Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lyon, Truman H. 1872
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The Ionia Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1872

Truman H. Lyon, one of the pioneers of the Grand River Valley, died at his 
home in Grand Rapids last week and was burial on Sunday.  From a biographical 
sketch published in the Eagle, we extract the following:

The Judge was a native of Shelborne, Vt., where he was born February 24, 1801, 
and where his younger days were spent.  After a residence of some years in 
Parishville, St. Lawrence county, N.Y., he, with his family removed to 
Michigan in 1836, and established himself at Lyons, in Ionia Co.  This was 
then one of the extreme Western Michigan towns that had sprung into existence 
as the result of the western land fever which overspread the East in 1836-37.  
This embryo village was founded by the late Hon. Lucious Lyon, a cousin of the 
deceased, who was also interested, along with the lamented Judge Carroll, of 
Groveland, N.Y., in the then village of Kent, now a part of Grand Rapids.

In 1840, the Judge came with this family to Grand Rapids, where with the 
exception of a brief residence in Ada, he continued to live until his death.  
It was while a resident of Ionia county that he was elected, under our first 
judiciary system, one of its Judges, and used to preside with great dignity 
beside Judge Whipple, who was among the pioneers of those early days, in 
dispensing justice once per year to the few inhabitants of this their district 
region.

The deceased leaves as immediate relatives, survivors, a widow, Mrs. Lucinda 
Farnham Lyon, to whom he was married in Shelborn; two brothers, Edward Lyon, 
of Detroit, and Capt. Dan. Lyon, of Burlington, Vermont; two sisters, Mrs. 
Gaius Deane, of this city, and Mrs. David Irish, of Ionia, and five sons, 
Truman H., James D., Farnham, Edward and Charles D.  The parents have buried 
two sons and two daughters, to-wit: Lieut. Darwin B. Lyon, and Frank Lyon, and 
Caroline and Mary, the latter wife of H. P. Yale, Esq.



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