1. From Hoyt Young: the Death of Eveline Manerva Price Tyler

   Peter Adams Tyler, born 23 Dec 1823, married Eveline Manerva Price born 29 Aug 1828 in a Cherokee village on border of NC-TN. She died on 30 Apr 1897.  She was murdered in the milkshed of the family farm. There are two versions of how & why.
(First, the following is from the point of view of Joan Farris and John Ed Fox, Grandchildren.)
   Eveline Manerva Price Tyler ,was murdered in her milkshed  in 1897, apparently
by one of her relatives who, sensing she was helping Edmond (Grandson Edmond
Wood) pay for his medical education, was probably afraid she was going to do
the same thing for Daniel Tyler (another of her grandsons), reducing the size of
the estate she would be leaving to  her other heirs.

   The other version is that she was murdered by family members who were afraid she was about to disclose the location of the lost Tyler silver mine.

   Thus we have agreement in only one area. She was murdered by somone in her
family. The murder was never solved.  This is not the only tragedy for Eveline. Peter Adams Tyler was her husband and is not to be confused with his cousin Peter Allen Tyler, about 10 years younger, who was the son of Lindville Jordan Tyler, who did serve in the confederate Army and was lost on the Battlefield of Corinth.  Peter Adams Tyler did not support the Confederacy but was drafted into a labor battalion and sent to Kentucky.  The last communication to his family was a letter dated 17 Jan 1862, reporting there was much illness in the camp, and he was very sick.  It is presumed he died shortly thereafter.  He had been well respected in Searcy Co., Arkansas, having served as sheriff from 1854-1858.  His death left Eveline a widow with several children.

 2. From Rebecca Lambert: the letter Peter Adams Tyler, Sr. wrote home in 1862, presumed to be his last communication with this family.

[Photocopied from a copy at the Arkansas History Commission and transcribed
by Rebecca Lambert on 10 April 1999.  I tried to follow Peter's punctuation
and spelling as closely as possible.]

Bolling Green Kentucky
January the 17th 1862
Dear Wife & Children I once more take my pen in hand to write to you to let
you know how we are and what we are doing--all of us is knocking about as
yet but not all well Thomas Thompson has the meeseals broke out on him This
morning And I am very unwell my self so much so that if I was at home I
would be in my bed Though I hope nothing searious it is my Brest and side
That gives me the undlly [?] uneasness at and pain at Present although we
have verry disheartning news This morning they say hear that the Unio is a
gradeel Stronger then us and that we are surrounded in all sides by them we
learn heare allso that the North has taken Gallveston in Texas Though I
beleave That the People in This place is not verry uneasy for They appeare
to be verry busey bilding houses in Town Besides This there is great namy
cars and waggons going heare This morning and no wander they have one
Hundred & thirty thousdand Troops to dard them besides all This They have
strong fortifications all around Town so I have give you enough of this at
present more then ... They are looking for a heavy batte soon if it comes on
at all.
I will say to you that I want to see you all verry bad but I know that it is
impossiable at present but I trust that I may see you again in life and that
we may be injoying good Health for Their is nothing on Earth would be so
consoling to me then to meet you all again in Peace on Earth allthough you
need not to greive nor let your mind be troubled about me for I feel like I
am purficley Resigned when the Sumons comes let it come when and where it
may And I would be pleased to heare and allso to know that you and the Rest
of my friends could meet that Calmar Doom when asigned to you & them.
I will say to you that when I first set down To write to you I would have a
good deel to write But it is not the Case about the finis of my letter.
When Lindsey Price wrote in Memphis we had not heard about Charles Price &
Samuel Thompson and others being their but we found out where They was and
went to see them.
So I will write but a little more at present.  Though I hope that thease
lines may come safe to hand and find you all well and Dooing well now we are
not stationed at this place we have to leave heare This Eavening for T. C.
Hindmans Leagion about 24 miles distant from this place and it may be so
that I can write to you so that you can write to me and their you may now
wheare to direct your letters be careful about yourself & Children so no
more at presant ondley show this to all inquireing friends So Farewell my
Dear Wife Children & Friends at present
This from P.A. Tyler } To Eveline M. Tyler & Children
 

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Created on: 28 July 1999
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