According to the census, Frank Lytle was born about 1773. When Thomas Lytle died, between January and March of 1794, his executors set about obtaining Frank's freedom. In March of 1795, the bill to free Frank has passed both houses of the North Carolina Congress (three times each, as required by law) and the act was offical.
After being set free, Frank Lytle was almost immediately a prosperous family man. Although there is no record of his marriage, his first child was born just over one year later. Whether Frank was actually married prior to his official freedom is unknown. Even his wife's name is a mystery, though the combined evidence suggests her name may have been Mary Moore. This is based on two mentions of a Mary Lytle, at a time when no other Mary Lytle would be of an age to be so mentioned, and the fact that the initial M appears for a middle name among several of Frank's grandchildren, with one of these known definitely as "Moore".
Frank went on to be a large landowner, buying four large tracts of land and selling them some years later. At his death, he still retained the original 200 acres of land given to him by Thomas. What he did with this land is not known, as his occupation was always listed as "blacksmith" (though in the 1860 census, at age 87, he was listed as "blind").
Frank's children are well documented in the court cases which followed his death in September of 1869. Additionally, a bastardy bond of 1826 lists Frank as the father of a child, already born, whose mother's name, though somewhat illegible, may have been Joicy Dunning. These are Frank's children: