Lydia Ann Jackson: Click here for Family Search
Birth: 15 August 1840 Washington, Tennessee, United States
Baptism: 1887
Death: 8 November 1918 Shumway, Navajo, Arizona, United States
Burial: Click here for Findagrave
Conversion Story:
One day, Jim Wood (Lydia's Son) came home with the report that he had seen two men very peculiarly dressed-- high hats and long tailed coats. He said he heard they were Mormon elders. A few hours later the Wood family saw the men approaching their home. When Mrs. Wood, now Mrs. Rhoton, saw them, she began to cry. The elders were taken into the home and had a home there from that time on. Carrie was the first to join the new church. Then the others followed, all except Jim. Jim could never accept the account of Joseph Smith's visions.
The Woods-Rhoton family were members of the Campbellite Church when the Mormon missionaries first began calling at their home. But the moment they began to investigate Mormonism they felt the cold shoulder of their neighbors. When they went to their church and sat down, the other people would get up and seat themselves elsewhere. Finally after they joined the Mormon Church, this coolness on the part of their neighbors became so unbearable that they decided to migrate west. They moved to Arizona.
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