Lydia Ann Hopper (1795-1834)

Zion Settlement
 Zion Settlement was a small, short-lived village of early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located near Independence, Missouri in Jackson County, Missouri. The church believes that this spot will be the central spot for building of the kingdom of God ("Zion" or "New Jerusalem") in the latter-days per revelation given to the prophet, Joseph Smith (1805-1844). The settlement collapsed in 1833 when angry anti-Mormon mobs drove the settlers out of the county.

Lydia and her 2nd husband were baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Oliver Cowdery (1806-1850) in Sept 1831, in Lafayette County, Missouri. Her sister Rebecca would marry one of the four missionaries. After Lydia's death, John Killian remarried and followed the church to Kirtland, Ohio and then to the Salt Lake Valley.