The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-08

urer OIllce III Cne clCy OIL OOlumUld,
at the home of his son, Mr.. J. Fraser
Lyon, Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock
after tedious illness due to the ef-
fects of a fall at his home several
weeks ago. From the injury received
he rallied and up to a few days be-
fore his death, it was thought by his
friends that he was well on the way
to recovery, but complications mani
tested themselves, and the end came
peacefully while he slept.
The body was brought to Abbeville
Sunday morning accompanied by
members of his family, by Confeder-
ate Veterans, by friends in his new
home in Columbia, his pastor and
others. At the Southern Station the
old time friends of the good man
gathered in great numbers to accom-
pany his body to the Methodist
Church, of which he was 80 large a
part for nearly a half century, and
there funeral services were conduct
ed by Rev. Mr.. Truesdale Of the Main
Street Methodist Church, Columbia,
which was the church Judge Lyon at
tended in that city, his membership
being retained at Abbeville. The SER
vices were simple and very appro-
pirate. The few words spoken by the
pastor were in acknowledgement Of
the worth of the deceased and espe-
cially of the helpfulness he had re-
ceived from his former friend. After
a short prayer, while the choir sang
a familiar hymn, the funeral process
sion moved out and proceeded to
Melrose Cemetery where his body
awaits the last great day. When the
grave had been filled the daughters
of his old friends and of his comrades
in the gray placed the beautiful flow
ers sent by his admirers, and his
young grandson, Fuller Lyon, son of
VIM. Andrew Lyon, of Augusta,
planted Confederate flag upon his
grave. Judge Lyon sleeps in the Con-
federate uniform, with the flag for
which he gave so much grasped in his
right hand. y
At the funeral Confederate veter-
ans and the officers of the Methodist
Church acted as honorary pall-bear-
ers, the active pall-bearers being of
the friends in Abbeville.
The following sketch of his life
taken from the Columbia State gives
summary of the leading events in
his life:
Mr.. Lyon was 7s years of age, be-
ing born at Ashbury church, Abbeville
county (now Greenwood county,
April /, 1912. He was the son Of
William and Virginia Powell Lyon,
and a grandson of John Lyon of AL
bemarle county, Virginia. He OBJ
tanned only an academic education,
his college career being prevented
by the outbreak of the Confederate
war.
Was 1t Manassas.
Judge Lyon, as he was known to
his friends and familiars, enlisted in
the Confederate ranks in April, 1861,
when he was only 10 years old, his
first service being as corporal in
Company C, Seventh South Carolina
infantry. He served with this or
ganization at the first battle of
Manassas and was honorably dis
charged from the Army of Northern
Virginia in the spring of 1862, his
term of enlistment having expired.
In the winter of 1852 following his
recovery from an attack of typhoid
fever contracted in Virginia, he reen-
listed in Company H of the Nine
teenth South Carolina infantry as a
private and was promoted to orderly
sergeant and later to first lieutenant.
He was in the battles of the army
of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to
Ezra church near Atlanta, Ca, and