Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF 'GLMTRA TOWNSHIP. 479
Miss .Agnes, daughter of Tlioillas and Janet (Scott) &1turray, natives
of Scotla~lcl, ~l10 iminigrnted 11 ither. The saine year he purchased
160 acres of land, erected a house t'l~ereon, and here has resided down
to the present time. Of tlielr fifteen children, tqen are living,, tlie eldest,
Janet, being ~nitrried antl a resitlent of this to~vns11:p. Mr.
JacBson, in business ~~iatters, l~ns derotecl his attention solely to farming.
IIe llas never been a lrleinLer of a secret society, but for twentyfour
years llns been n consistent melnber of the United Presbyterian
church. IIe ll;~ serlret1 as tlirecto~ of his school clistrlct for several
years. In political dairs he votes with tlie Republican party.
.filwt~s L. eJcbc.X~so7a, a former settler of the county, died in Taylor
County, IOIIT:~, in January, I SS3.
.hkn Leason, better ltno~\~i~ a.s Deacon John Lenson, finds inentioil in
several !,ages of this work. I11 tlie marnage recortl many members of
his f;~in 11y find ;L notice. On June 27, 1861, tlle venerable Deacon was
tnlten fl*kn his 1101ne at dead of night by a number of illen who
e~ltel*etl his ]louse. A11 alarin was @\-en a.nd the people turning out,
~)romptly llunted the assaulting parties to their den. Horror stricken,
one confessetl, nncl ns a result, Cl~nrles TVilsou, Enos Mix, George
lhdla, Robert Alexander, Miles Avely antl George Whitehead mere
ar~estecl. They were tried before Justices I:as\vell ant1 TVil~slom and
a ju~y of t~velre men, and finetl $25, \rl~icll the jury considered then
equal to $100 in ordinary times.
IfTillic~~/. Leaso%. ( flic7e sketch of Ly. L. GPTCI~~(~.)
Thor-tns Lyle. ( T';ine =vketc7~ of Asn A. Bzc7rton.)
CYcwlos B. Lyle, son of Thomas ant1 Mary J. (Craig) Lyle, mas
born in this to\rnsllip,. November 1, 1842. Tllo~nas Lyle came to the
Unitetl States wit11 liis father, when seven years of age, and with liim
resiclecl in Vermont. Carlos B. TWS with him cluring all his earlier
yea>ias until sent to Abingdon to attend IIedding college. Even after
spending two terins there he enlisted as soon as he got 11ome in 1864,
in Colnlxmy 11, One-hundlaecI-antl-th irty-fourth Illinols Infan try, with
which cornn~nnd lle serrecl until inusterecl oat, as sho\\~n in the inilitary
cl~apter. On Mi~rcll 21, 1865, he nlnnaied Miss Marv S., daughter of
Levi ant1 Tirza (Powell) Ingles, natives of Virginia inti Ohio respectively.
To tliis union seven children nTere born, namely : Koble A.,
Cjllarles M., 1)aisy E., Nellie E., Tlloi~lns E., Enlma II., and one who is
nu~nhe~etl ailionk the dead. IIis far111 on section 15 is a model one.
Subjected to systematic cultivation since the way by him, it shoivs the
effect of his care. Here, too, he is engaged in stock-grou~ing. In
religious matters Mr. Lyle is a inenlber of the Methotlist Episcopal
church, and Mrs. Lyle, of the American Presbyterian church. In
politics he is a ch;~racteiaistic Itepnblic;in, was a 11;einber of the Union
League in war times, micl is totlav senior rice-commander of James
Jackson Post, No. 35, G. A. E. ' A ~*eference to tlie pioneer cliapter
of the general llistory ant1 to the slcetcl~ of Elmira to\\-nship ~vill point
out more definitely the part taken bv the fillllil~'. of ~~hich Mr. Lyle is
a member, in tlre settlement antl of thjs county.
IIo~actc~ E. Lyle son of Thomas ant1 Mi~ry Jane (Craig) Lyle, \vats
born in thls tomnslliy May 3, 1552; \17as educated here, and shared in