Lord, Lucy T., 1817-1853

Educator and missionary; b. Lucy T. Lyon.

Lucy Thomas Lyon was born on February 15, 1817 in Buckland, Massachusetts to Armilla Alden Lyon and Aaron Lyon, the brother of Mary Lyon. Though she moved to Stockton, New York with her family, she returned to attend school at Franklin Academy in Shelburne, Massachusetts. Lyon taught in Shelburne and nearby towns before enrolling at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. After graduating in 1840, she taught in Stockton for one year then returned to Mount Holyoke as a teacher. She married the Rev. Edward Clemens Lord in 1846 and accompanied him to Ningpo, China where the Lords worked as missionaries for seven years. She had two children, both of whom died before the age of two. Because of her own poor health she and her husband returned to the United States in 1853. She visited friends in New England and her sister Rosina Dayfort in Ohio. Lyon died of intestinal tuberculosis and tetanus at her mother's home in Fredonia, New York on May 5, 1853.