Robert was the son of John William Kyle. The Kyles who settled in Virginia and later came to Lee County were descendants of John William Kyle of County Tyrone, North Ireland, whose ancestry dates back to those of Ayreshire, Scotland. John William Kyle had sons, Robert, Patrick and James who came to America. Of these Robert migrated to Virginia and settled in Albermarle County in 1756.
Robert arrived in Virginia in the 1740s. A record at the Court House in Charlottesville shows "a plot of 190 acres in Albermarle lying on the branches of David's Creek, surveyed for Robert Kyle October 7th, 1749."
Robert Kyle was born in County Tyrone, N. Ireland in 1702; married there in 1728, Betty Ann Campbell, who was also born there in 1704. She was the daughter of Hugh Campbell II. Robert died in 1774 and Betty Ann in 1779 in what was then Buckingham County, Virginia. They were parents of William, Joseph, Robert, David and three daughters.
William and Joseph, their two married sons came to Virginia after their parents in July 1759 and lived in Richmond untill January, then removed to their father's plantation until spring when they settled in Botetourt County, Virginia.
William and Joseph both served in the American Revolution from Botetourt County, Virginia. (Lewis Summer's "Annuls of Southwest Virginia" page 1396.)
The Kyles were a Scots-Irish family with strong ties and achievements in the Rogersville, Tennessee area. Brothers, Robert and David Kyle, left Tyrone County, Ireland, about 1740, and settled in Virginia. Robert's son, Robert, made it to East Tennessee as a Captain in the Revolutionary War, where he commanded a garrison of soldiers against the Indians in Hawkins County in 1777. Robert, the son, in 1785, established a home at Walnut Hill, seven miles west of the present day Rogersville. He had seven children, one of whom, Jane, was scalped by the Indians at her front gate. She recovered with only the loss of her hair.
Absalom Kyle, the son of Robert, married into an aristocrat family, the Cobbs, and through his wife, Bathsheba, started out together in a humble log cabin because her father opposed the marriage. He eventually prospered by establishing a stage coach route between Atlanta and Washington through Rogersville.
By 1818, the pair had a large brick home built at Walnut Hill for them and their fourteen children, one of whom William Caswell Kyle was a General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. A brother, Leonidas Netherland Kyle was a Confederate Army Captain and his son, Gale Porter Kyle, married Gladys Boone, a direct descendant of Daniel Boone, the English pioneer who set up the wilderness road to Kentucky, which passed through Rogersville.
Robert arrived in Virginia in the 1740s. A record at the Court House in Charlottesville shows "a plot of 190 acres in Albermarle lying on the branches of David's Creek, surveyed for Robert Kyle October 7th, 1749."
Robert Kyle was born in County Tyrone, N. Ireland in 1702; married there in 1728, Betty Ann Campbell, who was also born there in 1704. She was the daughter of Hugh Campbell II. Robert died in 1774 and Betty Ann in 1779 in what was then Buckingham County, Virginia. They were parents of William, Joseph, Robert, David and three daughters.
William and Joseph, their two married sons came to Virginia after their parents in July 1759 and lived in Richmond untill January, then removed to their father's plantation until spring when they settled in Botetourt County, Virginia.
William and Joseph both served in the American Revolution from Botetourt County, Virginia. (Lewis Summer's "Annuls of Southwest Virginia" page 1396.)
The Kyles were a Scots-Irish family with strong ties and achievements in the Rogersville, Tennessee area. Brothers, Robert and David Kyle, left Tyrone County, Ireland, about 1740, and settled in Virginia. Robert's son, Robert, made it to East Tennessee as a Captain in the Revolutionary War, where he commanded a garrison of soldiers against the Indians in Hawkins County in 1777. Robert, the son, in 1785, established a home at Walnut Hill, seven miles west of the present day Rogersville. He had seven children, one of whom, Jane, was scalped by the Indians at her front gate. She recovered with only the loss of her hair.
Absalom Kyle, the son of Robert, married into an aristocrat family, the Cobbs, and through his wife, Bathsheba, started out together in a humble log cabin because her father opposed the marriage. He eventually prospered by establishing a stage coach route between Atlanta and Washington through Rogersville.
By 1818, the pair had a large brick home built at Walnut Hill for them and their fourteen children, one of whom William Caswell Kyle was a General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. A brother, Leonidas Netherland Kyle was a Confederate Army Captain and his son, Gale Porter Kyle, married Gladys Boone, a direct descendant of Daniel Boone, the English pioneer who set up the wilderness road to Kentucky, which passed through Rogersville.
Robert was the son of John William Kyle. The Kyles who settled in Virginia and later came to Lee County were descendants of John William Kyle of County Tyrone, North Ireland, whose ancestry dates back to those of Ayreshire, Scotland. John William Kyle had sons, Robert, Patrick and James who came to America. Of these Robert migrated to Virginia and settled in Albermarle County in 1756.
Robert arrived in Virginia in the 1740s. A record at the Court House in Charlottesville shows "a plot of 190 acres in Albermarle lying on the branches of David's Creek, surveyed for Robert Kyle October 7th, 1749."
Robert Kyle was born in County Tyrone, N. Ireland in 1702; married there in 1728, Betty Ann Campbell, who was also born there in 1704. She was the daughter of Hugh Campbell II. Robert died in 1774 and Betty Ann in 1779 in what was then Buckingham County, Virginia. They were parents of William, Joseph, Robert, David and three daughters.
William and Joseph, their two married sons came to Virginia after their parents in July 1759 and lived in Richmond untill January, then removed to their father's plantation until spring when they settled in Botetourt County, Virginia.
William and Joseph both served in the American Revolution from Botetourt County, Virginia. (Lewis Summer's "Annuls of Southwest Virginia" page 1396.)
The Kyles were a Scots-Irish family with strong ties and achievements in the Rogersville, Tennessee area. Brothers, Robert and David Kyle, left Tyrone County, Ireland, about 1740, and settled in Virginia. Robert's son, Robert, made it to East Tennessee as a Captain in the Revolutionary War, where he commanded a garrison of soldiers against the Indians in Hawkins County in 1777. Robert, the son, in 1785, established a home at Walnut Hill, seven miles west of the present day Rogersville. He had seven children, one of whom, Jane, was scalped by the Indians at her front gate. She recovered with only the loss of her hair.
Absalom Kyle, the son of Robert, married into an aristocrat family, the Cobbs, and through his wife, Bathsheba, started out together in a humble log cabin because her father opposed the marriage. He eventually prospered by establishing a stage coach route between Atlanta and Washington through Rogersville.
By 1818, the pair had a large brick home built at Walnut Hill for them and their fourteen children, one of whom William Caswell Kyle was a General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. A brother, Leonidas Netherland Kyle was a Confederate Army Captain and his son, Gale Porter Kyle, married Gladys Boone, a direct descendant of Daniel Boone, the English pioneer who set up the wilderness road to Kentucky, which passed through Rogersville.
Robert arrived in Virginia in the 1740s. A record at the Court House in Charlottesville shows "a plot of 190 acres in Albermarle lying on the branches of David's Creek, surveyed for Robert Kyle October 7th, 1749."
Robert Kyle was born in County Tyrone, N. Ireland in 1702; married there in 1728, Betty Ann Campbell, who was also born there in 1704. She was the daughter of Hugh Campbell II. Robert died in 1774 and Betty Ann in 1779 in what was then Buckingham County, Virginia. They were parents of William, Joseph, Robert, David and three daughters.
William and Joseph, their two married sons came to Virginia after their parents in July 1759 and lived in Richmond untill January, then removed to their father's plantation until spring when they settled in Botetourt County, Virginia.
William and Joseph both served in the American Revolution from Botetourt County, Virginia. (Lewis Summer's "Annuls of Southwest Virginia" page 1396.)
The Kyles were a Scots-Irish family with strong ties and achievements in the Rogersville, Tennessee area. Brothers, Robert and David Kyle, left Tyrone County, Ireland, about 1740, and settled in Virginia. Robert's son, Robert, made it to East Tennessee as a Captain in the Revolutionary War, where he commanded a garrison of soldiers against the Indians in Hawkins County in 1777. Robert, the son, in 1785, established a home at Walnut Hill, seven miles west of the present day Rogersville. He had seven children, one of whom, Jane, was scalped by the Indians at her front gate. She recovered with only the loss of her hair.
Absalom Kyle, the son of Robert, married into an aristocrat family, the Cobbs, and through his wife, Bathsheba, started out together in a humble log cabin because her father opposed the marriage. He eventually prospered by establishing a stage coach route between Atlanta and Washington through Rogersville.
By 1818, the pair had a large brick home built at Walnut Hill for them and their fourteen children, one of whom William Caswell Kyle was a General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. A brother, Leonidas Netherland Kyle was a Confederate Army Captain and his son, Gale Porter Kyle, married Gladys Boone, a direct descendant of Daniel Boone, the English pioneer who set up the wilderness road to Kentucky, which passed through Rogersville.
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