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Welcome to Lyon
County Kansas Genealogy Research
Emporia KS circa 1890
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Lyon County Kansas
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Use the box below to
search for
Lyon
County Data
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Brief History from
Kansas State Historical Society:
Lyon County was one of the
original 33 counties created by the
Territorial Legislature, created as
Breckinridge County in
1855. The county was organized in
1858, but after the Civil War began and as
John C. Breckenridge, for whom the county
was named, was a secessionist, the
name was changed to Lyon for Civil War
General Nathaniel Lyon, who led Lyon County
soldiers in the Battle of Wilson's
Creek. The county was founded by Oliver
Phillips; Jefferson Pigman; John Fowler;
Charles
Withington; Chrles Johnson; James
Phineas; David Vangundy; John Rosenquist;
Joseph Moon; Lorenzo Dow; R. H. Abraham;
William Grimsley; Thomas Shockley;
Joseph Hadley; and William H. Eikenberry,
and contains the cities of Allen, Bushong,
Americus, Olpe, Hartford, Emporia,
Admire, Neosho Rapids and Reading.
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*Note*
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