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LYON County is in the fourth tier of counties from Missouri, being in the line of the Great Neosho Valley and nearly at the head waters of that river. The Osage River has its rise in Osage, Wabaunsee and Lyon counties, its branches watering the northeastern sections of the latter district.1

Organized in 1860. County seat, Emporia. Named by the first Legislature, Breckenridge, in honor of John C. Breckenridge, United States Senator from Kentucky, and who became Vice-President of the United States in 1856. Name changed to Lyon, in honor of General Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed while in command of the Union Army at the battle of Wilson's creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861.2

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Biographies
Description File Size Date Submitter
Biddle, Thomas C. 1857 - 3K Sep 2006 Joy Fisher The Registry
Flora, Jphn Andrew September 5, 1845 - November 4, 1934 36K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
Flora, Daniel Rice Boon October 9, 1838 - September 16, 1908 13K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
Flora, Volney Pulaski December 22, 1834 - August 28, 1909 15K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
Flora, William Walter November 23, 1871 - November 10, 1922co 4K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
Flora, "V P", Volney Pulaski December 22, 1834 - April 28, 1909 3K Feb 2006 Bill Boggess
Gray, Harriette Amanda (Flora) September 17, 1869 - June 17, 1856me 4K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
Harper, William H. 1858 - 2K Mar 2007 Joy Fisher The Registry
Martinson, Ola 1844 - 3K Apr 2007 Joy Fisher The Registry
Moon, A. O. 1871 - 6K Oct 2008 Joy FisherThe Registry
Shipley, Delaney V March 27, 1835 - February 11, 1909 3K Feb 2006 Bill Boggess
Cemeteries
Deeds
Description File Size Date Submitter
Morrison, Lizzia, P - Pierce Or Piuca, Jennie January 1, 1874 1K Feb 2008 Michael Cavanaugh
History - Directories
Description File Size Date Submitter
Lyon County Medical Directory 1920 5K Feb 2009 Joy Fisher The Registry
History - Other
Description File Size Date Submitter
A Poem Before 1956 3K Jun 2008 Bill Boggess The Registry
Military Records
Description File Size Date Submitter
Lyon County, KS 1883
List of Pensioners on the Roll
11 kb Aug 1998 Bill
Obituaries
Description File Size Date Submitter
Andrews, Frank Jackson 1918 1K Nov 2007 Joy Fisher The Registry
Aue, Luther Hamma 1918 1K Nov 2007 Joy Fisher The Registry
Baldridge, Joseph Franklin May 16, 1903 1K Dec 2008 J. Robison
CASTLE, Theodore Addison d. 1958 2 kb   Wanda Purcell
COGHILL, James W.- d. 1951 2 kb Sep 2002 Susie Hastings
Conrad (Flora), Wilhelmina (Wilma) Isadora March 20, 1937 3K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
DOLLISON, LEWIS, FEBRUARY 16, 1975 1 kb Aug 1998 Kenneth Thomas
Flora, John Andrew November 4, 1934 2K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
Flora, William Walter November 10, 1922 2K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
Gray (Flora), Harriette Amanda June 17, 1956 3K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
KELLEY, Alpheus Guy, April 05, 1887 1 KB May 2005 Bob Shaffer
McGrade, Winfert 1891 1K Dec 2007 Cic. Stetter
MORGAN, Rowland, December 29,1910 4 kb Aug 1998 Robert V. Woods
Romani, Lena L. (Mrs. San) October 18, 2004 1K Aug 2007 Oz .
Shults, Harriet Catharine (Sterling) August 20, 1905 3K Jan 2006 Bill Boggess
SOLLARS, John Eli 1 kb Aug 1998 Kenneth Thomas
SOLLARS, Louie L. 1 kb Aug 1998 Kenneth Thomas
SOLLARS, Nancy Savina 2 kb Aug 1998 Kenneth Thomas
SOLLARS, Noble S. 1 kb Aug 1998 Kenneth Thomas
SOLLARS, Sadie A. 2 kb Aug 1998 Kenneth Thomas
Thomas, Martha Ellen (Boston) September 20, 2005 1K Aug 2007 Oz .
Weatherford, Mary A. August 12, 1906 1K Dec 2008 J. Robison
Weatherford, W. S. (William) August 28, 1905 1K Dec 2008 J. Robison
Photos of Tombstones - Maplewood Cemetery, Emporia, Kansas (Partial Photos)
Photos of Tombstones - Reading Cemetery (Partial Photos)
School Yearbooks
Description File Size Date Submitter
1911 Sunflower, Yearbook of Kansas State
Normal School, Emporia, Kansas
7 kb Oct 2003 Don Brownlee

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