Lytle Web Generation Three

23. JOHN³ LYTLE (William², William¹); born 1822; died 4 February 1886; buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery,¹⁸² Crawford County, Pennsylvania; married NANCY MILLER, born circa 1823; died 2 July 1891; buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery.¹⁸³ Nancy was a daughter of James and Jane (McFate) Miller; therefore a first cousin marriage—see #35 of Culbertsons in the McClintock web site,” generation five, web page 6, for more details.

There are 1862 quit claims in the name of John Lytle and wife Nancy to Miller Wilson,¹⁸⁴ to George Shreve of Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania¹⁸⁵ and to Robert Miller.¹⁸⁶ These quit claims pertained to an undivided fifth part of their interest in the estate of James Miller, late of Allegheny Township.

In 1850, John, Nancy and son William were living next door to John parent’s, William and Isabella Lytles, in Fairfield Township, Crawford County. John was enumerated as a laborer. Also living in the household in 1850, a Montgomery Stitt (Steel) (Steele?) (age 25), Jane Stitt (24), Robert Stitt (2) and James Stitt (under 1). Montgomery was listed as a farmer.

Mumford Chapel Cemetery
Several Lytles of William’s line are buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery. This cemetery is located on Route 285, about 4 miles west of Cochranton, Crawford County. According to information in a 12 April 1997 letter from Mark E. Roche, Historian of the Cochranton Heritage Society, the cemetery was established in the early 1840s by the Associate Presbyterian Church. This group disbanded in the 1860s. In 1871, the Methodist Church established a Chapel across the highway from the cemetery. “This is part of the Methodist charge which is located in Cochranton now.” Living next door to William Lytle in Fairfield Township in 1850 were an Aaron Mumford, born circa 1808; Mary Mumford, born circa 1810; Sarah Mumford, born circa 1835; Mary Mumford, born circa 1838; James Mumford, born circa 1840; Hugh Mumford, born circa 1842; Susanna Mumford, born circa 1846; and Margaret Mumford, born circa 1850 (all born in Pennsylvania).

Children of John and Nancy (Miller) Lytle (all born in Pennsylvania):¹⁸⁷

	130	i.	William⁴ Stewart Lytle, born circa 1846;¹⁸⁸ died 9 August 1871; buried Mumford Chapel Cemetery. Apparently he did not marry.
+	131	ii.	Willa (Wiley) Ann (also Willyann) Lytle, born circa 1855; married in 1877 Daniel Gerow Jamison.
	132	iii.	Belle (Isabelle) Lytle, born 1857; died 30 December 1910; married a first cousin, James A. Shreve, born February 1840; died 1910; buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery, Crawford County. They were only married five years in 1900.¹⁸⁹ John and Belle did not have children. The 1910 federal census for Fairfiel Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania (census page 3A) reports Mrs. Belle Shreve, living by herself, was a widow, with no children, living or dead. James A. Shreve was a son of George and Margaret (Miller) Shreve.
	133	iv.	John Lee Lytle, born circa 1865; died 10 July 1892; buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery. Apparently John did not marry—at least, no issue.
	134	v.	Robert Lytle, no information except he is buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery; probably died in infancy.
	135	vi.	Mary J. Lytle, no information except buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery; probably died in infancy. Robert and Mary apparently were born and died between federal censuses.

25. NANCY³ LYTLE (William², William¹); born circa 1825;¹⁹⁰ married JAMES KENNEDY MUMFORD who was born circa 1820 in Pennsylvania (son of James Mumford, born 14 December 1783 in New Jersey; died 22 March 1855) and Catherine Wright Mumford (born 12 March 1783; died 29 June 1864).¹⁹¹ Nancy and John were the only children not enumerated with William and Isabella in the 1850 federal census for Fairfield Township, Crawford County. In 1860 and 1870, Nancy and Kennedy were living next to Nancy’s parents in Fairfield Township, Crawford County, where Kennedy was enumerated as a farmer. Kennedy’s mother, Catherine —?—], born circa 1784 in Pennsylvania, was also with the family in 1860.¹⁹²

Children of James Kennedy and Nancy (Lytle) Mumford (all born in Pennsylvania):

136	i.	Pressley⁴ (also Preston) Mumford; born circa 1851
137	ii.	David Mumford; born circa 1852.
138	iii.	Ida Jan Munford born circa 1854.
NN	iv.	Catherine (Kate) Mumford born circa 1858
NN	v.	William Kennedy Mumford born circa 1863.

26. MARY³ LYTLE (William², William¹); born circa 1827; married THOMAS BURCHFIELD, born circa 1821 in Pennsylvania.¹⁹³

According to a 29 April 1997 email from Patricia Stephens,¹⁹⁴ Thomas Burchfield’s parents were Thomas, born 19 October 1785, and Elizabeth Greer Burchfield. Thomas (Sr.) was a son of James and Margaret (Reed) Burchfield, and his wife Elizabeth was a daughter of John and Margaret Greer. I can not make a connection between these Burchfields and the Jesse Burchfield of the McCaslands.

Children of Thomas and Mary (Lytle) Burchfield:

139	i.	first born; died in infancy
140	ii.	Haman Burchfield; (died without issue).
141	iii.	Homer Burchfield; (died without issue).
142	iv.	Fannie (or Jennie?) Burchfield; married [—?—] Matthews. According to McFate et al. (1982), page 15, they had four children, names not known.
143	v.	Flora Burchfield.
144	vi.	George B. Burchfield;^194b born February 1863 in Pennslyvania; married Sarah (Sadie) Ann Nelson; born 20 July 1863 in Pennsylvania. George, Sarah and family lived in Oil Cith. Pennsylvania, where George was enumerated as a laborer, teamster, blacksmith helper and blacksmith in the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 federal censuses. Children of George and Sarah (Nelson) Burchfield (all born in Pennsylvania): (a). Marry Ann Burchfield; born March 1886; married Chalmer Webster Mitcham, born September 1884 in Pennsylvania. Their children were Merle B. Mitcham; Chalmer G. Mitcham; Donald E. Mitcham, and Raymond Mitcham. (b). Ethel Irene Burchfield; born November 1887; married Charles Harold Loveless; born May 1882 in Pennsylvania; their children: Harold Leroy Loveless; and Charles A. Loveless. (c) Arthur Thomas Burchfield; born October 1891; married Verna I. Blauser; born March 1892 in Pennsylvania; their children were Sarah E. Burchfield; William Burchfield; and Lillian N. Burchfield.

27. ELIZABETH³ (Lizzie) LYTLE (William², William¹); born 1830; died 1921; buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery, Crawford County; married DAVID N. MCDONALD, born circa 1821; died 20 April 1875; buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery, Crawford County.¹⁹⁵ In 1860 and 1870, the family was in Greenwood Township, Crawford County, where David was enumerated as a farmer.¹⁹⁶ Also with the family in 1860 was “Marther,” born circa 1785 in Pennsylvania, possibly David’s mother.

Children of David and Elizabeth (Lytle) McDonald (all born in Pennsylvania):

145	i.	Cyrus⁴ N. McDonald; born 1851; died 1921; buried in Mumford Chapel Cemetery; married Ada McDonald, born 1861; died 30 January 1933; buried Mumford Chapel Cemetery.
146	ii.	Emma B. McDonald; born 1854; married John Marshall, born 1851; died 1914; buried Mumford Chapel Cemetery.
147	iii.	W. Harvey McDonald; born circa 1858; died 4 April 1940 in Cochranton, Pennsylvania; married Lizzie [—?—].
148	iv.	Sadie E. McDonald; married Scott W. Patterson who died 31 October 1910 in Cochranton, Crawford County. Cochranton is in southern Crawford County, Wayne Township, close to French Creek Township in Mercer County and only a few miles from Canal and Jackson Townships of Venango County. The Cochranton Cemetery is located east of the town of Cochranton in Wayne Township, Crawford County.

28. ISABELLA³ (BELLE) LYTLE (William², William¹); born circa 1831; married JOHN CALVIN; died 20 July 1909 in Meadville, Crawford County Pennsylvania. John was a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Kelley) Calvin. Elizabeth (Kelley was a daughter of John Kelly.¹⁹⁷ Robert Calvin was born 1806 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania; died 1892. Robert was a son of James and Catherine Calvin. Isabella Lytle was not yet married in 1860; she was living with her parents in Fairfield Township, Crawford County.

Known child of John and Isabella (Lytle) Calvin:

	149	i.	(tentative) Clementine⁴ Calvin; died 19 July 1932. Apparently Clementine did not marry. The 1930 federal census for Meadville, Pennsylvania, reports a John M. Calvin, widower, born 1853 in Pennsylvania and his daughter Clementine Lytle, born circa 1862 in Pennsylvania. I can not resolve this discrepancy and the fact that John Calvin was reported dying in 1909. The 1910 and 1920 federal censuses for Meadville, Pennsylvania, also report Clementine, single, born circa 1861 or 1862.¹⁹⁸ In 1920, Clementine was listed as a college teacher. Was she a teacher at Allegheny College in Meadville? There was a John Calvin, born circa 1867, Pennsylvania, a printer, enumerated in Meadville in the 1900 soundex. His wife was Addie [—?—], born circa 1866 in Pennsylvania, and their children (all born in Pennsylvania) were Florence Calvin, born circa 1894; Katie Calvin, born circa 1896; and Louisa Calvin, born circa 1899. Could this John possibly be a son of John and Isabella (Lytle) Calvin?

30. WILLIAM³ LYTLE (William², William¹); born circa 1835; died 1891? in Cochranton, Pennsylvania; married LUCINDA BRUSH, born circa 1846 in Pennsylvania; daughter of Thomas and Sarah Brush.¹⁹⁹

William and Lucinda and son Frank Albert Lytle were living in East Fairfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania (census page 142) in 1870, where William was listed as a farmer. By 1900, William had died, and Lucinda and family were living in Sandy Lake Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. In 1910, Lucinda was a servant in a private home and her daughter Florence, single, was a retail merchant, groceries.²⁰⁰

Children of William and Lucinda (Brush) Lytle (all born in Pennsylvania):

150	i.	Frank⁴ Albert Lytle; born September 1869 in Pennsylvania. Frank was listed as a teacher in 1900, when living with his widowed mother in Sandy Lake, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
152	ii.	Clinton R. Lytle; born May 1872. He was enumerated as a dry goods clerk in 1900, when living with his widowed mother.
153	iii.	Luella (Lulu) M. Lytle; born April 1874. She was listed as a teacher in 1900 when living with her widowed mother.
153	iv.	Florence M. Lytle; born November 1875.
154	v.	Frederick E. Lytle, born May 1883.; born circa 1880.
155	vi.	William B. Lytle.

31. ROBERT³ LYTLE (William², William¹); born July 1840 in Pennsylvania; died 6 October 1917 in Meadville, Pennsylvania; married SARAH CALVIN, born 17 January 1842 in Calvin Corners (Crawford County); died January 1905. She was a daughter of Thomas and Ann (Dowling) Calvin.²⁰¹

In 1860, apparently not yet married, Robert was enumerated with his parents in Fairfield Township, Crawford County. In 1900 and 1910, the family was living in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where Robert was listed as a carpenter. Sarah was deceased by the time of the 1910 federal census²⁰²

Children of Robert and Sarah (Calvin) Lytle (all born in Pennsylvania):

156	i.	Maud⁴ Lytle; born June 1872; died 6 February 1942 in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She was a school teacher, living with her sister Gertrude in Meadville.²⁰³ Apparently neither Maud or Gertrude married.
157	ii.	Edgar Lytle; He probably was born and died between censuses.
158	iii.	Gertrude Lytle; born January 1877; died 23 February 1963 in Pennsylvania. She lived with her sister Maud in Meadville and was listed as a bookkeeper in 1900, a clerk in 1920 and a merchant in 1930.

The Concord Cemetery and Church

Several ancestors are buried in an old abandoned cemetery, the Concord Presbyterian Cemetery. This cemetery is located in Allegheny Township, Venango County, two miles southeast of Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, on Route 36 near Tyrell Corners. Mrs. Alice Morrison, professional genealogist of Venango County, recorded the cemetery’s headstone inscriptions in 1958. Inscriptions were also compiled in 1978 by Eugene Throop.

Margaret Henderson Watson (#5 of “Hendersons”) is buried in the Concord Cemetery and probably her husband, Robert Watson (#1 of “Watsons”), as well, although by 1958 the cemetery was in a state of disrepair and Alice Morrison could not find a headstone for Robert. Others Fleming-line ancestors buried in the Concord Cemetery include Nancy Lytle McCasland (#2 of “Lytles”) and some of her descendants. Also, Mary McFate Neill (see #7 of Neill Descendants Report, and #41 of McFate Descendants Report) the ”children of Mosley and Sarah Lytle Brown (“#17 of “Lytles”), Hugh Morrison (see #1 of Morrison Descendants Report.), and Sarah Henderson Broadfoot (#2 of Henderson Descendants Report). We would know of several others if their stones were still there.

From Eugene F. Throop. 1987. Forest County, Pennsylvania Cemetery inscriptions. Heritage Books, Inc. 1540 East Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Maryland 20716–1859, page x (with permission of Heritages Books):

CONCORD CEMETERY. This cemetery is actually in Venango Co., [Allegheny Township] PA., about one mile west of the Forest Co., PA line. It is along the main road between Pleasantville and Tionesta and behind an old sawmill (look for sawdust pile). The cemetery is on a knoll, with a fence partially around it but abandoned and neglected. The cemetery was originally a graveyard for a local Presbyterian Church (long since gone). The present Presbyterian Church at Neilltown is an off–shoot of this original congregation. The cemetery was indexed first by the Warren County Historical Society and then by Clair Norr and myself (Eugene Throop) in May 1973. We found sixty–six marked burials from 1823 to 1917 including a sandstone monument upon which the name is worn off and all that remains is “died 11 March 1835, aged 6m.

Pertaining to the Concord Churches, this from Sesquicentennial, Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania, 1821– 1971. Compiled 1971, Helen Waldell, chairperson, p 26–27:

The old Concord Church was organized in 1822. This was several years after early settlers built a log school house southeast of Pleasantville, which became the site of the old Concord Church. Mr. H. I. Huidekoper, an agent for the Holland Land Co. deeded two acres of land near the log school house, to be used for church and burying ground purposes. One Sunday, several years later [I do not have the date], the four elders were asked to sign the Test Act, upholding the General Assembly [presumably Presbyterian?]. Two signed but two would did not. The followers of those that signed, known as the Old School branch built a church in Neilltown that was called the Concord Church of Neilltown. The New School branch (those following the elders who could not be induced to sign the Test Act) continue to worship in the old Concord Church. In 1850, services of the New School began to be held at the Conventer Church and eventually this branch became organized as the New School Presbyterian Church of Pleasantville. However before long, “the church itself died a natural death” and the property was purchased by the United Presbyterian Church Society, which was then organized in Pleasantville.

What about the old Concord Church structure and burying ground where the Concord ancestors were buried? I do not know whether they were of the new or old branch, but believe most were of the Old School Branch.

Continuing with the Pleasantville Sesquicentennial account:

By 1876, nothing remained of the building but the sills and the church which had been built years previously and in which 50 years of services were held, tumbled down and became prey to the oil men who used it for fuel or carried it off to build engine houses. The last use made of the building was to shelter a man who had smallpox. Today there is nothing left of this church property except the cemetery which is overgrown with weeds, briar and thornbushes [and according to Mrs. Alice Morrison, a good place for rattlesnakes].

John Lytle, William Neill and James McCasland were early trustees of the Concord Presbyterian Congregation as indicated by an 1827 deed²⁰⁴ from H. Huidekoper, agent, to “the Trustees of the Concord Presby Congregation, William Neill, John Lytle and James McCaslin – Trustees, for the purpose of promoting public worship [a parcel of land]. Inst. 3 October 1827, recorded ? November 1840.”

Partial records of the Concord Congregation from 1843 to 1882 have been filmed and are available from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints.²⁰⁵ These handwritten records are difficult to read, but show that the clerk in 1843, the first year records were available, was Robert Jordan Neill; later in the 1840s the clerk was James McCasland. The last note on the Concord Congregation from the filmed records was by Victor Ducker in 1929:

Pleasantville, Pa., Aug. 23rd, 1929. Mr. Josephus [Henry Josephus] Dunham passed away March 5th 1929 and was buried at the Neilltown Cemetery by his pastor, Victor Ducker. Mr. Dunham was the last of all the elders of ______ this church –– Pleasantville, Concord – Kerr Hill of Erie Presby –– who were in the church when I came in 1907. Mr. Dunham was an elder at Concord for 59 yrs, 2/13/1870 to 3/5/1929.

Josephus Dunham was the husband of Nancy Elizabeth McCasland (#35), a daughter of John and Mary Rynd McCasland. Both Joseph and Nancy Elizabeth became members of the Concord Congregation in 1868.

Here are the members of the Concord Congregation, 13 February 1844, when records were first available, and my interpretation of their relationships to other ancestors.

1. Elder James McCasland. James was a brother of the Joseph McCasland who married Nancy Lytle.

2. Elder Robert J. Neill. Robert was a son of William and Jane Jordan Neill. Robert’s first wife was Nancy McCasland (#9 of “McCaslands”), a daughter of Joseph and Nancy Lytle McCasland. Robert’s second wife was Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of Hugh and Isabella Wilson Morrison.

3. Isaac Neill. This Isaac Neill was probably an uncle to the Neill brothers who intermarried with McCaslands. The “Neill Papers,” page 4, has his wife penciled in as Rebecca Davidson, see below. But one of the Neill brothers, Thomas Neill, is also listed in the “Neill Papers” as marrying a Rebecca Davidson.

4. Thomas Neill. He was probably the Thomas Neill who was a brother of Robert and Isaac.

5. Rebecca Neill. She was probably Rebecca Davidson, either the wife of Thomas, above, or Thomas’s uncle Isaac.

6. Robert McCrum. Robert married Sarah McCasland, a daughter of Joseph and Nancy Lytle McCasland.

7. Sarah McCrum. Sarah (McCasland) was the wife of Robert McCrum.

8. William T. [Thomas] Neill. William was another Neill brother. He married Jane McCasland, a daughter of Joseph and Nancy Lytle McCasland.

9. Jane Neill. Jane (McCasland) was the wife of William Thomas Neill.

10. John McCasland. John was a son of Joseph and Nancy Lytle McCasland.

11. Mary McCasland. Mary Rynd McCasland was the wife of John McCasland.

12. James H. [Hamilton] Neill (#16 of “Neills”). James was another son of William and Jane Jordan Neill.

13. Hannah McCasland. Hannah Neill was a sister of the above mentioned Neill brothers and wife of James McCasland. a son of Joseph and Nancy Lytle McCasland.

14. Elizabeth Neill. She was probably Elizabeth Morrison Neill, the second wife of Robert J. Neill and daughter of Hugh and Isabella Wilson Morrison.

15. James McCasland James was a son of Joseph and Nancy Lytle McCasland and husband of Hannah Neill, above. James was the clerk of Concord Congregation in the late 1840s. He consistently spelled the name McCasland.

16. Mary McCasland. She was possibly the Mary [—?—], who married Elder James McCasland, see number 1 of this Concord section.

17. William McCasland. He was probably William L. McCasland, born 1819, a son of James and Mary [—?—] McCasland.

18. Elizabeth McCasland. Later someone had written Blauvert above her name. I have listed her as Elizabeth McCasland, a daughter of Joseph and Nancy Lytle McCasland. Elizabeth McCasland married John A. Blauvelt.

19. Joseph McCasland. Joseph was the husband of Nancy Lytle McCasland. In another record he is referred to as a “ruling elder.”

20. Nancy McCasland (#2 of “Lytles”). Nancy Lytle McCasland was the wife of Joseph.

21. Ezra Gitchel.

22. Mrs. Gitchel.

23. Abram Shaw. He was possibly the husband of Sophie McCasland Shaw.

24. William T. ? Patterson. He would be the husband of Ann Neill, who was a sibling to Robert Jordan Neill and other brothers and sisters.

25. Ann Patterson. Ann Neill Patterson was the wife of William T. Patterson.

26. Jane Neill. Jane was probably the Jane Neill. a sibling of Robert Jordan Neill, Ann Neill Patterson and the other Neills mentioned above. But she could be Jane Neill, born 8 Oct. 1821, daughter of John and Mary McFate Neill.

27. Sophie L. Shaw. Sophie McCasland Shaw was a daughter of Joseph and Nancy Lytle McCasland. Her husband was possibly Abram Shaw, see number 23 of this Concord section.

28. Jonathan Sheldon. Jonathan was the husband of Ann Lytle Sheldon (#19 of “Lytles”), Ann being a daughter of John and Sarah Morrison Lytle.

29. Benjamin McGee.

30. Margaret (or Mary) Coulter.

31. William Haworth. There was a William John Haworth, husband of Jane Lytle (#16 of “Lytles”), a daughter of John and Sarah Morrison Lytle. Jane Lytle Haworth’s husband (William Haworth) is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Berthoud, Colorado,²⁰⁶ but the family did not move out of Venango County until the 1850s.

32. Sarah Little (#2 of “Morrisons, and #3 of “Lytles”). Sarah Morrison Lytle was the wife of John Lytle and the daughter of Hugh and Isabella Wilson Morrison.

33. Caroline Lauders.

34. Charles Harrison.

35. Catherine Harrison.

New members added after 1843 were also listed through 1865, with the years 1854–1862 missing.

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Memory stone of John Neill in Concord Cemetery:
"In memory of
John Neill, born in Isle of Man
1740. Died Febry 23th 1829
Age 89 years."Photograph of John Neill's stone courtesy of Susan Patterson (Church) Moore.

John Neill; born 1740; died 23 February 1829; probably buried in Concord Cemetery, Allegheny Township, Venago County; at least there is a memory stone for him in this cemetery. No information on wife. He was the father of William Neill who married Jane Jordan. Five of William and Jane (Jordan) Neill's children married children of Joseph and Nancy (Lytle) McCasland—see generation 2. According to "Neill Papers," pages 1-3, other children of John Neill were John Neill, married Miss Hunter; Sarah Neill, married John Williams; Isaac Neill, married Rebecca [—?—]; and Hannah Neill, married [—?—] Hampson.

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