Person:John Tyner (5)

...Richard Tyner
Col. John Tyner, father of the subject of this sketch was the fourth son of Rev. William Tyner, and active and zealous minister in the Old Regular Baptist Church, and was born on Little River, Abbeville, District, S.C., August 18, 1800. He was married, September 3, 1818, to Miss Nancy Saylors, also a native of South Carolina, born December 10, 1799. The children born of this marriage were Jacob, William S., Elijah (deceased); Richard, Lewis J., Beverly W., and John Tyner (deceased). Col Tyner moved to Rush County, Ind., in March 1821 less than three years after his marriage, and there engaged in agricultural pursuits as being the best adapted to his inclination and tastes.

Biographical Memoirs of Wabash County, Indiana, published 1901 by B. F. Bowen, Publisher, Chicago, p 381
-Jacob Tyner-
...The father, John Tyner, was born in South Carolina in the year 1800. When he was a child of about five years he removed with his parents to Franklin county, Ind., the long and perilous journey being made on pack horses. Here he grew to manhood and married at an early age Miss Nancy Sailors, who was his faithful companion until death separated them. He was an honest, industrious young man and worked as a day laborer, clearing the forests and rolling logs to earn the money with which he purchased eighty acres of land in Rush county, Ind. He resided in Rush county until 1849. when he removed to Wabash county, where he died in 1870. Mother Tyner was also a native of South Carolina. She was born in 1799 and died in 1876.
...Mr. and Mrs. Tyner were both faithful, conscientious members of the Baptist church. Mr. [John] Tyner's father for more than sixty years was a minister of that demonination and established the first Baptist church ever organized in the state of Ohio.