Lydia Okie Van Dyke Hopkins

June 21, 1803–October 14, 1859

1 Born at New York City; daughter of Elizabeth Penier and Abraham Okie. 2 Married first Nicholas Van Dyke, 1827; two children. 3 Baptized, 1838. 4 Widowed, 1839. 5 Married second Charles Hopkins, 1840; one child. 6 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1849. 7 Settled at Dry Creek, Utah County, Utah Territory, 1850; moved to Cedar City, Iron County, Utah Territory, 1856. 8 Served as president of the Cedar City Relief Society, 1856–1859. 9 Died at Cedar City. 10 (See Document 2.6)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–1971, reel 60, vol. 11, p. 248, Lydia Okie Hopkins (Apr. 8, 1851), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, CHL. “Died,” Deseret News [weekly], Nov. 9, 1859, 288. “U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850–1880,” Lydia Hopkins (1860); database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); AIS Mortality Schedules Index , comp. Ron V. Jackson, Accelerated Indexing Systems, Provo, UT; from U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses and/or census substitutes.
  2. [2] Patriarchal blessings, 1851, Lydia Okie Hopkins. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Oct. 2014), Lydia Okie LHZ5-77B .
  3. [3] “Family Tree,” database, Lydia Okie and Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. LJL4-4Z5 . Edward W. Tullidge, “William Vandyke,” Tullidge’s Quarterly Magazine (Salt Lake City, Star Printing Co., 1883), 2:224.
  4. [4] Tullidge, “William Vandyke,” 2:224.
  5. [5] Tullidge, “William Vandyke,” 2:224. “Family Tree,” database, Nicholas Van Dyke Jr.
  6. [6] Tullidge, “William Vandyke,” 2:224. “Family Tree,” database, Lydia Okie.
  7. [7] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Oct. 2014), Lydia Okie Hopkins.
  8. [8] Tullidge, “William Vandyke,” 2:224.
  9. [9] Cedar City Ward, Parowan Stake, Relief Society Minute Book, 1856–1875, CHL, entry for Nov. 20, 1856. “Iron County,” Deseret News [weekly], Dec. 24, 1856, 333.
  10. [10] “Died,” 288. “U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850–1880,” Lydia Hopkins.