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From: "Linda Cammaroto" <>
Subject: [NJSUSSEX-L] Albert T. Lyons, obit, 1918
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:51:23 -0700

Sussex Independent, Sussex, NJ, Oct. 18,1918

Popular County Official Passes Away at Newton Wednesday Morning

After an illness of only a few days, from influenza, which developed
pneumonia, Albert T. Lyons died at 5:40 o'clock Wednesday morning at his
apartments in the Sussex County Court House. He lacked a month of being
forty years of age. He has been Under Sheriff of the county for ten years,
and one of the most popular officials the county ever had.

Albert Tuckerton Lyons was born at Wiretown, just across the line in Warren
county, but came with his parents to Newton when he was three years old. He
attended the St. Joseph's Parochial School and for six years was employed in
the clothing store of the late Michael P. Tully. Later he was manager for
eight years of the clothing department of the Park Block store.

Mr. Lyons entered public life in 1908 when he was appointed under sheriff by
Sheriff George N. Harris, and has served continuously in that position
since, having been reappointed in 1911 by Sheriff Edward D. Maines, in 1914
by Sheriff William D. Wilson, and in 1817 by Sheriff Chardavoyne.

Surviving Mr. Lyons are his mother, Mrs. Norah Lyons, and two sisters, Mrs.
James Connell and Mrs. William Ogden, all of Newton. Mr. Lyons was a member
of the Dover Elks and of the Improved Order of Red Men, the Order of Moose,
and Knights of Columbus.

The funeral will be private, owing to the influenza epidemic, but already
there is a movement on foot to hold a memorial service to the late official
as soon as the closing ban is raised.

Mr. Lyon was widely and favorably known throughout Sussex , and in some of
the adjoining counties, and the announcement of his death threw a pall of
sadness wherever he was known. He was very much liked by the Judges and
court officers and was a suave, polite and genial young man, known in every
county community as "Tuck", in abbreviation of his middle name. He figured
prominently in Democratic politics for a number of years past.

He was in reality the chief law officer of the county. While short in
stature, he was strongly built and athletic and never knew the meaning of
fear. Aside from all this he was a shrewd detective, he has on more than
one occasion done work that won for him the encomiums of the New York and
other police departments and his reputation as a thief taker was almost
nation-wide. Probably he had as many warm personal friends as any man in
the county, and he was noted in particular for his unfailing serenity in all
circumstances.

Mr. Lyons was as ardent a sportsman as he was a public official He was one
of the founders and most enthusiastic supporters of the Sussex County Golf
Club, whose champion he was for two years.



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