Lyman Ransley Dayton

Picture is from their 50th anniversary - April 1946.

LYMAN DAYTON 95, DIED MARCH 6, 1963 AT FIVE COUNTIES HOSPITAL. DEATH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO OLD AGE. HE DIED AT LEMMON, SOUTH DAKOTA. HE WAS BORN AT COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK ON NOVEMBER 8, 1867. HE WITH HIS FAMILY MOVED TO JUNEAU COUNTY, WISCONSIN WHEN HE WAS A CHILD. HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION IN WISCONSIN. HE MARRIED LULU NIMBAR AT MAUSTON ON APRIL 15, 1896. THEY MOVED TO SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1907 AND SETTLED AT SPRING BUTTE TOWNSHIP..

MR. DAYTON FOLLOWE A FARMING VOCATION ALL HIS LIFE. HE SERVED ON TOWNSHIP AND SCHOOL BOARDS FOR MANY YEARS AND TOOK AND ACTIVE PART IN THE AFFAIRS OF HIS COMMUNITY..

HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, TWO SONS, TWO DAUGHTERS, 23 GRANDCHILDREN AND 34 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A DAUGHTER, IVA, IN 1918.

SOURCE: JOHN FLUNO FAMILY REGISTER - VOL 1 - PAGE 247-248

PER THE FLUNO LINE, HE IS A 2ND COUSIN TWICE REMOVED TO JACK. HIS SISTER MARRIED LEWIS WELLS, BROTHER OF JACK'S GRANDFATHER DAVID WELLS.

• "Wisconsin State Census, 1905", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MM3Z-VL4 : 5 March 2022), Lyman Dayton, 1905.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMV7-DPR : accessed 2 March 2023), Lyman Dayton, Mauston city Ward 1-2, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 81, sheet 14A, family 338, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,793.