History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 693.
[Harrison County]   [Sylvan Dell Precinct]

P. P. WYLES, farmer, P. O. Oddville; born in Mecklenburg County, Va.,
April 7, 1844.  His grandfather Hebbon Wyles, was Scotch-Irish descent and
married an English lady.  His maternal grandfather, Peter Puryear, for whom
our subject was named, was a native of France, whence he emigrated after
the French Revolution and married a Virginia lady; he took an active part
in the war of 1812-15.  His father, Leroy B. Wyles, was a native Virginia;
was in the Confederate army in the late war; had also three sons in the
same army, of whom P. P. was the youngest; had command of a wagon train,
was killed by a falling tree about 1875.  P. P. Wyles, the subject of this
sketch was raised on his father's farm, receiving the rudiments of an
education from the common schools.  When the war broke out in 1861 he was
among the first to enlist in the cause of the South, being at that time
but little over sixteen years of age.  His company, the Clarksville Blues,
was the first southern troops that went from Mecklenburg County, and was
commanded by Capt. George Hedges.  They were placed in the 14th Virginia
Regiment under Col. Hodges, Armstead's Brigade, Pickett's Division of Lee's
army of Northern Virginia.  They were in several skirmishes and fought
their first regular battle at Seven Pines.  At the battle of Malvern Hill,
thirty days after, our hero lost his right arm by a shell. He was conveyed
to the rear in an ambulance, but could not get his arm amputated until
twenty-four hours after.  He remained in the hospital at the Old Union
Hotel in Richmond for two weeks, when he went home on an indefinite
furlough and was never in active service again, though he visited his old
regiment on several occasions.  He was present when Dahlgren and
Kilpatrick attempted to liberate the prisoners at Richmond.  After the
war he began to feel the necessity of an education and to perfect it he
entered Randolph Mason College, of his native county, which he attended
for two and one-half years, defraying his expenses by teaching in the
preparatory department.  At the end of the two and a half years, the site
of the college was moved from his county and not having the necessary
means to follow it, he was obliged to give up school.  About this time
he came to Kentucky in answer to an advertisement for a teacher at
Lair's Station in Harrison County.  He secured the position and has been
in teaching every year since up to 1879.  In 1878 he was elected School
Commissioner of Harrison County, which office he now fills.  In 1870 he
married Meribah daughter of Joseph and Charlotte (McCauley) Sipe, of
Harrison County.  Five children have been born to them,t he dates of
whose births are as follows: Herbert, Oct. 25, 1871; Leroy, Sept. 30,
1873; Joseph W., Feb. 11, 1876; Emma A., March 6, 1878; Jno. P., Feb.
15, 1881.  Himself and wife are members of Beaver Baptist Church.  He is
also a member of Beaver Lodge of Good Templars.  Politics, Democrat.

Wyles McCauley Sipe
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Mecklenburg-VA

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