KIT 23279

 

Joseph Sylvester Kyle

no info on birth or death

 

JOSEPH SYLVESTER KYLE

had a son WILLIAM CRAWFORD KYLE.


WILLIAM CRAWFORD KYLE

(farmer/preacher) Believe born ? (_____ In Indianapolis,
Ind.
) Died Feb. 1871 In TN. (we think).

Wife RACHAEL Died 1856 (we also think
in TN). W. C. was ordained Methodist Minister circuit rider. Lived in
Indiana
until Land records at courthouse destroyed by fire.
Squatters took land forcing
family to move to
Tennessee. They had three sons.

 ROBERT no info

CLIFF no info
SAMUEL CRAWFORD (see below)


SAMUEL CRAWFORD KYLE

(farmer) born 9- 8- 1852 location unknown
Died 12-21-1906

Buried in Freestone County Wortham TX Cemetery.

Hand carved headstone (S. C. Kyle) and is found just left of his sons’
grave.

Married SARAH ELIZABETH COLLIER

Born 1860-1862 in Dyersberg, Reelfoot County, TN

(this was broken up into three counties see 1895 maps Lake County,
Dyer County & Obion County)

Died 1-19-1926 in Glenn Flora, TX

of Brights Disease. Buried El Campo, TX in Lakeview Cemetery next to son Samuel Zora.
Sarah ‘s mother was a full blood Indian princess of the Iroquois tribe. A now
lost family document was said to have been given to Sarah leaving much of the
land that is now the city of
Indianapolis to her. Before the document was lost
several of the heirs had tried to file suit over the years to have that land
grant recognized.

S.C. was ordained primitive Baptist Minister July 5, 1887 at
Mars Hill,
Dyer County Tenn.

Family moved to Texas in 1891 and settled in
Dewitt County and moved to Wharton County TX soon after. They had six
children:
infant died at birth b___ d___
SAMUEL ZORA KYLE Born 11-15-1893 in Wharton County Texas.

Never married:

Died 12-12-1917 of the flu in Tarrant County Texas.

Served in World War 1.

Buried in El Campo TX.

Joseph C. Kyle Jr. has portrait of Zora.


RACHEL REBECCA KYLE LITTON Born 2-12-1896
Wharton, Texas.

Died 1-23-1990 of old age in Houston, Harris County Texas.

Married to WILLIAM C. (Joe) LITTON
Born 5/24/1919 in
Tenn.

D 12/17/1982, brother of EDNA MAE LITTON, JOSEPH
SYLVESTER’S wife (see below for more info).

They had a daughter Lonnie Mae
OLA MAE KYLE McKee

Born 12-26-1884 __________ Tenn.

Died 3-20-1979 in Houston, Harris county Texas

of Arterrioscierotic Hear and Osteoporosis.

Buried in Houston.

Married GEORGE RICHARD McKee

B 1882 in Wilmer, Dallas County, and
Texas.

 D 1936 Big Spring TX.

They had nine Children

WILLIAM CRAWFORD KYLE

Born 4-13-1887 in Ridgely, Lake County Tenn.

D. 1954 in Austin, TX.

William ordained 6-25-1933 at Zunis Rest Church in El Campo.
Married 7/17/1918 in
Giddings, TX Mary Clementine Brummett

b 1/31/1898 in Wilmer TX

d 3/17/1976 in Austin TX

Mary's Father George Wesley Brummett B 1876 in
McKinney, Collin County TX.

Mother Lillie Dee McKee B 1881 in Wilmer TX Lillie
Dee and George Richard McKee were brother and sister.

William and Mary had five Children.

WILLIAM CRAWFORD KYLE, JR.

b 11-26-1925 Austin TX

d 1-30-70 Austin, TX

married to Frances Lanear Daugherty on March 4, 1949 Suatin, TX.

He was ordained as a Primitive Baptist minister on July 20, 1956.

Joseph Sylvester Kyle
JOSEPH SYLVESTER KYLE Born 2-2-1892 Cuero, Dewitt County, TX.
Died 2-17-1958 Wortham,
Freestone County, and Texas.

Farmer and Carpenter moved from El Campo to Wortham Texas.

Married in 1915 to EDNA MAE LITTON KYLE
Born 9-21-1894 in
Dyersburg Tenn.

Could not read or write. (Edna related to Sir
Robert Lytton @1485)

Died 8-15-1970 Died in Terrell, Kaufman County Texas.

buried in Wortham, Texas.

Father of Edna Mae and brother Joe Litton was John
Dudley Litton B 1856 in
Tenn.

Mother Sherman Ellen Patton B 1868 in Tenn.
 
 JOSEPH CROFFORD KYLE

He was grown before he learned the doctor had misspelled his middle name on his
birth certificate. He was named after his grandfather.
Married ALDA YVONNE COOK KYLE

 

JOSEPH CROFFORD KYLE Jr.

born 7/6/1950 Dallas Texas

Married  Brenda Jean Davis b 1/5/1954 Temple Tx

 

Kit 23279 is Proven to Joseph Sylvestor Kyle