Margaret Lyons

✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 5×-great-grandmother · Temple line

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Ross County, Ohio, Deed Records, 1852 - FamilySearch digital images (Full-Text collection, 'Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, United States Deed 1852')

two powers of attorney, Margaret Lyons and Elizabeth Braiden of Washington, D.C., to Mary Saunders of Cincinnati, 26 Jan and 29 Mar 1852, recorded 18 Jun 1852; image ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D641 (and the next opening, 3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D644)

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READ ON THE IMAGE 28 Sep 2026 (register K852), full resolution, both page-feet of ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D641. (1) "Know all men by these presents, That We Margaret Lyon and Elizabeth Braiden both of the City and County of Washington in the District of Columbia sisters and heirs at law of Catharine Stewart of Ross County and State of Ohio, now deceased but late the wife of A. Stewart of the same place have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make constitute and appoint Mary Saunders of Cincinnati in the State of Ohio aforesaid our true and lawful attorney for us and in our names place and stead to administer to and settle the Estate (both real and personal) of the aforesaid Catharine Stewart deceased" - dated 26 Jan 1852, acknowledged at Washington that day (signatures and acknowledgment on the next opening, read on the machine transcript only). (2) Power to sell "the whole or any part of our interest" in 100 acres, part NE quarter sec. 15, T8, R20, Ross County, "being the same premises conveyed by Adam Steward, during his life to Catharine Baldwin by deed dated July 10th 1843" (Ross deeds vol. 41 pp. 54-55): "In Testimony whereof the said Margaret Lyons (a widow) and the said Elizabeth Braiden have hereto set their hands and seals this twenty ninth day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty two. Elizabeth Braiden (seal) Margaret Lyons (seal)". Both received 14 Jun, recorded 18 Jun 1852.

St. John's Church (Episcopal), St. John's Parish, Washington, D.C. - Register of Baptisms, William Hawley, Rector - DAR typescript copy in 'Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900' [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)], FHL film 008218547, FamilySearch digital images

p. 50, nos. 346-348 - Lucretia Hart, Anna Louisa and Henry Clay, children of William S. and Ann Derrick, baptised 14 Nov 1832; image 881 of 1005, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSG6-X8MT

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READ ON THE IMAGE 27 Sep 2026 (register K848), full resolution. A 20th-century DAR TYPESCRIPT of the parish register, headed (p. 1, image 830) "REGISTER OF BAPTISMS IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCH / ST. JOHN'S PARISH / WASHINGTON, D. C. / by / WILLIAM HAWLEY, RECTOR". One bracketed entry on p. 50: "346. Lucretia Hart Born: April 21, 1828 / 347. Anna Louisa Born: September 29, 1830 / 348. Henry Clay Born: January 13, 1832 / Parents: William S. and Ann Derrick / Baptised: November 14, 1832 / Sponsors: Mother and Grandmother, Margaret Lyons". Derivative (a copy), not the register itself.

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Research note · 28 Sep 2026

CREATED 27 Sep 2026 as the MOTHER of [508] Anna Patterson (Lyons) Derrick, on Owen's grade of that date (ARGUMENT). Register K848. Her own family added 28 Sep 2026 on Owen's instruction (K852-K855). At St. John's Church, Washington, on 14 Nov 1832, she stood sponsor with their mother for three children of William S. and Ann Derrick, entered as "Grandmother, Margaret Lyons". Their father's mother was Sarah Sharpless, so she is the maternal grandmother (argument in [508]'s note). HER SISTERS, AND A WIDOW BY 1852. Two powers of attorney recorded in the Ross County, Ohio deed records on 18 Jun 1852, read on the image (K852): on 26 Jan 1852 "Margaret Lyon and Elizabeth Braiden both of the City and County of Washington in the District of Columbia sisters and heirs at law of Catharine Stewart of Ross County and State of Ohio, now deceased but late the wife of A. Stewart" appointed Mary Saunders of Cincinnati to settle Catharine's estate; and on 29 Mar 1852 "the said Margaret Lyons (a widow) and the said Elizabeth Braiden" empowered her to sell their interest in 100 acres in Ross County that Adam Steward had conveyed to Catharine Baldwin in 1843. Elizabeth Braiden, unmarried, died in Washington about 1856, and Margaret Lyons was her administratrix (Evening Star, Feb 1857 and Aug 1864; K853). WHY THIS IS THE SAME WOMAN. In 1850 a Margaret Lyons, 65, born Pennsylvania, lived in Washington Ward 1 in the household of Alexander H. and Emma Derrick (census index, K854). Emma is the Emma (Lyons) Derrick with whom a Margaret Lyons of Washington signs the Champaign Co., Illinois land papers of 1861 and 1865 (K849). She is the only Margaret Lyons indexed in Washington in 1850, and her age fits the mother of Anna (b. 1807) and grandmother of the 1832 children. The chain is ARGUMENT: no single record names her in all these roles. NOT PROVED. Her maiden name - probably Braiden, since the 1852 papers make her Elizabeth Braiden's sister, but they state the sisterhood, not whose daughters they were. Her husband's given name - NOT KNOWN; she was a widow by January 1852, and the John Lyons of Washington Ward 1 in the 1830 census does not fit her household (K855). 'Patterson' is suggested only by her daughter's middle name and is not evidence. The birth about 1785 in Pennsylvania is from the 1850 index only and is not entered as an event.

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