Nora Sheldon Lyons 1857-1879 Burlingame, KS
I am hoping to find a picture of Leonora "Nora" Sheldon Lyons, born 12/30/1857, died
03/14/1879 in Burlingame, Kansas.
She is the daughter of O.H. (Olgilvie Hosford) Sheldon, born 10/17/1833 in Victor, Ontario
County, New York, died 08/13/1878 in Burlingame, Kansas.
Her brother was Charles M. Sheldon, born 12/22/1862 in Burlingame, Kansas (not the "In Your
Steps" Charles Sheldon).
She was married to Richard Henry "Dick" Lyons on 05/15/1878 in the parlor of her parent's home in
Burlingame, Kansas and one day shy of 10 months to the day after her wedding on 03/14/1879,
she died in childbirth, along with her son.
I'm not a relative, just fascinated with her.I've read so much about her and pieced together much
of her short life from items found in the Osage County (Kansas) Chronicle and I feel, strangely
enough, as though I know her and would have very much liked to have had her as a friend had I
lived in her time, and yet she remains faceless to me.If anyone at all can help me meet her face to
face, I would be forever in your debt!
Heidi Stromgren