John Rayl and Jane Wells

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Husband John Rayl ¹

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           Born: Dec 1805 - Ohio Twp, Beaver Co, PA 1
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           Died: 12 Jul 1883 1
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         Father: William Rayl (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Susan [1] Bradshaw (      -      ) 3

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Wife Jane Wells ¹

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           Born: 14 Mar 1805 1
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           Died: 15 Jan 1883 1
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         Father: [Father] Wells (      -      )
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Children

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1 F Belinda Rayl ¹

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           Died: Bef 1914 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA
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         Spouse: John Kerr (      -      ) 1

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2 F Matilda Rayl ¹

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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Spouse: Josiah Long (      -      ) 1

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3 M William Rayl ¹

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           Died: Aft 1914
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4 M Wells Rayl ¹

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           Died: 1910 - Canal, Fulton Co, OH 4
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5 M John B. Rayl ⁴

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            AKA: Bradford Rayl,5 John R. Rayle 6
           Born: 21 Mar 1841 - South Beaver Twp, Beaver Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Rebecca J. Louthan (1843-Aft 1914) 7 8
           Marr: 23 Aug 1867 4

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6 F Susannah Rayl ⁴

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           Died: Bef 1914
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         Spouse: John Barclay (      -Bef 1914) 4

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7 M Walter Rayl ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - John Rayl

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He was reared on the home farm, educated in the local schools, and as a youth apprenticed himself to the blacksmith's trade. Soon after his marriage he located on a farm in south Beaver County, Pennsylvania, building a shop in which to ply his trade on land of his father. He afterward purchased more land and had his shop on his own property, dividing his attention between work at his trade and the cultivation of his acres. He was for a time engaged in the oil business and acquired a local reputation for his successful locating of oil wells, discovering good producers in apparently hopeless territory, and amassed a considerable fortune in that way.
His family had all been members of the Covenanter Church and to this he had given his allegiance until the formation of the Free Presbyterian sect, with a crusade against slavery as their object. After the war he became a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and in that, as in the others, he held the position of elder.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 158.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 157, 954.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 954.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 159.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 615.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 721.

7 Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 300.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 159, 615, 721.