Sarah Lyon

As printed in 1880

, widow; Mt. Gilead; was born April 15, 1819; she attended school in the old pioneer school-house, and worked on the farm in her younger days; she was married in Feb., 1839, to Cyrus Lyon, born in 1810. They settled soon after marriage on the present farm of fifty acres; he died in 1868; they had fourteen children, six of whom grew up — Elizabeth, Belle, Margaret, Sarah, Charlotte and Phoebe. The former married C. C. Barber; Sarah married William Roberts, farmer, Knox Co.; Charlotte married William Watkins. Mrs. Lyon has been an active member of the Old School Baptist Church. Her father, John, was born in Pennsylvania, and her mother in Virginia; they came to Ohio about 1816, and made their final settlement in Knox Co.; the father died in Delaware Co., in 1867, and the mother in 1861; they had nine children, seven of whom survive — Ruth, Eliza, William, Sarah, Mary A., Lewis and Elizabeth. Her father was an Old-School Baptist. Mrs. Lyon is pleasantly located on fifty acres of well improved land, the result of her own and husband’s labors; in her early days she shared the hardships of the old pioneers.

As printed in History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.