John Pyle Jr. (1782 - 1851)

Born 13 Aug 1782 in Chatham County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Wells) Pyle — married 13 Nov 1806 in Christian Co., Kentucky, USA

Descendants

Died 5 May 1851 at age 68 in Saint Johns, Perry, Illinois, United States

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10 children

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Biography

Both John and wife Mary were very much against slavery, which was in full swing in the state of Kentucky before and during the revolutionary war. He and other members of the Pyle clan led by the three brothers William, Abner and John (Jack), after death of their father. They crossed the Ohio river around 1818 to establish homes in the free state of Illinois. At this time they had 3 children, one daughter and 2 sons: Sarah, Hiram and Rufus.

Traveling north by way of Morton's Gap and what is now Madsonville, they crossed the Ohio River at what is now Shawneetown, Illinois. For fear of the Indians, they remained at a fort on Crab Orchard Creek 4 miles east of Carbondale, Illinois for a year.

Cortez, 3rd son of Jack and Polly, was born at this fort in 1818 just before Illinois became a state. They moved north and owned land which is now considerable part of the town of Duquoin, Illinois.

The Pyles, along with the Wells family, help establish what is now called Perry County, and helped with the design of the town Pinckneyville. Elijah Wells, brother to Polly and Sarah (Wells) Pyle, was one of the first three commissioners of the new county.

Jack died in 1851 and was buried on his land at a site he chose with his gravesite being enclosed by 12x12 one-foot-tall brick wall with cedar tree planted in each of the 4 corners.

Polly moved further west with her son, Octavius, and his family, and his 2 brothers, Cortez and Ulysses and their families in 1853 to Northwest Missouri with some of the other neighboring families.

Sources

• Pyle Family History 1594-1954, by Lela Livingston, Florence Tait, Homer Pyle, and R. Dean Goodwin.

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Pyle-205 created through the import of HAYER.GED on May 29, 2011 by Larry Hayer. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Larry and others.