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LYON County is in the fourth tier of counties from Missouri, being in the line of the Great Neosho Valley and nearly at the head waters of that river. The Osage River has its rise in Osage, Wabaunsee and Lyon counties, its branches watering the northeastern sections of the latter district.₁

Organized in 1860. County seat, Emporia. Named by the first Legislature, Breckenridge, in honor of John C. Breckenridge, United States Senator from Kentucky, and who became Vice-President of the United States in 1856. Name changed to Lyon, in honor of General Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed while in command of the Union Army at the battle of Wilson's creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861.₂

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Biographies
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Biddle, Thomas C. 1857 -	3K	Sep 2006	Joy Fisher
Flora, Jphn Andrew September 5, 1845 - November 4, 1934	36K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
Flora, Daniel Rice Boon October 9, 1838 - September 16, 1908	13K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
Flora, Volney Pulaski December 22, 1834 - August 28, 1909	15K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
Flora, William Walter November 23, 1871 - November 10, 1922co	4K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
Flora, "V P", Volney Pulaski December 22, 1834 - April 28, 1909	3K	Feb 2006	Bill Boggess
Gray, Harriette Amanda (Flora) September 17, 1869 - June 17, 1856me	4K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
Harper, William H. 1858 -	2K	Mar 2007	Joy Fisher
Martinson, Ola 1844 -	3K	Apr 2007	Joy Fisher
Moon, A. O. 1871 -	6K	Oct 2008	Joy Fisher
Shipley, Delaney V March 27, 1835 - February 11, 1909	3K	Feb 2006	Bill Boggess
Cemeteries
Deeds
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Morrison, Lizzia, P - Pierce Or Piuca, Jennie January 1, 1874	1K	Feb 2008	Michael Cavanaugh
History - Directories
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Lyon County Medical Directory 1920	5K	Feb 2009	Joy Fisher
History - Other
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
A Poem Before 1956	3K	Jun 2008	Bill Boggess
Military Records
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Lyon County, KS 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll	11 kb	Aug 1998	Bill
Obituaries
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Andrews, Frank Jackson 1918	1K	Nov 2007	Joy Fisher
Aue, Luther Hamma 1918	1K	Nov 2007	Joy Fisher
Baldridge, Joseph Franklin May 16, 1903	1K	Dec 2008	J. Robison
CASTLE, Theodore Addison d. 1958	2 kb		Wanda Purcell
COGHILL, James W.- d. 1951	2 kb	Sep 2002	Susie Hastings
Conrad (Flora), Wilhelmina (Wilma) Isadora March 20, 1937	3K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
DOLLISON, LEWIS, FEBRUARY 16, 1975	1 kb	Aug 1998	Kenneth Thomas
Flora, John Andrew November 4, 1934	2K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
Flora, William Walter November 10, 1922	2K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
Gray (Flora), Harriette Amanda June 17, 1956	3K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
KELLEY, Alpheus Guy, April 05, 1887	1 KB	May 2005	Bob Shaffer
McGrade, Winfert 1891	1K	Dec 2007	Cic. Stetter
MORGAN, Rowland, December 29,1910	4 kb	Aug 1998	Robert V. Woods
Romani, Lena L. (Mrs. San) October 18, 2004	1K	Aug 2007	Oz .
Shults, Harriet Catharine (Sterling) August 20, 1905	3K	Jan 2006	Bill Boggess
SOLLARS, John Eli	1 kb	Aug 1998	Kenneth Thomas
SOLLARS, Louie L.	1 kb	Aug 1998	Kenneth Thomas
SOLLARS, Nancy Savina	2 kb	Aug 1998	Kenneth Thomas
SOLLARS, Noble S.	1 kb	Aug 1998	Kenneth Thomas
SOLLARS, Sadie A.	2 kb	Aug 1998	Kenneth Thomas
Thomas, Martha Ellen (Boston) September 20, 2005	1K	Aug 2007	Oz .
Weatherford, Mary A. August 12, 1906	1K	Dec 2008	J. Robison
Weatherford, W. S. (William) August 28, 1905	1K	Dec 2008	J. Robison
Photos of Tombstones - Maplewood Cemetery, Emporia, Kansas (Partial Photos)
Photos of Tombstones - Reading Cemetery (Partial Photos)
School Yearbooks
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
1911 Sunflower, Yearbook of Kansas State Normal School, Emporia, Kansas	7 kb	Oct 2003	Don Brownlee

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