I3773: Frances CRUTCHER (1786

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"The fifth bother, Isaac Harby Moses, having served with distinction in combat in Wade Hampton's cavalry, rode home from North Carolina after the Battle of Bentonville where he commanded his company, all of the officers having been killed or wounded. He never surrendered to anyone, his Mother proudly observed in her memoirs. He was among those who fired the very first shots of the War, when his company of Citadel cadets opened up on the Union ship, Star of the West, which was attempting to resupply the besieged Fort Sumter in January, 1861, three months before the War officially began."

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Biographical Sketch of John W. Tyler; Text from Haynes, Nathaniel S. History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois 1819-1914, Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1915. Pages 627 - 629. This online edition © 1997, James L. McMillan.
Born: Fayette County, Kentucky, 1808.
Died: Macon County, Illinois, 1888.

Mr. Tyler's genealogy is traced to the same line from which came the tenth President of the United States. He united with the Cane Run Baptist Church, near Lexington, in 1834, and soon entered actively the ministry.

In the fall of 1834 he moved to Montgomery County, Indiana, and shortly organized there a congregation of believers under the name of the "United Baptist Church of Christ." This name suggests the convictions of Christian truth and the tendencies of Christian feeling that were beginning to manifest themselves in many places about that time.

The following year he came to Morgan County, Illinois, where he met the great revivalist and reformer, Barton W. Stone. In 1836, Mr. Tyler came to Macon County, where he bought and settled on a farm five miles east of the village of Decatur. By the force of his character, he soon became an influential and leading citizen. He was an intelligent and successful farmer, and accumulated property, but at the same time devoted himself with zeal and energy to the public proclamation of the gospel.

His labors were extended into the counties of Shelby, Christian, Sangamon, Logan, DeWitt and Piatt. He was influential in establishing numerous churches and chiefly at his own charges. His ministry continued through a period of fifty-two years. He conducted the funeral of the magnificent pioneer, Joseph Hostetler, at Lovington, in 1870, and in his address said: "I am indebted to Bro. Hostetler for my better understanding of the gospel."

Through a long residence in Macon County, he commanded the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens and the love and fellowship of his brethren. He was a farmer, schoolmaster, justice of the peace and minister. He was a genial and cheerful man of optimistic temperament.

After his removal to Decatur, he had the misfortune to fall and break one of his limbs at the hip joint. A friend called during his long and painful confinement to inquire about his condition. He replied that he was doing pretty well, but that Dr. McMillen had him nailed up in a lumber-yard just then, but he would be all right when he got out of that! In midsummer of his eightieth year he received a kick upon his head from a horse that brought his beautiful life to a tragic close. He was the father of the brothers, B. B. and J. Z. Tyler.

My Southern Family

Frances CRUTCHER

1786 - ____

ID Number: I3773

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Eleanor ELLIOTT

ABT 1760 - ____

ID Number: I33842

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Thomas FLOYD

1763 - BET 1850 AND 1860

ID Number: I96795

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James GREENFIELD

1683 - 1734

ID Number: I81821

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Mary KNOWLES

9 Apr 1641 - ____

ID Number: I69221

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Isaac Harby MOSES C.S.A.

ABT 1845 - ____

ID Number: I94425

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Mary Lou PITTMAN

Rev. John William TYLER

27 Sep 1807 - 1888

ID Number: I46446

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