Hoyle, Lawrence bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 659, Farmers' Township
Lawrence Hoyle, sec. 3, Farmers’ tp.; P. O., Bernadotte; was born in Tuscarawas Co., O., Nov. 20, 1832, a brother of the above. His father, John Hoyle, was a native of England; he brought his family to Fulton county in 1845, where he remained until 1870, when he removed to Iowa, where he died in Aug., 1878. Our subject has resided in Fulton county since 1845, and is now a prominent farmer and stock-raiser, and owns 260 acres of land, 130 of which is under cultivation. He was married, April 20, 1853, to Mary Walters, daughter of the late Wm. Walters, so well known in the pioneer history of this county. They had 8 children, viz: Angeline, John W., Jane B., Mary A., Henry L., Sarah E., Lawrence W. and Polly Ann. Mrs. Hoyle died Feb. 28, 1870; Mr. Hoyle again married, Nov. 19, 1876, Margaret E. Murray. They have one child, Clara.
Note: "a brother of the above" is John Hoyle II.