Erastus Cole Pyle and Margaret Olean Murdock

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Husband Erastus Cole Pyle ^{1 2}

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            AKA: E. D. Pyle 3
           Born: Abt 1839 - Pennsylvania
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           Died: 3 Oct 1898 - Pennsylvania 2
         Buried:  - Graham Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Dr. Andrew J. Pyle (      -1886/1889) 1 5
         Mother: Eliza P. Sheppard (      -      ) 1 5

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Margaret Olean Murdock ²

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           Born: 1849 - Crawford Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 1921
         Buried:  - Graham Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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Children

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1 M Charles E. "Charlie" Pyle ⁶

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           Born: 16 Dec 1872 - Sugarcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Cora Belle Graham (Abt 1875-Aft 1915) 2 7
           Marr: 1894 - ? Venango Co, PA

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2 F Vida May Pyle ²

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         Spouse: Will Kuhns (      -      ) 2

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3 F Gertrude Bell "Gertie" Pyle ⁸

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           Born: 1876 - Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: 1960
         Buried:  - Graham Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 9

         Spouse: Charles D. Boals (1872-1955) 10
           Marr: 1896 - ? Venango Co, PA

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4 M Ernest R. Pyle ²

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         Spouse: Eva Dunlap (1888-1972)
           Marr: 1908 - ? Venango Co, PA

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5 F Ethel E. Pyle ^{2 3}

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           Born: 9 Jan 1880 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 3
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           Died: Sep 1966 3
         Buried:  - New Lebanon Cemetery, Mill Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA

         Spouse: Burton C. Barnes (1878-1926) 3
           Marr: Jun 1901 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 3

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6 F Cora P. Pyle ²

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         Spouse: William Miller (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1904 - ? Venango Co, PA

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7 F Chrystal E. Pyle ²

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           Born: 19 Feb 1884
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           Died: 1963
         Buried:  - Graham Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 11

         Spouse: Chris Highfield (1880-1967) 2

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8 M Clint R. Pyle ²

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9 M Asa Cole Pyle ¹²

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            AKA: Ace C. Pyle 2
           Born: Abt 1889
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         Spouse: Ruth Olive McClintock (1895-1927) 12
           Marr: 22 Apr 1913 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 13

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10 M Leslie N. Pyle ²

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General Notes: Husband - Erastus Cole Pyle

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He was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to Venango County to join his brother Robert J. Pyle, who had encouraged him to come here because of the excellent prospects of remunerative employment. Just previously he had given three years' service as a private soldier in the Civil war, with an Indiana regiment, and was nearly starved to death at Libby prison, where he was confined for three months before being paroled and exchanged. Then he rejoined his regiment and completed his term of enlistment, but his health had been permanently impaired while he was in the army, and his death, at the age of fifty-nine years, was caused by the hardships he had undergone. When he joined his brother in the Pennsylvania oil fields he found work readily as a rig builder, carpenter, pumper and driller, eventually taking charge of important production work in the Bully Hill section. He was so engaged up to the time of his death, during the last fifteen years filling a responsible position with Smith, Huling & Co., for whom he had charge of the lease and development work on the Huling farm. He lived there during that time. [CAB, 940]

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Olean Murdock

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from Sugarcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA

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2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 940.

3 Beatrice Barnes McClelland, A History of the Barnes Families in Jackson Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Tionesta, PA: Forest Press, Inc., 1977), Pg 133.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Sandycreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1999), Pg 32.

5 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 708.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 939.

7 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1028.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 913, 940.

9 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Sandycreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1999), Pg 29.

10 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 913.

11 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Plum Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 2000), Pg 23.

12 Alan R. Jones, Threads of Venango (Indiana, PA: A. G. Halldin Publishing Co., 1984), Pg 201.

13 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #10401.