From
History of Charles Dixon - One of the early English settlers, Sackville, New Brunswick, Compiled by James D. Dixon, a grandson, Sackville, N.B., 1891:
David Lyons was a shipmaster and also a mechanic. He followed coasting a number of years and then sailed on foreign voyages. They resided at Sackville, and their children were named Rufus Dixon, Annie M., David, William Henry, and Mary Ann, two of whom, 4 Annie M. and 4 David, died in childhood. Capt. David Lyons died at Benin, on the coast of Africa, of fever, on the 22nd of October, 1865, aged 57 years.