each of us. She always washed our faces, necks, and hands in a washbasin, placed on a chair or wooden bench. Father always had his turn too. I remember the gentle way her hands moved over his face and neck. Sometimes I missed this gentleness when she was washing my ears. She always trimmed Father’s hair and whiskers, too.”
“I remember the loving care Mother gave each of us. She always washed our faces, necks, and hands in a washbasin, placed on a chair or wooden bench. Father always had his turn too. I remember the gentle way her hands moved over his face and neck. Sometimes I missed this gentleness when she was washing my ears. She always trimmed Father’s hair and whiskers, too.”
My Tribute to Aunt Lydia....
"My mother had a strong sense of family and was proud of her heritage. Her childhood memories were filled with exciting events and she often told us children about her father's family fleeing from Morelos, Mexico in 1911 after the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Her family left behind nearly all they possessed and trudged across Arizona and New Mexico, finally arriving in a safe oasis at the home of her father's sister, Lydia Roseanna Young Stolworthy.
At their wonderful home in Kirtland, New Mexico, Aunt Lydia Roseanna and her husband Henry Thomas Stolworthy provided mother’s family with a shelter for a time -- a place to rest and gather their strength for the challenges that awaited their new life in the United States. Here they were welcomed and found refuge--a place for grandmother Tina to deliver a newborn son they named George. Though only six years old at the time, mother never forgot the kindness and generosity shown to her by the Stolworthy family. So strong was the impression that it passed to me and when taking up the study of family history with seriousness, I tried in vain to |
locate someone of the Stolworthy line by writing letters. Finally, in the summer of 2006 at a Knight Family reunion in the Salt Lake Valley I met up with Roseanna’s grandson Carr and his good wife Willie. With a feeling of great satisfaction and accomplishment we conversed and as a follow-up I was given many items of their family's written history, which led to further rich and rewarding contacts with other second cousins and family members.
Over the intervening days and nights I have come to love the Stolworthy family for its steadfastness to the faith of our forefathers and for their innate goodness. The family is marked by the talent of the pen and many of its members have followed old family traditions in writing and recording interesting things about their lives and our common ancestors. Many of the members also have distinguished themselves in service to their country and to their church." -- Robert Newel Reynolds |
Histories written about her life...
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