Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Elias Kyle
ELIAS KYLE
Elias Kyle, a farmer, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, October 19,
1840; he is a son of James and Elizabeth (Boyd) Kyle, natives of
Delaware County, the former of Irish, and the latter of Dutch
descent. Our subject was raised and educated as a farmer, and has
followed that occupation through life, with success. He owns 137
sores of good land three and a half miles southwest of Richwood, to
which he moved from Delaware County in 1876, and on which he still
resides. He is also a carpenter, and able to do almost any kind
of woodwork. In 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Sixty-sixth Ohio, Capt.
Buxton, and, with his command, took part in sixteen hotly contested
battles. At Savannah, he was dangerously wounded in the neck by a
minie ball, which broke his under jaw bone and tore away fully two
inches of the bone. His life was despaired of, and his wound was
dressed only at the earnest solicitation of his friends, as the Surgeon
thought it a waste of valuable time to "tie up the wounds of dying
men." At another time, be had a furrow plowed along the top of
his head by a ball that just grazed the skull, felling him to the
earth, where he lay unconscious, and tearing away a part of his hair,
which he keeps, having recovered it, for a memento. After the
war, he returned home, and resumed his peaceful avocations. In
1866, he married Ellen J. Jones, a daughter of David L. Jones, and a
native of Ohio. They have two children-Laura E. and Lucy M. Mr.
Kyle is a member of the Baptist Church, and Mrs. Kyle of the
Congregational. He is a Republican,. and a prominent member of
Rising Sun Lodge, K. P. <>