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The funeral of R. Van Ness Lyle was held at the Vedder church in Gallatin on Sunday afternoon. A short funeral service was held at the home in Sharon, Ct., before the body was removed from the home. The funeral was in charge of Roberts and Sons of Pine Plains. Masonic services were held and interment was in the cemetery near the church, known as Vedder cemetery. Mr. Lyle was injured in an automobile. accident on Sunday evening, Sept. 17, on the Sharon-Lakeville road near Hotchkiss Hill.
He was taken to the hospital at Sharon where he died on Sept. 28th. Lyle had received a fracture of the spine and the crushed vertabrae resulted in partial paralysis of both 'legs pneumonia developed and the combination of both resulted in death. Van Ness Lyle was a Gallatin boy and attended the Gallatin schools. He was well liked by all his friends in Gallatin as well as elsewhere. After his marriage the family resided elsewhere than in Gallatin and for the past several years they had lived in Sharon, Conn., in the old Chas. Dakin house, also known as the Taylor Farm which is on the Indian Pond Road. He was the son of Herman V. Lyle and Cora A. (Fingar) Lyle, of Gallatin. It is fitting, that a great-greatgrandson of such a noted preached as the Rev. Hermanus V. Vedder should be buried in the same cemetery, at Vedder's both church and cemetery were named after this noted preacher, whose pastorate there was during the period of 1803-64, during which time he also breached in Linlithgo. R. Van Ness Lyle's ancestors were all of Gallatin back to the 1790 period they were of the prominent families of their time. Relatives and friends of his filled the Old Vedder church on Sunday afternoon when his funeral took place even the aisles and gallery of the church were occupied Masons from Connecticut Lodges and from the Stissing Lodge of Pine Plains took part in the Masonic services and members acted as bearers. There was no singing at the church services for Mr. Lyle. Flowers in abundance testified to the love and esteem in which he was held. Rev. W. A. Kilmer, pastor of Vedder's church was assisted in the church services by a pastor from a Conn, church. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in the church. The sympathy of the town and community is extended to his family, his parents, brothers and sister. His widow and two children survive his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Lyle of Gallatin a brother, Chester of Amenia a brother, Stanley of Gallatin, and a sister, Mrs. Milton Bryant of Ancram, also survive also uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews, residents of Gallatin nearby communities.
The Courier October 5, 1933