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Lyon, Windsor Palmer

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8 Feb. 1809

Temple Records Index Bureau, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 287; “Lyon, Windsor Palmer,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 28:864; Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 111.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Temple Records Index Bureau of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974.

Black, Susan Easton, comp. Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848. 50 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1989. Also available as “Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848,” LDS Family History Suite: LDS Vital Records Library, CD-ROM ([Provo], UT: Infobases, Inc., 1996).

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846: Historic Photographs and Guide. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1990.

–Jan. 1849.

Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415; Johnson Co., IA, District Court, Probate Records, 1847–1919, vol. 3, pp. 360–361, microfilm 985,943, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; “Windsor Palmer Lyon,” Individual Record, FamilySearch Ancestral File (Ancestral File no: 1Z4T-RT) (accessed 14 Sept. 2011).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

Physician, druggist, merchant.

Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 112; Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415; JS, Journal, 12 October 1835.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846: Historic Photographs and Guide. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1990.

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

Born at Orwell, Addison Co., Vermont.

“Lyon, Windsor Palmer,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 28:864–865; Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 111.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846: Historic Photographs and Guide. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1990.

Son of Aaron Child Lyon and Roxana (Rocksey) Palmer.

“Lyon, Windsor Palmer,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 28:864; Orwell, Addison Co., VT, Land, Town, and Vital Records, 1784–1887, vol. 4, p. 506, microfilm 28,633, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1832, in New York.

Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 111–112.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846: Historic Photographs and Guide. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1990.

Lived at Willoughby, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, 1835–1836, where he owned a store.

JS, Journal, 12 October 1835; Cuyahoga Co., OH, Duplicate Tax Record: 1816–1838, Tax Record for 1835, p. 179, microfilm 476,511, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Cuyahoga Co., OH, Deeds and Mortgages, 1815–1866, vol. R-16, pp. 218–219, 8 Apr. 1835; pp. 219–220, 20 Apr. 1835, microfilm 1,994,224, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Owned land in Far West, Missouri, 1836.

Johnson and Romig, Index to Early Caldwell County, Missouri, 85.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Johnson, Clark V., and Ronald E. Romig. An Index to Early Caldwell County, Missouri, Land Records. Rev. ed. Independence, MO: Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation, 2002.

Married Sylvia Porter Sessions, Mar. 1838, at Far West.

Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415; Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 111; “Windsor Palmer Lyon,” Individual Record, FamilySearch Ancestral File (Ancestral File no: 1Z4T-RT) (accessed 14 Sept. 2011).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846: Historic Photographs and Guide. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1990.

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

Moved to Hancock Co., Illinois, by Feb. 1841.

Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. I, pp. 125–126, 4 Feb. 1841, microfilm 954,598, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Lived in Nauvoo Fourth Ward, 1842, at Nauvoo, Hancock Co.

“1842 Census of Nauvoo,” in De Platt, Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, 80.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Platt, Lyman De. Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, 1839–1846. Vol. 1. Highland, UT, 1980.

Appointed aide-de-camp to major general in Nauvoo Legion, June 1842.

Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 14:333; John C. Bennett, Nauvoo, IL, to Moses K. Anderson, 20 June 1842, copy, Military Correspondence, CHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

Military Correspondence, 1839–1844. Microfilm. CHL. MS 8716.

Opened drug and variety store at Nauvoo.

Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 112; Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846: Historic Photographs and Guide. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1990.

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

Ordained a high priest, by 3 Feb. 1846.

Temple Records Index Bureau, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 287.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Moved to Johnson Co., Iowa Territory, by Nov. 1846.

Johnson Co., IA, Deeds, 1839–1906, vol. 6, pp. 268–270, 5 Nov. 1846, microfilm 985,908, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Resided at Iowa City, Johnson Co., 1848.

Johnson Co., IA, Deeds, 1839–1906, vol. 6, pp. 270–272, 5 Feb. 1848, microfilm 985,908, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Died at Iowa City.

“Lyon, Windsor Palmer,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 28:865; “Windsor Palmer Lyon,” Individual Record, FamilySearch Ancestral File (Ancestral File no: 1Z4T-RT) (accessed 14 Sept. 2011).

Comprehensive Works Cited

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

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