ELIAS S. AYLES, machinist, Fairfield. Rev. Elias S. Ayles, the son of Payton and Susan (Carmichael) Ayles, was born in Washington County, Ohio, October 7, 1831, and removed with his parents to Leesburg, Ind., in 1838, where his father died in 1839.
Subject, at the age of fifteen years, engaged on the river as a steamboat engineer, in which occupation be remained five years.
On October 16, 1849, he was married to Miss Parlia A., daughter of George and Amy (Truax) Brock, of Stafford, Ohio, and to them were born
In 1853, subject. came to. Fairfield, Ill., and engaged in business as a tinner, which occupation he followed for four years, and then entered the service of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company as engineer, which position he held, at different periods, for eighteen years.
In the meantime, he engaged in the avocation of a farmer near Jeffersonville, Ill. for three years, and while there, in 1866, he was licensed as a minister of the Gospel in the Christian Church, in which capacity he has been very useful, and is regarded as a man well advanced in ecclesiastical affairs. In 1876, he moved to Belleville, Ohio, where he was engaged for the term of two years as a silversmith, after which he returned to Fairfield and has occupied the position of chief engineer and machinist in the Fairfield Woolen Mills to the present time.
Payton, the son of David Ayles, was born in Washington County, Ohio, in 1800. David came from England.
James Carmichael was a Colonel, from Ohio, in the war of 1812. Susan died in Ohio in 1848, at the age of forty-seven years.
George Brock was born in Pennsylvania, and died in Wayne County, Ill., in 1868. His children were
Payton's children were
Subject is a man of varied information, being conversant with many subjects, and especially is he well versed on scientific matters, in addition to being regarded, and justly, too, as one of the most expert machinists in Southern Illinois.
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