Welcome to Lyon County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Founded March 6, 1868 Named for General Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed in the Civil War Seat Marshall Largest city Marshall Townships Cities Amiret Township Clifton Township Coon Creek Township Custer Township Eidsvold Township Fairview Township Grandview Township Island Lake Township Lake Marshall Township Lucas Township Lynd Township Lyons Township Monroe Township Nordland Township Rock Lake Township Shelburne Township Sodus Township Stanley Township Vallers Township Westerheim Township Balaton Cottonwood Florence Garvin Ghent Lynd Marshall Minneota Russell Taunton Tracy Unincorporated * Amiret * Burchard * Green Valley Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Feb. 2013: Obits: Graves, Kelson, Larson, Lefstad, Shephard, Suckerson, Wang, Webster Marriages: Abernathy - Willford; Antonson - Klabol; Eckes - Corey; Garboth - Tollefson; Kenney - Stuart; Mackay - Marron; Novotny - Kirsch; Wayman - Hunzicker July 2012: Obits: Hermer, Simons, Tate June 2012: Bio: Gits Apr. 2012: Bios: Forbes, McArthur, Smith Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; Bio: Mossman; Obit: Bahn Jan 2012: List of Cemeteries; Crime news Previous Updates: BROWN OBIT; Biographies for SCHOUWEILER, CHITTENDEN, LIVINGSTON, RIALSON, BEACH, BOUTELLE, MATHEWS, BALDWIN, MAXSON, SHEPARD; St. Eloi Church Roster, Births 1881-1882 SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Yellow Medicine County (north) Lincoln County (west) Pipestone County (southwest) Redwood County (east) Murray County (south) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.