In Topeka, Kathryn and her husband ran a series of "joints"--that is to say, speakeasies and honky-tonks--and were bootleggers. After her husband's death, she continued to run "joints" working with her brother Leonard and sister-in-law Maggie Lyons (buried nearby). News reports refer to her as the "Queen of the Jointists." The bootleggers and police seemed to play a cat-and-mouse game of catch-and-release. Kansas was a "dry" state long before national prohibition started in 1920.
Her widowed father, Jerry Lyons, who lived with her for 25 years, is buried nearby. (NB her father has two graves and two memorials. His body is buried here, but he was also added to his wife's gravestone in Ohio.)
In Topeka, Kathryn and her husband ran a series of "joints"--that is to say, speakeasies and honky-tonks--and were bootleggers. After her husband's death, she continued to run "joints" working with her brother Leonard and sister-in-law Maggie Lyons (buried nearby). News reports refer to her as the "Queen of the Jointists." The bootleggers and police seemed to play a cat-and-mouse game of catch-and-release. Kansas was a "dry" state long before national prohibition started in 1920.
Her widowed father, Jerry Lyons, who lived with her for 25 years, is buried nearby. (NB her father has two graves and two memorials. His body is buried here, but he was also added to his wife's gravestone in Ohio.)
Family Members
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Peter Henry Lyons
1867–1949
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Mary Lyons Neithamer
1870–1902
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Cornelius Frank "Kid" Lyons
1871–1955
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John Patrick Lyons
1874–1948
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William Lyons
1878–1885
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Jerome William Lyons
1880–1945
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Margaret Lyons Creske
1883–1941
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Leonard A. Lyons
1886–1966
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Matthew C. Lyons
1887–1890
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Eleanor "Ellen" Lyons Proehl
1891–1962
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