Abner and John are sons of the Tory Dr. John Pyle, Jr, grievously wounded at Pyle's Hacking Party. They are cousins of mine through their mother, Sarah Brazier. They are also kin to the Pyles of Chester County, PA.
Abner Pyle 
Abner Pyle December 14, 1778 – June 22, 1866. Abner was
born in Chatham County, North Carolina and died in Perry County, Illinois. In
1807 he married Sarah Wells (1788-1855) in Christian County, Kentucky. She was
born August 30, 1855 in Christian County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of
Lewis Wells and Elizabeth Bates. She was also the sister of Mary Wells who
married John Pyle. Abner and his wife together with their family moved from
Kentucky to Illinois in 1818 and settled in what is now Perry County, Illinois
not far from the present town of DuQuoin. Abner and his brother John were much
opposed to slavery. The story is told that while living in Kentucky, Abner
concealed a runaway Negro man slave in his barn loft and after doing the
feeding each day Abner carried his feed basket to the house and when he
returned to the barn to feed he took food in the basket to the Negro in the
hayloft. Sara died January 22, 1855 and Abner survived her more than eleven
years. They are both buried in McElvain Cemetery just west of DuQuoin in Perry
County, Illinois.
SONS OF A TORY, GRANDSONS OF TWO TORIES, AND ANTI-SLAVERS: WHAT WOULD POOR BEN AFFLECK DO?
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