Carroll County Georgia. He married Sarah Zipporah Powledge, known as "Sallie", the daughter of Robert
Powledge and Nancy White. She was born 19 July 1869 in Lone Oak (Meriwether County), Georgia. She
died 13 December 1935 in Carroll County. They were married at the home of Enoch S. Lyle, 1306 Dixie
Street, Carrollton, Georgia. Both are buried in Stripling Chapel Cemetery in Carroll County.
Enoch Silas Lyle was the son of Richard Calvin Lyle and Mary Ann
Wood. Richard was a veteran of
the Civil War, serving in Co. C, 34 Georgia Infantry until his capture
at Vicksburg. Afterwards he returned
to Carrollton and began acquiring farmland. At one time he owned
about 1,000 acres just south of town.
Richard and Mary Ann had three sons. Enoch Silas, Earnest Wood and
Norman Powledge. All are buried
at Stripling Chapel Cemetery.
Enoch and "Sallie" lived in a large house directly across the road
from Richard and Mary Ann. They
made a living farming cotton and raising livestock. There were a
couple of tenant houses on the farm
where the sharecroppers lived. Later on, Enoch gave up farming and
opened "Lyle's Country Store".
A small building near the road in front of the main house. There
was a small apartment in the back of the
store where his brother "Earn" lived. He rented the farmland to
a neighbor to raise crops to feed his dairy herd.
Enoch and "Sallie" had three children. Ralph Powledge, Lena Virginia
and Florence Caroline. Ralph
died 3 July 1936. Florence was born 5 January 1897. She married
Benjamin Franklin McPherson, known
as "Frank" to all who knew him. They were married 11 June 1916 in
Carroll Co. at her parents home on
Dixie Street. Florence died 5 February 1979 in Carrollton and is
buried at Stripling Chapel Cemetery.
"Frank" and Florence had two daughters, Sara Nell and Mary Ann.
Mary Ann was born 29 September 1922
and died 23 January 1971. Sara Nell was born 7 October 1917 and
is still living in Carrollton in the Lake
Carroll area. Sara Nell was married to Robert James "Rip" Bonner
on 23 February 1936, in Heflin, Alabama.
"Rip" moved to Carrollton from Standing Rock, Alabama as a teenager.
In 1942, Sara Nell's grandfather,
Enoch Lyle, gave her two acres of land on the Southwest corner of
the homeplace for the purpose of
building a home. They lived there together until "Rip's" death in
1971.
