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Thomas Lythgoe

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Name Thomas Lythgoe Born 5 Oct 1867 Porterville, Morgan, Utah Gender Male Baptized (LDS) 16 Jun 1877 Santaquin, Utah, Utah Endowed (LDS) 11 Oct 1894 SLAKE Died 19 Dec 1955 Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming Buried 21 Dec 1955 Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming Notes - Wilson K. Lythgoe ("Billy") says that his father Thomas left home at an early age, right after his mother died, to "ride with the cowboys." He worked as a cowboy, on the stagecoach, and even had his own freighting business, freighting from Bridger, MT to Wyoming. He never did get over the death of his first wife, Mary.
According to Wilson, Thomas had a strained relationship with his family. He was only close to his "kid" sister, who lived in Ogden.
A step-grandson of Thomas says, "Grandpa Lythgoe (Tom) was a wonderful grandpa to me when as a little boy he let me 'help' him and Uncle Bill (Wilson King Lythgoe) put up hay every summer. Between Grandpa and Uncle Bill I was paid five cents a load which was a fortune during those depression years.
"I remember him singing folk songs that had a line about 'he combed his hair with a wagon wheel'. I remember him reading at night by the kerosene lamp. I remember that he was the hardest worker who always had a happy spirit, especially in a job well done.
"His greatest joy was his beautiful matched teams of horses. Your picture of him holding his team beside his log cabin tells volumes about his pride in fine horses.
"I never thought of him as a "step-grandfather" but as the best grampa a little boy could have hoped for."
Baptized in Santaquin, Utah, UT.
Person ID I818 Lythgoe-Donaldson Last Modified 16 Jun 2002
Father James Lythgoe, b. 15 Mar 1842, Pendlebury, Lancashire, England , d. 17 Mar 1929, Henefer, Summit County, Utah
(Age 87 years)
Mother Martha Heelis, b. 12 Dec 1840, Malt Field, Halliwell, Lancaster, England , d. 14 Aug 1881, Henefer, Summit County, Utah
(Age 40 years)
Sealed P (LDS) BIC Married 17 Apr 1864 Manchester, Lancashire, England Family ID F152 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary Harston, b. 21 Dec 1872, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , d. 7 Jan 1908, Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming
(Age 35 years)
Married 11 Oct 1894 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Sealed S (LDS) 11 Oct 1894 SLAKE Children + 1. Leo Thomas Lythgoe, b. 27 Sep 1895, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , d. 23 Sep 1985, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
(Age 89 years)
2. Myrtle Harston Lythgoe, b. 27 Dec 1897, Granger, Salt Lake, Utah , d. 16 Sep 1973 (Age 75 years)
3. Vera Martha Lythgoe, b. 29 Jan 1900, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , d. 2 Jun 1980, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
(Age 80 years)
4. Eldred Harrop Lythgoe, b. 27 Aug 1902, Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming , d. 4 Nov 1977, Helena, Lewis & Clark, Montana
(Age 75 years)
5. Elva Mary Lythgoe, b. 28 Feb 1905, Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming , d. 12 Sep 1941 (Age 36 years)
6. George Harston Lythgoe, b. 28 Dec 1907, Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming , d. 29 Dec 1907, Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming
(Age 0 years)
Family ID F6429 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Eliza Rosetta King, b. 3 Oct 1875, Fillmore, Millard, Utah , d. 9 Dec 1955, Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming
(Age 80 years)
Married 2 May 1916 Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming Sealed S (LDS) 4 Jun 2002 SNOWF Children 1. Wilson King Lythgoe, b. 3 Oct 1917, Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming , d. 22 Jan 2002, Sacramento, California
(Age 84 years)
2. Irene Lythgoe, b. 12 Apr 1921, Otto, Big Horn, Wyoming , d. 25 Apr 2008, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana
(Age 87 years)
Family ID F232 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Wilson K. Lythgoe ("Billy") says that his father Thomas left home at an early age, right after his mother died, to "ride with the cowboys." He worked as a cowboy, on the stagecoach, and even had his own freighting business, freighting from Bridger, MT to Wyoming. He never did get over the death of his first wife, Mary.
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Headstones Lythgoe, Thomas and Mary Harston
Histories History of Thomas Lythgoe
By Eliza R. LythgoeMy Father Thomas Lythgoe
by Wilson King LythgoeObituary for Thomas Lythgoe
1955.Thomas and Mary Lythgoe
A very short history, from "With Book and Plow: History of a Mormon Settlement," by Mark N. Partridge.