Lytle Web Generation Three

14. WILLIAM³ H. LYTLE (John², William¹); born 30 August 1815; died 12 November 1865,¹¹³ buried in Miller Farm Cemetery; married SARAH FLEMING, born 14 February 1815; died 6 March 1899; buried in Fairview Cemetery, Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. Sarah was a daughter of Samuel and Jane (McClintock) Fleming—see #20, generation two of the Fleming web site for Sarah’s photograph and for additional information on this family.

William, Sarah and family lived in Pleasantville, Oil Creek Township, Pennsylvania, where William was a carpenter by trade. In 1860,¹¹⁴ George S. Fleming (aged 9), the son of George Washington Fleming (#95 of “Flemings”), was enumerated with William and Sarah Lytle; and in 1880,¹¹⁵ George Washington Fleming was living with Sarah Lytle. After the death of Della (Berlin) Lytle (wife of William and Sarah Fleming Lytle’s son William Lytle—see below), Sarah Fleming Lytle (her husband William was deceased by this time) raised William and Della (Berlin) Lytle’s children, Minnie Lytle and Hazel Lytle, see below.

From Pleasantville Sesquicentennial, 1971:

[Pertaining to edifices]: The house once occupied by the William Lytle family was built in 1839 or 1840 and is located on the NW corner of Main and 2nd Street.

Sarah’s will¹¹⁶ mentions sons William I. Lytle, Samuel A. Lytle, Mortimer E. Lytle, and “my daughter–in–law Mrs. Emma J. Lytle.” Witnesses were D. S. Oiler and G. [Gilbert] B. Fleming (#115 of Flemings).

From Newton’s (1879) History of Venango County, Pennsylvania, page 623:

Sarah Lytle, the eldest of eleven children and daughter of Samuel Fleming, was born Feb. 14th 1815, in Oil Creek Twp., Venango Co. At thirty seven years of age she married William Lytle, and by him had three children–sons who are living. On the 12th of Nov. 1865 Mr. Lytle died. When Mrs. Lytle first saw Pleasantville, there were but 2 houses, and they were built of logs; one was near the storehouse built by Aaron Benedict and the other near where Dr. Wilson now lives. Mrs. Lytle is one of the oldest ladies living in Oil Creek twp. who was born there. She is in good health and is straight as an arrow, quick, strong, and as active as most ladies of forty. She has always worked hard and is of the opinion that work is good for one’s health. The first sermon she ever heard was preached at Titusville, when she was nine years old. The first school she attended was in a log house, formerly occupied by a Mr. Kidd, a blacksmith. Even wagons were then scarce, and people either walked or went on horse–back.

Children of William and Sarah (Fleming) Lytle, all believed born in the Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, area:

+	74	i.	Samuel⁴ Lytle; born 8 November 1852 in Allegheny Township, Venango County; died 29 December 1924; buried in Fairview Cemetery Pleasantville, Pennsylvania; married Emma J. Folwell.
+	75	ii.	Mortimer Etenna Lytle; born 18 August 1855; died in Columbus, Ohio; date of death not known; married Lillian Sarah Williams.
+	76	iii.	William I. Lytle; born 2 November 1857; died August 1908; buried in Fairview Cemetery, Allegheny Township, Venango County; married Della Berlin.

Children of William Lytle (1815-1865) and Sarah (Fleming) Lytle (1815-1899). From left to right: Samuel A. Lytle (1852-1924), Mortimer Etenna Lytle (1854-?), and William I. Lytle (1857-1908). Photo circa 1895. From Helen Palmer (Tulsa, Oklahoma).

14. THOMAS³ LYTLE FLEMING (John², William¹); born 14 October 1816; died 1885; married (first) MARY MCARTHUR, who died young—prior to 1850; married (second) REBECCA GORDON, born 1827; died 30 April 1896,¹¹⁷ buried at Porter’s Corners, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Mary McArthur’s parents were James and Mary (Church) McArthur.¹¹⁸

In 1850 and 1860, Thomas and family were living in Allegheny Township.¹¹⁹ In 1870, Thomas, Rebecca, Almira and Rosalie were living in East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County; in 1880, Thomas and Rebecca were still living in East Fallowfield Township.¹²⁰ Rebecca (Gordon) Lytle became a member of the Presbyterian Church of Atlantic (East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County) as “an adult” 4 March 1887.¹²¹ I could find no mention of Thomas Lytle in the Atlantic Church Records.

There was a Thomas Lytle of Allegheny Township who married Anne Solsgover (or Salsgiver) of Cornplanter Township, Venango County, on 10 February 1841.¹²² Perhaps our Thomas married this Anne Solsgover and she died circa 1842–1843 without issue.

Children of Thomas and first wife Mary (McArthur) Lytle:

+	77	i.	Ellen⁴ Lytle; born 6 December 1844; died 23 June 1927 in Geneva, Greenwood Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; married John James Bradley.
+	78	ii.	Sarah Lytle; born 1846 in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Sarah apparently married, but name not known
+	79	iii.	Thomas Sylvanus Lytle; (apparently called Sylvanus), born circa 1848; married Almina Palm.

Children of Thomas and second known wife Rebecca (Gordon) Lytle:

+	80	iv.	Almina Lytle; born 9 April 1858; died 10 November 1936; married William Wilson.
+	81	v.	Rosalie Lytle; born 13 January 1860; died 17 April 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri; married Leander McQuiston.
	82	vi.	George Lytle; died at age 18, did not marry.¹²³

15. JOSEPH³ LYTLE (John², William¹); born 3 October 1817 or 1819; died 28 August 1880 in Saline County, Lincoln Precinct, Nebraska; buried in Gilbert Cemetery near Dorchester, Nebraska; married in 1842 HARRIET N. MCARTHUR, born 22 November 1821 in Wayne County, Pennsylvania; died 30 August 1907. Her parents were James and Mary (Church) McArthur.¹²⁴ Harriet’s sister was Mary (McArthur) Lytle, wife of Joseph’s brother Thomas Lytle.

In 1850 the family was enumerated in Allegheny Township, Venango County.¹²⁵ In 1860, the family was enumerated in Le Roy, Mower County, Minnesota; in 1870, in Jasper County, Iowa; and in 1880 in Lincoln Precinct, Saline County, Nebraska.¹²⁶

This from Olive Peters’ March 1995 material:

In 1967, my cousin–in–law and I drove to Saline County (about 225 miles east of McCook) and inquired in Dorchester as to the location of Gilbert’s Cemetery. The Cemetery was unkempt with weeds and briars growing in abundance. I began searching for Joseph Lytle’s stone and by the time I found it, I was scratched and bleeding and my garment was snagged. However, the joy of finding it was a reward. The slab was lying face down across the grave site. The inscription was as follows:

Sacred to the Memory of
JOSEPH LYTLE
died
August 28 1880
Age
62 Yrs., 10 mons.
and 15 Das.

Blessed are the dead who

Olive Peters mentioned she had visited the cemetery two or three times since the 1967 visit and found the stones overturned and nothing remaining of Joseph’s stone. She did have photographs of Joseph’s stone.

According to the Venango County, Pennsylvania, tax assessments, William Lytle (#13), [first born son of John Lytle] was taxed in 1852 for 30 acres (tract #126) that he received from Joseph Lytle. This might indicate when Joseph and family moved out of Venango County for eventually Nebraska.

According to History of Mower County, Minnesota, page 409:

The winter of 1854 having come and gone and the spring of 1855 far advanced, there were others who made settlement. Among this number were “Joseph Lytle, Sylvester McArthur. Lytle came from Pennsylvania, settling on the southeast of section 17. In 1864 he sold out and moved to Nebraska.”

Children of Joseph and Harriet (McArthur) Lytle:¹²⁷

	83	i.	Cerena⁴ Lytle; born 7 January 1845, in Venango County, Pennsylvania; died 5 May 1917; married (first) Alfred Mosier, (second) W. H. Pallett, (third) Samuel Walker, and (4th) Francis Good.
+	84	ii.	Joseph Herman Lytle; born 11 July 1847 in Venango County; died 2 April 1912 in Harlan County, Nebraska; buried in Alma Cemetery, Alma, Nebraska; married Anna Mary Kuhns.
+	85	iii.	John Wilson Lytle; born 20 March 1849 in Venango County; died July 1923 in Oakland, Alameda County, California; married Emma Bowen.
+	86	iv.	Frances Maria Lytle; born 15 November 1854; died 27 December 1945; married Edward Jones.
	87	iv.	Carrie Estelle Lytle; born 10 September 1862 in Minnesota; died 13 June 1942; married Edwin Carner.
	88	v.	Elmer J. Lytle; born 12 April 1864 in Minnesota; died 23 September 1891. Elmer did not marry.

16. JANE³ LYTLE (John², William¹); born 20 October 1820 in Venango County, Pennsylvania,¹²⁸ died 8 March 1890 in Mitchell County, Kansas; buried in Springfield Cemetery, near Beloit, Kansas; married 22 July 1839¹²⁹ in the Pithole area, Cornplanter Township, Venango County, WILLIAM JOHN HAWORTH, born 17 September 1817 in Oldham, England; died 12 December 1905 in Berthould, Colorado; buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Berthould, Colorado. In 1880, William and Jane were living in Allegheny Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (census page 421.

William John Haworth’s parents were John and Nellie (Whitworth) Haworth. There is a biographical sketch of John Haworth on page 1078 of Bell (1890). William John was the only child of John and Nellie Haworth. According to Bell, after Nellie died, John married Susan Short and they had six children; after Susan died, John married Mrs. Harriet McCullough.

The late Charles (Chuck) Engstrom, of Youngsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania, provided in a 3 February 1988 letter to me the information on the descendants of William and Jane (Lytle) Haworth and the following biographical sketch of William John Haworth:

Wm John Haworth emigrated from England at the age of 6 years in company of his parents John Haworth settling in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, afterward settling at Pithole Center where he learned the Miller’s trade in his father’s mill. He was married to Jane Lytle of Pleasantville, Pennsylvania about 1838–39; emigrating to Monona, Iowa, about 1854 over land via caravan in party with the Noble family, who were massacred by the Indians in Minnesota, engaging in the meat business in company with Bill Randall. Returning to Pithole Center in the fall of 1865 where he again engaged in the milling business until 1884; then moving to Corry, Pennsylvania, (Erie County), residing for one year then emigrating to Springfield, Kansas, (near Beloit) where he resided until 1890; his wife dying March 8, 1890, then emigrating to Berthould where he resided until his death February 12, 1905.

According to Newton (1879), page 550: “There are two very good flouring mills in this Township [Allegheny Township ]. One was built by a Mr. Haworth, about the year 1848 . . .”

The following obituary is from Olive Peters who received it from Chester Haworth of Billings, Montana, January 1992. From the Randall Journal, Jewell County, Kansas (1890):

Mother Howeth died March 8th 1890, at her residence northeast of Beloit in Mitchell County, Kansas. The deceased was born November 27th, 1819, in Venango Co., Pa. She was married to her now bereft husband July 22, 1839. This marriage was blessed with seven children, four sons and three daughters. Two daughters and three sons remain to mourn their loss but they sorrow not as those who have no hope. She joined the Presbyterian Church in her youth; after her marriage she joined the M. E. Church of which she remained a faithful member until her death. Funeral services were held at Pleasant Prairie school house. Rev. Edgar officiating discourse from 2d Timothy 4:68.

Alone I sit amount the flowers That are blooming o’r her dust; By faith I look beyond the vale, While I hope and pray and trust; Trust in those precious promises That God in His Word has laid, Assured that he who formed the light, Hath also the darkness made.

Alone I sit in the shadow Of those joys that so late were mine. In vain I list’ for those footsteps I shall never more hear in time; Vainly I watch for her coming, Who was more than life unto me; Lord, make me worthy to join her, And bring us together with Thee.

Children of William and Jane (Lytle) Haworth:¹³⁰

+	89	i.	John⁴ Lytle Haworth; born 17 May 1840; died 28 July 1898 in Monona, Iowa; married 9 June 1864 Frances Randall.
	90	ii.	William (Quinton? in the 1870 federal census) Haworth; born 17 September 1843 in Pennsylvania; died 28 February 1909 in Colorado; married (first) Minnie Page, (second) Rachel Mitchell, born January 1840 in England. In 1900, William and Rachel were living Arapahoe County, Colorado, where William was listed as a miner.¹³¹
	91	iii.	Sarah Ellen Haworth, born 5 April 1845; died 7 July 1898 in Corry, Erie County, Pennsylvania; married Joel Nichols.
	92	iv.	Eli Monks Haworth, born 26 June 1848; died 5 March 1919 in Berthould, Colorado; married Rebecca Adelia Frantz. Eli was a widower by 1900, living in Jewell County, Kansas, with sons (both born in Kansas): (1) Emmett Haworth, born August 1883, and (2) George L. Haworth, born August 1888.¹³²
+	93	v.	Alice Minietta Haworth; born 14 October 1851; died 23 December 1885 in Guffey, Lafayette Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania; married 5 December 1876 William J. Briggs.
	94	vi.	Franklin Pierce Haworth, born 24 October 1855; died 13 June 1936 in Longmont, Colorado; married Lily Lovejoy, born August 1838 in Iowa. The family was living in Larimore County, Colorado in 1900 and 1920, where Frank P. was listed as a farmer.¹³³ Children known from the 1900 and 1920 federal censuses: (a) Mabel M. Haworth. born August 1893 in Kansas (b) Myrtle M. Haworth, born May 1895 in Kansas. (c) Roland R. Haworth, born March 1889 in Kansas. In 1920, Roland, still with his parents in Larimore County, was listed as a cattle dealer and having an adopted son Donald Haworth, born circa 1903 in Colorado (perhaps this was a census error and Donald was an adopted son of Frank and Lily).
	95	vii.	Mary Ann Elizabeth Haworth, born 3 June 1856, in Monona, Iowa; died 13 June 1936 in Garland, Pittsfield Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania. After the death of her sister Alice Minietta (Haworth) Briggs, Mary Ann Elizabeth Haworth married Alice’s husband, William Briggs. In 1905, Mary Briggs was living in Kane, Wetmore Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, according to her father’s obituary.

17. SARAH³ LYTLE (John², William¹); born 12 November 1822; married MOSLEY BROWN, born circa 1818 in New York state. The family was in Allegheny Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania in 1860 (census page 5), when Mosley was listed as a farmer.

Children of Mosley (Mosely?) and Sarah (Lytle) Brown:¹³⁴

96	i.	Sarah⁴ Brown; born 13 March 1842; died 17 March 1842; buried in Concord Cemetery, Allegheny Township, Venango County.¹³⁵ The Concord Cemetery is in Venango County, Allegheny Township, Pennsylvania, about one mile west of the Forest County, Pennsylvania line— “The Concord Cemetery and Church” at the end of Generation Three for a detailed description.
97	ii.	Thomas E. Brown;born 7 January, 1843; died 26 April 1845; buried in Concord Cemetery.¹³⁶
98	iii.	Mary Brown, born circa 1843; died 26 April 1845, apparently on the same date as her brother, if the dates are correct.
99	iv.	James B. Brown, born circa 1846.
100	v.	Jonathan L. Brown, born circa 1853.
101	vi.	Lucinda Brown, born circa 1856.
102	vii.	Jonathan L. Brown, born circa 1858.

Lytles

Pennsylvania

Generation Three

[Pertaining to edifices]: The house once occupied by the William Lytle family was built in 1839 or 1840 and is located on the NW corner of Main and 2nd Street.

The winter of 1854 having come and gone and the spring of 1855 far advanced, there were others who made settlement. Among this number were “Joseph Lytle, Sylvester McArthur. Lytle came from Pennsylvania, settling on the southeast of section 17. In 1864 he sold out and moved to Nebraska.”