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Persoonlijke gegevens John R Lemon 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1831 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Hij is overleden augustus 1871 in Mesilla, Doua Ana, New Mexico, USA, hij was toen 40 jaar oud.

Gezin van John R Lemon

Hij is getrouwd met Lucina Pope.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1849 te Pope Valley, Napa, California, USA, hij was toen 18 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Maria Juliana Lemon  1854-????
2. Frank Lemon  1856-± 1856
3. John Lemon  1858-????

Notities over John R Lemon

He was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, about 1831, and died at Mesilla,August 27, 1871. He was left an orphan at an early age and was reared by an uncle in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to the age of fourteen years, when he ran away from home. He obtained money from a sister, and thence started across the plains with a train of emigrants for northern California, USA. While in that part of the country he met an uncle, who was a physician and who had a contract with the government for carrying the mail and express. In the employ of this uncle Mrr Lemon made two or three trips to Oregon and after his uncle's death he settled at Pope Valley in Napa county, California, USA. He was there employed as a cowboy and while there, at the age of eighteen years, he met Luciana Pope, whom he afterward married. Pope Valley was the concession by the Mexican government to her father, William Pope.

Just prior to the outbreak of the Civil war Mrr Lemon came to New Mexico with his wife and two children, John and Julia. He had for some time previous conducted a large hotel in San Bernardino, California, USA. On coming to New Mexico he first settled at Warm Spring, in Grant county. He opened a spring there and got a tract of land, remaining at that point for a year, but the Indians and the rebels occasioned him considerable annoyance, and in the spring or summer of 1861 he came to Mesilla, Dona Ana county, where he engaged in business, taking government contracts for furnishing hay, grain and other supplies. Not long afterward the Confederate forces came to this part of the Territory and he was arrested by General Baylor's troops because he was a strong Union man and refused to serve in the Confederate army. He was sentenced to be hanged, but was released after a rope had been placed around his neck, and finally was exchanged. W. W. Mills, in his volume, "Forty Years in El Paso," thus describes this incident. John Lemon, Jacob Applezoller and Crittenden Marshall were arrested at La Mesilla as "Union men." One midnight these three men were taken from the courthouse by the guard and a party of citizens. Marshall was hanged by the neck until he was dead. Applezoller was also suspended by a rope, but for some reason was cut down and revived. He and Lemon were taken back to the courthouse. Some time later Lemon made his escape and joined the Union people at Fort Craig.

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