Thompson Archer Lyon

Birth Date

c1833

Death Date

1909-08-13

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, retired merchant. Eddyville, Kentucky, native. Son of Chittenden Lyon and Frances Baker Lyon. Married to Julia Frost Lyon. Father of Ada Lyon, Wallace Lyon, and Julia Lyon. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Retired merchant in Madisonville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 328B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 834.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 232A.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll # 7007126: Louisville, Books 9-11, p.216 .
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1909) vol. 72: year, p. 259.
"Thompson Archer Lyon (1833-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial #94258043, accessed November 9, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94258043.

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