Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Lyon, Taylor Charles 1942
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Independent Enterprise 11-5-1942
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, November 5, 1942
 
TAYLOR C. LYON BURIED TODAY    
 
Taylor Charles Lyon died at the Payette General hospital in this city Sunday, 
November 1, at the age of 95 years.  Mr. Lyon was born February 14, 1847 in 
Harrisonville, Miss.  He crossed the plains as a freighter when sixteen years 
of age and was in many a skirmish with the Indians.  In 1884 he married Bertha 
Moses in Salt Lake City, Utah.  She died in 1898.  He homesteaded in the 
Indian territory of Oklahoma for several years and came to Emmett, Idaho in 
1917, moving to Payette county twelve years ago where he resided at the time 
of his death.  He was a Civil War veteran and has traveled extensively, 
covering most of the United States and Alaska during the "Gold Rush to the 
Yukon."  He attended the G.A.R. encampment at Gettysburg in 1938.  Survivors 
of the deceased include Cody Lyon of Fruitland, William Lyon of Ogden, Arthur 
Lyon of Minnesota, three daughters, Laura Hodges, Nellie Lyon and Lottie Lyon, 
of Alturas, Pennsylvania; nine grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and 
one great great grandchild.  Services were held Thursday afternoon at two 
thirty o'clock at the Peterson Foster Funeral home with Rev. Paul Felthouse 
conducting the service.  Interment was in the Riverside cemetery.

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