When I was checking on this name there are twenty-two different way in spelling
the name leyrle or Lyerla
I did not put in all the different spelling.
Johann christioh leyrel arrived on the ship Richard & Mary in September
30, 1754
Zacharina and Christoph was revolutionary soldier in Virginia
Melva or mevvie or meva ballaretta (Lyerla) Stearns (my great grandmother)
Her first name was spell three different ways.
Melva (Lyerla) Stearns
Is my grandfather
James David Stearns mother
Melva (Lyerla) Stearns parents:
Father-jasper Zachariah Lyerla
(Went by Pap)
Mother-Catherine Christina Gregory
Jasper Zachariah came from North Caroline to Uninon County West Jonesboro,
Il in 1818
Jasper and Catherine had eight children:
1) Melva ballaretta Lyerla married
William David Stearns
These are my great grandparents
2) Sera Elizabeth (Aunt Betty) Lyerla
Never married and no children
3) Bertha Ann (Aunt Bertha) Lyerla
Never married and no children
4) Grover Clevland Lyerla married
Elisie Mae McKinney
They had eight children
Age of the Children when
Elisie (McKinney)
Lyerla Die
4-1) Ruah (Lyerla) Hunt-
Oldest twenty-one years old
4-2) Virgil buck Lyerla-
Nineteen
years old
4-3) William Crawford Lyerla
Seventeen years old
4-4) Ethel (Lyerla) Norton
Fifteen Years old
4-5) Velma Ilene (Lyerla) Elliott
Eleven years old
This is my grandfather first cousin
And this makes her my third cousin.
Velma Ilene Lyerla
Born October 6, 1918
Died March 6, 2003 in Des
Moines, Iowa
Married Sherman
a Elliot on
December 12, 1935
Sherman A Elliot
Born
Died September 26, 1991
Both are buried at Pleasant
Grove Memorial Park in Ill
4-6) Gordon Ray (Bob) Lyerla
Nine years old
4-7) Clyde Merle Lyerla
Six years old
4-8) James Delbert Lyerla
Four Years old
After their mother death (Elisie) the
Children were adopt out to other family
Aunt Betty and Aunt Bertha took Six
Of the children
Melva (Lyerla) Stearns
(My grandmother) she took Ilene.
James Delbert was adopt by the
Baileys from Ohio
they changed his names
To Paul Delbert Bailey.
He lives in fort Collins,
Colorado
As Of June, 2001.
Continuing with Jasper and Catherine
Children
5) John Henry Lyerla
6) Jacob (Jake) Isiac Lyerla
7) Zacheriah Nuberrt Lyerla
8) Milas Omar Lyerla
