CROSS CO, AR - J. L. LYON - Bio

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Submitted by: Jason Presley <daclyde@usa.net>
        Date: 10 Nov 2003
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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     J. L. Lyon is the son of W. D. and Lydia (Arnold) Lyon, and was one of
a family of thirteen children, eight of whom are still living: Elizabeth
(wife of J. L. Robinson), P. L. (a resident of St. Francis County), Mattie
(wife of G. W. Dallas), Nannie (wife of G. W. Timuel), Catharine, J. F.,
J. L.,  and B. A.  J. L. Lyon was born in Mississippi in 1863, and at the
age of twenty came to Arkansas with his father.  For three years previous
to this he had been clerking in a store in Memphis, Tenn.  Subsequently he
took charge of his father's business for eight years, and in June, 1889,
bought the livery stable of J. B. Hamilton, which he has until recently 
owned and conducted.  Mr. Lyon has enjoyed a large and lucrative business,
and is one of the representative men of Wynne.  W. D. Lyon was a native of
Alabama, and upon moving to Mississippi settled in Chickasaw County, where
he engaged in farming, there remaining until 1864.  During this time he
served as sheriff of the county for several years, and later was appointed
county clerk to fill an unexpired term.  In 1864 Mr. Lyon moved to Shelby
County, Tenn., where he was occupied in farming for nineteen years, and in
1883 came to Arkansas, locating in St. Francis County.  In 1886 he became
a resident of Cross County and rented a farm in Searcy Township, where he 
died in June of the same year, at the age of seventy-five years.  Mr. Lyon
belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He served in the war with
Mexico, and was a member of the A. F. & A. M., and of the I. O. O. F.
During the last eight years of his life he was afflicted with blindness.
Mrs. Lyon is connected with Old School Presbyterian Church.