When Dilmus Thompson Lyle was born on 19 December 1855, in Coweta, Georgia, United States, his father, William Maher Lyle, was 31 and his mother, Mary Ann Wells, was 25. He married Sarah Kansas Ragland on 9 December 1886, in Coweta, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Carrollton, Carroll, Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 647, Coweta, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 27 November 1929, at the age of 73, and was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Newnan, Coweta, Georgia, United States.
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Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish and English (of Norman origin): topographic or habitational name from Anglo-Norman French del isle ‘from the island’ (from Latin de insula), denoting someone who lived on an island or who came from a place in France named Ile, Isle, or L'Isle. The surname may also in some cases be from Lille (Nord). Compare Lisle and Iles .
Scottish: variant of Lyall .
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