Jackson County GaArchives Photos Tombstones.....Lyle, Maher Shallal Hashbaz 
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Robert F. Bonner  Aug 2002

Lyle Family Burial Ground

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MAHER SHALAL HASHBAZ LYLE 
 
Some say his birth name was Robert 
and he changed his name to Maher Shallal Hashbaz Lyle; 
recorded in the Bible record 
data in possession of Mrs. Q.W. Arwood, Jackson Co. GA. 
Maher is said to be of the family of Lyle who moved from Scotland to County Antrim, 
Northern Ireland, living in the vicinity of Larne. 
Maher is said to have three immigrant brothers named Matthew, John and Daniel. 

Born March 14, 1736 in Scotland. 
He was a Revolutionary War veteran and 
was with Washington at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. 

He is the Lyle who served with Washington in Virginia; 
it states that on his grave marker. 

He married Elizabeth Gibson in 1763 in Virginia and 
moved down through the Carolinas and on to Georgia. 
He came from Halifax Co. VA to Union Co. SC To Jackson Co. GA 
and settled at Mulberry Station in 1786. 
He died in Jackson Co. GA January 30, 1814. 

The old family burial ground is in Jackson County 
near what was the Mulberry River and the old settlement of Mulberry. 

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