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Descendants of Matthew Lyon

Generation No. 2

2. ANN² LYON (MATTHEW¹) was born January 14, 1774 in Cornwall, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, and died October 16, 1842 in Belleville, St. Clair Co., Illinois. She married JOHN MESSENGER September 29, 1796 in Jericho, Chittenden Co., Vermont, son of RODERICK MESSENGER and TAMESIA STEVENS. He was born January 04, 1771 in West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, and died September 16, 1846 in Ridge Prairie, St. Clair Co., Illinois.

More About ANN LYON:
Burial: Unknown, Messenger Cemetery, Belleville, Illinois

More About JOHN MESSENGER:
Burial: Unknown, Messenger Cemetery, Belleville, Illinois

Children of ANN LYON and JOHN MESSENGER are:

	i.		AMANDA³ MESSENGER, b. August 29, 1797, Jericho, Chittenden Co., Vermont; d. September 27, 1865; m. DANIEL PHILLIPS, May 20, 1832, Belleville, St. Clair Co., Illinois; d. Unknown.
	ii.		BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MESSENGER, b. January 20, 1799, Jericho, Chittenden Co., Vermont; d. December 28, 1865; m. (1) LUCINDA LITTLE, 1823; b. November 25, 1804; d. September 20, 1884; m. (2) MARGARET YOMAN, February 16, 1845; d. Unknown.

More About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MESSENGER:
Burial: Unknown, Keokuk, Iowa

More About LUCINDA LITTLE:
Burial: Unknown, Caseyville, Illinois

	iii.	CHARLES HOLT MESSENGER, b. October 30, 1800, Jericho, Chittenden Co., Vermont; d. September 02, 1875, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., California; m. AMY QUICK, August 02, 1827; d. February 01, 1846.
	iv.	DELINDA MESSENGER, b. July 23, 1802, Eddyville, Livingston Co., Kentucky; d. October 13, 1802.
10.	v.	ELON LEE MESSENGER, b. April 23, 1804, New Design, Illinois; d. April 13, 1852, Ridge Prairie, St. Clair Co., Illinois.
	vi.	JOHN MILTON MESSENGER, b. April 07, 1807, New Design, Illinois; d. November 22, 1838; m. REBECCA RANDALMANN; d. Unknown.
11.	vii.	MINERVA OLIVIA MESSENGER, b. September 21, 1810, Messenger Home, St. Clair Co., Illinois; d. March 16, 1880, Messenger Home, St. Clair Co., Illinois.
12.	viii.	MATTHEW LYON MESSENGER, b. February 26, 1814; d. October 07, 1865, St. Clair Co., Illinois.
13.	ix.	PAMELIA ANNE MESSENGER, b. May 29, 1816; d. December 01, 1852.

3. JAMES² LYON (MATTHEW¹) was born April 15, 1776 in Wallinford, Rutland County, Vermont, and died April 13, 1824 in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. He married PHILA RISLEY December 25, 1794 in Connecticut. She was born June 04, 1780 in Bolton, CT, and died January 03, 1869 in McMinnville, TN.

Children of JAMES LYON and PHILA RISLEY are:

14.	i.	LAURA MATILDA³ LYON, b. January 05, 1796, Saratoga, NY; d. November 20, 1843, Elizabethton, TN.
15.	ii.	MASON RISLEY LYON, b. November 12, 1798, Fairhaven, VT; d. November 17, 1882, Caldwell County, TX.
	iii.	ELIZA JANE LYON, b. November 17, 1801; d. 1896, McMinnville, Warren Co., Tennessee; m. (1) E.J. COTTON; d. Unknown; m. (2) S.J. MITCHELL; d. Unknown.
	iv.	PHILA ANN LYON, b. May 27, 1806, Tennessee; d. July 20, 1807.
	v.	JAMES LAWRENCE LYON, b. May 29, 1808, Tennessee; d. May 20, 1820, Society Hill, Darlington Co., South Carolina.
	vi.	MATTHEW BRADLEY LYON, b. May 24, 1810; d. July 28, 1810, Tennessee.
	vii.	NANCY POMEROY LYON, b. May 24, 1810, Tennessee; d. October 16, 1841, Waholock, Mississippi; m. REV. J.M.D. CATER; d. Unknown.
	viii.	MATTHEW LYON, b. August 21, 1812; d. 1892, Alabama; m. SUSAN M. COMPERS; d. Unknown.
	ix.	ADOLPHUS GRANT LYON, b. February 21, 1815, Tennessee; d. November 03, 1829, Cheraw, Chesterfield Co., South Carolina.
	x.	EUDOCIA ELLEN LYON, b. February 21, 1815; d. Unknown.
	xi.	MARY LYON, b. 1817; d. 1820.

4. PAMELIA² LYON (MATTHEW¹) was born 1778 in Wallingford, Rutland Co., Vermont, and died March 11, 1857 in Cadwell Farm, Morgan County, Illinois. She married DR. GEORGE CADWELL 1797 in Fair Haven, Rutland Co., Vermont. He was born February 21, 1773 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died August 01, 1826 in Swinerton's Point, Morgan Co., Illinois.

Children of PAMELIA LYON and GEORGE CADWELL are:

	i.	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BAICHE³ CADWELL, b. October 03, 1798, Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont; d. February 22, 1820, Morgan Co., Illinois.
	ii.	GEORGE GALEN VOLTAIRE CADWELL, b. November 04, 1801, Eddyville, Livingston Co., Kentucky; d. August 14, 1802, Eddyville, Livingston Co., Kentucky.
	iii.	LORAINE MINERVA CADWELL, b. September 29, 1803, Fort Charters, Illinois; d. October 12, 1863, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Illinois; m. CHARLES HARRILL; d. Unknown.
16.	iv.	MARY ANNE CADWELL, b. June 26, 1806, St. Clair Co., Illinois; d. January 18, 1842.
	v.	ELIZABETH AURELIA CADWELL, b. December 04, 1808; d. February 03, 1816, Madison Co., Illinois.
17.	vi.	JULIA PAMELIA CADWELL, b. Madison Co., Illinois; d. Unknown.
18.	vii.	HARRIET LOUISA CADWELL, b. January 10, 1814, Madison Co., Illinois; d. October 16, 1893, Morgan Co., Illinois.
	viii.	HELEN PORTIA CADWELL, b. February 23, 1816, Madison Co., Illinois; d. Unknown, Hannibal, Monroe Co., Missouri.
19.	ix.	AMANDA MARTIA CADWELL, b. July 13, 1818; d. Unknown.
20.	x.	ELVIRA ADALINE CADWELL, b. November 23, 1821, Madison Co., Illinois; d. July 31, 1849, Madison Co., Illinois.
21.	xi.	AUGUSTA JANE CADWELL, b. April 15, 1824, Madison Co., Illinois; d. August 05, 1886, Vail, Crawford Co., Iowa.

5. MINERVA² LYON (MATTHEW¹) was born May 25, 1785 in Fair Haven, Rutland Co., Vermont, and died 1857 in Beavertown, Pennsylvania. She married DR. HANSON CATLETT January 25, 1803 in Livingston County, Kentucky, son of ALEXANDER CATLETT and SUSANNAH LAWRENCE. He was born 1773, and died October 21, 1824 in Harmony, Butler County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for DR. HANSON CATLETT:
Occupation: Physician. He was assigned as Surgeon's mate in US Army between 26 March 1804 and 23 November 1804. He was assigned as surgeon on 18 February 1813 at 1st Infantry. He was second to Charles Dickerson in his duel with General Andrew Jackson. He was assigned post surgeon in 1816. He was assigned assistant surgeon in 1821. According to Stubbs, "There was passed by Congress 'An act for the relief of the representatives of Dr. Hanson Catlett, late of the U. S. Army,' approved Feb. 24, 1832 (6 U. S. Statutes at L.)".

Marriage Notes for MINERVA LYON and HANSON CATLETT:
This was possibly at Eddyville, in the part of Livingston Co. that became Caldwell Co. in 1809, and Lyon Co. in 1854.

Children of MINERVA LYON and HANSON CATLETT are:

22.	i.	HELEN MARY³ CATLETT, b. Abt. 1807, Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky; d. Abt. 1887, Eddyville, Lyon Co., Kentucky.
23.	ii.	MINERVA CATLETT, b. 1822; d. 1904.
24.	iii.	ANN FAIRFAX CATLETT, b. 1806; d. 1844.
25.	iv.	ALBERT GALLATIN CATLETT, b. November 26, 1818, Old Fort Belle Fountaine, Missouri; d. March 14, 1848, Wellsville, Ohio.

6. COL. CHITTENDEN² LYON (MATTHEW¹) was born February 22, 1787 in Fair Haven, Rutland Co., Vermont, and died October 23, 1842 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky. He married (1) NANCY VAUGHN September 04, 1817 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky, daughter of JOHN VAUGHN and MARY PATTON. She was born August 02, 1796 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Kentucky, and died February 04, 1828 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky. He married (2) MRS. FRANCES BAKER-JONES September 17, 1829 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky. She was born 1803, and died September 18, 1866 in Eddyville, Lyon Co., Kentucky.

Notes for COL. CHITTENDEN LYON:
Congressional Biography

LYON, Chittenden, (son of Matthew Lyon), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Fair Haven, Vt., February 22, 1787; attended the common schools; in 1801 moved to Kentucky with his parents, who settled in Caldwell County; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Eddyville, Caldwell County, Ky., and had large agricultural interests; member of the State house of representatives 1822-1824; served in the State senate 1827-1835; elected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1835); was not a candidate for reelection in 1835 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; continued his business activities until his death; Lyon County, which was separated from Caldwell County in 1854, was named in his honor; died in Eddyville, Ky., November 23, 1842; interment in Eddyville Cemetery.

This Lyon County material is provided by Pat Oliver
Greetings.... Hope you all enjoy this letter as much as I have. Don't you wish we had more like it! Please note the last paragraph.

My tie to all this is through Cynthia Aurelia Galusha, daughter of Elijah G. and Lucy W. Throop, who married Wilson Parent, son of David and Nancy Conway Parent of Nelson and Caldwell Co.

This letter, dated April 5, 1828, at Washington, from Chittenden Lyon, Member of Congress, to Hon. James Witherell, can be found on pp.424-5 of "A History of the Town of Fair Haven, Vermont", by Andrew N. Adams, published 1870 by Leonard and Phelps, Printers, Fair Haven. I obtained photocopies of a few pages in 1971 from the Curator of the Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT. See my notes at the bottom
of this page. Corrections/additions are welcome.

"Dear Sir:- Your esteemed favor of the 17th ult. was received this morning, and letter contained therein handed to Col. Watson.

It gives me great pleasure to receive this attention from the long and much valued friend of my lamented father, and brings to my mind the scenes of my childhood. I well recollect you and your family, and regret to learn that so many of them have, like my own connection, "gone the way of all flesh." You enquire after my mother. She is no more; she survived my father about 18 months, worn down with grief and affliction for the misfortune and death of her husband and two children in less than two years; but she found consolation and resignation in religion. She had been for the last twelve years of her somewhat eventful life an exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and died in the full hope and faith of sleeping in the arms of her God. My eldest half-brother, James Lyon, died in South Carolina about four years since, poor. My eldest half-sister, Ann Messenger, and her family, reside in Illinois, near Bellville. Her husband is in comfortable circumstances, and is very respectable. Sister Pamelia resides in the same state; her husband, Dr. Geo. Cadwell, died some two years since, leaving seven unmarried daughters, and no son, (his only one having died some years before him,) in moderate circmstances. My half-brother, Elijah G. Galusha, resides in Kentucky, near me. He married the daughter of Mr. Throop, is a poor farmer. My eldest own sister, Minerva, resides in Beavertown, Penn. Her husband, Dr. Cattlett, late surgeon in the U. S. Army, died a little more than three years ago, in moderate circumstances. My syster, Aurellia, died about nine months before my father, leaving two orphan children. Her husband, Dr. H. Skinner, died about two years before her, and left a pretty little estate for their children. My brother Matthew, lives within two miles of my residence, (Eddyville, Ky.,) and is doing very well, in fact getting rich, for he minds the main chance and dabbles but little in politics, but is a candidate for Elector on the Jackson ticket. My sister Eliza Ann, born in Kentucky, resides also in the state of Illinois. She married a worthy man, but poor, and moved to that state about one year ago. My youngest brother, Giles, also born in Kentucky, and who lived with my mother, died in the 20th year of his age, about five months before my mother.

Of those who went with or followed my father, besides our family, G. D. Cobb, who married Modena Clark, resides at Eddyville; has a large and respectable family, but is reduced in his circumstances in consequence of losing a valuable farm, which was taken by a prior claim after a long law suit, which he had highly improved. Capt. Throop has been dead many years; he died as he lived, poor. His wife, second daughter, and youngest son went to her brother, Samuel Vail, at Baton Rouge, La., and all are dead. His eldest son, John, resides at Eddyville, a vagabond. His daughter, Betsy, is a widow. Samuel C. Clark resides with G. D. Clark; is poor, and has lost one leg, amputated close up to the body; and last, old General Whitehouse, who you no doubt recollect followed my father to Kentucky, and survived both my father and mother, and several of the younger branches of the family, and died about eighteen months since, having been a charge on my hands for many years.

In answering your enquiries I have necessarily been led into a long, and to you, somewhat uninteresting letter, while a long speech was making upon the Tariff bill, which is still under consideration in the House of Representatives.

I have had a severe indsposition since my arrival here, which confined me near a month, but I am now perfectly recovered. I have had the misfortune to lose my wife since I left home. She died on the 4th of February, and has left me a family of five young children, the eldest 10 years, the youngest 3 months and 4 days.

Please present my respects to your good lady.

Very respectfully your obedient servant, Chittenden Lyon
To Hon. James Witherel

Persons mentioned in the letter and some limited background from my records:
Hon. James Witherell - I don't have much on this man except that there were several Witherell families in the Fair Haven, VT area and some seem to have vague ties to some of the families mentioned in the letter.

Chittenden Lyon - 1787-1842 m 1st 1817 Nancey Vaughn daughter of Mary Gracey. m2nd 1829 Frances B. Jones. Member of Congress from West. KY. Son of Matthew and Beulah Chittenden Galusha Lyon. Lyon County was named after Chittenden Lyon.

His father - Matthew Lyon 14 July 1750 Ireland - 1 Aug 1822 Spadre Bluff, Little Rock, Arkansas. Matthew was married 1st Mary L. Hosford, had 4 children Anna, James, Pamelia and Lauren. Married 2nd widow Beulah Chittenden Galusha.

His mother - Beulah Chittenden Galusha Lyon 15 May 1764 - 7 Feb 1824 (The Lyon County Cemetery book has 6 Feb 1821 which would be incorrect from this letter.)

Beulah Chittenden was the 6th child of Gov. Thomas and Elizabeth Meigs Chittenden of CN and VT. She married 1st Elijah G. Galusha 1757-1783 and had two children son Elijah G. and daughter Lorenda who died in infancy. Married 2nd widower Matthew Lyon.

Matthew and Beulah had eight children: Minerva, Chittenden, Aurelia, Matthew, Noah C., Beulah, Giles, and Eliza Ann.

Capt Throop - John Winchester Throop 1764 - abt 1817, son of John and Frances Dana Throop. John W. Throop served in the Rev War in VT Militia, I understand. Married Elizabeth Vail 1765-1822. They had five known children: Lucy W. married Elijah G. Galusha, John W. Throop Jr. married Elizabeth Hannah, Elizabeth V. Throop married William Gore. (All three married in Caldwell Co.), Joshua V, and Cynthia.

G. D. Cobb -Gidean/Gideon Dyer Cobb. married Modena Clark.

Modena Clark - daughter of Gen Isaac and Hannah Chittenden Clark. Hannah Chittenden Clark was sister of Beulah Chittenden Galusha Lyon. Another daughter of Gov Thomas and Elizabeth Meigs Chittenden, Mary Chittenden, married Gov. Jonas Galusha, 5th Gov of VT and elder brother of Elijah G. Galusha.

Samuel C. Clark - Can't find my notes on him but recall he might have been a brother of Modena Clark.

General Whitehouse - No further information but I'm checking.

Pat Oliver

More About COL. CHITTENDEN LYON:
Burial: Unknown, Eddyville Cemetery

Children of CHITTENDEN LYON and NANCY VAUGHN are:

26.	i.	MARY ANN³ LYON, b. February 17, 1818, Eddyville, Caldwell (now Lyon) County, Kentucky; d. November 22, 1873, Lyon Co., Kentucky.
27.	ii.	MARGARET AURELIA LYON, b. January 28, 1820; d. May 12, 1852.
28.	iii.	MATTHEW SKINNER LYON, b. June 28, 1823; d. 1891.
	iv.	GILES JAMES NELSON LYON, b. November 20, 1825; d. Unknown; m. CATHERINE E.; d. Unknown.
29.	v.	CHITTENDEN PATTON LYON, b. November 01, 1827; d. April 17, 1863, Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky.

Children of CHITTENDEN LYON and FRANCES BAKER-JONES are:

	vi.	EDMOND W.³ JONES, b. May 21, 1822; d. May 14, 1853; Stepchild.
30.	vii.	HELEN MINERVA LYON, b. July 28, 1830; d. October 21, 1880.
	viii.	LORAINE ELVIRA LYON, b. July 22, 1831; d. September 18, 1840.
31.	ix.	THOMAS ARCHER LYON, b. July 15, 1833, Eddyville, Lyon County Kentucky; d. August 13, 1899, Eddyville, Lyon County Kentucky.

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