The Wylie Family

Peter Wylie(James, John) was born 31 Oct 1757 in Voluntown, New London, CT. He died Mar
1844 in Eden, Lamoille Co. VT.


CT soldier in the Revolution
placed on pension rolls in 1820 as resident of Orleans Cty VT. . He was in the Army about 7 years
Served under Washington and was at Valley Forge
Was in the crossing of the Delaware. Probably enlisted from Long Island
Was an orderly sergeant at the time of his discharge
Name can be found in the rolls in the war dept.
These notes are from Joseph Wylie - grandson of Peter and written to Mary Wylie Feb 13, 1905
Peter Wylie, CT, Captain Gallup's Company 1776, res. Eden, VT 1820,1840, buried in Eden,
Wife Mary.
Notes
from pension application
ID: I3972
Name: Peter WYLIE
Sex: M
Birth:
Sources: , 1. Early History of Southampton, George Rogers Howell , page 416 data supplied by
Miss
Olive R.
Hand for the descendan t, s of Joseph Hand.
Change Date: 29 JUN 1999
Marriage 1 Mary HAND b: 11 FEB 1764 in Guilford, Connecticut
Vermont Census, 1790-1860
Vermont Census, 1790-1860
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WYLIE, PETER
State: VT Year: 1840
County: Lamoille County Record Type:
Township: Age 84 Eden Page: 067
Database: VT 1840 Pensioners List
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WYLIE, PETER
State: VT Year: 1820
County: Orleans County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule
Township: Eden Page: 320
Database: VT 1820 Federal Census Index
WYLIE, PETER
State: VT Year: 1830
County: Orleans County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule
Township: Eden Page: 254
Database: VT 1830 Federal Census Index


Peter married Mary Hand. Mary was born 11 Feb 1764 in Guilford, CT. She died 12 Feb 1844 in
Eden, Lamoille Co. VT.

Mary was the daughter of Samuel Hand and Mary Slooper  Other children of Peter Wylie and
Mary Hand are Polly,
Sarah, David, b. Mar 9, 1784, Bershire, MA; Samuel b. abt 1785; Ephriam b. 1789 d, Nov 21,
1843;
Hannah b. 1790 married Caleb Goodrich Feb 3, 1811, d. 1871


Peter and Mary had the following children:

+        4        M        i.        Peter Wyliewas born Abt 1790.



The connection between the previous family and mine, below,  isn't proven, and I've found
differing accounts.

4.        Peter Wylie (Peter, James, John) was born Abt 1790 in Hancock, Berkshire, MA


Peter married Sarah Stowel. Sarah was born Abt 1826 in New York.


Sarah was the daughter of David Stowell and Mary Pratt


Peter and Sarah had the following children:

5        M        i.        Samuel Wylie was born Abt 1820.


6        M        ii.        Ezra Wylie was born 1834 or 1826 in Eden, Lamoille Co. VT. He died 16
Mar 1896 in Granite Falls, Minnesota. He was buried in Granite Falls, Minnesota.


Ezra and Betsey had several more children who died young while they lived in
Wisconsin.
! One source states his birthplace as NY



Ezra married Betsey Lette DeMerit daughter of Amos DeMerit and Olive( Polly) Leet probably
1852. Betsey was born 5 Feb 1835/1836 in Vermont. She died 23 or 25 Dec. 1922 in Mpls.,
Hennepin Co, MN. She was buried in Granite Falls, MN.


She made a beautiful log cabin quilt in 1911 which was passed down to Gay Gillespie
and then to her daughter Mary.  It is now at Holt House on display.
Betsy was much loved by her family members and is buried with "Grandma" as her
name on her tombstone in the Granite Falls City Cemetery.

Click here for a picture of Betsy Wylie and grandson, Stan Morrill.
Another picture of Betsy's daughter, Bertha Wylie as a baby.



7        M        iii.        Pratt J Wylie was born 1833 in New York. He died 29 Oct 1896 in
Trimbelle, Pierce Co., Wisconsin.


More About PRATT J WYLIE:
Burial: Thurston Hill Cemetery, Trimbelle Township, Pierce Co., Wis.
Military service: December 12, 1863, 12th Wis. Inf. Co. A, Private
Occupation: 1880, Farm Laborer
Residence: 1895, Trimbelle, Pierce Co. Wisconsin
More About ALSENA GRACE RICH:
Religion: 1898, Beldenville, Pierce Co., WI
Children of PRATT WYLIE and ALSENA RICH are:
24. i. GEORGE GILBERT 6 WYLIE, b. November 17, 1855, Moira, Franklin Co., New
York; d. February 14, 1930,
Pengilly, MN @74y2m25days.
ii. CHARLES A WYLIE, b. 1862, Wisconsin; m. (1) ANNIE MOTZK, January 03, 1888,
Pierce Co. Wisconsin; m.
(2) CLARRIA L GRIFFIN, August 03, 1897, Trimbelle, Pierce Co., Wisconsin by Jerome
Hall; b. Bet. 1860 -1861,

Pratt married Alsena Grace Rich.


8        F        iv.        Mary Wylie was born Abt 1836 in Eden, Lamoille Co. VT.


9        F        v.        Sarah Wylie was born Abt 1836 in Eden, Lamoille Co. VT.


10        F        vi.        Angeline Lucy Wylie was born 27 Dec 1839 in Eden, Lamoille Co. VT.


11        M        vii.        James Raymond Wylie was born 10 Aug 1834 in Eden, Lamoille Co. VT.
He died 29 Dec 1932 in Oswego, Labette Co., KS. He was buried in Granite Falls, Minnesota.


James was buried in Granite Falls, MN and one of his children was born there in 1870.


JAMES RAYMOND 5 WYLIE (PETER 4 , PETER 3 , JAMES 2 , JOHN 1 ) was born
August 10, 1834 in Eden, Lamoille
Co., Vermont, and died December 29, 1932 in Oswego, Labette Co., Kansas@ 98
years. He married ACHSAH
LEVONIA GRIFFIN September 04, 1855 in North Bangor, New York, daughter of
LEICESTER GRIFFIN and EMILY
AUSTIN. She was born December 27, 1838 in Moira, New York, and died August 10,
1916 in Oswego, Labette
More About JAMES RAYMOND WYLIE:
Burial: January 01, 1933, Oswego, Labette Co., Kansas
Cemetery: 1870, MN Chippewa Co. Granite Falls ED?? Sht 505
Military service: Union Army, Civil War
More About ACHSAH LEVONIA GRIFFIN:
Burial: August 12, 1916, Oswego, Labette, Kansas
Children of JAMES WYLIE and ACHSAH GRIFFIN are:
26. i. JULIA AMELIA 6 WYLIE, b. August 25, 1856, Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin; d. July
11, 1937, Chanute, Neosho
Co., Kansas@80 years.



12        M        viii.        Hayden Wylie was born 21 Aug 1842 in Eden, Lamoille Co. VT. He died
3 Jun 1910 in Pendleton, Umatila Co, OR.
1895 Granite Falls Twp., Chippewa County Census, Hayden Wiley is 42, his wife Edna
A is 37, Leirmie A is 17 and Cora E is 7

From the "history of the MN Valley" by Rev. Edward Neill, 1882
"H.D. Wylie was born in Eden. La Moille Co., Vermonet Aug 21, 1842.  At age 8 he
went to Franklin Co., N.Y.  Eight years later he moved to Pierce Co., WI.  In March
1862 he joined Company B, WI 2 division.  He was discharged in Aug.because of
sickness but returned and served until 1866.  In 1869 he settles on Sec. 24, Granite
Falls, Twp and had 4 children.


June 25,26, & 27, 1906
Name Co. Regiment Location Post Residence
Wylie, H.D. B 2nd Inf. Wis Gray Post Eugene, Oregon[Ernest DesJardins.FTW]
[George Wylie.FTW]
Register of the 24th Annual Encampment
Dept. of Washington and Alaska


Hayden married  Edna A. Sutton 3 Mar 1867 in Diamond Bluff, Pierce Co., WI.




Source

 Toni Argento, Descendants of John Wylie.
return to Holt House Genealogy
Bertha Wylie married Sam Morrill.  
Other Wylie families lived in the Granite
Falls area before the Morrills moved
here.
                  The Wylies Move West
                              by Janet Novak

About 1855, Betsy and Ezra Wylie, the parents of Bertha,
who was later to marry Samuel Dearborn Morrill, left
New England for the Mississippi River bordering
Wisconsin and Minnesota, to meet Ezra's brother who
had arranged for Ezra to work in the logging camp where
he was employed.  Betsy, Born Feb. 2, 1835, in Vermont
was 20 years olf.  Ezra, born about 1826, was 29.  The
journey west started with a boat trip on the Great Lakes
from Buffalo, N.Y., to the area around Milwaukee, Wis.
After paying for food and transportation, all their worldy
possessions were locked in a hand-made trunk which was
lost during a fierce lake Michigan storm when they were
forced to abandon ship and had to make their way to
shore in life boats.  From there to the Mississippi River
they traveled by state coach.

When they arrived on the Wisconsin side of the
Mississippi, they found that Ezra's brother and his
logging job, was on the Minnesota side.  Without money,
they bravely boarded the ferry that would take them
across the river, hoping that Ezra's brother would be
there to pay their fare.  As they were leaving the ferry,
Ezra spotted a quarter on the gangplank.  The money was
his for only a few minutes.  When he asked the ferryman
the cost of the ride, he was told it was 25 cents.

The Wylies spent several years working at the logging
camp, Ezra as a wood cutter and Betsy in the cook shack,
before they moved to Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin.  In its
early days, Diamond Bluff had been touted by its
developers as a future center of transportation,
manufacturing and commerce.  It, and other river towns
with similar aspirations, lost out to what is now the Twin
Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.  We found records of
many land transactions, the buying and selling of
property in the area, By Ezra and Betsy.  Could they
have been speculating on what they hoped to be a future
metropolis?

After Betsy and Ezra moved to Diamond Bluff, they had
seven children, of which only Bertha and Jessie lived to
adulthood.  In 1878, The Pierce County Herald reported
that "Ezra Wylie of Diamond Bluff has recently lost his
oldest boy.  He died of scarlet fever."
The Marriage of Sam Morrill and Bertha Wylie
by Janet Novak

Bertha Wylie left her home in Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin, to attend
Winona Normal School in Winona, MN and then taught school in
East Granite Falls.  We don't know how Sam and Bertha met, but
letters between the two written during courtship reveal their
caring, tender and affectionate feelings for one another and
indicate that Sam looked to Bertha for support in many ways,
support that Bertha willingly offered.

Eight years after she had moved to Granite Falls, on July 26, 1890,
Sam and Bertha were married.
Ezra and Betsy Wylie
Frederick Wylie, died of
scarlet fever at age 6