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    Lydia Knight's History: The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives
    Lydia Knight's History: The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives
    Lydia Knight's History: The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives
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    Lydia Knight's History: The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives

    By Susa Young Gates

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    Counted as one of the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lydia Knight's life story is full of hardships and revelations. The plot introduces her as a broken-hearted young mother. Lydia gets invited to Joseph Smith and Syndey Rigdon and the church. It gave her renewed hope and strength. These qualities guided this faithful pioneer woman as she moved from one place to the next, many times driven by an angry mob.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2021
    ISBN4064066170424
    Lydia Knight's History: The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives

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      Lydia Knight's History - Susa Young Gates

      Susa Young Gates

      Lydia Knight's History

      The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066170424

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE.

      LYDIA KNIGHT'S HISTORY.

      CHAPTER I.

      CHAPTER II.

      CHAPTER III.

      CHAPTER IV.

      CHAPTER V.

      CHAPTER VI.

      CHAPTER VII.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      CHAPTER IX.

      CHAPTER X.

      CHAPTER XI.

      CHAPTER XII.

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

      The growing demand for our own literature among the youth of this people has induced us to undertake the publication of a new series of books. The general satisfaction which the books of the Faith-Promoting Series have given, encourages us in the hope that this new series, which is designed to contain various items of interest and instruction from the lives of our noble sisters, will also be worthy of the perusal of the Saints.

      We present, as the first book of the Noble Women's Lives Series, the history of a lady who early joined the Church, and remained faithful through the various trials and hardships to which the early Saints were subjected. And now, when in the evening of life, her influence is still being felt for good in Zion. The history of such persons should be written that the young may be stimulated to emulate their noble examples.

      That this little work may prove both entertaining and instructive to those into whose hands it may come is the earnest desire of

      The Publisher.

      LYDIA KNIGHT'S HISTORY.

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I.

      Table of Contents

      A little girl with light-blue eyes and fair hair sat under the shade of the forest trees pulling a sheep-skin. One by one her brothers and sisters, older and younger than she, had grown weary of the work and wandered off to play.

      Oh, Lydia, how can you sit there over that tiresome work. Look at the shadows under the trees, and the squirrels calling to us to come and chase them from limb to limb. Let's have a play, said the last little boy as his patience at length had ebbed away.

      No, replied the fair-haired maiden, and the firm little mouth took another line of determination as she spoke, I shall not leave the sheepskin till the last lock is pulled.

      A clearing in the forest of the western part of New York State, a large comfortable cabin on a rise of ground near the center of the space, with wide-open doors and floors of gleaming white, waving grain on one side of the house and a large vegetable garden on the other side constituted the scene of a home in the forest wilds, which was a common one in those days—the years between 1810 and 1820. The circle of high waving trees gave a grandeur and beauty to the view that nothing else could possibly do.

      The little girl who sat so steadily at work had been brought by her parents two years previously to this wild western home.

      She was born in 1812, in Sutton, Worcester Co., Mass., and eight happy years had been spent in her earliest home.

      Shall I tell you about her father, whose name was Jesse Goldthwait? He was a medium-sized, well-built New Englander, prudent, industrious and the possessor of a firm will. Her mother was a quiet-spoken woman, but she bad an ardent temperament and a great deal of natural refinement. She had had some scholastic advantages and was exceedingly ambitious for her children. Five sisters and six brothers had Lydia, and a very happy and peaceful family they were.

      Don't you know what wool-pulling is? Well, while my little girl is finishing her work I will tell you:

      When the sheep was killed for family use, the skin was rolled up by the thrifty farmers in ashes or lime and laid away for some time. Then the wool could easily be separated from the hide. This last piece of labor generally fell to the children. And in Jesse Goldthwait's family none of the children would keep to the work but Lydia. So that it soon passed into a proverb, when Lydia exhibited that determination in anything which was so striking a point in her character, they would say to each other:

      It's no use trying to make her give up her design. You know Lydia never leaves till the last lock is pulled.

      The years passed on and Lydia grew apace. But as she attained to early womanhood, she did not lose the slender form, the quiet voice she had inherited from her mother, or the firm will her father had bequeathed to her. She was brought up to habits of work and she had also received religious training from her parents.

      When the girl was about fifteen years old, a council was held concerning her by her father and mother:

      Let us send the girl to school, father: you are comfortable for means, and Lydia is a good, obedient girl.

      That she is, replied the father, and studiously inclined. I will think it over, mother.

      After some deliberation, a boarding-school was chosen, and the girl placed under proper care.

      Who cannot fancy the life of a school-girl of fifteen? Happy, careless as to the future, mindful of the husking-bees and quiltings, and with bright, shy glances for the youths who begin to wish to see you home.

      Among Lydia's acquaintances in the village where she was attending school, was a young man whose name was Calvin Bailey. One who was a stranger in the village, but his smart, dapper ways, and his smooth address won him many friends among the thoughtless, the youth and the pleasure-loving of the villagers.

      "He is so nice," said the girls.

      Calvin is the right sort of a fellow for a frolic, added the young men.

      Lydia admired the young man in common with the rest of her companions, and was far too young, too much of a child to dread the very smoothness which so often covers a wicked heart.

      The Winter passed into Spring and Lydia returned to her home.

      That Summer in her happy home was one long to be remembered by the girl who was fast hastening to so different an experience in life.

      The rides with her brothers, the hunts in the forest for nuts, for cones, for flowers and for rare ferns, the quiet, happy talks with her mother, the lovely Sabbath evenings when Father Jesse would solemnly tell of the mysteries of God. All these home joys were hardly appreciated at the time, but long after remembered with sharp pangs of agony.

      When the Winter came, she returned to her school, and now the acquaintance already began with young Bailey, ripened into a mutual attachment, and in the Fall of 1828 the couple were married.

      For a little time all went well. But the old, old story was told again. The story of a man's cruelty and a woman's suffering.

      The young man was one who drank occasionally. Had he been accused of being a drunkard he would have been highly insulted! But the misery of the poor girl was just as real as though things received their right names and a spade be called a spade. Shall I attempt to picture her sufferings? The long, lonely hours of waiting, the longing dread to hear the stumbling footsteps,

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