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Ma'am, Lyons hallow does exsist (just not by that name)Lyons Hallow is now apart of Guys Mills. The Lyona Bible Church actually stands where the town used to be. If you ever venture back here's the story. I have a map. Lyona Rd comes off of rt 77, just follow the road until it intersects woodcock creek, you should see a sign.
This comes from a really old book I have. I need to find a place to get it restored. Any how, this it what is read.
The only other postoffice in the township is Lyona, situated in the southern part. Here may be found a store, a church, schoolhouse, shoe-shop, blacksmith-shop and several families. The office was established in 1868, and has had the following Postmasters: T. A. Stewart, John Fross, B. L. Lyon, D. B. Chapin and G. L. Sybrant. During its brief term of life it has rejoiced in three names: first Lyon's Hollow, then Lines, now Lyona. A postoffice was !ormerly kept a short time at Teepletown, in the north part of the township.
Within the limits of the township are three places of general burial: Townley's graveyard, in the western part; Lyon's, near Lyona, and one at New Richmond.
The first religions organization in the township was a Methodist class formed about 1822 by Rev. Hatton, in the cabin of Daniel Hunt. Jasper Lyon, David Hunt and wife, Ananias Phillips, John Davidson, Luther Wilder and Delos Crouch were among its earliest members. For a little while the class worshiped in the cabin of Mr. Hunt, then a schoolhouse was built in the western part of Tract 1466, wherein services were held until about 1848. A meeting-house was then erected at Hickory Corners, Randolph Township, and the home of the society passed without the limits of Richmond.
A Congregational Church was formed during the residence in the township of John Brown, who was its leading spirit. Besides him Calvin Wilder and wife and a few others were members. Meetings were held for a time in the second floor of Brown's tannery and in a schoolhouse, but the congregation was not sufficient numerically to maintain existence very long.
Richmond Baptist Church was organized December 25, 1841, with fifteen constituent members, including Ebenezer Hunt and wife, Mrs. Elizabeth <page 605> Hatch, Osman Stewart and wife, Benjamin Carr and wife, Miss Minerva Miller, Mrs. Eunice Mason, Ephraim Blackmer and wife, Samuel Little and wife and Elder E. H. Stewart and wife. Meetings were first held in a log schoolhouse which stood at the corners near the present church, then in a schoolhouse near Sybrant's store, next in the present schoolhouse, erected partly through subscriptions from the congregation. uutil the present structure was erected in 1866. It is situated in the northwest part of Tract 1443, near Lyona Postoffice, and cost $3,500. Revs. E. H. Stewart, Warren Bradford, William Lamb, C. W. Drake, G. W. Snyder, Jacob Morris, John Owens, C. T. Jack, Carey Stewart and O. Thomas have served the congregation as pastors. The membership is now about one hundred.
In the southeast part of the township, on Tract 1428 is a Spiritualist Church, erected about 1874, on land donated by Jesse Winans. Besides him Cyrus Judd, Albert Winans and Benjamin Frankiin were early members. Prior to the erection of the church, meetings of this faith had been held for a long time but years have now elapsed since services were discontinued.
The township contains three edifices and three societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At New Richmond is a frame meeting-house, built in 1864 at a cost of $1,200. The class which worships here was organized about 1836 by Rev. Walter B. Lloyd, the first pastor. Ananias Phillips and wife, Russell Flint and wife and Hollis Hull were early members. Until the present church was erected services were held in the Griswold Schoolhouse, located about a mile east of the sanctuary. This church is a part of Rockville Circuit and has a membership of about one hundred.
North Richmond class was organized about 1840 and its leading early members were: James and William Morse, Franklin Lord, Emerson Chamberlin, Tracy Turner, Patrick Perry, David Mackey, David Gray and James Wilkinson. Services were held in the Warner Schoolhouse until 1854 when the present frame building was erected. The church now numbers over forty members and is a part of Rockville Circuit.
Van Scoder's Methodist Episcopal Church is in the northeast part of Richmond. A class organized here forty years ago, was maintained for many years. The present society was formed about 1877. Services were held in the schoolhouse until 1882 when the present neat, commodious structure, 34x48, was erected at a cost of about $1,800. The membership is thirty and the class is connected with Rockville Circuit.
I'm from the area so to say. I'm looking into the genealogy of the richard willey family. Richard is my grandfather, although he's still living he's suffered a stroke. Any info you have on the Willey family from Crawford county is much appreciated.
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