Seth Wholen Lyon UE (1799 - 1868)

Born 6 Jun 1799 in New York

Husband of Mary Catherine (Ransier) Lyon UE — married 1824 in Storrington, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 1 Aug 1868 at age 69 in Storrington, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

This profile is part of the Lyon Name Study.

Seth was born in 1799 in NY. He passed away in 1868 in Storrington, Ontario, Canada.

Seth W. and Mary Catherine Ransier LYON had 8 children, Joanna (1824-1899) who married Cornelius HUGHSON (1818-1900), Elizabeth (1825-1900) who married John W. CAVERLY (1832-1878), Sarah (1829-?) who married Levi LYON, Daniel (1831-1907) who married Jane PAYNE (1833-1908), Rachel (1835-1901) who married Andrew JARDIN (1841-?), C. Rebecca (1844-1926) who married J. Levi HUGHSON (1839-1922), Seth W.2 (1846-1937) who married Charlotte RICHARDS (1848-1939) daughter of John and Charlotte Elizabeth GRIMSBATH (1813-?) RICHARDS, and William (1827-1897) who married Margaret PAYNE (1830-1918) sister of Jane PAYNE, both daughters of Robert and Jane SCOTT PAYNE.

The following death notice appeared in the Christian Advocate on 11/4/1868: Seth W. LYONS was born in New York State and came to Canada as a child with his parents and other family members. He married Catherine Ransier on 11/22/1823. He died of cancer in Storrington 8/1/1868 in his 69th year, pre-deceased by 3 children who died in infancy or early youth. Survived by his wife and 8 children.

Read Seth Lyon's Will at http://seiz2day.com/sbmerk/family/sethlyonwill1868.html

Great-Great-Great-Grandson Randall has gotten his Y-DNA tested and it is in haplogroup R-M269 which is a subgroup of R1b, the dominant haplo group in Western Europe and the British Isles. This would trace the Y-DNA all the way back to Daniel Lyon (1763-1854).

Sources

• Obituary in Christian Advocate on 11/4/1868.
• Photos of Lyon-Payne tombstones http://seiz2day.com/sbmerk/family/lyonstone.html.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 December 2020), memorial page for Seth Wholen Lyon (6 Jun 1799–1 Aug 1868), Find a Grave Memorial no. 176560766, citing Latimer Cemetery, Latimer, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by Gord (contributor 48985937) Find A Grave: Memorial #176560766.