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For a photograph of Samuel, see under his father, William Lytle (#13).
Besides Samuel, Emma and Leota (Lenore) Lytle, the 1880 census for Allegheny Township269 lists in the household Ida Folwell, born circa 1857, who was a sister of Emma (Folwell) Lytle, and Frank Cox, born circa 1873, “nephew.”270 In 1910, Samuel, Emma and daughter Arlie were still in Allegheny Township, living next door to their daughter Leota Monroe and her husband Victor and their family. At that time, Samuel was listed as a house farmer.271
Titusville Herald, 30 December, 1924:
Letter To The Editor of The Oil City Derrick, 26 May 1911:SAMUEL LYTLE DROPPED DEAD AT SHAMBURG Pioneer Oil Man and Original Good Roads Advocate Expired Suddenly Yesterday. Funeral Friday Afternoon. Samuel A. Lytle , aged 72 years dropped dead at his home at Shamburg a few miles east of this city at about 3:45 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Although death came almost instantly to Mr. Lytle, acute indigestion was ascribed as the cause of death by the physician who was called. Samuel Lytle was one of the best known men in this vicinity, having been born near Pleasantville on November 8, 1852, and spending his entire life in this section. He was the oldest son of the late William and Sarah Fleming Lytle, pioneers in the Pleasantville oil section.
When the deceased attained manhood, he became interested in the production of oil and was successful. In recent years, he had become much interested in the subject of better highways and was considered by many to have been the “original good roads man” of the Pleasantville vicinity. He was a member of the Pleasantville Motor association and attended the banquet and meeting of the association on Monday evening, having been greatly interested in the project of a permanent highway connecting Titusville and Pleasantville.
When Mr. Lytle arose Tuesday morning he appeared to be in the best of health and spirits and no complaint was heard form him. His sudden passing came as a great shock not only to his immediate family but to his wide acquaintance throughout this section.
Mr. Lytle is survived by his wife, Emma Folwell Lytle and two daughters, Mrs. V. G. Monroe and Mrs. W. F. Roth both of Shamburg. There is also a brother, M. E. Lytle of Columbus.
Mr. Lytle was always interested in everything pertaining to the advancement of the community in which he lived and was for a number of years a member of the Shamburg Christian church. Services in his memory will be conducted from the family home Friday at 2 p. m. and internment will follow in the Lytle family lot in Fairview cemetery at Pleasantville.
I saw an article from W. R. Duncan, claiming to be the first man to have pulled an oil well with oxen. He has another guess coming. My uncle, J. S. Fleming [#25 of “Flemings”] of Shamburg, Pa., commenced pulling oil wells with oxen 25 years ago and followed it as part of his business for about 12 years, pulling hundred of strings of rods and lots of tubing also. W. H. Fleming, son of J. S. Fleming, has pulled a great many wells with oxen at about the same time his father was following it as part of his business. Others have also pulled with oxen in this locality, the wells being from 800 to 1000 feet deep. Next! S. A. Lytle, Pleasantville, Pa., 26 May, 1911.
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| 206 | i. | Maude5 L. Lytle; born 1877; died 22 February 1878;272 buried in Fairview Cemetery, where she is listed as a child of S. A. and E. J. Lytle. | |
| + | 207 | ii. | Leota Lytle (reported as Lenore in 1880 federal census); born 1879; married Victor G. Monroe. |
| 208 | iii. | Nancy
H. Lytle; born December 1890; died 1942; married William Roth, born 21 November 1888; died 20 March 1976.273 William was a son of Charles Roth (who was on the original building committee of the Shamburg Christian Church started in 1913274) and Mary Jane Bimber. Apparently William and Arlie (Lytle) Roth did not have children. |
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75. MORTIMER4 I. LYTLE (William3, John2, William1); born 18 August 1855; died in Columbus, Ohio; date of death not known; married 24 April 1889 LILLIAN SARAH WILLIAMS,275 born February 1856 in Massachusetts.
Lillian (Williams) Lytle has been cited (source not known) as a direct descendant of Roger Williams. Lillian (Williams) Lytle’s parents were Dwelly William, born 23 April 1833; died 25 October 1903, and Sarah A. C. Brown Williams, born 17 December 1833.276 The Cambridge educated Roger Williams (circa 1600–1683) is probably best known as the founder of a colony that was to become the State of Rhode Island.277 For more information on Roger Williams, see endnote #277.
Mortimer, Lillian and family were living in Los Angeles in 1900, when Mortimer was listed as a superintendent of oil wells.278 In 1906, Mortimer E. Lytle (he usually went by “M. E.”) was living in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.279 The family also lived in Columbus and Newark, Ohio, and Edenburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
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| + | 209 | i. | Christopher4 Frederick Lytle; born 20 February 1890; died 3 November 1938 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio; married Mary Helen McNabb. |
| 210 | ii. | Lillian Sarah Lytle; born 14 November 1892; died 15 May 1893. | |
| 211 | iii. | Gertrude May Lytle; born 5 January 1896; died 11 January 1979. Gertrude Lytle lived in the family home at 293 Jefferson Road, Newark, Ohio until her death.280 | |
76. WILLIAM<4 I. LYTLE (William3, John2, William1); born 2 November 1857; died August 1908; buried in Fairview Cemetery, Allegheny Township, Venango County; married September 1881 DELLA BERLIN, born circa 1862 in Pennsylvania, died 11 December 1890; buried in Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania.281 Della was a daughter of Levi and Sarah Berlin of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Levi was a cooper. Other children of Levi and Sarah were William Berlin and Charles Berlin.282 Deeds in the name of William Lytle recorded in Venango County show his middle initial to be “I.”283
The family moved to Warren County Pennsylvania. Della died young as did their two oldest children. After Della’s death, William took the two youngest children, Minnie and Hazel, to his mother, Sarah (Fleming) Lytle in Venango County, Pennsylvania, and, Sarah (Fleming) Lytle helped raise them. William worked in the oil fields, being enumerated as an oil producer in Oil Creek Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania in 1900.284
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| 212 | i. | Edwin4 Lytle; born 1882; died 1882 near Bradford, Pennsylvania. | |
| 213 | ii. | Gertrude Lytle; born May 1883; died November 1885 near Bradford, Pennsylvania. | |
| + | 214 | iii. | Minnie Lytle; born 8 November 1885; died 31 March 1923 in Sperry, Oklahoma; buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tulsa, Oklahoma; married Thomas McGuire. |
| + | 215 | iv. | Hazel
Lytle; born 10 May 1888; died 3 December 1927 or 1928 in Aurora, Illinois; buried in Coffeyville, Kansas; married Robert T. Spriggs. |
77. ELLEN4 SOPHIE LYTLE (Thomas3, John2, William1); born 6 December 1844; died 23 June 1927 in Geneva, Greenwood Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; married JOHN JAMES BRADLEY, born October 1842 in Pennsylvania; his parents were Richard and Caroline Ireland Bradley.286
In 1880, John, Ellen and family were living in Foster Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, where John was an oil producer. By 1900, John was farming in East Fallowfield, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. By 1920, John had died and Ellen and son Orlo were living with her son Lloyd (head of the household) in Greenwood Township, Crawford County.287
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| 216 | ii. | Caroline5 E. Bradley, born 15 April 1870. | |
| 217 | ii. | Mary May Bradley, born 1 May 1872. | |
| 218 | iii. | Thomas Frederick Bradley, born 10 August 1874. | |
| 219 | iv. | Grace Livonia Bradley, born 3 Apro; 1877. | |
| 220 | v. | John J. Bradley, born 16 September 1879; married Bertha (also called Barbara) [—?—], born circa 1883 in Pennsylvania. John was a farmer and lived in East Fallowfield, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
Children known from the 1910, 1920, and 1930 federal censuses (all born in Pennsylvania): (a) George Bradley, born circa 1908. (b) Norris (also John) Bradley, born circa 1910 (c) May Bradley, born circa 1913. (d) James Bradley, born circa 1915.288 |
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| 221 | vi. | Jessie Josephine Bradley, born 5 December 1881. | |
| 222 | vii. | Richard Lloyd Bradley, born 29 July 1883, married Sadie [—?—] (possibly Bennet), born circa 1887 in Pennsylvania. In 1930, Lloyd, a farmer, was still living in Greenwood Township with wife Sarah, brother Orlo and an Emma Bennet, born circa 1852 in Ohio; she was possibly the mother of Sarah.289 Bradley, born 10 August 1874. | |
| 223 | viii. | Orio Johnston Bradley, born 20 February 1887; enumerated as a laborer in 1930, when he was living with his brother Lloyd. | |
78. SARAH4 LIVONIA LYTLE (Thomas3, John2, William1); born 1846 in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Sarah apparently married and moved to Painesville, Ohio.290 In 1850291 and 1860, Sarah Livonia Lytle was living with Robert Green’s family, in Allegheny Township, Venango County.
The 1850 federal census for Allegheny Township:
Robert Green, age 43.
Caroline Green, age 31.
Lyther (Luther?) Green, age 18.
James Green, age 16.
Philo Green, age 14.
Josephine Green, age 12.
Robert Green, age 10.
Sarah Lytle, age 3.
Nancy Poor age 19.
The Nancy Poor, born circa 1831; died 1914, enumerated in the Green family, was a daughter of William and Ritta Dart Poor and a sister to Alonzo Poor (who married Elizabeth Henderson). Nancy married 4 October 1870 Richard Henderson Watson, a son of Robert Perry and Martha (Henderson) Watson. Nancy and Richard had no children. One wonders why Sarah Livonia Lytle and Nancy Poor were living with the Greens in 1850. In 1860, Nancy Poor was not enumerated with the Greens, but Sarah Livonia Lytle was enumerated in Allegheny Township with Philo Green, Josephine Green, Robert Green, and a Caroline Stutley (age 11). At this time they were living next door to Robert and Caroline Green. Sarah Livonia Lytle would have only been 2 or 3 when her mother, Mary (McArthur) Lytle died, and this was probably why she was living with the Greens in 1850—her younger brother, Sylvanus, was living with Thomas’s brother Joseph Lytle in 1850. I do not know where their sister Ellen was living in 1850.
79. THOMAS4 SYLVANUS LYTLE (Thomas3, John2, William1); born circa 1848;292 Thomas married MARTHA ALMINA PALM of East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County on 3 July 1872;293 she was born circa 1854 in Pennsylvania. They lived in the Atlantic, Pennsylvania, area, East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County.
In 1850, Sylvanus Lytle was living with his uncle Joseph Lytle and family in Allegheny Township, Venango County.294 In 1880, Sylvanus (as T. S.) and family were living in Beaver Township, Clarion County, where Sylvanus was enumerated as a oil pumper.295 In 1922, Thomas S. Lytle and a Mrs. Katenbaugh attended James Lytle’s (#21) funeral, and, according to the obituary, at the time were living in Atlantic, Pennsylvania.296 Thomas S. Lytle had a daughter who married a Katenbaugh, and also a grandson, Bradley Wilson, who married a Katenbaugh—see below.
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| 224 | i. | Milton5 Lytle; born circa 1874. | |
| 225 | ii. | Mary Lytle; born circa 1876. Probably Mary was the daughter who married [—?—] Katenbaugh. | |
| 226 | iii. | Alonzo (Samuel) Lytle; born 1877 (see obituary below); died December 1897 in a buggy accident—see short obituary abstract below. | |
| 226 | iv. | Bryon (James) Lytle;
born July 1880; died December 1897 in a buggy accident (see short obituary abstract below) . From Franklin (Pennsylvania) Public Library, obituary abstracts, Citizens Press (Franklin), 30 December 1897: LYTLE, James and Samuel killed by train near Atlantic, 8 miles north of Greenville, ages 18 and 20.Clipping in Fleming material (no date given):“Death of Alonzo Lytle and Bryon Lytle, age 20 and 18, hit by train in buggy, youngest sons of Sylvanus Lytle.”According to correspondence with Olive Peters, this tragedy happened on a Christmas Day. |
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| 228 | v. | Twilla Lytle (female);
married [—?—] Chase. I have tentatively placed our Twilla Lytle as the wife of William H. Chase. William was a minister of the United Brethren Church. In 1910, William, born circa 1889 in Pennsylvania, and Twilla, born circa 1888 in Pennsylvania (both parents born in Pennsylvania), were living in Orangeville, Wyoming County, New York (census page 8B), no children reported. In 1920, the family was in Conewango Township, Cattaraugus County, New York (page 6B), and in 1930 in Craneville, Erie County, Pennsylvania (page 4A).
Children known from the federal censuses (all born in Pennsylvania): (a) Ruth Chase; born circa 1910. In 1930, Ruth, single, was living with her parents and enumerated as a saleslady, hosiery. (b) Helen Chase; born circa 1914. (c) Ethel Chase; born (private). (d) Mary Chase; born (private). |
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80. ALMINA4 LYTLE (Thomas3, John2, William1); born 9 April 1858; died 10 November 1936; married WILLIAM WILSON, born 28 August 1856; died 5 September 1939; they lived in the Atlantic (East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County) area.298
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| 229 | i. | Braden5 Wilson; born 22 November 1883; married Fern Katenbaugh, who died 16 February 1965. | |
| 230 | ii. | Vernon Wilson; born 12 June 1886; died 11 February 1963; married Pearl Sherbondy, born 20 February 1888. | |
| 231 | iii. | Frank Wilson; born 1887 (or 1877?); died 1887. | |
| 232 | iv. | Ethel Wilson; born 31 October 1890; died 18 November 1973; married William West, born 5 May 1894; died 11 October 1976. | |
| 233 | v. | Merrill G. Wilson; born 1887 (or 1877?); died 1887. | |
81. ROSALIE4 LYTLE (Thomas3, John2, William1); born 13 January 1860; died 17 April 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri; married LEANDER MCQUISTON, born 25 December 1855 in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.299 The family was living in Fairview Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania in 1900 (census page 4A), where Leander was listed as a farmer.
A “Mrs. Rosie O. Lytle” became a member of the Atlantic Presbyterian Church (East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County) on 8 June 1878, and the next day “Mrs. Rosa O. Lytle” was baptized as “an adult;”300 hence the name would not appear to be a mistake. Since Olive Peters records show Rosalie Lytle marrying Leander McQuiston, I can not resolve the Mrs. Rosa O. Lytle record unless the “Mrs.” or “Lytle” is a mistake. I believe the “Mrs.” is a mistake.
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| 234 | i. | Otto5 Vance McQuiston; born 5 November 1880; died 21 October 1881. | |
| 235 | ii. | Mina Madge McQuiston; born 2 March 1883; married Lamont Reznor. | |
| 236 | iii. | Mary Mildred McQuiston; born 17 September 1898. | |
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| Contents |
| Acknowledgments |
| Photographs |
| Introduction |
| Generation One |
| Generation Two |
| Generation Three |
| Generation Four |
| Generation Five | Generation Six |
| References |
| End Notes |