When Sophia Margaret Lyon was born on 6 February 1847, in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, her father, Jens Martin Lyon, was 33 and her mother, Susanna Olmstead, was 36. She married Orson Hyde on 10 October 1865, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 25 March 1932, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Spring City Cemetery, Spring City, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Scottish, English, and French: from the personal name Middle English Lyon, Old French Leon (from Latin leo ‘lion’, or the cognate Greek leōn; see Leon ). Compare Lyall .
Scottish and English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lyons-la-Forêt in Eure, Normandy. It is unlikely to be from the better-known southern French city of Lyon (see 5 below).
English and French: nickname from Middle English lioun ‘lion’ (Old English, Latin leo), Old French leon, perhaps applied to a brave, fierce, or proud person, or one with a shaggy mane of hair. Compare Lion .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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