Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Betty Lyon

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 37 
  • Father:
  • Ephraim Lyon 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Axtell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jan 1764 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 1820 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Moses Marsh
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Dec 1783 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Moses Cushman Marsh (Ahnentafel No:18 )

  • Notes: 

  • Betty Lyon's given name is also seen as Betsey.

• Sources for Betty Lyon

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 89, Birth records for children of Moses and Betty Marsh.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 248, Marriage of Moses Marsh and Betty Lyon.
  • ³ Lyons, Albert Brown, et. al., Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury . . ., Detroit, Michigan: Press of Wm. Graham Printing Co. (1905), 81.

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