Thought you might enjoy this excerpt From SERGEANT YORK by Sam K. Cowan, 1922, Funk and Wagnalls Company: "Old Coonrod Pile lived in the valley until his life spanned from the days when it was a hunting-ground of the Indians to the time when he can be remembered by some of the men and women now living in Pall Mall, who knew him as the most influential man of his time in the section, the owner of the river-bottom farm land, vast acres of hardwood timber, a general store and a flour mill worked by his slavesa man grown to such enormous size and weight that in his last days he went about his farm and to oversee his workers in a two-wheeled cart pulled by oxen. Those of the valley who now remember him were children when he died, for he was born on March 16, 1766, and his death occurred on October 14, 1849. He saw his valley home changed from a part of the state of Franklin to a part of the State of Kentucky, then to Tennessee, and the abstracts to the deeds for land he owned show that Pall Mall was first in Granger county, later in Overton and finally in Fentress county as the State of Tennessee developed. Pall Mall is but seven miles from the Kentucky line, and for many years Coonrod thought he had taken up his residence within the Kentucky border. In a newly settled territory a mans birthplace and antecedents are facts immaterial to the communitys welfare and many incidents historical in nature concerning Old Coonrod have been lost in the waste-basket of forgetfulness and no one now at Pall Mall has heard tell of jes where he come from. Yet some readily say that he came from over yonder, and they point back across the mountains toward North Carolina." There is much more written in the book about the people of Pall Mall, and especially about Coonrod. Of course the book is out of print, but can occasionally be found in old book stores. Also of interest is the movie, "Sergeant York," for which Cary Cooper received an academy award. This one is much more available, and portrays some of the Pile clan. --Stephen Pile
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Helen, I have info indicating Coonrod Poyle (Pyle) was born in Germany in 1745. His parents came to America with him at the start of the Revolution. They settled in NC and he married there. In 1791 he settled in Fentress Co TN. They always spelled their name they way they wanted -- Poyle, Pile, Piles, and Pyle. And as I said they even used Poiles (my maiden name). Shirl -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 7:55 AM Subject: [PYLE] PILE Family in Fentress Co., TN >Helen: > >I'm not sure I understand your question. I have been attempting >unsuccessfully for over 20 years to connect my ggg-grandfather Levi PILE, b. >1824, TN, who lived in Fentress Co., TN, to the Coonrod PILE family of >Fentress Co., TN. Evidence leads me to believe that the two families are >somehow connected, but I have not yet found the exact connection. This is >why I am interested in finding out more information about Coonrod's family, >including his ancestry. > >Sue Tilleman >List Administrator for the BOLDWYN, CARLOCK, and CEARLOCK Rootsweb Mailing >Lists ><A >HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/index.htm l"> >Home Page of Susan Cearlock Tilleman</A> > >-------ORIGINAL MESSAGE------ > >Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:57:20 -0500 (CDT) >From: [email protected] (Helen) >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [PYLE] Re: coonrod Pile >Content-Disposition: Inline >Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > >Sue >Do you have Coonrod in your family surnames? > > > > ~Helen~ >Owensboro, Kentucky >[email protected] > > >==== PYLE Mailing List ==== >PYLE Listowner- Sara B. Pyle >[email protected] >Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright >
Shirl I would love to share info with you. My line is Coonrod Pyle/Pile and Mary Margaret. That is all I know. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Henry Helm. You can e-mail me privately if you wish. Thanks ~Helen~ Owensboro, Kentucky [email protected]
Becky I was replying to someone on the list who was descended from Jehu. He is a brother to my line. Yes, I would like the info you have on his family. You can e-mail me privately if you wish. ~Helen~ Owensboro, Kentucky [email protected]
I'm new also and haven't written before. Just picked up Ernie Pyle's BRAVE MEN at a yard sale for a quarter and have found it very interesting. I am trying to research my husband's Pyle family from Chester County, PA. His grandfather was Thomas Norman Pyle, born August 4, 1872 in West Grove. He was married on December 26, 1895 to Anna M. Swayne from West Marlborough. I have information on her family but don't know his family lines. If anyone can help me, I would really appreciate it. Mabel
Becky, I was the one that was asking Helen for data on Jehu Pyle. Some have thought Jehu Pyle was the father of my great great grandfather William Pyle, born 1805 in North Carolina and married Margaret Allen in Sumner County Tennessee June 16, 1825 and was on the Census in Christian County Kentucky in 1850. He and four children were listed, Margaret was not in the picture at that time. All of the children were shown born in Sumner County Tennessee. One of them was my great grandfather David Monroe Pyle. I have not been able to make the connection with Jehu Pyle and still haven't found the parents of my gg grandfather. Any help will be appreciated and I will keep searching! George Christian County Kentucky -----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Hall <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [PYLE] Jehu Pyle >Dear Helen > >Are you looking for more information on descendants of Jehu Pyle? That is >my line. I have all the current descendants who live in Clinton County, >Ohio as well as some others. > >Becky Hall >[email protected] > >-----Original Message----- >From: Helen <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:28 AM >Subject: [PYLE] Jehu Pyle > > >Jehu Pyle/Pile was born 5 Aug. 1768 in Chatham Co, N.C. ded 1 Jan. 1846 >in Clinton Co, Ohio. He married Rutha Lindley. > > > > ~Helen~ >Owensboro, Kentucky >[email protected] > > >==== PYLE Mailing List ==== >List archives can be found at: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright > > > > >==== PYLE Mailing List ==== >PYLE Listowner- Sara B. Pyle >[email protected] >Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright > >
Sandy, Sorry, sure don't. Bob Beckman Again that name is not in my list Wilt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patterson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [PYLE] Greetings > Do you by chance have a Simond or Simone Pyle b mid 1800, on your list? > Can't seem to connect in NJ anywhere, so thought they may come from PA. > Thanks, Sandy > Monmouth Co., NJ Surnames: TILTON & HARRIS, PYLE & MORAN > Mercer Co., KY Surnames: PATTERSON & BUNTON, LAWSON & McGINNIS > > "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. > Imagination > encircles the world." > ----- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wilt Pyle" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 3:13 PM > Subject: [PYLE] Greetings > > > > Greetings, > > Wilton Job Pyle III here. Thought I'd check in. Have been here for quite > > some time but haven't written before. > > I'm from the line of Chester County, PA Pyles. Say that 3 times. > > Any family out there? > > > > Wilt > > > > > > ==== PYLE Mailing List ==== > > Not sure how to sub/unsub? Contact Sara at > > [email protected] > > Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright > > > > > > > ==== PYLE Mailing List ==== > All genealogy discussion lists can be found at: > http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html > Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright > >
Helen: I'm not sure I understand your question. I have been attempting unsuccessfully for over 20 years to connect my ggg-grandfather Levi PILE, b. 1824, TN, who lived in Fentress Co., TN, to the Coonrod PILE family of Fentress Co., TN. Evidence leads me to believe that the two families are somehow connected, but I have not yet found the exact connection. This is why I am interested in finding out more information about Coonrod's family, including his ancestry. Sue Tilleman List Administrator for the BOLDWYN, CARLOCK, and CEARLOCK Rootsweb Mailing Lists <A HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/index.html"> Home Page of Susan Cearlock Tilleman</A> -------ORIGINAL MESSAGE------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:57:20 -0500 (CDT) From: [email protected] (Helen) To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [PYLE] Re: coonrod Pile Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sue Do you have Coonrod in your family surnames? ~Helen~ Owensboro, Kentucky [email protected]
I saw a copy of a note written during Coonrod Pile's time, relating that a meeting was held at "the home of Coonrod Poile"-- I am relying on memory but that was the first time I had seen that spelling and it stuck with me. I'll look through my stacks of information and see if I can find the note. Coonrod/Conrad is my gggg....grandfather. Our family's tradition is that the name was originally Poyle and he was German. Even Poyle would have been a phonetic rendering of the German, and could also be spelled Piel, Pfeil, Peil et al. There are records of Hessians (allied with the English!) named Piel, and there is one Conrad listed as a prisoner of war in 1782 in NY. --Stephen Pile -----Original Message----- From: Shirley Schwartz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PYLE] Re: coonrod Pile Helen, I see you hail from Owensboro KY. Many of my Piles lived in Owensboro area. Wonder if we are cousins? Have you run across the name Poiles? That's the spelling that was used after Piles. How far back have you gone? I live just across the river in Evansville. Would like to exchange info if we can! Shirl, Evansville, IN -----Original Message----- From: Helen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:56 PM Subject: [PYLE] Re: coonrod Pile Sue Do you have Coonrod in your family surnames? ~Helen~ Owensboro, Kentucky [email protected] ==== PYLE Mailing List ==== All genealogy discussion lists can be found at: http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright ==== PYLE Mailing List ==== Have a question or complaint? Contact Sara at [email protected] Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright
Helen, I see you hail from Owensboro KY. Many of my Piles lived in Owensboro area. Wonder if we are cousins? Have you run across the name Poiles? That's the spelling that was used after Piles. How far back have you gone? I live just across the river in Evansville. Would like to exchange info if we can! Shirl, Evansville, IN -----Original Message----- From: Helen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:56 PM Subject: [PYLE] Re: coonrod Pile Sue Do you have Coonrod in your family surnames? ~Helen~ Owensboro, Kentucky [email protected] ==== PYLE Mailing List ==== All genealogy discussion lists can be found at: http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright
Sue Do you have Coonrod in your family surnames? ~Helen~ Owensboro, Kentucky [email protected]
Dear Helen Are you looking for more information on descendants of Jehu Pyle? That is my line. I have all the current descendants who live in Clinton County, Ohio as well as some others. Becky Hall [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Helen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:28 AM Subject: [PYLE] Jehu Pyle Jehu Pyle/Pile was born 5 Aug. 1768 in Chatham Co, N.C. ded 1 Jan. 1846 in Clinton Co, Ohio. He married Rutha Lindley. ~Helen~ Owensboro, Kentucky [email protected] ==== PYLE Mailing List ==== List archives can be found at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright
Dear Wilt, My mother is Margaret Copple Pyle. Her father was Grover Cleveland Pyle (b. 1885 in Concordville, Delaware Co., PA). We trace our roots back through Caleb Pyle and Mary Matthewson. Delaware Co. was Chester Co. way back then. So you have at least one other "cousin" out there. I also have been out here for quite some time but have not written. William J. Stoop
My great-grandfather James Pyle was born in Lawrence County, PA in 1839. I have yet to find his parents. the 1850 PA census has a James Pyle, age 10 living with a Mathis Shafer. James had a brother Martin and a sister Catherine. Catherine married a Peter Miller.
Hello, My father was born 11-2-34 in Hickory, Penn. I'm not sure what county at this time. I did used to know it but I am getting brain damage these days. Tam
Huh just wondering. I have been looking at this for about a year or so and have not come up with anything. But I really enjoy reading what my cousins have to say. Tam
Hi W.J.Pyle III: Just touching base with you. I am descended from Lydia Pyle(B-Feb 5,1800 & Married a Joseph Welsh). I would be interested in where they got married & when did Lydia leave home in E.Bethlehem Twnshp? Thanks...Bob Beckman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilt Pyle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 2:13 PM Subject: [PYLE] Greetings > Greetings, > Wilton Job Pyle III here. Thought I'd check in. Have been here for quite > some time but haven't written before. > I'm from the line of Chester County, PA Pyles. Say that 3 times. > Any family out there? > > Wilt > > > ==== PYLE Mailing List ==== > Not sure how to sub/unsub? Contact Sara at > [email protected] > Copyright 2000-Author retains copyright >
Wilt, Glad to meet you. Some of the dates may be off due to the Quaker dating.It's been awhile since I looked into it. Have been researching my mothers family for the past year. Most of the info from Isaac Newton back I got from the Pyle Book. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know. Frank Pyle
Looks like we split at Job Pyle Chester Co. Pa Some dates are off. Not totally sure until I get to his son Job. I'm working w/ folks that split at Job Wilton Pyle. Will have to fill you in under Issac. He's accurate in my database but I don't have his decendants. Great to meet you! Wilt