In the 1860 census Irving (age 3) was in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.[2]
Name
Sex
Age
Occupation
Birth Place
Henry Lyon
M
36
Conn
Sophronia Lyon
F
34
Mass
Orlo H Lyon
M
12
Conn
Ora P Lyon
M
10
Conn
Irving B Lyon
M
3
Conn
George A Lyon
M
0
Conn
In the 1870 census Erva (age 13) was in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States.[3]
Name
Sex
Age
Occupation
Birth Place
Henry Lyon
M
46
Connecticut
Sophronia Lyon
F
44
Massachusetts
Ora P Lyon
M
20
Connecticut
Erva V Lyon
M
13
Connecticut
George A Lyon
M
10
Connecticut
Freddie H Lyon
M
3
Connecticut
Rebecca Lyon
F
78
Connecticut
Larrie Mc Donald
M
26
Ireland
Erva's father Henry died in May 1880. In the 1880 census Erva (age 23) was the single son of the widow Sophronia Lyon in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States.[4]
Name
Sex
Age
Occupation
Birth Place
Sophronia Lyon
F
54
Keeping House
Massachusetts, United States
Ora P. Lyon
M
30
At Home
Connecticut, United States
Erva B. Lyon
M
23
At Home
Connecticut, United States
George A. Lyon
M
20
At Home
Connecticut, United States
Fred H. Lyon
M
13
At School
Connecticut, United States
Sophiah L. Morse
F
70
Boarder
Massachusetts, United States
Erva married Julia (Webster) Clapp (abt.1860-) on 26 July 1882, in Connecticut.[5] Five months later, Erva died at age 25 on 27 December 1882 in Pomfret, Connecticut, of enteritis.[6] He is buried in Quasset Cemetery in South Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut[7].
↑Lyon Memorial: Lyon Memorial: Lyons, Albert Brown. Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury, Peter Lyon, of Dorchester, George Lyon, of Dorchester, with Intro. Treating of the English Ancestry of the American Families. W. Graham Printing; Page 378 https://archive.org/details/lyonmemorialmas00lyongoog/page/378/mode/1up?view=theater
↑1860 Census:
"United States Census, 1860"
Citing Page: 43; Affiliate Publication Number: M653; Affiliate Film Number: 75; FHL microfilm: 803075; Record number: 8311; FamilySearch (accessed 1 January 2022) FamilySearch Image Image number 00216
Irving B Lyon (3) in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. Born in Conn.
↑1870 Census:
"United States Census, 1870"
Citing Page: 27; Affiliate Publication Number: M593; Line: 34; FHL microfilm: 000545616; Record number: 1076; FamilySearch (accessed 1 January 2022) FamilySearch Image Image number 00032
Erva V Lyon (13) in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States.
↑1880 Census:
"United States Census, 1880"
Citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm . FamilySearch (accessed 1 January 2022) FamilySearch Image Image number 00849
Eroa B Lyon (23), single son in household of Sophronia Lyon (54) in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States. Born in Connecticut, United States.
↑Lyon Memorial: Lyon Memorial: Lyons, Albert Brown. Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury, Peter Lyon, of Dorchester, George Lyon, of Dorchester, with Intro. Treating of the English Ancestry of the American Families. W. Graham Printing; Page 382 https://archive.org/details/lyonmemorialmas00lyongoog/page/382/mode/1up?view=theater
↑Death Registration:
"Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
Citing FHL microfilm: 001376251; FamilySearch (accessed 1 January 2022)
Erva B Lyon death 1882 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States.
↑Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42549211/erva-b-lyon : accessed 01 January 2022), memorial page for Erva B Lyon (1856–1882), Find A Grave: Memorial #42549211, citing Quasset Cemetery, South Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by KChaffeeB (contributor 46506715).
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