Person:Francis Lyon (1)

Name^[1]	Francis Strother Lyon
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]	25 Feb 1800	Stokes, North Carolina, United States
Marriage	1824	to Sarah Serena (add)
Death^[2]	31 Dec 1882	Alabama, United States

References

↑ Henry, William Wirt, and Ainsworth Rand Spofford. Eminent and representative men of Virginia and the District of Columbia of the nineteenth century: with a concise historical sketch of Virginia by Hon. William Wirt Henry and of the District of Columbia by Ainsworth R. Spofford. (Madison, Wisconsin: Brant & Fuller, 1893)
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... Mary Henry, daughter of James G. and Lavinia C. Lyon, of that city, and a niece of the late Francis Strother Lyon, a distinguished citizen of Alabama, of which he was a representative in the congress of the United States before that state seceded, and afterward in the congress of the Confederate States; but who was perhaps most distinguished as manager of the finances of the state of Alabama during its trouble in the forties. ...
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Francis S. Lyon, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
last accessed May 2025.

Francis Strother Lyon (February 25, 1800 – December 31, 1882) was an Alabama attorney and politician. He served two terms in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War after being an antebellum member of the United States Congress. ...