Putnam patriot., 1927-12-22

turnEd each summer to his hut m N est Woodstock, and was a familiar figure on the streets of Putnam. No better obituary of the venerable poet and philosopher can be written than the following. including d sketch Of his life written b. himself. appearing IA the Asbury Park N. JJ Evening Press of last Saturday. under the heading Heart Attack Fatal to Old Pop Lyon
 aoid Pop Lyon d.ed late yesterday afternoon
 And an the vail besIda hi. deathbed hung the verse:
 Sae sand to yaar giasses steady.
 ThIz sarld a world af lies
 Here health Q the dead already And harrah for the next one &ho
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 Naf 3 grim 6aHes 8f nor contempt
 deatt but rather philosophical IrEe7zfaHee ft tne inevitable thor sEH= a accord ujtn tho character af tals a5gt4Hesaae old Monmouth and Ocean ea4H#s pioneer. Whsze sIeHs 8f life s.efa faHther exemfIIHe8 8y the HletaHe f a Lon al the head 3f HIs bed under meath which had been written the words That. Me
 F5r those few 8ha did no. know "Old Pop in life. t mas be stated that Was tbc afFeetlsHate designation If hundred 9f trends of Andrew Lin csla Lyon. for many years one ef A. haff Park most picturesque citizens Quet!. sleeping he passed away of heaft trouble at his home for many arr al3 Bond street. after an ill ness If bat few months
 Taken III in Woodstoek
 Taken Ii last summer at hIs sum mer home The BIesh Hut little cQt- ta9e la thy hills near Woodstock Conn the sturdy old oak. as he was -o afteH called came to his home here and with the grim determination for which h. was noted fought aH i'll heaItf IL far as bamanly possible
 Old Pop. had he lived until De eemhef z6 would nave been eighty even year. old Until struck down h. Uas t -t#rdE d the trees under winch ae lasea ts read. faf civilization had fe8 obligations far the old pioneer H. va zaaa zmaH 4t heart a poet = nature [ keen philosopher wha loved to eauf . woodland neal. then le upon lis baeE aH the grazs after long tramp and commune with nature and 5fteH Hz= hfs uusiuKs into verse
 l he las apou hIs pillow. his white crowned fine old heaA suggested an eagle Iike quality. clear cut and with [ he aquIiinity of the beautiful Indian head seen upon the coins of GHele sam Death had not erased. but rath- CT emphasized, striking individual fly
 He Tells His Own Story
 eOld Pop. until just a few short months ago. was like seasoned oak. At eighty long tramp through the woods and hills of Monmouth eean- ty. with d stop at monday for a meal over his own fire. or day chopping down trees-just 4 day fun for him. His features were rugged and strong as the old oak he SO resembled
 There was nc sham about Old Pop. He lived and thought and act ed as one might judge from his writ ings to The Press He loved humor, he was quick on the trigger of a joke, he detested pretcnse and would rather spend a hermit's week at his beloved cabln@T he Bresh Hut in Conneeti- cut than to roll in luxury
 Upon one of his birthdays The Press asked him n write something about his life Pop demurred bit and wa puzzled about how he should du it The Press insisted upon d story written m the first person.
 .0ld Pop" hung back but when the whole city room parked at him. he finally succumb q and though he pro tested q little q. t. here's what he wrote
 A. He Wrote It
 According to the records of the township of Woodstock Connecticut |. Andrew Lincoln Lyon. Old Pop came into the world af un it Deeem= ber 20, ls40. and have been in, or on, this globe ever since Cl can't get along here without the ego) came from old Puritan stock on both my father s and my mothers side hi, name was Prescott Myers Lyon and hers was Delicia Carlisle Lincoln. he was born in Woodstock. Connecticut. and she In Bennington. Vermont.
 Although not much of fighter myself ann fHuH fighting stuck. hs ms son Glaude was ln France during the lateWa mN self. and father n the Clal War NJ uncle with whom hssd during my hoyhopd was col onel during the Civjl War also Was an officer in thc Mexican War My grand father was in the War of 1872 My great grandparents oH both sides took an active part ia fha Res alutieH and lastly 8f rather firstly my great great grandfather was killed and scalped by the Indians in fight al Painted Post m New York State dur ing the old French and Indian War. What my ancestors did before that time 1 am unable SAY Probably not anything ;o hrag about
 T was brought ID and lived on farms during my childhood and youth, and later on took an active part in all kinds of farm work
 Veteran Civil War
 In 1863 went west. and enlisted in Chicago and was in government service down in Tennessee late in the winter of iS6s-65 and the early spring of '65. After that I was employed for while in John R Walsh's station cry store in Lake street. Chicago. l taught in the Ogden school during the fall of '65. and during the greater part of the next winter was in a logging camp up in Michigan. some of the time as cook for the crew. N B