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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



PYLE, NICHOLAS. The family came from England, and he was married in South Carolina, during the American Revolution, to Ann Black, a sister of Thomas Black. See his name. Some of their children were born in South Carolina, and the family moved on pack horses to Christian county, Ky., where more children were born, making a total of fourteen sons and five daughters, some of whom married in Kentucky. The parents and part of the children moved to St. Clair county, Ill., where some of the children married. The aged couple, with their two youngest sons, came to Sangamon county in 1825, and settled about three miles east of Auburn. Of the two sons--

THOMPSON, born about 1804, in Christian county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, in 1828, to Margaret Moffitt. They had nine living children. MATILDA, born Jan. 26, 1829, died Jan. 4, 1845. WM. ALFRED, born Nov. 13, 1830, is unmarried, and lives with his mother. SARAH ANN, born April 10, 1832, married Solomon Taylor, has five children, and resides in Macoupin county, near Zanesville, Montgomery county, Ill. ELIZABETH J., born Jan. 26, 1834, married Samuel H. Meteer, have three children, and live near May Post-office, Martin county, Minn. GEORGE M. born April 22, 1837, married Susan Bridges, have three children, and live near Elgin, Howard county, Kansas. LAWSON, born July 7, 1842, married August 17, 1869, to Mary E. Shepherd, have one child, MILDRED, and live six miles south of Springfield, Ill. REBECCA, born July 6, 1844, married George Bridges. See his name. ELLEN S., born Sept. 7, 1846, married Sept. 4, 1867, to George D. Crane, and live near Woodside, Illinois. EVELINE, born April 20, 1849, lives with her mother. Thompson Pyle died Dec. 19, 1870, and his widow resides near where they settled in 1828, six miles south of Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ALFRED, born Oct. 12, 1806, in Christian county, Ky., and was the youngest of nineteen children. He was brought by his parents to Sangamon county in 1825, married in St. Clair county to Melinda Padfield. They had eight children, three died young. DAVID, born March 8, 1838, married Harriet A. Scott, have three children, IDA C., ROBERT E. and DAVID H., and live eight miles south of Springfield, Ill. ARMINDA, born Oct. 13, 1839, married Thomas B. Shepherd. See his name. WILLIAM married Jennie Jackson, and both died. ANN married John H. Shepherd. See his name. LOUISA R. married John W. Nuckolls. See his name. Mrs. Melinda Pyle died Sept. 19 1849, and Alfred Pyle died March 3, 1852, both in St. Clair county, although they had spent the greater part of their lives in Sangamon county.

Nicholas Pyle died in 1829, in Sangamon county, and his widow died at the house of their son, Alfred, in St. Clair county, Illinois.



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