Biography
Lyman Omer Littlefield was born 22 November 1819 in Verona, Oneida County, New York, United States to Waldo Littlefield (1797-1879) and Mercy Higgins (1795-1845) and died 1 September 1893 Smithfield, Cache County, Utah, United States of unspecified causes. He married Olive Andrews (1818-1879) 16 February 1840 in Adams County, Illinois, United States. He married Adeline Amarilla Hamblin (1823-1895) 16 February 1840 in Adams County, Illinois, United States. He married Louisa Young (1822-1907) 1 January 1851 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. He married Ellen Louisa Canfield (1850-1924) 30 May 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
Zions Camp Participant
This Judith Mehr rendition depicts struggles endured by members of Zion's Camp, an expeditionary force to help Church members in Jackson County redeem their brethren.
One of the most interesting episodes in the early history of LDS Church was the march of Zion's Camp (1834). The members of the Church in Missouri were being persecuted, and the Prophet Joseph made it a matter of prayer and received a revelation on February 24, 1834. The Lord instructed the Prophet to assemble at least one hundred young and middle-aged men and to go to the land of Zion, or Missouri. (See D&C 130:19–34.)
Zion’s Camp, a group of approximately one hundred and fifty men, gathered at Kirtland, Ohio, in the spring of 1834 and marched to Jackson County, Missouri. By the time they reached Missouri, the camp had increased to approximately two hundred men.
Marriage and Family
Lyman Littlefield Reminiscences (1888), Pg.106 - Pg.107
Among many other acquaintances, I found Lysander Gee, who had been a Far West associate. Enquiring of him of the whereabouts of many friends, I asked concerning the residence of our friend Samuel Kingsley. Said he, "He has been dead a few months and his wife and sisters are living but a few blocks from us." Accompanied by him, I soon made them a call. Mrs. Kingsley had a babe then about five months old. She informed me she had buried her husband near Beardstown, on the Illinois River, and being left among strangers, she concluded to remove to Quincy and live with her sisters-in-law. I called several times at that residence. That lady and myself attended a few parties together and, not to be circumlocutional, right here it might as well be told the reader in plain words that, in due time, Mrs. Kingsley, at my suggestion, consented to substitute the name of Littlefield for that of Kingsley. This arrangement being confirmed with the usual covenant and agreement, we took a trip about twenty miles to a little place called Liberty, in Adams County, and at the residence of her uncle, Benjamin Andrews, the marriage ceremony was pronounced which constituted us lawfully husband and wife by Elder Elisha H. Groves, a preacher of the gospel in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Lyman Littlefield Reminiscences (1888), Pg.106 - Pg.107) by janlbee
Lyman's account above does not ring true, because if Samuel Kingsley went with his sister Rachel with the Pioneer Overland Howard Egan Company to Salt Lake City in 1849 (source attached), which left from Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, then Samuel was not dead, nor did Olive bury Samuel in Beardstown, IL before Lyman and Olive were married in 1840. Samuel would not have been buried in Beardstown, either, if he was going to Salt Lake, since Illinios would be traveling east in the opposite direction. Lyman could have married Olive when she was still married or separated or perhaps divorced from Samuel. It appears that either Olive or Lyman could have been lying about their relationship. The Nauvoo High Council Minutes of 27 May 1842 records Lyman's inappropriate sexual philandering all while falsely saying that Joseph Smith condoned it all (in the John Bennett, Francis and Chauncey Higbee, Catherine Fuller, William Smith, and several others' spiritual wifery fiasco), and was disfellowshipped for his crimes for a time. See: https://archive.org/stream/NauvooHighCouncilMinutes/Nauvoo%20High%20Council%20Minutes_djvu.txt
It appears that Olive and Lyman later separated (as described in Lyman's memoir) sometime in 1846, thought the timing seems off because he said Olive was in St. Louis with the children, yet Olive next becomes sealed to Brigham Young 15 January 1846 in Nauvoo and is listed as one of his wives.
Lyman married Adeline Hamblin on 31 January 1846 and three months later Adeline gave birth to Charles Hamblin Littlefield. They later separated sometime before 1851, when Adeline married her second husband, John Riggs, to whom Charles was later sealed.
Olive married Orra M. Liske in 1854 in New Orleans and had a daughter with him.
Lyman next married Louisa Young, Brigham Young's niece on 1 January 1851 in Kanesville, Iowa. Louisa's 1st husband had died 17 November 1850 and she had three living children. Lyman and Louisa did not have any children together, but two of Louisa's children are recorded in an 1860 census in Battlcreek, Utah.
Lyman married Ellen Louisa Canfield on 30 May 1868, but this temple sealing was cancelled on 25 September 1869, and then Ellen married Thomas Stokes on 26 September 1870 in Salt Lake City.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Mariah Littlefield (1841-1841) | |||
| Edward Lytton Littlefield (1842-1842) | |||
| Hyrum Omer Littlefield (1842-1843) | |||
| Donna Isora Littlefield (1843-1928) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Charles Hamblin Littlefield Riggs (1846-1932) | 25 April 1846 Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States | 17 September 1932 Eagar, Apache County, Arizona, United States | Nancy Marie Babbitt (1855-1949) |
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| William Littefield (1818-) | |||
| Lyman Omer Littlefield (1819-1893) | 22 November 1819 Verona, Oneida County, New York, United States | 1 September 1893 Smithfield, Cache County, Utah, United States | Olive Andrews (1818-1879) Adeline Amarilla Hamblin (1823-1895) Louisa Young (1822-1907) Ellen Louisa Canfield (1850-1924) |
| Joseph Josiah Littlefield (1820-1897) | |||
| Joanna Littlefield (1822-) | |||
| Sarah Jane Littlefield (1830-1917) | 11 January 1830 Verona, Oneida County, New York, United States | 21 September 1917 San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California, United States | Joseph Dustin (1827-1914) |
| Almira Harriet LIttlefield (1834-1846) | |||
| Sarah Phelps Littlefield (1834-1835) | |||
| Caroline Matilda Littlefield (1834-1879) | |||
| Diana LIttlefield (1836-) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Josiah LIttlefield (1832-1833) | |||
| Sarah Olive Littlefield (1834-1835) | |||
| Joseph Smith Henry Littlefield (1838-1887) | |||
| Sidney John Littlefield (1840-1897) | |||
| Sarah Phelps Littlefifeld (1843-1859) | |||
| David Orson Littlefield (1845-1898) | |||
| Edwin Waldo Littlefield (1850-1911) | |||
| Samuel Jones Littlefield (1855-1905) | |||
Residences
See Also
- Lyman Littlefield - Joseph Smith Papers Foundation.
- Lyman Littlefield
- Littlefield Family
- Littlefield in Oneida County, New York
- Littlefield in Cache County, Utah
- Littlefield in Adams County, Illinois