Guilford Pylant, 18021891 (aged 88 years)

Name
Guilford /Pylant/
Given names
Guilford
Surname
Pylant
Birth
Unique identifier: 561188DE69494C27F4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17661
Marriage
Unique identifier: 561189083B0806A174494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF11524
Birth of a sister
about 1805 (aged 2 years)
Unique identifier: 561188DC3EEB0419B4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF187
Birth of a brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC9794042894494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF324
Death of a mother
before 1818 (aged 15 years)
Unique identifier: 561188DC37D0040CD4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF54
Marriage of a parent
Unique identifier: 5611890899E5F4EE44494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF8056
Birth of a half-brother
about 1819 (aged 16 years)
NC
Unique identifier: 561188DC78730423A4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF285
Birth of a half-brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC8129042524494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF297
Birth of a half-brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC888D042614494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF304
Birth of a half-brother
about 1823 (aged 20 years)
Unique identifier: 561188DC8DED0426D4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF312
Birth of a half-brother
about 1827 (aged 24 years)
TN
Unique identifier: 561188DC93F40427C4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF319
Death of a maternal grandfather
Unique identifier: 561188DDBB5B56E2C4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF6287
Census
Unique identifier: 561188DE697B8C2854494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17665
Census
Unique identifier: 561188DE696C9C2834494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17664

Household: Guilford, age 47, born NC, cumberland presbyterian clergyman; Cecily, age 45, born KY; Sarah A.E. Mobley, age 19, born AR; Emily Mobley, age 17, born AR.

Owned four slaves.

Death of a father
Unique identifier: 561188DCF36EE40974494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF25
Burial of a father
Unique identifier: 561188DCF37E440994494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF26

tombstone inscription:
John Pylant
Died
18th June 1851
aged 82 years

Census
Unique identifier: 561188DE699AFC2894494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17667
Death of a brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC4298041A84494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF195
Shared note: Obit:

Obit:
(Lincoln County, Tennessee Pioneers, Vol. VI, No. 4, page 85)
DIED In this county 21st ult. of palsy, after only three hours' illness, Mr. Pinkney Pylant, aged about 64 years.

Burial of a brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC43E5041AA4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF196

Location of the Pylant cemetery at Petersburg, Lincoln Co., TN:
GPS
-86.57342
35.29889
In Lincoln County,TN, driving South on Hwy 231, turn right on Cold Springs Road just past Belleville. Proceed a few miles to where Union Hollow Road intersects, turn right on this road and proceed a short way until you get to the residence of Bobby and Pam Gray (168 Union Hollow Road, Petersburg, TN), which will be on the left. The cemetery is located in their large back yard - in the back right back corner next to a white fence.

Death of a half-brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC9587042824494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF321
Death of a wife
Unique identifier: 561188DE69BAEC28E4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17670
Death of a sister
Unique identifier: 561188DC31DD0416D4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF157
Death of a brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC98BB0428B4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF325

Obit: The People's Banner, Thursday, November 2, 1876: Mr. John A. Pylant, so long and well known as a former citizen of this place and Elmore and Coosa counties, who with his wife, went out to where their children are in Texas last winter, died there on the 7th of last month.

Burial of a brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC99BC0428D4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF326

tombstone inscription:
Masonic Emblem
John A Pylant
BORN
Wake County, N.C.
Jan. 29, 1810
DIED
Sept. 30, 1876

Census
Unique identifier: 561188DE698D1C2874494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17666
Death of a half-brother
Unique identifier: 561188DC8F4B0426F4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF313

Obituary from Ripley county, Missouri (fiche #6050896):
16 May 1884 - Kimbrel Pylant, 60 years, died of general disability at his home near Pitman, Missouri last Saturday.

Doniphan (Missouri) Prospect News, 16 May 1884:
Mr. K. Pylant, a well and favorably known citizen of this county, died at his home near Pitman, last Saturday. Mr. Pylant was about 60 years of age, had been a hard worker all his life, and although he possessed a competency to keep him at ease was never quiet and inactive. His death was caused by general debility. He leaves a large circle of relatives and friends who deeply deplore his death.

Reference Number
Unique identifier: 561188DE69A45C28B4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17668
Shared note: 7341
Death
Unique identifier: 561188DE69520C2804494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17662
Burial
Unique identifier: 561188DE695A4C2814494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF17663
Record ID number
Family with parents
father
17721854
Birth: 1772 32 32 Edgecombe Co., NC
Death: June 18, 1854Hanover, Coosa Co., AL
mother
17751818
Birth: about 1775 24 NC
Death: before 1818North Carolina, USA
Marriage Marriageabout 1793NC
13 years
younger sister
1805
Birth: about 1805 33 30 Wake Co, NC
-10 years
elder brother
17951861
Birth: February 22, 1795 23 20 Wake Co, NC
Death: September 21, 1861Norris Creek, Lincoln Co, TN
15 years
younger brother
18101876
Birth: January 29, 1810 38 35 Wake Co, NC
Death: September 30, 1876Milam Co., TX
-7 years
himself
18021891
Birth: November 11, 1802 30 27 Wake Co, NC
Death: January 28, 1891Boonsboro, Washington Co, AR
-9 years
elder sister
17941876
Birth: April 6, 1794 22 19 Chatham Co, NC
Death: March 16, 1876Franklin Co, TN
Father’s family with Martha A 'Patsy' Hilliard
father
17721854
Birth: 1772 32 32 Edgecombe Co., NC
Death: June 18, 1854Hanover, Coosa Co., AL
stepmother
17851838
Birth: about 1785NC
Death: January 19, 1838Franklin Co, TN
Marriage MarriageJune 1, 1818Cumberland Co, NC
19 months
half-brother
18191900
Birth: about 1819 47 34 NC
Death: before 1900Waco, Haralson Co., GA
20 months
half-brother
18201905
Birth: September 5, 1820 48 35 Jones' Cross Roads, Wake Co, NC
Death: December 3, 1905Homeland, Polk Co, FL
3 years
half-brother
18231884
Birth: about 1823 51 38 Wake Co, NC
Death: May 10, 1884Pitman, Ripley Co., MO
-18 months
half-brother
18211893
Birth: May 28, 1821 49 36 Wake Co, NC
Death: July 14, 1893Franklin Co, TN
7 years
half-brother
18271863
Birth: about 1827 55 42 TN
Death: 1863Sebastian Co., AR
Family with Cecily 'Cis' Moberly
himself
18021891
Birth: November 11, 1802 30 27 Wake Co, NC
Death: January 28, 1891Boonsboro, Washington Co, AR
wife
18051865
Birth: about 1805 50 KY
Death: January 25, 1865Washington Co, AR
Marriage Marriage
Census
Shared note

Household: One male between 30 & 40, one female between 20 and 30, two females between 5 and 10.

Census
Shared note

Household: Guilford, age 47, born NC, cumberland presbyterian clergyman; Cecily, age 45, born KY; Sarah A.E. Mobley, age 19, born AR; Emily Mobley, age 17, born AR.

Owned four slaves.

Census
Shared note

Household: Guilford Pylant, age 57, preacher: Sicily, age 50.

Census
Shared note

Boarder in the Ewing W. McClure household: Guilford Pylant, age 77, born NC, preacher.

Reference Number
Shared note

Early Settlers of Cane Hill - Ellen Earle Richardson, Page 10:
Shortly after the Revolutionary War, two men, Buchanan and Drake, went from Charleston, South Carolina to "spy out" the Cumberland country, near or on a line between Kentucky and Tennessee. They were pleased with the country in what is now Logan County, Kentucky and fixed on a region on the Gasper River, not far from the present county seat of Logan County. On returning they organized an emigrant train, with Charleston as the rendezvous. There were 156 wagons in the train. Among the family names were the following: Buchanan, Carnahan, Pyeatt, Shannon, Billingsley, White, Blair, Newton, Porter, Preston, Rankin, Marrs, and most likely Morrow, Pylant, Garvin and Maxwell. These are the ancestors of the people of the same name in northwest Arkansas. When it was known that the Cherokees were to be moved west from their lands north of the river, these Crystal Hillers who had been troubled by floods, and who had "chills" at various times, sent two young men, James Buchanan and Guilford Pylant (then 19 years old), in the year 1826 to look over the country soon to be opened for settlement by whites, and to bring back a report of its possibilities. The report they carried back must have been a beguiling one for almost all of the Crystal Hill colony and many of those farther east left their homes and their cleared fields and came to the new country. That same year James Buchanan came back to Cane Hill and built the double log house near where the White Church stands now, in which he and his wife, Betsy Wooddy Buchanan, lived out their days. Guilford Pylant came back at a later time.

Page 13: She gave a walking stick belonging to her husband (General Campbell) to old Uncle Pylant and it is still at my house. Elizabeth married Ewing McClure, the merchant, and lived in the home near the Old College Spring. Uncle Pylant, the old Cumberland Presbyterian preacher, came there to live when he was old, as he was alone in the world. When Uncle Ewing died the home was broken up, Miss Becky going to the home of her brother George, the Evansville merchant. Mrs. McClure and Miss Sallie went to Getty McClellan's and Uncle Pylant went to the Earle home.

Page 37: On Blair's Creek lived the Blairs, the home presumably being Rev. Jesse Blair's, though his brother, Rev. Jonathan Blair, lived here for a few years in the days when Rev. Guilford Pylant and Rev. Greenfield Buchanan were young, and they used to preach all over southwest Missouri and most of Arkansas. Some time near 1840 a log school house was built at "the lower end of the hill", on the Cox farm near where Clyde is now. Rev. Samuel Newton taught there several years, and the village that grew up was called Newton. They named the school "The Elm Grove School". After Mr. Newton was gone, Thomas G. McCollough took his place. He boarded at the home of Uncle Pylant and his wife, Cis. Uncle Pylant admired Mr. McCollough immensely. Guilford Pylant was trustee of the Cane Hill Female Seminary.

 The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwestern Arkansas - Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties; History of Washington County - page 158:  Describes the murder of William Wright and children on 15 June 1839.  John Richmond, James Barnes and Ellery Turner were arrested. William Bailey had fled the country, but a search for him was instituted. John Raymond, Jack Nicholson, James Barnes, Ellery Turner and William Bailey were convicted of murder.  All but Bailey were hanged 25 July 1839. William Bailey, whom more than any of the others was thought to have deserved punishment, had escaped, but the committee had been tracing his footsteps.  He had gone from Cane Hill to Van Buren; then to Shreveport, and from there to his father's home on the Hiwassee River, in East Tennessee, where all trace of him was lost. About the middle of December following, a message was received on Cane Hill from Rev. Guilford Pylant, who lived a few miles south, that Bailey was at his house in charge of Creed Taylor and "Bill" Mussett, who had captured him in Pulaski county.  A guard was sent down to bring him to Cane Hill, and the committee of thirty-six was again convened. The trial began the next morning, and, before the close of the day, the sentence of death was passed upon William Bailey.  He was hung in the same way, and at the same place, as his alleged confederates, Donald Donaldson acting as hangman. 

Bible Society - The Washington County Bible Society was a pioneer institution. Its first meeting was held in March 1831. The society appears to have gone down about 1839 and was not revived until about 1850 when James Orr was elected president, ...., Rev. Andrew Buchanan, James Crawford, Pressly R. Smith, Samuel Carnahan and Rev. Guilford Pylant, managers. This society continued in existence until the war, the last record being the report of Rev. John Buchanan, secretary, on June 14, 1860.

"Cemeteries of Washington County, Arkansas, Vol. 4", Published by Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society, Spring 1982.

CANE HILL Located 4 miles south of Hwy 62 on Hwy 45. Turn right on paved road in north edge of Cane Hill. Cemetery 0.3 mile at top of hill. Copied by Gail Scott and Verba Jo Pearce, 6 May 1981.

Pylant, Guilford
Nov 22, 1802
Jan 28, 1891

Guilford listed on 1850 slave schedule of Cane Hill Twp, Washington Co, AR as owning four slaves.

Minutes of Arkansas Presbytery, August 1891:

PRESBYTERY TO ERECT MONUMENT OF REV. G. PYLANT
Presbytery resolved to erect a monument over the grave of Rev. Guilford Pylant, and Rev. J. T. Molloy was appointed an agent to collect funds and superintend the erection of the monument.
A committe consisting of Brothers Roach, P. Carnahan and Carl, was appointed to draft and present appropriate resolutions related to Rev. Guilford Pylant deceased. (page 103)

DEATH OF REV. GUILFORD PYLANT IN 1891
Report of committee concerning Rev. Guilford Pylant:
Whereas, God has removed from our Presbytery, by death, one who was a minister in this Presbytery for nearly a half-century, and during all that time, as far as your committee can learn, he was an earnest, devoted and energetic worker for the Lord. When enfeebled by age so that he could not do regular preaching he engaged in selling our church book, securing subscribers for the periodicals, assisting others in revivals, praying in the families where he might be staying, and, in general, always doing something for the Master's Cause.
We recommend the adoption of these resolutions:

  1. That in the death of this humble man of God this Presbytery has lost one of its most earnest, wise and safe advisers.
  2. That his example as a Christian man and a minister is worthy of our institution.
  3. That we bow submissively to the expressed will of our Heavenly Father.
    E. M. Roach,
    Peter Carnahan (signed) (page 109)