John W. Lytle was a pioneer all his life. When he moved ot Barber County with
  part of his family in 1884, he ws 67 years old and again joining others to help
  open a new area to settlement. He was born in Pennsylvania, moved to Ohio, and 
  then to Illinois. In his youth he was a steamboat man on the Mississippi. In
  1860 he moved his family to Ottawa County, Kansas, which was then beyond the
  western line of settlement. In 1863 an uprising of the Indians drove the family
  south into Saline County where John homesteaded 160 acres of land. It was here
  that his wife Catherine Schuyler Lytle, died in 1867. To them had been born ten
  children, six of them living to adulthood.
     Five os his children came to Medicine Lodge from Salina. They include Sarah
  Ellen (Mrs. R.M. Woodward), O. Vernon, John Adalaska, Mary (later married William
  Fuller), and Harriet (Mrs. James Green).
     John was an invalid in a wheelchair the last few years of his life. His
  grandchildren were sometimes enlisted to stay with him, pushing the wheelchair
  where John wanted to go. At least one grandson, "Rye" Woodward, received some
  instruction from John: the proper way to chew tobacco!
     He was a faithful member of the Baptist church all his life, helping to organize
  the church in Salina. His name appears on their Certificate of Incorporation dated
  1868. He owned a wheat farm and some city property in Medicine Lodge at the time
  of his death in December, 1893.
     
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 290  
     Submitted by: Marilyn Hollar Daily