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Help[Surname] Re: Surname Lyerla
in reply to a message by grachzach
My mother's surname is Lyerla and she always said all Lyerla's are related. Her family came from Lake Constance Germany near the Swiss border. They came to America in 1695 or 1705. They eventually settled in the southeast then after their decendants served in the Revolutionary War they came to southern Illinois. There are still Lyerla's in Union, Jackson and Williamson counties Illinois.
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It was later than the dates you mentioned since your first ancestor to come to the US was Johann Christoph Leyerle who was born in 1710. He came from Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg and married Elizabeth Christina Holtzhauser in Culpeper County, VA around 1755. The surname was altered to Lyerla in the mid 1800s.
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