Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . 14, 1795; Isaac, July 14, 1799. All born inRoyalston. (VII) Elijah Lyon, son of David Lyon (6), wasborn in Royalston, Massachusetts, September 29,1793- He settled about 1814 in Fitzwilliam, NewHampshire. He was a farmer. For many yearshe was deacon of the Fitzwilliam Baptist died there August 23, 1862. He married, March 13, 1818, Sarah Howe, daugh-ter of Nahum and Mary Howe; she was born Sep-tember 19, 1794, and died March 20, 1
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . 14, 1795; Isaac, July 14, 1799. All born inRoyalston. (VII) Elijah Lyon, son of David Lyon (6), wasborn in Royalston, Massachusetts, September 29,1793- He settled about 1814 in Fitzwilliam, NewHampshire. He was a farmer. For many yearshe was deacon of the Fitzwilliam Baptist died there August 23, 1862. He married, March 13, 1818, Sarah Howe, daugh-ter of Nahum and Mary Howe; she was born Sep-tember 19, 1794, and died March 20, 1872. The chil-dren of Deacon Elijah and Sarah Lyon, all born atFitzwilliam. were: l. Mary Taylor, February ; married Daniel Whitcomb; Sarah Howe, bornOctober 13, 1820, married Samuel Tenncy; Franklin,born December 7. 1822, of whom later; ThomasJohnson, born February 12. 1825,- resided in Rutland,Vermont; Alcev Melinda. born April 22, 1827, mar-ried, July 10. 1867, William Harvey Kinsman: (mar-ried second), he was born November 22, 1816, inFitchburg. (Vlin Franklin Lyon, third child of Ett|ahLyon (7), was born in Fitzwilliam, December 7, 4. ^h-~. ^^tAMy^M^^i^^ toL^i^yi^ WORCESTER COUNTY 203 i8jj. He attended the public schools there andlearned the trade of stone mason. He came to Fitch-burg when he was twenty-one years old to workfor Deacon Wheeler. Soon afterward he startedin business for himself as stone mason. One afteranother he acquired several excellent quarries, amongthem that of Frederic A. Hale on Rollstone hill,and in the course of a long and honorable businesscareer in the stone business he acquired a eight years he had the contract for all the stonework on the new north division of the Old Colonyrailroad, and either built or re-built every stonebridge on that line. He did a great deal of stonework for the city of Fitchburg and for private con-cerns in Fitchburg. Examples of his early work areto be seen in the retaining wall at the SylvanusSawyer
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