Georgetown-----William Lyon, 84, retired Georgetown farmer. died 6:15 a.m. Wednesday in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Danville, where he had been a patient four days following a paralytic stroke.
Funeral services were incomplete Wednesday at the Houghton Funeral Home, pending word from a daughter in Arizona.
Mr. Lyon was born Jan. 5, 1861, west of Georgetown, son of Jotham and Sarah Worth Lyon. In 1913 he was married to Mrs. Jennie
Richardson Clayton, who survives.
He also leaves two daughters, Mrs. Forrest White, Georgetown, and Mrs. Lamon Turner, Casa Grande, Ariz; two stepsons, Carl Clayton, Gary, W.VA., and William Clayton of Detriot: one brother, Elmer Lyon, Georgetown, and three grandchildren.
OBIT:
"William Lyon Funeral Saturday Afternoon"
Funeral services for William Lyon, retired farmer, who died early Wednesday, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Pleasant Mound Church of Christ, west of Georgetown. C.S. Peck of Sullivan, IN. will officiate and burial will be at Pleasant Mound Cemetery with the Houghton Funeral Home in charge. The body will remain at the residence, 111 South Walnut Street, until time of the service.
Mrs. Jennie Lyon, 91, a resident of the Georgetown area most of her life, died at 7 p.m. yesterday (May 18, 1964) in the Vermilion Nursing Home, where she had been a patient nine years.
Born March 17, 1873, in Vermilion County, she was a daughter of Franklin and Florinda Dickens Richardson.
She was married to Morris Clayton who preceded her in death. She was married in 1913 to William Lyon who preceded her in death in 1945.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Irene Turner of Georgetown; two sons, William Clayton of Detroit, Mich. and John Carl Clayton of Bay City, Mich; six grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Lyon also was preceded in death by a daughter, three sons, three sisters and a brother.
She was member of the Pleasant Mound Church of Christ.
The body is at the Houghton Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
OBIT:
Services for Mrs. Jennie Lyon, 91 of Georgetown, who died Monday night in the Vermilion Nursing Home, will be at 2 p.m.
Thrusday at the Houghton Funeral Home. Clyde Peck of Crawfordsville, IN. will offficiate, with burial in the Pleasant Mound Cemetery west of Georgetown. Friends will be received at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Jotham Lyon, 87, died at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Lakeland, Fla., where he had gone to spend the winter, according to a message received by his son E. E. Lyon of Georgetown.
The body will be brought back to Georgetown for burial, arriving Wednesday. The funeral hour has not yet been set.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyon went to Florida, January 16 to spend the remainder of the winter. When they left Georgetown, Mr. Lyon was enjoying good health for a man of his age and the news of the death came as a great shock to his relatives here. The message
did not give the cause of death.
The deceased was born and reared west of Georgetown on what is known as the old Elder Farm, which was entered by his father who came to this country in 1827.
He is survived by his widow, four sons and one daughter, as follows: E.E., William and Noah of Georgetown; Datus of Ridgefarm and Mrs. John Boggess of Georgetown.
96 years at death, born on a farm north of Milwaukee, WI. 1837,
came to Georgetown as a young woman. She died at home of her son Elmer,
which is the old Lyon homestead.
Services held at Mt. Pisgah Church.
From History of Vermilion County p. 701
...Miss Sarah Worth, a native of Wisconsin... She was the third white child born in the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her father, William Worth, had settled in the state at a very early day, taking claim near Milwaukee, where he developed a good farm. He is now deceased.
Lived in or near Grafton, WI in early life.
From Danville Commercial News, June 1933
Mrs. Sarah Lyons, County Resident is 96 Years Old
Mrs. Sarah Lyons, who, as a young woman in her early twenties, moved to the farm northwest of Georgetown where she still resides, celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday anniversary Thursday. Although injured in a fall six years ago, her facilities are still remarkably clear and she can recall many incidences of note in the early history of Vermilion County.
Mrs. Lyons was born in Wisconsin Jan. 26, 1837. She lived there until she was 21 years of age, when she married Jotham Lyons (sic), a resident of this county, who was visiting that state at the time. The couple returned to Illinois and settled on a farm a short distance south of the one they purchased in 1861. Mrs. Lyons still resides there with her son, Elmer Lyons, well known farmer of that vicinity.
Although Mrs. Lyons is confined to her bed most of the time, she spends an hour or so a day sitting in her chair. Her son believes that she would still be active and in good health had it not been for her injury, received when she fell in the kitchen of her home.
One of the interesting things about this aged resident is her view of the depression. There have been many years of hard times during her long life, and she does not believe that present conditions can compare to those of other years when depressions meant more hardships and actual starvation for many.
Was Hard Struggle.
When the civil was first started, Mr. and Mrs. Lyons had just moved to the farm which is still her home. Financial difficulties were in such extremes that they faced many years of struggling before they finally were able to call the place their own. Had one of their friends not come to their rescue with a long-term loan that enabled them to carry on, they could not have kept the place, she said.
Five of Mrs. Lyons' seven children are still living. They are: Mrs. Mary Boggess, Ridgefarm; William, Georgetown; Noah, Ridgefarm; Datus, who lives northwest of Ridgefarm, and Elmer who lives in the house where he was born 58 years ago, and in which he still takes care of his mother besides his own family.
The farmhouse itself is still one of beauty with large pine trees that shade the porch. These were planted by the couple when they moved there in 1861. Mr. Lyons, the husband, died a little over seven years ago.
Mrs. Lyons' cheerfulness and good humor reflect many long years of happiness in fulfilling her mission in life since she came to Vermilion county as a bride many years ago--the years of contentment with her home and children.
Resource: History of Vermilion County (Jones) p. 701; History of Vermilion County (Beckwith) p. 535; Lyon Family Album, Danville Commercial News June 1933
Newport and Vermillion Township --1st 100 Years. H. L. O'Donnell, Danville, IL. 1969
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