[715] holds, having been re-elected in 1896, and again in 1898, He is a member of Secession camp, U. C. V. Captain Lyon, since his election as county supervisor, has entered upon a system of road improvement in Abbeville county which promises to result in much good. He was married May 17, 1866, to Miss Margaret E. Jordan, and they have five children, three sons and two daughters.
J. Fuller Lyon
J. Fuller Lyon was born in Abbeville county, S. C., in 1842, the son of William and Virginia Powell (Delph) Lyon. His grandfather was John Lyon, of Albemarle county, Va. Judge Lyon's education was academic, a college course being prevented by the war. He entered the army in April, 1861, as a corporal in Company C, Seventh South Carolina infantry, in which he served until the spring of 1862, when he was honorably discharged from the army of Northern Virginia, his term of enlistment having expired. In the winter of 1862 he re-enlisted in Company H of the Nineteenth 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, and in this engagement, while trying to save the life of a wounded comrade, he was wounded in the arm. He was sent to Macon and placed in the academy for the blind, which at that time was used as a hospital, and there, on September 18, 1864, his arm was amputated. He was not able to leave the hospital before November 12, 1864, when he was furloughed and returned home. He afterward tried to get back into the army, but on account of physical disability he failed, and he then began farming and continued in that business until 1876, when he was elected judge of the probate court of Abbeville county, S. C. This position he held for eighteen years, when by reason of political upheavals he was defeated. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Cokesbury Conference school at Cokesbury, S. C., also of the board of trustees of Columbia female college. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church South, which he has represented in the general conference. He is president of the Mutual fire insurance company and of the board of public works for the city of Abbeville. One of his sons, William A. Lyon, is business
