Son of George Armstrong Lyon and Anna G. Savage. Brother of Andrew Parker Lyon, John Lyon and 6 others. Grandson of William Lyon and Ann Parker Fleming. (Information from Dickinson College's profile of George Armstrong Lyon.)
From Dickinson College's website:
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 148.
Lyon, Thomas Lyttleon – Born April 29, 1832, Carlisle, Pa.; p., George A. and Anna G. Lyon; prep., Dickinson grammar school; entered 1848; A. B., 1852; A. M., 1855; merchant; taught school seven years; merchant in Iowa and New Orleans; officer in the "Crescent regiment," New Orleans, Confederate States army; U. P. society; married, 1868, Miss Amelia Marks of Louisiana; second, December 2, 1881, Beulah Clark, Yonkers, N. Y. Died March 29, 1883.
(Thanks to Clayton Lord for supplying the Dickinson information.)
Obituary - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA 3/30/1883
Among the deaths yesterday was that of Capt. T. Lyttleton Lyon, a member of the well known cotton firm of Miller, Lyon & Co. The deceased served as an officer in the Army of Northern Virginia during the war, and made an excellent record as a soldier. His career as a merchant and citizen was marked by strict integrity, and he was highly esteemed in the community. Mr. Lyon was a prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church, and the superintendent of the Second Mission Sunday School. Some time ago Mr. Lyon married a daughter of Mr. Thomas Allen Clark, but his happy home life was cut short by death.
NOTE: Served in Co. E, Crescent Regiment, Louisiana Infantry per the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
From Dickinson College's website:
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 148.
Lyon, Thomas Lyttleon – Born April 29, 1832, Carlisle, Pa.; p., George A. and Anna G. Lyon; prep., Dickinson grammar school; entered 1848; A. B., 1852; A. M., 1855; merchant; taught school seven years; merchant in Iowa and New Orleans; officer in the "Crescent regiment," New Orleans, Confederate States army; U. P. society; married, 1868, Miss Amelia Marks of Louisiana; second, December 2, 1881, Beulah Clark, Yonkers, N. Y. Died March 29, 1883.
(Thanks to Clayton Lord for supplying the Dickinson information.)
Obituary - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA 3/30/1883
Among the deaths yesterday was that of Capt. T. Lyttleton Lyon, a member of the well known cotton firm of Miller, Lyon & Co. The deceased served as an officer in the Army of Northern Virginia during the war, and made an excellent record as a soldier. His career as a merchant and citizen was marked by strict integrity, and he was highly esteemed in the community. Mr. Lyon was a prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church, and the superintendent of the Second Mission Sunday School. Some time ago Mr. Lyon married a daughter of Mr. Thomas Allen Clark, but his happy home life was cut short by death.
NOTE: Served in Co. E, Crescent Regiment, Louisiana Infantry per the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Son of George Armstrong Lyon and Anna G. Savage. Brother of Andrew Parker Lyon, John Lyon and 6 others. Grandson of William Lyon and Ann Parker Fleming. (Information from Dickinson College's profile of George Armstrong Lyon.)
From Dickinson College's website:
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 148.
Lyon, Thomas Lyttleon – Born April 29, 1832, Carlisle, Pa.; p., George A. and Anna G. Lyon; prep., Dickinson grammar school; entered 1848; A. B., 1852; A. M., 1855; merchant; taught school seven years; merchant in Iowa and New Orleans; officer in the "Crescent regiment," New Orleans, Confederate States army; U. P. society; married, 1868, Miss Amelia Marks of Louisiana; second, December 2, 1881, Beulah Clark, Yonkers, N. Y. Died March 29, 1883.
(Thanks to Clayton Lord for supplying the Dickinson information.)
Obituary - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA 3/30/1883
Among the deaths yesterday was that of Capt. T. Lyttleton Lyon, a member of the well known cotton firm of Miller, Lyon & Co. The deceased served as an officer in the Army of Northern Virginia during the war, and made an excellent record as a soldier. His career as a merchant and citizen was marked by strict integrity, and he was highly esteemed in the community. Mr. Lyon was a prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church, and the superintendent of the Second Mission Sunday School. Some time ago Mr. Lyon married a daughter of Mr. Thomas Allen Clark, but his happy home life was cut short by death.
NOTE: Served in Co. E, Crescent Regiment, Louisiana Infantry per the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
From Dickinson College's website:
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 148.
Lyon, Thomas Lyttleon – Born April 29, 1832, Carlisle, Pa.; p., George A. and Anna G. Lyon; prep., Dickinson grammar school; entered 1848; A. B., 1852; A. M., 1855; merchant; taught school seven years; merchant in Iowa and New Orleans; officer in the "Crescent regiment," New Orleans, Confederate States army; U. P. society; married, 1868, Miss Amelia Marks of Louisiana; second, December 2, 1881, Beulah Clark, Yonkers, N. Y. Died March 29, 1883.
(Thanks to Clayton Lord for supplying the Dickinson information.)
Obituary - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA 3/30/1883
Among the deaths yesterday was that of Capt. T. Lyttleton Lyon, a member of the well known cotton firm of Miller, Lyon & Co. The deceased served as an officer in the Army of Northern Virginia during the war, and made an excellent record as a soldier. His career as a merchant and citizen was marked by strict integrity, and he was highly esteemed in the community. Mr. Lyon was a prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church, and the superintendent of the Second Mission Sunday School. Some time ago Mr. Lyon married a daughter of Mr. Thomas Allen Clark, but his happy home life was cut short by death.
NOTE: Served in Co. E, Crescent Regiment, Louisiana Infantry per the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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