Tag Archives: Tanner

Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders Amasa Mason Lyman

15 February

Amasa Mason Lyman March 30, 1813 – February 4, 1877 Legacy: “anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor”. Amasa’s legacy still proudly resounds in the lives of the many descendants that sprang from his family tree. Two of his wives were mothers to three LDS apostles, but two overriding facts overshadow the list of the renowned in Mormon historical circles.  […]