LYONS, M. L., M. D., St. Landry then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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M. L. LYONS, M.D., RIDGE.--Dr. Lyons was born in St. Landry parish, October, 1834.  He is
the son of Abel and Mary Ann (Bryan) Lyons, both of whom were natives of Louisiana.  They
were the parents of eleven children, six sons and five daughters, the subject of this sketch being
next to the oldest of the family. Mr. Lyons was a farmer and stock raiser of Calcasieu parish.  His
first wife was a Miss Merriman; she died leaving no children.  Mr. Lyons died in 1868 at his home
in Calcasieu parish.

The subject of this sketch began life for himself at the age of twelve years.  He read medicine in
1860, and attended what is now the Tulane University.  The war breaking out at that time he
enlisted, in 1861, in the Confederate States army in the Texas brigade, and went to Virginia,
where he participated in the battles of Seven Pines and West Point.  From Virginia he was sent to
Vicksburg as second lieutenant, remaining at that place until its surrender to Grant.  He was there
taken prisoner and paroled.  Returning to New Orleans he again entered the service, and before
the fall of Vicksburg he was promoted to captain.  After the war he resumed his studies, and
attended the now Tulane University in 1870-71, graduating in the spring of the latter year.  He
immediately thereafter began the practice of his profession at his farm, where he now resides.  He
was married, in 1867, to Miss Cora J., sister of Dr. Clark, with whom he is associated
professionally.  He is a member the M. E. Church, South.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 236.  Edited by
William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.