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Husband: Rolin VOYLES
Birthdate: July 14, 1778
Birthplace: Cabarrus Co., NC
Death date: August 8, 1833
Place of death: Washington Co., IN
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Father: William VOYLES
Mother: Hannah Rhodecia BUNDI

Marriage date: August 27, 1811
Marriage place: NC

Wife: May Elizabeth INGLE
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Edison VOYLES
Sex: M
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Death date: 1854
Place of death: Washington Co., IN
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Spouse's name: UNKNOWN

Child No. 2: Moses VOYLES
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Child No. 3: William VOYLES
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Child No. 4: Wallace VOYLES
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Documentation:
(NOTE:  THIS ISN'T A DIRECT LINE.  THIS INFO WAS SHARED
WITH ME BY OTHER RESEARCHERS.)                                       1800
census for Cabarrus Co., NC
Roland Voiles
page 688 (same page as Hannah Voiles)
ages males 10100
females 00100
00
1820 census for Washington Co., IN
Rolen Voyles
page 220
1830 census for Washington Co., IN
Rollen Voils page 298
>From "The Voyles Association of Washington Co., IN"  Letter dated June 1,
1934 Salem, Indiana written by Cora Voyles Burks-
I corresponded with C.V. Voils, an attorney, Mooresville, NC who mailed
me a clipping taken from a Salem paper dated 1876, and sent to his father
by "Old Dave", David Voyles, of Washington Co., IN. My father, Wilford
Voyles, remembers "Old Dave", who lived beyond ninety, and who was a son
of Revoluntionary soldier William Voils.  He and C.V. Voils grandfather
had always corresponded, considering themselves as cousins.  C.V. Voils
thought that William, after he fell out with his father, came to NC and
wrote to an uncle David, in Wales, inducing him to come over to NC.  The
C.V. Voils family descended from this "Uncle David".
C.V. Voils thought William's father was named JOSEPH.
"Old Dave's" daughter at the age of ninety, Barbara Voyles Johnson, told
me in 1906 that her father had related to them many stories of the hard
struggle on the North Carolina frontier and how they were in constant
danger from the Indians.
Rolin, David and Rachel went to Indiana in one group.  They drove in a
constoga (a remnant of which is said to be in Palmyra, Indiana, in 1834.
It took about 2 months to make the trip.  I have seen the old flint they
used to make a fire, enroute.  David's descendents had the wagon, or part
of it in 1906.  Barbara Voyles Johnson had just learned to walk when they
started but had forgotten how by the time they arrived.  They had to cut
down trees and tie them to the back of the wagon when they crossed the
Cumberland Gap, to keep them from pitching down the mountains.  Great
piles of trees laid at the bottom, so many had come before.  Rolin's
crippled daughter was swung in a hammock from the top of the wagon.
Rolin and Rachel stopped a year in Mercer Co., KY.  Old Dave came on to
Indiana.  He crossed the Ohio on a raft.  He came to Washington Co. where
he stayed overnight with his father's old Revolutionary messmate-
Townsend.  He endured much hardship getting out logs and building a house
in a snowstorm, as winter had set in.  I have seen the old spring where
he built his house and the old Townsend house.  They had had a falling
out in Kentucky.  That is why Dave came alone.  The trouble seems to have
been over the women cooking.  The next year Rolin and Rachel came to
Indiana and the trouble was patched up.
The Voyles were hard-shelled Baptists and very religious.  Rolin took a
claim near Dave.  He had already been married twice, in the Carolinas.
He and 3 children by the first marriage were together.  The second wife
made the trip with him to IN.  She probably had one child.  Aunt Cindy
Voils had a page out of the old Voils Bible containing this record and it
was in Rolin's writing;
"by Rolin Voils.
Married Mary
Married Elizabeth Lingle"
The dates were burned with my other data but can probably be obtained
from Aunt Cindy's descendents. Aunt Cindy thought the page was from the
old William Voils' Bible brought from Carolina.
I wish to state at this point, that in a hurried trip to the museum in
the basement of the Salem, Indiana couthouse, I saw a school book of
Rolin's.  It had a cloth cover said to have been woven by Hannah Bundy.
We also saw the Voils land grant.  A good photograph of "Old Dave"
belonging to me is in the possession of Nevin Sims, East Orange, NJ.
Laura Nunemacher of New Albany also has one of his wife. Foundation
stones of Rolin's home are now in a road.  An old tree is nearby.  Climb
a fence and down a hill to a ravine.  Here are the graves of Rolin and
his wife and Polly Gresham.  Old homemade sandstone headstones are there
with handmade inscriptions and decoration, a heart for his wife.  These
crude headstones were carved out by our grandfather, Moses Voyles. (
Sarah Voyles Ellis.)
Rolins' home was now Lindsey Voils' place. He was a faithful hard shell
Baptist.  He went to church one Sunday 20 miles south and the next Sunday
to a church 20 miles north.  He was also very hospitable and considered
well to do.  He often had as many as 30 or 40 guests overnight, his home
being the halfway place between the churches.  Whole families in wagons
and on horseback would stop with him going and coming to church and spend
the night each way.  My grandfather, William (Uncle Billy to my
generation) had to go and sit long hours and care for the horses.  This
and always having to go and sit long hours listening to sermons he did
not understand, turned him against church and when grown, never went.
Uncle Bill made persimmon beer and once at a threshing when many were
there helping to flail the wheat the men said "Drink all you want boys.
Uncle Roll is rich."  William took some more and it made him dizzy and
was a lesson to him.  He was only a lad.  In 1833, on August 11, Rolin
loaded his wagon with wheat ready to drive the 35 miles to Louisville.
Many neighbors had assembled there with loads to go in the crowd.  The
next day Uncle Roll was dead in bed.  He was subject to nightmares and
his death was always attributed to that.  He and his second wife,
Elizabeth Lingle, are buried on the Lindsey D. Voyles farm, near Big
Spring, Washington Co., south of Salem,  His widow lived with her son
William (now the home of Arthur Voyles-the old house still stands) and
his son Wilford remembered his grandmother.  She was Swiss and spoke
German and had a German Bible.
Aoubt 1835 the Indiana VOILS changed the spelling of the names from VOILS
to VOYLES.  In my grandfather's copy books that were burned they spelled
his name VOILS.  His copy books were mostly old hymns, written over and
over.  The school book in Salem museum dating back to Hannah Bundy is a
mixture of hymns and the three R's.  When they came from Carolina they
brought appleseed with them.  There is still a sweet apple tree on my
father's place, 1925, raised from the seed brought from Carolina in 1813
and is still bearing fruit.
A copy of the clipping sent to C.V. Voils of NC in 1876 by Old Dave, of
Salem, and written by David for a series of articles called "Pioneer
Pickings" is in the possession of David William Voyles, 6039 Cates
Avenue, St. Louis.  His daughter, Miss Maud, told me they would probably
give them to the Indiana University.
To Rolin were born the following children:
To his first wife, Mary
1. Joseph Voyles, who lived in Washington Co. until he was quite old.
He died at Palmyra in 1873.  He was an exceedingly waggish man.  (A
family characteristic).  Once he road a horse on to Salem and went
galloping home, passing my grandfather's place.  Grandfather called "stop
and talk-What's your hurry?"  I have a new bonnet for my "darther" and
must get home before the style changes.  He was the grandfather of Otto
Voyles of New Albany, a distinguished member of the Voyles clan.
2. Eddison Voyles who lived and died in Washington Co.  He died of
cholera in the epidemic of 1854.  My grandfather (William) made boxes and
with other men buried Eddison, his wife and 2 children.  People were so
frightened that no one would go to them until word came to William.  He
went.  Said he was not afraid.  Part of the family was dead and
decomposition had set in.  Those alive died before night.
3. Amanda-the crippled daughter who died soon after coming to Indiana.
To his second wife, Elizabeth-
1. Polly, wife of Jacob Gresham 1811-1858.  Is buried in the ravine with
her parents.
2. Moses, May 14, 1814.  This is the year Rolin came to Indiana.  Moses
was the father of 10.
3. William Voyles, Jan. 1, 1916.
4. Eliza, wife of Isaac Frantz.
5. John, died at 20, milk fever, epidemic.
6. Wallace, died of milk fever, epidemic.
7. Temperance, married Isaac Wright.  Lived in Illinois.
8. Sally, married Luther Pitman.
There is a tradition, or fact, that the Voils came over there with the
French Huguenots.  It is a tradition that the family has no drunkards or
old maids.
In the 1850's Dr. David W. Voyles apprehending an outbreak of cholera
read a paper before the Washington Co. Medical Society in which he
suspected the germ theory, BEFORE Pasteur.