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Melvin Lyon (abt. 1870 - bef. 1970)

Melvin Lyon
Born about in Michigan, USAmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died before before about age 100 [location unknown]
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Biography

Michigan, County Marriages Name Melvin D Lyon Event Type Marriage Event Date 12 Feb 1910 Event Place St. Joseph, Michigan Age 40 Birth Year (Estimated) 1870 Father's Name C W Lyon Mother's Name Carpenter Spouse's Name Iva Tompkins Spouse's Age 33 Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1877 Spouse's Father's Name Julius Tompkins Spouse's Mother's Name Hopkins


United States Census, 1920. Name Melvin Lyon Event Type Census Event Date 1920 Event Place Colon, St Joseph, Michigan, United States Gender Male Age 50 Marital Status Married Race White Race (Original) White Can Read Yes Can Write Yes Relationship to Head of Household Head Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Head Own or Rent Own Birth Year (Estimated) 1870 Birthplace Michigan Father's Birthplace New York Mother's Birthplace Michigan. Household. Melvin Lyon Head M 50 Michigan. Iva Lyon Wife F 43 Michigan.


By Raymond C. Meyer, Sr.: “The door was about to open on the “roaring Twenties” when the Meyer family moved into Colon. Many changes took place in the village during the decade, ending in the great depression. There were no paved streets in Colon then. There were quite a lot of sidewalks. Most of these were put in by M. D. Lyon. He also built the Lyoness, the passenger boat that operated on Palmer Lake. (As posted on YOU MAY BE FROM COLON MICHIGAN IF... a Closed Facebook page which post excerpts from the Colon twp & St. Joseph County Historical Society collections. This one posted by Joe Ganger.


Sources

  • United States Census, 1920.. District ED 143

Sheet Number and Letter 1A Household ID 3 Line Number 8 Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number T625 Affiliate Film Number 796 GS Film Number 1820796 Digital Folder Number 004966174 Image Number 00037

Citing this Record

"United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ7C-DFF : accessed 13 December 2015), Melvin Lyon, 1920.


Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1935 GS Film number 1295530 Digital Folder Number 4674272 Image Number 00539

Citing this Record

"Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNLQ-PS7 : accessed 13 December 2015), Melvin D Lyon and Iva Tompkins, 12 Feb 1910; citing St. Joseph, Michigan, various archives, Michigan; FHL microfilm 1,295,530.







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