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History of Leo Thomas Lythgoe


Leo Thomas Lythgoe
Leo Thomas Lythgoe

By Lavinia Mitchell Lythgoe

See also: Interview with Leo T. Lythgoe and Lavinia Mitchell

Leo Thomas Lythgoe was born Sept. 27, 1895 in a little house where his mother was born, in back of our house, on 20th East, Salt Lake City, Utah, near 33rd South.

Within 2 years his father, Tom Lythgoe, moved his family out to Granger, UT, where he and his brother-in-law, Uncle George Harston, were renting a farm. Here, Leo’s sisters, Myrtle and then Vera were born. When Leo was five years old, they all took off for Cowley, Wyoming. Leo’s father and Uncle George had gone to Cowley a year before. Leo, his mother, [and] two sisters went on the train, to Franny, Wyoming, or just over the line to Montana. There his father met them in a covered wagon. When he got there his mare, one of his team, had a colt. He put the colt in the wagon with the family and drove them to Cowley. Leo was impressed with the colt.

Uncle George had a home built for his wife and 2 daughters, Mable and Pauleen. So this is where Tom Lythgoe took his family to live for a short time. Then Leo and his family went to live in a boarded up tent, down by the Sho-shoney River, all winter.

In the spring his father built a 2 room log cabin in Cowley, where Leo, Myrtle, Vera, Bub [Eldred] and Elva were raised.

Leo was twelve years old when their mother died. She died from blood poisoning after her last baby was born. It was a son, they called George. He died soon after birth and she died soon after.

Myrtle was ten years old, Vera was eight, Bub, or Eldred, was five, Elva was three. Too bad their mother had to leave them all so young!

Uncle George’s wife was in a wheel chair, but she took all the children out to live with her for 2 years; she had three children of her own. One boy and two girls. Leo didn’t go, he stayed home with his father.


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