Hogg - McKee Family footnote 6
The Descendants of Robert Hoge or Hogg of Tuscarora Valley,
Pennsylvania
Including the families of Lytle, McCullough, McKee, Sturgeon, Dunbar, Graham,
Stitt, Harnish, Vance, Robinson, Potts, McBride
This John Lytle [third son of Robert & Letitia McCullough (II-A)] is my
grandfather. He was born at Johnstown (now called "Walnut"), a village in Milford
Twp., now Juniata County, and removed to Licking Co, Ohio about 1828. Simeon
Pain or Paine and his wife Mary (Triplett) Pain came from Hardy Co., West
Virginia to Licking Co. about 1819. My records show that John Lytle was married
in Ohio on March 20, 1828 to Terzah Paine the eldest daughter of Simeon Paine.
John Lytle laid out the townshite of Lytle City, Iowa, where he had moved about
1850 or 60. He died at Allerton, Iowa, Nov. 12, 1876. His children:
a. Letitia Lytle b.Dec19-1828 d. Sep20-1862
b. Lionel Branson Lytle b. June 8-1831 d. June 8-1868
c. Margery Ann Lytle b. Mar 22-1832 d. 1915
d. Robert Brice Lytle b. Apr. 7-1834 d. Aug 28-1911
e. William George Lytle b. May 9-1836 d. Apr. 6-1874
f MaryElizabeth Lytle b. June 20-1841 d. 1904
g. Amanda Jane Lytle b. Nov 23-1844 d. Apr 25-1886
h. Charles Franklin Lytle b. Nov 22-1846 d. July 7-1919
i. Edward Smith Lytle b. Sept 3-1850 d. Nov 23-1919
Robert Brice Lytle (my father) was born April 7-1834 on the Simeon Payne farm
near Utica, Ohio, died Aug. 28-1911. Raised on a farm at Appleton, Ohio,
attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Commenced teaching when he
was only 16, taught at Lansing, Michigan. Went to Iowa with his father when he
was a young man. He was named Robert after his grandfather, and Brice after
the parents of Senator Brice. He was in his father's store during the time when
he was in Lytle City. He was married at Scott, Johnson Co., Iowa, by Rev.
Alexander Fairly, June 9th, 1859, to Sarah Ellen Kemp, daughter of William
Kemp who came from Forres, Scotland, and Mary Moore of Canada. (They were
married in Ohio and Sarah Ellen, their daughter, was born in Zanesville, Ohio,
Sept. 1-1842. Robert Brice Lytle farmed near Solon, Iowa, lived for one year at
Cedar Rapids, then moved to Sulphur Springs, Iowa, where he acquired over a
thousand acres of land. Years later the family moved to Sioux City, Iowa. Robert
Brice Lytle died there Aug. 28-1911. His wife died there Sept. 29, 1917. Their
children:
i. Goveneur John Lytle, died in infancy.
ii. Elmer Ellsworth Lytle, born at Solon, Iowa, Jan. 18, 1862, resides at
Townsend, Mont., where he has large ranching and mining interests.
iii. Flora Elsie Lytle, b. Oct. 25, 1863, d. Aug. 5, 1920, m. John Patterson.
Issue:
(a) Elfian Waneta Patterson, b. 1890, d. in infancy.
(b) Loyal Carol Patterson, b. 1893, married Lulu Nordmeyer. He is auditor
for the Hayes Lucas Lumber Co. and resides at Lucan, Minn. Children:
aa. Luverne Carlton, b. 1918, was a Lieutenant and took part in the
Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. He is manager of a lumber yard
near Minneapolis.
bb. Marion Lytle, b. 1920.
cc. Robert James Patterson, b. 1931.
(c) Dr. Luverne Kemp Patterson, b. 1895, resides at Mellen, Wis.
iv. Jennie May Lytle, resides at 1019-14th St. Sioux City, Iowa.
v. Charles Franklin Lytle, b. Sept. 11, 1869, d. May 9, 1938. He was a
contractor and completed a large number of projects for cities, states, and the
Federal Government. He built over a thousand miles of concrete roads. Among
his contracts were the bridge at Bradentown, Florida, the sea wall on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast, the Harvey Locks at New Orleans, the Sutherland Dam
at Sutherland, Nebraska. He married, first, Lena Elizabeth Klingman and
secondly Lois F. Chicoine. From the first marriage, one son:
(a) Francis Kemp Lytle, b. Feb. 27, 1904. He has carried on his father's
construction business and completed many large contracts. The firm of Lytle and
Green was the managing contractor on all that portion of the Alaska Highway
lying in Alaska proper.
v. John Robert Lytle, b. 1875, d. 1888.
vi. Leonard Lytle, b. at Sulphur Springs, Ia. Sept. 11, 1879. On Jan. 4, 1910, at
Sioux City, Ia., married to Mary Agnes McDonald. Engaged in building business
at Detroit, Michigan. Children:
(a) George Donald Lytle, b. May 30, 1914. m. Margaret Post., dau. Jane
Elizabeth, b. April 9, 1942.
(b) Robert James Lytle, b. Feb. 20, 1919, m. To Ellen Elizabeth Dunn of
Uniontown, Ky. Enlisted in 1941, served in Engineer Corps to Feb. 1946 when he
was discharged as a Lt. Colonel, awarded Bronze Star medal for his work in
building bridges especially in the crossing of the Rhine. Resides in Detroit,
Michigan where he operates the Lumber Engineering Company. One dau.
Marilyn Lee, b. Aug. 15, 1943.
(c) Rosemary Elizabeth Lytle, b. Apr. 10, 1921-teacher, Detroit, Mich.
(d) Patricia Ann Lytle, b. Jan. 26, 1925.
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