Richard F. Lyon (judge)

[3] After the Civil War, Lyon moved his family to Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, where he lived until his death.

His nephew, Thomas R. Lyon, was also a resident of Albany, Georgia, being active in political and social life.

Lyon served under Georgia's first chief justice, Joseph Henry Lumpkin, due to a Georgia law that said "The oldest Judge in commission is the Chief Justice, or President thereof, but without greater powers than his associates.

[8] His local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter called Lyon "one of the most brilliant lawyers the state has ever produced.

"[1] In a memorial published by the Supreme Court of Georgia, Lyon was described as a superior lawyer for southwestern Georgia who was "irascible, dogmatic and combative", but also "a mere child of impulse...a very peculiar character, full of contrasts and contradictions, and difficult to describe".