William Lyons was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and came as a small boy to Tuscarawas County, Ohio; the 1881 history gives his birth as March 19, 1840, and the 1909 history as March 19, 1838. He lost his right arm in a threshing machine accident in 1860, taught school for five years, married Nancy J. Stonehocker, a Coshocton County teacher, in 1869, and moved to a farm in Adams Township in 1874. His son Harry, born on that farm in 1875, bought seventy acres of his own and in 1906 took over his father's eighty-acre farm near Bakersville. A separate household in Perry Township was headed by George Lyons, born in the county in 1843, son of John and Matilda (Crawford) Lyons.
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Teacher and farmer, Adams Township. The 1881 and 1909 histories agree on his birthday, township and wife's maiden name but differ on his birth year, his wife's first name and his children
LYONS WILLIAM, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Bakersville, Ohio. Mr. Lyons was born March 19, 1840, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was raised on the farm. He removed from Washington county in 1844 and settled in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. In 1860 Mr. Lyons lost his right arm by an accident at a threshing machine. He commenced teaching school in 1869, and taught successfully for five years. Mr. Lyons was married December 31, 1869, to Miss Nancy J. Stonehocker, a school teacher of Coshocton county. They are the parents of five children: Mary A., Louisa J., William H., Eliza W. and John C, all of whom are living. Mr. Lyons came to this county in 1874, and has remained ever since, following the* occupation of a farmer.
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Farmer, Adams Township
Harry Lyons, who is successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits in Adams township, was born on the farm on which he still resides, on the 26th of January, 1875. His parents were William and Mary (Stonehocker) Lyons, the former a native of Pennsylvania, where his birth occurred March 19, 1838, while the latter was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1842. When a little lad of four years the father was brought to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, by his parents, who there entered one hundred and sixty acres of land. In that county he was reared to manhood and after he had attained his majority was employed on the railroad for two years. Subsequently he came to Coshocton county, purchasing a farm in Adams township, w'here he was successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits until the time of his retirement from active business life. He is now living in Coshocton with his wife. Their family numbers seven children, namely: Alfred D., of Coshocton; Jennie, who is the wife of Charles Mizer and also makes her home in Coshocton, Ohio; Harry, of this review; Wealthy, at home; John and Curtis, both of Coshocton; and Helen, the wife of George Cooper, of Coshocton.
Harry Lyons was reared on the home farm and acquired a common-school education. When twenty-one years of age he left the parental roof and worked as a farm hand for two years, on the expiration of which period he purchased seventy acres in Adams township. This tract he successfully cultivated until 1906, when he took up his above on his father's farm of eighty acres, where he ha.s 8ince resided, being engaged in general farming. Owing to his untiring industry and well directed energy he has met with a gratifying measure of prosperity in his undertakings and is widely recognized a.* one of the enterprising young agricultural.-t- (if the community.
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Perry Township, postoffice West Carlisle
LYONS GEORGE, Perry township; postoffice, West Carlisle; born in this county in 1843; son of John and Matilda (Crawford) Lyons. He was married in 1864, to Miss Elizabeth Gault, daughter of Adam and Sarah Gault. Mr. Lyons is the father of three children, viz: Fannie, Anna and Edmund.
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