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-  Benjamin G. Shinn, ed.  1914.  Blackford and Grant Counties, Indiana:  A Chronicle of Their People Past and Present with Family Leneage and Personal Memoirs.  Vol. II.  Lewis Publ Co., Chicago and New York (online courtesy of the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN):

Some of the paragraphs were relentlessly long, so I've broken them up for improved readability.  Boldface added by me.
p. 481	HOWARD LYON.  Grant county has received some of its finest family stocks from Virginia, transplanted first to Guernsey county, Ohio, and thence to this section of Indiana.  Several branches of the Lyon family, who early manifested a disinclination to live in slave territory, thus settled in Grant county not long after the establishment of civil government here in 1831.  The following article describes the more important incidents in this family migration with special reference to the immediate family of the above well known Jefferson township citizen, whose old home place on sections 20 and 21 has many associations with the Lyon name. They came originally from Sweden, migrating to England during the reign of Peter the Great and thence to America in the colonial epoch.  The first definite information of the family in this country is in Virginia, and before the Revolutionary war.  It is not known whether any of the family participated as soldiers in that war.  The grandfather of Howard Lyon was Richard Lyon, born in the Old Dominion about
Transcriber's Note:  Such early oral family history is very rarely correct, especially when it's improbable, such as an origin in Sweden, or controverted by the data, such as Richard's birthplace in Maryland, not Virginia.  Accept only what you can document.
p. 482	1775.  On March 7, 1795, he married Elenor McBride, a Virginia girl of Scotch-Irish ancestry.  They lived in Virginia until 1814.  Richard Lyon was strongly opposed to slavery, and for that reason determined to move his family to the free states of the north and west.  Thus he settled in Guernsey county, Ohio, about the close of the War of 1812, and he and his children were pioneers in that section, making a home in the wilderness and rearing his family under primitive conditions.  His children were as follows: 1. Mary, born May 21, 1797, married John Grayham, and came to Indiana, both dying in this state when old people. They left two children, Ellen and Rachael. 2. Sarah, born February 24, 1799, married Thomas Deeren, lived in Guernsey county, Ohio, until after the death of Mr. Deeren, and his widow died in Grant county, Indiana, but her body was taken back and laid by the side of her husband in Guernsey county, O.  They left a large family of children, who were remarkable for their length of life, several living to be more than eighty years of age, five living at one time, and all past fourscore, and three are still surviving and about ninety years of age. 3. Michael, born April 15, 1801, lived the life of a farmer in Guernsey county, O., and married Mary Slater, both passing away when old people.  Their children scattered to various parts of the country. 4. Elizabeth, born May 20, 1803, married John Reasoner, were early settlers in Indiana, where they spent their active lives in Delaware county, and died when old and left children. 5. James, born August 20, 1805, married Nancy Slater, came to Grant county, and died on the home farm in Jefferson township, when in the neighborhood of sev enty years of age.  They had several children. 6. John, who was the father of Howard Lyon, was born September 14, 1807, and more particular mention of him follows this paragraph. 7 and 8. Elias and Elijah, twins, born December 20, 1809, the former married Mahala Pearl for his first wife, and Mrs. Rachael Coats for his second, and there were children by both wives, and they all spent the greater portion of their active careers in Grant county.  Elijah married Hannah Anderson, and they lived out their lives in Van Buren township of Grant county and left children. 9 and 10. The next two children were twins, and died in infancy unnamed. 11. William , born October 2, 1818, was married and died in Grant county in middle life, leaving a son and a daughter.  He was a cabinet maker by trade. 12. Richard, Jr., born May 20, 1815, married a Miss Funk, and they had three children; he died in Henry county, Indiana, where he was known as a manufacturer of medicine. 13. Samuel, born March 8, 1820, spent many years of his life in Missouri, and by his marriage to Mary Stephens, had several daughters.  John Lyon, who was born in Virginia, September 14, 1807, was seven years old when the family migrated to Ohio, where he arrived at his majority in Guernsey county.  He followed various occupations, chiefly on a farm, but also was employed on the old national pike in Ohio, and also engaged in the tobacco business, from which he made some profit.  In 1837, he walked all the way from Ohio to Indiana in order to look over the land and select the site of a future home.  He found one hundred and sixty acres to his liking, on the Mississinewa River, being the northeast quarter of section twenty-one of Jefferson township.  Having investigated and decided upon this tract he continued his journey on foot to the Fort Wayne land office, where he formally entered a quarter section and then continued on in the same manner to his Ohio home. There he met his sweetheart, who soon afterwards went on with her mother to Blackford county, Indiana, and he followed as soon as he could dispose of his interests in Ohio and make
p. 483	ready for a permanent establishment in Indiana.  At that time Blackford county had not been organized and its territory was a part of Delaware county, so that the young woman who was to become his wife took up her residence temporarily in the latter county so that she would be convenient to the county seat in readiness for marriage.  This young woman was Nancy McVicker.  She was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, December 11, 1815.  Her grandfather Dennis McVicker, was a native of Virginia, and the son of a Scotchman who came to the United States and died in Virginia.  Miss McVicker's father was Archibald McVicker, a native of Virginia, but who died in Guernsey county, Ohio, and his widow Elizabeth survived him and brought her children to Indiana, eventually settling in Jefferson township of Grant county, where she died when an old woman.  After they were happily married John Lyon and wife came to their new home in Jefferson township.  On the tract of land which he had previously selected the only evidence of the presence of civilized man was one coon tree which had been cut down by some hunters, and otherwise it was a perfect wilderness.  A log cabin was hastily erected in the midst of the timber, and there they began housekeeping.  John Lyon was a man of exceptional industry, and had the faculty of accumulation.  His land in a few years was increased to two hundred and forty acres, and his labors gradually brought about substantial prosperity for all his household.  In 1859, was erected a comfortable old residence which is now occupied by his son Howard.  There both parents spent many years and the mother died April 23, 1876, and the father on November 2, 1888. In community affairs they were both active, and were especially prominent as early Methodists in that vicinity.  They took part in the organization of the first Shiloh Methodist church, in which John Lyon and wife were charter members, and he served as a trustee and steward until his death. During his career he voted the Democratic ticket, but in later times was a Prohibitionist.  The children of John Lyon and wife are mentioned as follows: 1 and 2. Lamech and Lemuel, born in Ohio in February, 1838, died in infancy. 3. Aaron, born May 9, 1840, died in Grant county, June 10, 1910; he was twice married, but left no living children. 4. James, born August 20, 1842, died March 6, 1899, at Upland, where he was a merchant.  Though twice married he had no children. 5. David, born December 12, 1844, died August 13, 1896, after a career as a merchant at Upland and he was also well known as an Odd Fellow; his wife preceded him in death two months, and left two daughters. 6. Sarah E., born May 20, 1848, died at the age of one year. 7. Mary Eleanor, born February 9, 1850, was also one year of age at the time of her death. 8. Thomas Benton, born May 9, 1852, died February 8, 1906; he was a physician, but in later years was a successful druggist in Upland, and also prominent in Masonic circles. 9. John R., born February 23, 1855, is a farmer at Dodson, Montana, and has one daughter living. Howard Lyon, who was the youngest of the children of John Lyon, was born in Jefferson township, November 13, 1858.  Reared on his father's farm he has lived there the greater part of his career, and while a boy he had the advantages of the common schools.  He now is proprietor of one hundred and twenty acres of his father's two hundred and forty acre estate, and has made of farming a very profitable business.  For ten years, he had a dairy farm, and on the whole has followed what is called mixed farming.  In the residence which he now occupies on February 9, 1882, he was married by Rev. O.C. Garretson to Miss Catherine Ginn, a twin sister of William Ginn, a Jefferson township citizen whose career is briefly
p. 484	sketched elsewhere in this volume.  Mrs. Lyon was born in Henry county, Indiana, December 14, 1856, was reared and educated there and in Grant county, and has become the mother of three children: [1.] Jasper, born August 6, 1882, graduated from the grade schools in 1899, and from the Upland high school in 1902, spent three years in technical studies at Purdue University, and is an electrical engineer by profession.  During the past four years with the backing of his father, he has built up the Citizens Telephone Company of Upland, and recently they sold their stock in that institution.  Jasper Lyon married Myrtle A. Boyd, and their children are:  Florence L., born October 3, 1909; Donald Howard, born February 15, 1911; and Eugene Willard, born May 4, 1912. 2. Nancy, born March 21, 1884, graduated from the Upland high school in the class of 1905, was a successful teacher in the county five years, and by her marriage to Walter Penrod has one daughter, Esther. 3. Jason died at the age of nine months, on September 26, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Lyon are both members of the Shiloh Methodist Episcopal church, in which his father served as a trustee, and he is president of the board.  In politics he is a Democrat.  Mr. Lyon shows much appreciation of history and of old relics, especially of a family nature.  In his home one of the most interesting articles is an old wall or shelf clock, which was bought in 1828 by his grandfather and which is still in good repair and keeps excellent time.  He also values as an heirloom a padlock that came from Ireland with his McVicker ancestors, more than one hundred and fifty years ago, and is said to have been from a trunk or locker which the McVicker emigrant ancestor brought to this country with him.

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