From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 711.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN KYLE

John Kyle, a worthy farmer of Fairview Ridge, was born in Marshall 
county, April 20, 1820.  He is the son of John Kyle, a native of 
Virginia, a successful farmer and old resident, who died in Meigs 
county, Ohio, from paralysis, at the age of seventy-five years.  He 
and wife, Jane Pollock, were both members of the Presbyterian church.  
They have five children:  Mary A., wife of David Meredith; John, 
Stephen H., and two daughters who died young.  John Kyle has led the 
life of an industrious and enterprising farmer, is prosperous, and is 
well known throughout the county and everywhere respected.  He served 
the county as overseer of the poor from 1861 to 1872, and in this 
official capacity discharged every duty with scrupulous fidelity.  He 
is a member and has served as deacon for twelve years as elder for 
twenty years of the Presbyterian church, to which his wife also 
belongs.  He was married September 1, 1840, to Elizabeth, widow of 
Hamilton Johnston, by whom she had two children: Mary, who became the 
wife of S. L. Bloid, and died July 7, 1874, and Elizabeth, who 
married Joseph Marsh.  Mr. and Mrs. Kyle have seven children:  Jane, 
wife of James Rogerson, and mother of five children; Joanna, wife of 
G. W. Blake, one child; Amanda, wife of Phillip Cunningham, five 
children; Sarah C., deceased; Virginia, wife of J. W. Marsh, nine 
children; and Martha, wife of William Norris, five children, one 
deceased; Melissa, wife of John I. Campbell, five children.   

(Linda Fluharty)