Abbie M. Lyons (b. Hilliard) (1850-1932) was born in Pembroke, Maine, and died in Wilmingington, Massachusetts. In 1865 she married Elias Lyons in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada. He was a veteran of the American Civil War, serving in Company C of the Maine Coast Guard Infantry. After the war he was a laborer and a caulker. By 1870 they were living in Dennysville, Maine, and by 1880 they had moved to Lowell, Massachusetts. Lyons's husband died in 1885, leaving her with their six children. She subsequently moved to Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, and advertised as a stenographer in the Boston City Directory in the late 1880s and early 1890s. In 1887 Lyons wrote to Mary Baker Eddy's secretary, Calvin A. Frye, offering her services as a stenographer and typist, but the record does not indicate whether she was employed by Eddy in these capacities. By 1900 she had returned to Lowell, and sometime before 1930 she moved to Wilmington.

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