Questions have been raised regarding the remainder of this pedigree,
so I am here continuing my discussion (see below). In a nutshell:
| SUMMARY |
Verified individuals
New Jersey LYONs
descended from
Henry LYON of Milford,
CT, and Newark, NJ |
Capt. David LYON existed, but the LFA says his father
is Mataniah LYON, not Aaron. Capt. David did have a son, Aaron, who
married Joanna HATFIELD, who in turn had a son William who married Abigail
MILLER. William & Abigail did have sons William and Baker, though
I don't know who their wives were. |
Verified individual
Massachusetts LYONs
descended from William
LYON of Roxbury, MA |
Gen. Nathaniel LYON was a real person, but he died
without issue so is no one's ancestor. |
Verified Individuals
of unknown ancestry. |
These individuals are genuine, but their ancestry
is not known. |
| Unverified Individuals |
I cannot find any of these individuals, which doesn't
necessarily mean they don't exist, only that I couldn't find them in any
of the major sources (see below). |
Bogus Individuals and
Other Untruths |
I do not believe any of these individuals exists
(see Part
1 for my reasons). The other Glenn
and two Scotts probably belong in this category
as well. |
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LYON ANCESTRY
1570-1964
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| Sir Glenn Lyon 1570-1643, |
wife-Lady Priscilla Bowes 1573-1638 |
| ___(Born at Perthshire, Scotland) |
| Henny (sic) B. Lyon 1603-1671, |
wife-Bridget O'Haloran 1607-1675 |
| Thomas B. Lyon 1606-1660, |
wife-Elspeth Cameron 1610-1688 |
| Richard B. Lyon 1609-1676, |
wife-Jessica Wayne 1613-1691 |
| Bowes G. Lyon 1612-1689, |
wife-Monique Marquette 1615-1693 |
| ____Sons of Glenn & Priscilla
came to the U.S.A. in 1648 and settled in New Jersey ____Colony.) |
| Glenn Lyon 1640-1713, |
wife-Elizabeth Barclay 1643-1717 |
| Scott Lyon 1670-1749, |
wife-Mary Eldredge 1672-1751 |
| Aaron Lyon 1709-1778, |
wife-Sarah Marsh 1712-1781 |
Captain David Lyon 1742-1802,
(Revolutionary War Hero) |
wife-Charity Woodruff 1746-1810 |
| Aaron Lyon 1769-1854, |
wife-Joanna Hatfield 1771-1850 |
| Scott Lyon 1772-1858, |
wife-Mary Phelps 1775-1861 |
| Wm. W. Lyon, Sr. 1811-1884, |
wife-Abigail Miller 1812-1895 |
Gen. Nathaniel Lyon 1818-1861, bachelor
____(Graduated from West Point 1841, killed
at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, after reclaiming
St. Louis from
the Confederates, and is buried at Cincinnati, Ohio.) |
| William Lyon, Jr. 1837-1930, |
wife-Emma Lowery 1869-1921 |
| Baker W. Lyon 1843-1918, |
wife-Ella Strowbridge 1849-1945,
died at the age of 96 |
| Eliza Lyon 1844-1846 |
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| Aaron G. Lyon 1847-1850 |
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| Abigal L. Lyon 1849-1938, |
husband-Capt. Wm. S. Vaden 1842-1904 |
| John P. Lyon 1850-1938, |
wife-Sarah McKibben 1853-1949 |
| (Youngest soldier in the Civil War "Federal."
Enlisted at 10 yrs & 11 months as Drummer Boy.) |
| Franklin F. Lyon 1853-1917, |
wife-Etta Bullis 1862-1920 |
| Edmond Storer Lyon 1860-1952, |
wife-Emma Hahn 1860-1930 |
| [What follows are thirteen LYONs, born 1887-1909
(all with spouses named), who are the children of Edmond & Emma (above),
and which end the pedigree. I do not include them here because it
is my policy not to post information on living individuals.] |
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DISSCUSSION
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I mentioned my objections to the use of the given name, Glenn, in Part
1. The same holds true for the given name Scott. No early
LYON that I know of (not one in all three Lyon Memorial volumes)
has the given name Glen or Glenn or Scott. Glenn and Scott do not
become common as given names until the late 1800s. My guess is that
"Glenn" and "Scott" were manufactured individuals whose names were intended
to allude to "Glen" and "Scot," as buzz-words that would appeal to someone
who believes these LYONs to be Scots of Glen Lyon. [Go to the LDS
web site and search on Glenn Lyon, then Scott Lyon. Look at the birthdates.
Try these given names with any surname.]
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According to DAR Lineage Book Vol. 28 (online at Ancestry.com),
David LYON (1745-1802), wife Charity WOODRUFF, was a Capt. in Col. Oliver
Spencer's regiment (1777). Says David was born and died in Elizabethtown,
NJ, and that he had a son, Aaron, who married Joanna HATFIELD. I
don't doubt that Capt. David existed, but his connection to Aaron is not
supported by the Lyon Family Association of America (1999), which has Aaron
the son of Mattaniah LYON [Isaac3, Thomas2,
Henry1]. Of the two, I would certainly trust the LFAA
over the DAR. Aaron & Joanna had children Asher, Isaac, Aaron,
and William, which last did marry an Abigail MILLER. Children of
William and Abigail were William, Baker, and Adelaide. Whether William
married Emma LOWERY or Baker married Ella STROWBRIDGE, I cannot ascertain.
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There was, indeed, a Gen. Nathaniel LYON (1818-1861) [Amasa6,
Ephraim5, Moses4, William3, John2,
William1], a descendant of William LYON of Roxbury. Nathaniel's
brothers were Amasa (1804-1822), Marcus (1809-1810), Lorenzo (1815-1878),
Daniel (1819-1899), and Lyman (1822-1894). Amasa and Marcus died
young, and Nathaniel and Daniel died unmarried. Only Lorenzo, for
certain, and Lyman, possibly, had issue, and Lorenzo had no surviving sons.
Their parents were Amasa LYON (1771-1843) and Keziah KNOWLTON. None
of these other individuals appears in this pedigree, which you would expect
if Nathaniel were legitimately part of it.
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I have not verified the young drummer boy, myself (i.e., I haven't
found him in any of the sources below), but someone tells me they have
a newspaper clipping about him, so he appears genuine. He is likely
kin to Edmond Storer LYON because the clipping was passed down in Edmond's
family.
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A great-granddaughter of Edmond Storer LYON assures me that Edmond, his
wife, Emma HAHN, and their thirteen children are genuine. What she
has not been able to determine, so far, is the identify of Edmond's parents.
And the fact that the pedigree is genuine from Edmond downward suggests
to me that it was one of Edmond's children or grandchildren who commissioned
the genealogy to be compiled and were, sadly, "taken."
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Sources
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Albert Brown Lyons,
G.W.A. Lyon, &
Eugene F. McPike, eds. 1905 |
Lyon Memorial I: Massachusetts Families: William Lyon of Roxbury,
Peter Lyon of Dorchester, George Lyon of Dorchester, with Introduction
Treating of the English Ancestry of the American Families.
W. Graham Printing Co., Detroit, MI. |
Sidney Elizabeth Lyon,
Louise Lyon Johnson, &
A.B. Lyons, eds.
1907 |
Lyon Memorial II: Families of Connecticut and New Jersey,
including Records of the Immigrants Richard Lyon of Fairfield and Henry
Lyon of Fairfield, with a sketch of "Lyons Farms" by Samuel R. Winans,
Jr.
W. Graham Printing Co., Detroit, MI. |
Robert B. Miller &
Albert Brown Lyons, eds.
1907 |
Lyon Memorial III: New York Families Descended from the Immigrant
Thomas Lyon of Rye.
W. Graham Printing Co., Detroit, MI. |
June Cioppettini,
Lynda McGinnis, &
Betty Cogliati, eds.
1999 |
Henry Lyon of MA, CT, & NJ, and Some of His Lineage.
Lyon(s) Family Association of America (Ted and Elenor Lyons, 524 Mark Lane,
Belton, MO 64012-1829-10). |
| I have searched the following online databases (as of 15
Jun 2001):
Ancestry World Trees (online at Ancestry.com)
WorldConnect (online at RootsWeb.com)
Ancestral File, IGI, and PRF (online at FamilySearch.com)
and found none of the above couples, except for two undocumented submissions
to the IGI for the marriage of Aaron LYON to Joanna HATFIELD.
Not that any of these sources is anything but secondary, but if none of
these sources mentions someone, it's probable that no one has worked on
their genealogy. And in the case of a pedigree that's been around
30-40 years, it makes you wonder
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