page_title: Richard F. Lyon (judge)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Richard F. Lyon (judge) / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: I made it. Shows Lincoln County (red), Dougherty County (blue), Baker County (red), Atlanta and Fulton County (pink), and Macon and Bibb County (orange), where Richard F. Lyon was born, worked, and died.
context_page_description: Richard Francis Lyon was a Georgia attorney and jurist before and during the Confederacy. He was the mayor of Albany, Georgia, from 1858 to 1859 and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1859 to 1865.
context_section_description: The oldest son of Thomas Pickett Lyon and Mary Winn Lyon (1823–1895), born September 9, 1819, in Lincoln County, Georgia, Lyon married Ruth Esther Knowles on June 17, 1841; they had eight children: Emily, Julia, Kitty, Richard, Lafayette, Roland, John, and William.  He is sometimes called Richard F. Lyon Sr., since he had a son Richard F. Lyon Jr. (1850–1906), and a grandson Richard F. Lyon III (1884–1964).
  Richard Lyon and his brother John were both attorneys in Dougherty County, Georgia.
  Lyon owned the house that Gen. Sherman took as his headquarters during his occupation of Atlanta, Fulton County, between his Atlanta Campaign and his March to the Sea in 1864.  The current Atlanta City Hall stands on the site of this house.
  After the Civil War, Lyon moved his family to Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, where he lived until his death.  His nephew, Thomas R. Lyon, was also a resident of Albany, Georgia, being active in political and social life.
caption: Lincoln County (red), Dougherty County (blue), Baker County (green), Atlanta, Fulton County (pink) and Macon, Bibb County (orange), Georgia.
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