Lela Leone (Francis) Lyons (1904 - 1980)

Born 25 Feb 1904 in Horton, Brown, Kansas, United States

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Died 26 Mar 1980 at age 76 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States

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Biography

Lela was born in 1904. She was the daughter of Harley Francis and Edna Axling. She lived with her parents and siblings in Grasshopper, Atchison, Kansas in 1910^[1] and in Whiting, Jackson, Kansas in 1920.^[2]

Lela married Homer L Lyons in Kansas about 1920.^{[citation needed]} They had four children. They lived in Brown, Kansas in 1925.^[3] They lived in Havelock, Lancaster, Nebraska in 1930^[4] and in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1940.

Lela passed away in 1980.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2HK-1F8 : accessed 21 September 2022), Lela Francis in household of Harley Francis, Grasshopper, Atchison, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 14, sheet 15B, family 208, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 432; FHL microfilm 1,374,445.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF6F-4RN : 1 February 2021), Lela Francis in entry for H Francis, 1920.
3. ↑ "Kansas State Census, 1925", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGJL-5Q5V : 14 October 2019), Lila Lyons in entry for Homer Lyons, .
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQKY-VPQ : accessed 21 September 2022), Lela L Lyons in household of Louis H Lyons, Havelock, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 13, sheet 14A, line 22, family 298, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1285; FHL microfilm 2,341,020.

• Multiple source documents at the Howe-Sallee tree at Ancestry.com.

See also:

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21897126/lela-leona-lyons: accessed 21 September 2022), memorial page for Lela Leona Francis Lyons (25 Feb 1904–26 Mar 1980), Find A Grave: Memorial #21897126, citing Fairview Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA; Maintained by The Seeker (contributor 46855953) .