Amy B. Lyman

Who was Amy B. Lyman?

Amy Brown Lyman was the eighth general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1940 to 1945.

Born in Pleasant Grove, Utah Territory, Amy Cassandra Brown was the 23rd of 25 children born to her polygamist father, John Brown. John Brown was a leader of the Mississippi Saints, a group of Mormons from Mississippi who knowing that Brigham Young and the rest of the Quorum of the 12 had began the exodus of the Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois early in 1846 decided that the best way to join up with the main body of the LDS Church was to go west and meet in the mountains. They spent the winter in Pueblo, Colorado where they were joined by the Mormon Battalion sick detachment, and then traveled north to meet up with the advanced company under Brigham Young.