The Lyles of western Pennsylvania
Lyle of Washington County, PA by Alvin D. WHITE, 1934 (2nd ed.), 1963 (3rd ed.).
Georgeann (webmaster for http://www.irishgenealogy.com) is interested in hearing from WHITE descendents. I would like to update my WHITE research.
4 John White b: March 29, 1804 d: October 23, 1868 in
Washington Co., PA
.......... +Isabella
Lyle b:21 Oct 1802 d: February
16, 1872 in Washington Co., PA Father: Robert
LYLE
Mother: Sarah REA
See inter-related families: CAMPBELL, REA, MARQUIS, WHITE
During the Whiskey Insurrection, in 1794, Mr. REA together with Aaron LYLE and Thomas PATTERSON, comprised a committee sent by the "insurrectionists" to meet the United States Army at Braddock's Field. This same committee later administered the oath of allegiance to 150 men at Cross Creek on September 11, 1794, following the "breaking" of the insurrection.
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Robert Lyle, a native of Northampton County, Pa., and a brother of Aaron and John Lyle, came to this township with his wife and one child in 1784, and bought one hundred and forty acres of land of David Decker, and also the eighty acres of John Brown, and on which he settled. Four years later, Oct. 31, 1789, he purchased a tract of one hundred and forty acres adjoining of David Decker, and sold the first tract to his brother, John Lyle. On this last tract he moved and lived till his death, Nov. 25, 1843. He was an elder at different periods in Cross Creek, Upper Buffalo, and Mount Prospect Churches. He had four sons, --Samuel, David, John, and William. Samuel was a teacher, and died in West Middletown in 1813. David died on the home farm in 1863 a bachelor. John and William married and removed to Belmont County, Ohio. The former died in 1851, the latter in 1854. Of the seven daughters, Ann married Robert Simpson in 1820, and in 1827 lived in cross Creek township on land now owned by their son, James Simpson. Isabel married John WHITE, and lived in Hopewell township. Their son, R. Lyle White, was an editor, and for a time edited a paper in Connellsville, Fayette Co. Margaret married James Dinsmore, and settled in Cross Creek township. She still lives on the place where they settled. Mary married William Smith, and settled near Mansfield, Ohio. Their son, Dr. William Smith, was a lieutenant in the Mexican war, a lieutenant-colonel in the late Rebellion, and is now an eminent physician in Van Wert, Ohio. Their son, Joseph R. Reed, is now a judge of a district embracing ten counties in Iowa. He resides at Council Bluffs.
John Lyle was a native of Northampton County, and brother of Aaron and Robert Lyle. He was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary war, and was at the battle of Long Island. He came to the county with his brothers, and about 1876 purchased of his brother Robert, the one hundred and forty acres he first purchased of Decker and Wilson, where ---- Miller now lives. Here he lived, and died in 1826, aged seventy-four years. His children were David, John, and Joseph, Elizabeth and Nancy. David married a daughter of Peter Kidd, and moved to Ohio. John lived on the homestead, a bachelor, and died in 1853. He was a county commissioner in 1822. Joseph lived on a farm adjoining the homestead, and died in October, 1881, aged eighty-four years. Elizabeth became the wife of John Proudfoot, and moved to near Burgettstown, where their descendants still live. Nancy became the wife of William Rankin, and remained in the township. She died in 1870.