Lydia Hannah Draper

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{{Infobox ancestor
| name = Lydia Hannah Draper
| image = Lydia_Hannah_Draper_Wilhelm.JPG
| birthdate = [[October 4]], [[1848]]
| location = [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]], [[Salt Lake County, Utah|Salt Lake]], [[Utah]]
| deathdate = [[October 28]], [[1912]]
| deathplace = [[St. Johns, Arizona|St. Johns]], [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache]], [[Arizona]]
| father = Zemira Draper
| mother = Amy Terry
| spouse = [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm]]
}}


'''Lydia Hannah Draper''' ([[October 4]], [[1848]] - [[October 28]], [[1912]])

==Biography==
'''Lydia Hannah Draper''' was born [[October 4]], [[1848]] in [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]] and died [[October 28]], [[1912]] in [[St. Johns, Arizona|St. Johns]], [[Arizona]].

Zemira and Amy Draper arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in late September, [[1848]], at the end of the long trail from [[Nauvoo, Illinois|Nauvoo]], [[Illinois]] as part of the [[1848 Brigham Young Company]]. About two weeks later, the Drapers' fourth child was born. They named her Lydia, after her grandmother Lydia Lathrop Draper, who had died shortly after they were driven from Nauvoo. The family soon moved further south and helped settle the town of [[Draper, Utah|Draper]], [[Utah]]. They also lived for a time in [[Alpine, Utah|Alpine]] and [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]]. 

In 1864, 16-year-old Lydia married 21-year-old [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm]], with whom she had seven children. Bateman later married a second wife, a widow named [[Grace Tippett Jose|Grace]], who bore him six children. The two families helped establish the towns of [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Mount Carmel, Utah|Mount Carmel]] and [[Orderville, Utah|Orderville]] in [[Utah]], and [[Concho, Arizona|Concho]] in [[Arizona]]. 

When Bateman fled to Mexico because of anti-polygamy laws, Lydia stayed behind in Concho to continue homesteading. Eight years later, Bateman came back to Lydia in Arizona. In the early 1900s, they spent some time living in [[Silver City, New Mexico|Silver City]], [[New Mexico]], where Bateman died and was buried. At some point after Bateman's death, Lydia moved back to [[St. Johns, Arizona|St. Johns]].

Lydia lived to be 64 years old, and lived to know the births of more than two dozen of her grandchildren. She died [[October 28]], [[1912]] and was buried in the St. Johns Cemetery in [[St. Johns, Arizona|St. Johns]], [[Arizona]].

==Children==
Bateman Haight Wilhelm and Lydia Hannah Draper had the following children:

===[[Bateman Haight Wilhelm, Jr.]]===
*Born: [[June 27]], [[1865]] in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: [[June 11]], [[1931]] in [[Vernon, Arizona|Vernon]], [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache]], [[Arizona]]

===[[Lydia Isora Wilhelm]]===
*Born: January 10, 1868 in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: 1920

===[[Clarissa Isabell Wilhelm]]===
*Born: March 27, 1870 in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: 1937

===[[Zemira George Wilhelm]]===
*Born: [[September 8]], [[1872]] in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: [[November 9]], [[1950]] in [[St. Johns, Arizona|St. Johns]], [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache]], [[Arizona]]

===[[Amy Elnora Wilhelm]]===
*Born: February 27, 1876 in in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: October 29, 1877

===[[Fanny Marilla Wilhelm]]===
*Born: [[April 14]], [[1879]] in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: [[November 27]], [[1959]] in [[Farmington, New Mexico|Farmington]], [[San Juan County, New Mexico|San Juan]], [[New Mexico]]

===[[John Benjamin Wilhelm]]===
*Born: September 6, [[1881]] in [[St. Johns, Arizona|St. Johns]], [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache]], [[Arizona]]
*Died: 1911

==Images==
<gallery widths="250px">
file:Bateman_Haight_Wilhelm_Lydia_Hannah_Draper.JPG|[[Bateman Haight Wilhelm]] and [[Lydia Hannah Draper]]
File:ClydesHorse.jpg|Toy horse made by [[Lydia Hannah Draper]] for her grandson [[Clyde Irving Wilhelm]]
</gallery>

==Sources==

[[Category:People|Draper, Lydia Hannah]]
[[image:Lydia wilhelm obituary 2.jpg|300px|center|Obituary article for Lydia Wilhelm]]