Big Woods Cemetery
Edgerly, Calcasieu Parish, LA
Nov. 1996-1997

LYONS Abel

Age 62 years - 20 days (Tombstone was broken so his descendants had a New Stone erected sometime in the late 1930's and used the old tombstone for a foot Stone Over the years the two stones had been moved side by side - the old one correctly spelling his first name Abel and the other with the incorrect spelling) - VHS - NOTES: Abel Gabriel LYONS - b 5 Aug 1806 s/o Michael LYONS and Mary Polly HAYES - m 1st 13 Feb 1827 to Mary Ann Druzilla b 1809 d 15 Oct 1827 No children by this marriage 2ndm 9 Jly 1829 to Mary Ann BRYAN Children: Gabriel Jr - 1831-1916; Abel B 1832-1916 - m Emily WELSH; Michael L b 1834-1912 - m 1867 Clara Jane CLARK; Luke John b 1835-6; Rebecca b1837-8