John Martin Lile

Born in Clark, KY across the river from Boonesborough

Moved to Missouri sometime before 1819 Died in Tullvania near Macon, MO.

1850 census shows "John" with 3 sons at home, 5 daughters, and one son (william henry) grown on his own farm. They owned no slaves in 1850. A George F. Slightom was living with them at the time of the 1850 census.

According to a descendant of George Slightom, George's father was a widower and may have given the son to the Lile's to care for. George was the son of James Oliver Slightom

It was reported that John Martin Lile was a brick mason which was the family trade. His Grandfather John Lile (1725-1775) was apprenticed to a brick mason. He was a Private in the infantry in the 17th Regiment, Kentucky in the War of 1812. . His war record, found in Pension claim W.C. 32418 states: Enlisted at Winches-ter, Kentucky; served from February 8

to March 7, 1815, as a private in Capt. John V. Bush's Company of

Kentucky Militia.

Married Margaret Witt 15 AUG 1819, Howard Co. MO

Excerpts from the notes o f Mrs. Sylvia Welch, wife ofWilliam H. Welch Route 2, Box 427, Sapulpa, Oklahoma, 74066

"Apparently this John M. Lyle who went to Missouri was a brother of my William Daniel Lyle--the children of William Daniel Lyle said he spelled his name so beyause he had heard that his family origjnally spelled the name with a y. There was a lot of kidding back and forth about the spelling of the name. Anyway, the brother who went to Missouri (John Martin Lile) came back to Kentucky to serve in the War of 1812 and after that he came back to visit his brother's family --according to older descendants of Daniel Lyle --and they visited him in Missouri. I believe John M. Lyle had made a trip to Missouri before the War of 1812 --possibly With some of the family who moved out there. When he returned after the War of 1812, he married a Witt girl who had been taken with her parents from Estill County, Kentucky, to Missouri. No doubt a group of kinspeople and neighbors went there from Clark, Madison, and Estill Counties."

It is reported that John Martin Lile spoke French very well - personal communication Lynn Lisle Artofer

• Residence: Schuyler county, Schuyler, Missouri, United States - 1850
• Residence: Liberty Township, Schuyler, Missouri, United States - 1860
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