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Windsor Palmer Lyon



Birth8 February 1809Orwell, Addison, Vermont, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Windsor Palmer Lyon, ID: KWVQ-CPH.

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), p. 287.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 575; citing “General Record of the Seventies. Book B”.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for W.P. Lyon, folder "Roll of company number 1, 1845 " (#1), image 2, line 27.

DeathJanuary 1849Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States
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    The Frontier Guardian (Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States: Orson Hyde; Jacob Dawson; A.C. Ford, 1849-1853), "We learn by...," 4 April 1849, p. 2, column 5.

BurialJanuary 1849Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Windsor Palmer Lyon (1809-1849), memorial #214566324.

    The Frontier Guardian (Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States: Orson Hyde; Jacob Dawson; A.C. Ford, 1849-1853), "We learn by...," 4 April 1849, p. 2, column 5.

FatherAaron Child Lyon
MotherRoxanna Palmer

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   • Sylvia Porter Sessions
Married21 April 1838Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Windsor Palmer Lyon and Sylvia Porter Sessions, ID: KWVQ-CPH and ID: KWV9-HF6.

    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 606-607.

    Recorder of Deeds, Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991 (Jefferson City, Missouri: Missouri State Archives), database and images, FamilySearch, entry for Windsor Palmer Lyon and Sylvia Sessions Porter (1838); citing Caldwell County, Missouri, Recorder's Office, "Index to marriages, v. 1; Books A-C, including Index to "Colored Marriages", 1860-1886," image 21; FHL microfilm 2437719.

          Children:
               Marian S. Lyon
               Philofreen J. Lyon
               Asa Windsor Lyon
               Josephine Rosetta Lyon
               Byron Windsor Lyon
               David Carlos Lyon


   • Susan Eliza Gee
MarriedFebruary 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 606-607; 646, no. 234.

          Children:
               Charles William Lyon


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• 1840Hancock County, Illinois, United States
• 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

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• 1842 Population CensusNauvoo, Hancock, IllinoisExtractImage


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