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Lytle Genealogy

Thomas Lytle was born 6 June 1750 in Rowan County, North Carolina and died 31 May 1835 in Burke County, buried in the Bethel Cemetery, McDowell County, N. C. Thomas was married on 17 Jan 1783 in Lincoln County to Susannah Petillo (1756-17 Nov 1840), a daughter of John and Rachel Petillo, also buried in the above cemetery. Issue:

• John P. Lytle (1784-1861).
• Millington Lytle, born 1789 in Burke County.
• Elizabeth Sophronia Lytle 23 Jul 1795-16 June 1837.
• Thomas Lytle, born 6 June 1797 in Burke County, died 17 Apr 1883 in Burke County, buried in the Bethel Cemetery in McDowell County. His grave is marked by the Greenlee Chapter, DAR. Thomas enlisted in the Revolutionary War as a Captain in Rowan County in 1776 under Colonel Christopher Beekman, commanding a company of troops in the Cross Creek expedition against the Scottish Tories. During the summer of 1776 Capt. Lytle commanded a company of men in Rutherford's Cherokee expedition against the Cherokees in the overhills. Then he commanded the western Catawba frontier forts at Fort Cathey, Fort Davidson and Fort Wofford. In 1780 he served under Lt. Colonel Robert Holmes and Colonel Frederick Hambright at the seige of Charleston, returning hom just before the fall of Charleston in May of 1780. Thomas received a number of land grants for his service, viz: 200 acres on Bull Creek in 1790; 440 acres on McCorkles Creek in 1782; 250 acres on Hall's Creek in 1783. He was married to Susannah Perkins in 1772 in Rowan County. Susanna was born 1752, died 17 Nov 1840, buried beside her husband. Issue:

  1. John Lytle, born 1774.
  2. George Lytle, born 1785.
  3. Milton Lytle, born 1789 married Polly Pattillo.
  4. Thomas Lytle, born 1791 married Jennie McEntyre.
  5. Elizabeth Lytle married John Burgin.

Sources: Revolutionary War Pension #S3873, application dated 1833; Kings Mountain and Its Heroes by Lyman C. Draper, page 151; N. C. Revolutionary Army Accounts, Vol. 11, 24-3; Vol. VI; Vol. XI, 57-4; Vol. XII, 43-2; Revolutionary War Soldiers of Western North Carolina, Burke Co., Volume I by Emmett R. White; The King's Mountain Men by Katherine Keogh White.