My father [Max H. Hoyle] told me
that the reason we were an outstanding sober family was due especially to
Margaret Costner Hoyle's teaching. In that day everybody made whiskey, but she
said repeatedly to her boys: "Every one of you needs all your mother-wit;
now don't befuddle your brain with whiskey." With her it was not a moral
issue, but a practical common sense one.
ELIZABETH HOYLE RUCKER, History of
the Hoyle Families and the Families into which they Married (c. 1938).
Margaret Costner Hoyle 1745-1821)
was the mother of 13 children including these sons: Peter, Andrew, John, Jacob,
Adam, David, and Solomon.
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