Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Ephraim Lyon

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 74 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Nov 1737 
  • Birth Location:
  • Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Feb 1820 
  • Death Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Axtell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Nov 1760 
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  Betty Lyon (Ahnentafel No:37 )

• Sources for Ephraim Lyon

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1899, Vol. 53, p. 229.
  • ² 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), 80-81.

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