Annie Maude Clark Lyman was born April 11, 1861, at Standwich, Northamptenshire, England. She is the daughter of Jonah Wilson Clark and Mary Smith Clark. She became a plural wife to Platte DeAlton Lyman October 24 or 25, 1880, in Logan, Utah. She had no children, but she and Platte had a five-year-old Swiss girl named Emma Lyman sealed to them in 1900. Annie died August 5, 1908 at Smithfield, Utah.
Her father was a fine shoemaker and later in Smithfield he was known as a cobbler. Both of her parents were converted to the L. D. S. Church in England. They were a very close knit family.
Her whole family was gifted musically. All five girls and one boy played instruments and sang. Annie attended the University of Utah, receiving a diploma to teach. She taught school in Salt Lake and in Bluff.
She was a very good alto singer and also played the organ. She was active in church activities, singing in the choir and teaching primary. She also taught the religion class in Relief Society.
She and her sister came to America when they were sixteen and eighteen years old and did house work for a year. Annie was an avid reader and got out of doing a lot of house work as she would read to her sister while she did the work.
Her health was very poor and it was a task for her to walk the two blocks to church, choir practice and primary. She never let her bad health interfere with her duties in the ward(Lyman p.260).
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