Rev. Stephen Lyon Mershon
1827-1874
11TH MINISTER OF THE EAST HAMPTON CHURCH 1854-1866
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Rev. Stephen Mershon and his wife Mary Talmage (1828-1872), were married at Bound Brook, New Jersey in 1853. They lived in East Hampton from 1854-1866. They had eight children in East Hampton, and another after their move to Connecticut.
Once of the biggest decisions during Rev. Mershon’s time in East Hampton was that to abandon the 1717 church and build a new one. Sag Harbor Express, 11 Aug 1959
Rev. Stephen Lyon Mershon was born March 4, 1827 in Cross Roads, Grant,Kentucky. He was the son of William Harvey Mershon (1805-1863 ) and Sarah Lyon (1808-1897). He died April 11, 1874 in Napanoch, Ulster County, New York. Burial was at Cedar Grove Cemetery, in Somerset, Somerset County, New Jersey.
Reference:
Reverend Stephen L. Mershon and Mary Talmage Mershon, His Wife, 1900, by Stephen L. Mershon, Jr,
Montclair, NJ, 66 pages
After his first wife Mary died in 1872, In 1874 he married her niece, of the same name, Mary Talmage, From the Marriage Alter to the Grave, The Evening Gazette, Port Jervis, N.Y., April 18, 1874, p.1, Sad Death of a Clergy Man, Pittsburgh Daily Post, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wednesday, May 06, 1874
Letters Tell of Mrs. S. Mershon’s Life in Village, East Hampton Star, November 14,1935, p. 1
Looking Them Over, East Hampton Star, June 21, 1934, p. 2
The Thanksgiving Address, 1861, Item of the Week From the East Hampton’s Library Long Island Collection. Causes for Thanksgiving in the midst of Civil War-A Discourse by Rev. Stephen L. Mershon deliverd in the Presbyterian Church, East Hampton, L.I.