Lydia Pollard Puzey

Lydia was born in Deptford, England, the last of the daughters to be born there. She would have a baby brother who would remain only a baby; living only to be six months old.

When I look at pictures of the bishop's daughters they all seem small. How did these girls make it at all! But they did. Lydia would travel across the sea, and then travel across a new country which was yet a frontier. And then live to be 86.

I found wonderful records with photographs of Lydia and her family (including portraits I had not known of before of Joseph and Mary Ann Baily Pollard) in http://www.ancestry.com/ John Crane and others have put much work into their record and kindly have shared it.John is in Mary Alice Puzey Neilson's family.

I was told of Lydia by my grandfather Ralph Backman. She was small, with hair white. She would walk right into the road, holding up her hand to stop traffic until she made it across. And it worked. I do not know what age this would be but I pictured her elderly and small. Grandfather, on a trip to Spring City stopped in to visit aunt Lydia first and when he got to his aunt Annie Backman's home she promptly threw his luggage into the street declaring that if he liked Lydia more he could stay with her. Grandpa said he was just into his teens or younger.

Parts of Lydia's family emigrated to Canada and then some immigrated back again to live in different areas of the country. I have met Robert G Puzey (son of Garland and Nell Bezzant Puzey) and his wife in the Ogden area.

Lydia and her husband Henry William Puzey are buried in Spring City. She died there April 18, 1940. Their children were:
Frederick, 1875 - 1938, married Emily Neilson and Anna Ohlin
Joseph Henry, 1877 - 1962, married Letetia Beckstrom Allred
Albert Edward, 1879- 1955, married Martha Beck
Lovenia, 1881 - 1955, married William Romanzo Mott
Mary Alice, 1882 - 1950, married Carl Neilson
William, 1885 - 1960, married Emma Margaret Robinson
Twentyseven grandchildren made up the next generation.