Descendants of Patrick Gullion of Gallatin Co., KY - GullionFamily.org

Generation 6 (con't)was born on 21 Aug 1862 in Livingston, Kentucky, USA. He died on 01 May 1940 inHoward Co., IN.242. iii. ELIZA JANE RAYL (daughter of John Franklin Rayl and Mary A. Waldron) was bornon 30 Jan 1869 in Howard Co., IN. She died on 12 Feb 1952 in Howard Co., IN.She married Reuben T. Rusk on 06 Apr 1880 in Howard Co., IN. He was born on09 Oct 1855 in Howard Co., IN. He died on 23 Jan 1938 in Indiana.iv.DILLARD RAYL (son of John Franklin Rayl and Mary A. Waldron) was born about1879 in Howard Co., IN.71. PHINEAS 6 RAYL (Susannah 5 Gullion, John O. 4 Gullion, Edmund P. 3 Gullion, Henry 2 Gullion, Patrick 1Gullion) was born on 17 Oct 1837 in Howard Co., IN. He died on 03 Apr 1925 in Howard Co., IN.He married (1) SEREPTA SHEPHERD on 25 Nov 1858 in Kokomo, Howard Co., IN. She was born in1841 in Howard Co., IN. She died before 1875 in Indiana. He married (2) MARY H. C. YOUNG on 08Apr 1875. He married (3) SARAH A POFF on 17 Oct 1882. She was born on 04 Apr 1847 in HowardCo., IN. She died in 1945 in Howard Co., IN.Notes for Phineas Rayl:TRUE PIONEER of HOWARD COUNTY - LEVI RAYLMost of the info re this family supplied by Barbra Ann DOWDEN and taken from the Magazine "Howard County Roots" - the August 1993 issue.From Volume IV - No. 3 August 1993This family moved in as Indians, vacated their present farm home of Rush County, Indians. A timeof many hardships. Journey from Rush to Howard County gave adventurers many thrills.Settled in Harrison township in January 1845/48 (beleived to been 1848, for next to the last child, ason was born in January of 1845). The Indians had vacated and settled at Cassville the fallproceeding.The RAYL family moved into a log cabin upon land afterwards known as the Levi Rayl farm, whichwas one of forty similar structures builded by the Indians and was situataed in what had in realitybeen an Indian village. This was in Harrison township, and whaat was afterwards known as the ELITARKINGTON farm joined on the north.The cabin was 30 x 15 and formed of logs, the material of the day, with mud mortar between thelogs. The floor was formed of pounded dirt, while the chimney was formed of sticks laid in mud.Eight feet of ythe structure had been cut off and used as a store room for whiskey and furs. Thefloor was laid with moss and the roof was constructed of hickory rim bark. Four acres of ground hadbeen cleared surrounding the cabin.The removal of the family from Rush County was somoe undertaking. The main wagon,surmounted by a bed four times the size of the present day wagon beds and crooked in the rear,was drawn by four horses. As there was little roadway existing most of the way the men had to cutdown trees and brush to make passage way. PHINEAS RAYL (a son) remembers well when theycame to a branch of water where from the surface to the bottom was a depth of twenty feet. Thisstream was spanned by two logs and a puncheon floor which was rough boards which had beenhewn out of logs. One supporting beam had been punk a foot lower than the other, leaving the flooron an incline, and was covered with ice. The big wagon was half way over when it began to slidetoward the water. The RAYL family were all in this wagon. The driver, who was an expert teamsterfor that day, shouted to his hourses and they started into a lope and the wagon cleared the bridgesuccessfully, but lasked only three inches of going over.PHINEAS shall never forget that experience as a boy, he wouldn,t cross such a bridge under anyconsideration. He remember the driver was very excited and very profane. When he got across hestopped amd shouted profanity for quite a spell. His mother had confidence in his ability as ateamster and with a woman,s intuition was afraid of the dangers of the trip. She refused to sign thedeed to his father,s land which he had sold unless this driver agreed to make the trip for them.54