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

Generation 6 (con't)She felt safe in his hands, and so it proved. She overlooked his profanity. He was paid $50 formaking that trip with them.The rest of the moving equipment consisted of four wagons, three drawn bu teams and one by asingle hourse. The live stock was driven ahead and consisted of four cows and fifty sheep.First experience with farming was in the use of oxen. They made a fine force tith which to breakland stumpy and full of spice bruch. Wihsuch a motive power the brush could be easily uprooted.LEVI RAYL brought what was perhaps the first breaking plow of any pretensions into the district. Itwas made of wood and rovided with an iron plate on the bottom. The mould was of wood. Thisimplement was kept in the family until it rotted down.Mr RAYL was a man with children before he ever saw a buggy. In that day the automobile andimproved farm machinery were unthought of.Phineas saw the first steam train which pulled into Kokomo. He was in the city and the train overthe original route of the Peru and Indianapolis road had only reached Fairfield, now known asOakford. Hedecided to walk to the village south to see the curiosity, which he did, and time has never effacedthe impression of wonder which the throbbing engine with its string of passenger coaches excited.Sources taken from files of BARBRA ANN DOWDENPhineas Rayl and Serepta Shepherd had the following children:i. VIRGINIA 7 RAYL (daughter of Phineas Rayl and Serepta Shepherd) was born on 07Sep 1859 in Howard Co., IN. She died on 18 Feb 1861 in Howard Co., IN.ii.GEORGEANN RAYL (daughter of Phineas Rayl and Serepta Shepherd) was born on20 Jan 1861 in Howard Co., IN. She died on 06 Feb 1861 in Howard Co., IN.243. iii. LAURA BELLE RAYL (daughter of Phineas Rayl and Serepta Shepherd) was born on04 Nov 1865 in Howard Co., IN. She died on 16 Nov 1952 in Howard Co., IN. Shemarried Stephen Andrew Salsberry on 14 Feb 1884 in Howard Co., IN. He wasborn on 28 Aug 1864 in Indiana. He died on 25 Oct 1922 in Howard Co., IN.241. iv. SARAH FRANCIS RAYL (daughter of Phineas Rayl and Serepta Shepherd) was bornon 25 Feb 1866 in Howard Co., IN. She died on 29 Mar 1945 in Howard Co., IN.She married George Washington Harrison on 27 Oct 1885 in Howard Co., IN. Hewas born on 21 Aug 1862 in Livingston, Kentucky, USA. He died on 01 May 1940 inHoward Co., IN.Phineas Rayl and Mary H. C. Young had the following children:244. v. EVA A. RAYL (daughter of Phineas Rayl and Mary H. C. Young) was born about1876. She married (1) JOHN MILTON WARNER.245. vi. WILLIAM H. RAYL (son of Phineas Rayl and Mary H. C. Young) was born in 1878 inClay or Howard Co., IN. He died in 1954 in Midland Co., MI. He married DellaWarner on 06 Aug 1895 in Howard Co., IN. She was born in 1877 in Howard Co.,IN. She died in 1943 in Midland Co., MI.Phineas Rayl and Sarah A Poff had the following children:246. vii. JESSIE M. RAYL (daughter of Phineas Rayl and Sarah A Poff) was born on 20 Nov1883 in Howard Co., IN. She died about 1959. She married (1) HARRY H. JACKSON.He was born about 1879 in Howard Co., IN. He died in 1920 in Wells Co., IN.viii.ix.JOHN P. RAYL (son of Phineas Rayl and Sarah A Poff) was born on 21 Dec 1885 inHoward Co., IN. He died in Apr 1972 in Howard Co., IN.GLEN E. RAYL (son of Phineas Rayl and Sarah A Poff) was born on 07 Jun 1889 inHoward Co., IN. He died in Feb 1970 in Howard Co., IN.55