No birth certificates were issued at the time Byron and his siblings were born. The doctor or midwife made a record and then sent it to the court house. However the Clearfield Court House burned down and destroyed many of the records when Byron’s sister Cornelia was quite young.75
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“Frank” was shell shocked and gassed in Germany during World War One in about 1918. He suffered great mental distress over the war and his injuries. Due to his mental condition he was institutionalized in the Mayview State Hospital* in Bridgeville, Allegheny, PA near Pittsburgh where he spent the final 17 years of his life. He was an excellent piano player.49,75
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In June 1900 Byron is listed among those living in his grandmother Mary Ann Lines’ Bloom Township home. Source indicates he was born in Feb 1887, age 13.478
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Per 1910 census record “Byron Lyons” was an office clerk, head of household and living with his widowed [sic] mother in Curwensville, Clearfield, PA when 22 years old.232
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“Frank B. Lines” resident of Pittsburgh, PA Sep 1930.475

Residence: 1917, 117 W. Ohio St., Pittsburgh, PA.476
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Frank had a friend named Earl Fasset. There are quite a few pictures of Frank and Earl together and I can't help but wonder about their relationship. I believe that my great Aunt Cornelia talked about them and their friendship, but I remember nothing more. I'd love to know more about Earl, especially in light of the fact that he was according to my great aunt killed in World War One.

Frank and Earl were apparently very good friends. Frank goes off to war and comes back "shell shocked and gassed" and Earl, who was probably his best friend, was killed in France in the same war.

Although Earl is not a relative I've been intrigued over the years with the photos of he and my great uncle together, and the story to be told regarding them, their relationship and their demise.

How much did the death of his friend affect Frank and his mental state, which led to his being institutionalized? No matter what, I look at his pictures and can't help but think about how unfortunate those last seventeen years of his life must have been. And what kind of affect did that have on his brother and sister, my grandfather Harry W. and Cornelia Ellen knowing their sibling was in a mental institution? I don't recall ever bothering to ask them those kinds of questions.

In my observations I'm amazed at how much my great uncle Byron Francis Lines resembles in appearance his nephew, my uncle Elmer Byron Lines (1911-1988).3

Earl Fasset’s name (Bryon’s friend above) does not appear among those who served in the First World War 1917-1918 from Curwensville in this source.477
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I have no idea the reason, but there are a number of recorded occurrences where various Lines family members themselves used or addressed other Lines family members with the surname LYONS.  For many years my grandfather Harry W. Lines (1880-1974) used the spelling LYONS in his last name. 

Regarding Byron Francis Lines there are postcard images I have in which he changed the order of his first and second initials. Once as F.B.L. and another time as B.F.L. There are also records indicating he used the last name Lyons. One of them is his World War One Draft Registration Card dated 5 June 1917 in which he uses the name Francis Byron Lyons and signed it Francis B. Lyons.3


*Mayview State Hospital was opened on December 20, 1863 and closed in December of 2008.480