History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, MO
Cedar County Biography Section

     John N. Pyle has been one of the leading farmers and 
stock-raisers of Cedar County, Mo., for a number of years, 
his farm being situated about six miles southwest of the 
county seat.  He was born in Dade County, Mo., in 1853, and 
is a son of A. M. and Minerva J. (Wilson) Pyle, the father 
being a native of Christian County, and one of the leading 
pioneer farmers and stock-raisers of Cedar County, and one of 
its prominent and influential citizens.  John N. Pyle, the 
eldest of a family of ten children, lived with his parents 
until he attained his majority, when he married Miss Mollie 
C. Hamner, who was born in Iowa, in 1855, and engaged in 
farming on his own responsibility.  He is now a well-to-do 
farmer; a man of sound judgment, and is highly esteemed by 
all who know him.  He acquired a common school education in 
his youth, and has always been a Republican in his political
views.  He and wife are members of the Christian Church, and 
their union has resulted in the birth of six children: 
Claude A., Maud M., Harry E., Bessie G., Charles E. and Willis.
Mrs. Pyle's parents, Edward D. and Sarah J. Hamner, are 
residents of Greenfield, Dade County, Mo., and were born in 
Kentucky.  After residing in Indiana for some time they removed
to Iowa, and, in 1870, came to Cedar County, Mo., locating soon
after in Dade County.  

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages 771, 772

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