The following information on Mary Melissa Lyon is from the following newspaper sources, (Geary county, Ks.)Junction City, Ks. UNION August 6 1924. Page 1, Col. 3; Junction City, Ks. REPUBLIC August 7, 1924. Page. 1 Col.7; UNION
August 9, 1924. Page 2. Col. 5; Mary Melissa Coriell was born November 21, 1840 in Livingstone County, N.Y. She died August 8, 1924 in Junction City, Ks. She had became quite feeble due to several strokes. Mary was a descendant of Abraham Coriell, French Hugenot, who fled France in the consequences of the "Edict of Nantes". Mary was the granddaughter of Abraham . Abraham was a Minuteman during the Revolutionary War, while on a scouting mission for American forces was killed near Fort Erie, September 4, 1814. After the Civil War, the spelling was changed to Coryell . In 1845 Mary's family moved to Orion, Oakland County, Michigan. In 1847 to LePeer County, Michigan. At that time Mary became a school teacher and taught in surrounding counties.
October 5, 1865 she married 1st Lt. Daniel E Lyon of Company H, 16th Michigan Volunteers. Then being discharged for disability, they settled on a farm in Clinton County, where the two daughters were born. October, 1872 they sold their Michigan farm and came to Kansas settling on a farm in Sherman Township, Dickinson. In 1878, after the death of husband in 1876, she moved to Junction City, Ks. Continued to make her home giving her children the advantage to attend, and graduate from the city High School. She became a member in the Universal ist Church, DAR, Ladies Reading Club, And, many other organizations.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. frank Brooks of Eureke , Ks. and Mrs. Arthur M. Kerr of Junction City, and two sons Louis of north Dickinson county and George of Junction City. One sister, Mrs Ira Carpenter of Orlon Michigan.