Matthew Skinner Lyon

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1823-06-23

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1890-11-19

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"Matthew Skinner Lyon" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00015911, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant and hotel keeper. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Rebecca Frost Lyon. Father of Ella F. Lyon, Lawrence Lyon, James P. Lyon, John Lyon, Sallie Lyon, Harry Lyon, and Thompson Lyon. Merchant in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed Patrick Finley as a merchant's clerk in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Hotel keeper in Madisonville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Madisonville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 52B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 695.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 834.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221A.
Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Indiana State Department of Health and Vital Records, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, IN, Certificate #220.
"Mathew Skinner Lyon (1823-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #127446214, accessed November 9, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127446214.

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