LYONS, Mary (Presser)

Date of birth:  20 Apr 1818 – Pennsylvania
Date of death: 18 Dec 1894 – Greenwood, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 21, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 24, page 1 column 2

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Death of Mrs. Mary Lyons.

Mrs. Mary Lyons, of near Greenwood, died at her home Sunday morning. She was seventy-six years of age. The funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Mrs. Lyons was an aunt of W. B. Jennings, of this city.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday,December 21, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 24, page 1 column 4

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W. B. Jennings attended the funeral, Tuesday, of his aunt, Mrs. Lyons, at Greenwood.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday,December 21, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 24, page 6 column 5

FROM OVER THE COUNTY

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GREENWOOD

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Mrs. Mary Lyons, widow of the late John M. Lyons, in creek [sic] set­tlement, west of here, died last Sunday morning, aged 78 years. She was a kind motherly Christian neighbor and friend, and will be greatly missed in home and among acquaintances.

Link to Mary (Presser) Lyons’s grave

Note: The Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that John Lyons married Elizabeth Presser on 14 Jul 1839 in Johnson County.
The 1880 US Federal Census for White River Township, Johnson County, Indiana records sixty-two-year-old, Kentucky-born farmer John M. Lyons, his sixty-two-year-old, Pennsylvania-born wife Mary Lyons and their Indiana-born children.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry