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Matthew Martin Lyon (Lyon County, Kentucky, miller)

b. 1825-10-04 d. 1892

Lyon County, Kentucky, miller. Kentucky native. Married Eudora Hanson Mims Lyon in 1855. Father of Carrie Lyon and Matthew Lyon. Miller in Lyon County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Lyon County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 769

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 416B.

Find A Grave, Matthew Martin Lyon (October 4,1825-1892), Memorial #6550026, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6550026 (accessed 24 July 2019).

Citation

Lyon, Matthew Martin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209684 (November 12, 2026).

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