Person:Sarah Lyon (30)

Watchers
  1. John Lyon
  2. Daniel Lyon
  3. Sarah Lyon - 1852
  4. Phebe Lyon
m. 25 Sep 1793
  1. John Strickland Olmsted1793 - 1866
Facts and Events
Name Sarah Lyon
Married Name _____ Olmsted
Gender Female
Birth? Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 25 Sep 1793 Rye, Westchester, New York, United States[2nd wife]
to Isaac Olmsted
Other[2] 5 Oct 1798 Fairfield, Connecticut, United Statesnamed in Will of Mary Lyon, mother
Death[1] 18 Nov 1852 Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. Family Recorded, in Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912).

    p 221 -
    (4266) ISAAC OLMSTED, Wilton, Conn. b. Jan. 23, 1759; d. Dec. 31, 1797; m. (1) Apr. 15, 1779, Mary Parsons; (2) Sept. 25, 1793, Sarah Lyon, of Greenwich, Conn.; d. Nov. 18, 1852. He enlisted Apr. 1, 1777, under Capt. Samuel Hoyt in Col. Philip B. Bradley's Conn. Regt., for 3 years.

    1st marriage:
    4799, Daniel +.
    4800, Alden +.
    4801, Osborn +.

    2d marriage:
    4802, John Strickland +.

    The following facts were sworn to by Isaac Olmsted's second wife, in making application for a pension Jan. 6, 1845. She lived at Wilton, Fairfield County, Conn. At the time of making this application she was 83 years of age. "Isaac Olmsted m. at Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., Sept. 24th or 25th, 1793, Sarah Lyon, of Greenwich, Conn., and d. at Wilton, Conn., Dec. 31, 1797. John S. their only child was living at Wilton, Conn., in 1846."

  2. ABSTRACT of PROBATE RECORDS OF THE DISTRICT OF STAMFORD, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD, AND STATE OF CONNECTICUT, 1729-1802 by SPENCER P. MEAD, L.L.B., of the New York Bar. [1], in Ctgenweb.org.

    Lyon, Mary, late of Greenwich, will dated Oct. 5, 1798, probated Dec. 4, 1798, mentions her children John Lyon, Daniel Lyon, Jr., Sarah Olmstead, Phebe Seaman and John Rickland Olmstead, a son of said Sarah Olmstead. Executor her son John. Witnesses John Sticklin, Abraham Lyon, and Charles Tabor, page 82. Inventory taken Feb. 21, 1799, by Richard Mead and James Banks and filed Mar. 5, 1799, decedent was the widow of Gilbert Lyon, page 171. Mar. 5, 1799, order to advertise for claims, page 169.