She married James Lyon on 1 APR 1792 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
Buried in the family cemetery on their plantation.
Two of their sons removed to Alabama when young to live with their uncle, Col. George Strother Gaines, first at St. Stephens in 1817, and later at Demopolis. They were James Gaines Lyon and Francis Strother Lyon. The latter was admitted to the bar in Alabama in 1821 and eventually became a U.S. Congressman and Confederate Congressman and head of the Alabama State Bank.
A family tree compiled circa 1900 by her great-granddaughter, Ms. J.L. Abbot Jr. of Mobile, says of her father: "Capt. James Gaines... See (Benson John) Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution. Served under Gen. Green. Was Senator in Chatham Co., N.C." Some other sources indicate this may be incorrect.
Daughters of the American Revolution (# A072767.)
The children of James Lyon and Hetty Gaines were:
1. Mary Lyon 1795- (some say)
2. Edmund Pendleton Lyon died a child
3. James Gaines Lyon b. 1795 VA or N.C. went to Alabama in 1816 with his brother F.S. Lyon to live with their uncle George S. Gaines; m.1 Lavinia Crall Henry; m.3 Rosina A. Fisher
4. Christina Harmon 1798-1845/7 VA m. 17 July 1819 Stokes Co, NC Joseph Martin
5. Francis Strother Lyon 1800-82 m. Sarah Serena Glover
6. William Henry Lyon 1802-1867 of Demopolis
7. Elizabeth Lyon b. 1805-d. after 1850 unmarried
8. Sarah Ware Lyon 1809-58 m. Joseph F. Flippin
9. Frances F. (Fannie) Lyon 1812-1850s m. Samuel M. Flippin
10. Nancy Behetheland Lyon 1817- bef.1852 m. William Martin Moore
Hetty Gaines Lyon was a direct descendant Cornelius Dabney, the Indian Interpreter for Cockacoeske, Queen of the Pamunkey, who was a grand-niece of Pocahontas, and married Cockacoeske's daughter Susannah as his second wife.
Lineage:
Cornelius Dabney, Indian interpreter
+1st wife Edie
George Dabney
+Elizabeth Anderson
Susannah Dabney
+Francis Thornton Strother
Elizabeth Strother
+James Gaines
Behetheland Gaines
+James Lyon
Descendants of Cornelius Dabney include Patrick Henry (the orator and Governor of Virginia), Dolly Madison (wife of President James Madison), Dabney Carr (brother-in-law of President Thomas Jefferson), Nancy Astor (first woman to sit in the British House of Commons), President Zachary Taylor and his daughter Sarah Knox Taylor, the first wife of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy. Also Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, fourth-great-grandson of George Dabney.
Buried in the family cemetery on their plantation.
Two of their sons removed to Alabama when young to live with their uncle, Col. George Strother Gaines, first at St. Stephens in 1817, and later at Demopolis. They were James Gaines Lyon and Francis Strother Lyon. The latter was admitted to the bar in Alabama in 1821 and eventually became a U.S. Congressman and Confederate Congressman and head of the Alabama State Bank.
A family tree compiled circa 1900 by her great-granddaughter, Ms. J.L. Abbot Jr. of Mobile, says of her father: "Capt. James Gaines... See (Benson John) Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution. Served under Gen. Green. Was Senator in Chatham Co., N.C." Some other sources indicate this may be incorrect.
Daughters of the American Revolution (# A072767.)
The children of James Lyon and Hetty Gaines were:
1. Mary Lyon 1795- (some say)
2. Edmund Pendleton Lyon died a child
3. James Gaines Lyon b. 1795 VA or N.C. went to Alabama in 1816 with his brother F.S. Lyon to live with their uncle George S. Gaines; m.1 Lavinia Crall Henry; m.3 Rosina A. Fisher
4. Christina Harmon 1798-1845/7 VA m. 17 July 1819 Stokes Co, NC Joseph Martin
5. Francis Strother Lyon 1800-82 m. Sarah Serena Glover
6. William Henry Lyon 1802-1867 of Demopolis
7. Elizabeth Lyon b. 1805-d. after 1850 unmarried
8. Sarah Ware Lyon 1809-58 m. Joseph F. Flippin
9. Frances F. (Fannie) Lyon 1812-1850s m. Samuel M. Flippin
10. Nancy Behetheland Lyon 1817- bef.1852 m. William Martin Moore
Hetty Gaines Lyon was a direct descendant Cornelius Dabney, the Indian Interpreter for Cockacoeske, Queen of the Pamunkey, who was a grand-niece of Pocahontas, and married Cockacoeske's daughter Susannah as his second wife.
Lineage:
Cornelius Dabney, Indian interpreter
+1st wife Edie
George Dabney
+Elizabeth Anderson
Susannah Dabney
+Francis Thornton Strother
Elizabeth Strother
+James Gaines
Behetheland Gaines
+James Lyon
Descendants of Cornelius Dabney include Patrick Henry (the orator and Governor of Virginia), Dolly Madison (wife of President James Madison), Dabney Carr (brother-in-law of President Thomas Jefferson), Nancy Astor (first woman to sit in the British House of Commons), President Zachary Taylor and his daughter Sarah Knox Taylor, the first wife of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy. Also Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, fourth-great-grandson of George Dabney.
She married James Lyon on 1 APR 1792 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
Buried in the family cemetery on their plantation.
Two of their sons removed to Alabama when young to live with their uncle, Col. George Strother Gaines, first at St. Stephens in 1817, and later at Demopolis. They were James Gaines Lyon and Francis Strother Lyon. The latter was admitted to the bar in Alabama in 1821 and eventually became a U.S. Congressman and Confederate Congressman and head of the Alabama State Bank.
A family tree compiled circa 1900 by her great-granddaughter, Ms. J.L. Abbot Jr. of Mobile, says of her father: "Capt. James Gaines... See (Benson John) Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution. Served under Gen. Green. Was Senator in Chatham Co., N.C." Some other sources indicate this may be incorrect.
Daughters of the American Revolution (# A072767.)
The children of James Lyon and Hetty Gaines were:
1. Mary Lyon 1795- (some say)
2. Edmund Pendleton Lyon died a child
3. James Gaines Lyon b. 1795 VA or N.C. went to Alabama in 1816 with his brother F.S. Lyon to live with their uncle George S. Gaines; m.1 Lavinia Crall Henry; m.3 Rosina A. Fisher
4. Christina Harmon 1798-1845/7 VA m. 17 July 1819 Stokes Co, NC Joseph Martin
5. Francis Strother Lyon 1800-82 m. Sarah Serena Glover
6. William Henry Lyon 1802-1867 of Demopolis
7. Elizabeth Lyon b. 1805-d. after 1850 unmarried
8. Sarah Ware Lyon 1809-58 m. Joseph F. Flippin
9. Frances F. (Fannie) Lyon 1812-1850s m. Samuel M. Flippin
10. Nancy Behetheland Lyon 1817- bef.1852 m. William Martin Moore
Hetty Gaines Lyon was a direct descendant Cornelius Dabney, the Indian Interpreter for Cockacoeske, Queen of the Pamunkey, who was a grand-niece of Pocahontas, and married Cockacoeske's daughter Susannah as his second wife.
Lineage:
Cornelius Dabney, Indian interpreter
+1st wife Edie
George Dabney
+Elizabeth Anderson
Susannah Dabney
+Francis Thornton Strother
Elizabeth Strother
+James Gaines
Behetheland Gaines
+James Lyon
Descendants of Cornelius Dabney include Patrick Henry (the orator and Governor of Virginia), Dolly Madison (wife of President James Madison), Dabney Carr (brother-in-law of President Thomas Jefferson), Nancy Astor (first woman to sit in the British House of Commons), President Zachary Taylor and his daughter Sarah Knox Taylor, the first wife of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy. Also Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, fourth-great-grandson of George Dabney.
Buried in the family cemetery on their plantation.
Two of their sons removed to Alabama when young to live with their uncle, Col. George Strother Gaines, first at St. Stephens in 1817, and later at Demopolis. They were James Gaines Lyon and Francis Strother Lyon. The latter was admitted to the bar in Alabama in 1821 and eventually became a U.S. Congressman and Confederate Congressman and head of the Alabama State Bank.
A family tree compiled circa 1900 by her great-granddaughter, Ms. J.L. Abbot Jr. of Mobile, says of her father: "Capt. James Gaines... See (Benson John) Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution. Served under Gen. Green. Was Senator in Chatham Co., N.C." Some other sources indicate this may be incorrect.
Daughters of the American Revolution (# A072767.)
The children of James Lyon and Hetty Gaines were:
1. Mary Lyon 1795- (some say)
2. Edmund Pendleton Lyon died a child
3. James Gaines Lyon b. 1795 VA or N.C. went to Alabama in 1816 with his brother F.S. Lyon to live with their uncle George S. Gaines; m.1 Lavinia Crall Henry; m.3 Rosina A. Fisher
4. Christina Harmon 1798-1845/7 VA m. 17 July 1819 Stokes Co, NC Joseph Martin
5. Francis Strother Lyon 1800-82 m. Sarah Serena Glover
6. William Henry Lyon 1802-1867 of Demopolis
7. Elizabeth Lyon b. 1805-d. after 1850 unmarried
8. Sarah Ware Lyon 1809-58 m. Joseph F. Flippin
9. Frances F. (Fannie) Lyon 1812-1850s m. Samuel M. Flippin
10. Nancy Behetheland Lyon 1817- bef.1852 m. William Martin Moore
Hetty Gaines Lyon was a direct descendant Cornelius Dabney, the Indian Interpreter for Cockacoeske, Queen of the Pamunkey, who was a grand-niece of Pocahontas, and married Cockacoeske's daughter Susannah as his second wife.
Lineage:
Cornelius Dabney, Indian interpreter
+1st wife Edie
George Dabney
+Elizabeth Anderson
Susannah Dabney
+Francis Thornton Strother
Elizabeth Strother
+James Gaines
Behetheland Gaines
+James Lyon
Descendants of Cornelius Dabney include Patrick Henry (the orator and Governor of Virginia), Dolly Madison (wife of President James Madison), Dabney Carr (brother-in-law of President Thomas Jefferson), Nancy Astor (first woman to sit in the British House of Commons), President Zachary Taylor and his daughter Sarah Knox Taylor, the first wife of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy. Also Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, fourth-great-grandson of George Dabney.
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