Hi all, We want to welcome Charlene Putman to the PYLE list! Charlene, when you have time, please tell us a little about yourself and the PYLE(S) line you are researching. All posts must be sent to PYLE-L@rootsweb.com, even though you are subscribed to the digest version. If you are responding to a query, please send a copy to the PYLE-L list so that the response goes to the list as well as the person making the query. The reason for this request is that someone else may have information to share or be able to get a clue on their research, by reading the exchange of e-mails. Please utilize the subject line by putting a name and location, if possible. Or perhaps, you have some information to share on another topic, for instance, migration patterns. If you are posting a very long document or gedcom, then it should be done in 2 or 3 postings rather than the whole thing at once. For instance, you might be sending xxx pt. 1, xxx pt. 2, xxx pt 3, etc. The reason for this is very simply that some providers cannot handle large pieces of mail at one time. I know that AOL has been having some problems with this. Please DO NOT send attachments to the list because there has been a problem with that on some servers. If you have a document that is too large to do a cut and paste, then post a description of it to the list to see who might want it sent directly. If you have any questions about the list or you are not sure of what to do, please e-mail me at pyle@airmail.net Sara pyle@airmail.net RootsWeb Sponsor Charlene Putman wrote: > > subscribe

Pyle List - Thanks for the nice welcome. IAW Sara Pyle's request the following is my PILES line as I know it: I. Francis Piles - born ca 1660 probably in Wiltshire, Eng. Married (?). He died ca 1727 in Prince George Co., MD. They had 8 children. II. John Piles, Sr. - (ca 1690-1735) Mar. Mary Hunter, Dtr. of William Hunter, in Prince George Co. They had eight children. III. John Piles, Jr., -(1728-1801) Married, ca 1745 to Jemima Moxley (ca 1728-ca1778) in Fairfax Co., VA. They had six children. John died in Monongalia Co, VA and Jemima died in Loudoun Co., VA. !V. Patience Piles (ca1753-ca1818) married ca1774 to Robert McClain, Sr. (ca1746-1824) in Loudoun Co., VA. They removed to Fayette Co., PA in 1780 and had eleven children. Patience died in Fayette and Robert died in Jefferson Co., OH. V. Robert McClain, Jr. - (ca1782 - (?)) mar. in 1808 to Sarah Y. Provance (1790-1826) in Fayette Co. They had (Probably) twelve children but I know the names of only three of them. VI. Robert Alex. McClain - (1818-1879) mar. in 1840 to Nancy Hoover (1822-1892). Both died in Doddridge Co., WVA. They had eleven children the oldest of whom was my Great Grandmother, Lydia McClain. Other bits and peices of my personal data can be obtained by clicking on the two hyper-links below. -- Tom Deagan - Pensacola FL http://www.pcola.gulf.net/~gdeagan http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/e/a/Thomas-D-Deagan/

Hi Everyone, My name is Charlene Putman, and I have been online for about 2 months so I am new at this. I am married to James Coy Putman Jr. I am looking for information on my husbands family. His grandmother was a Pile. She was Fannie Ruth Pile b. 1879, d. 1971, married Hubert L. Putman. Her father was Richard Pile b. 1842, d. 1903, married Elmina Breckenridge. Richard's father was Joseph Van Meter Pile b. 1808, d. 1891, married Mary E. Phillips. Joseph's father was Benjamin Pile b.1766, d.1824 , married Ruth Pile b.1767, d.1827. I am searching for information on any of these family members, any help will be very much appreciated. Looking forward to meeting new cousins. Charlene

Hi all, We want to welcome Tom Deagan of Pensacola,Florida to the PYLE list! Tom, when you have time, please tell us a little about yourself and the PYLE(S) line you are researching. All posts must be sent to PYLE-L@rootsweb.com If you are responding to a query, please send a copy to the PYLE-L list so that the response goes to the list as well as the person making the query. The reason for this request is that someone else may have information to share or be able to get a clue on their research, by reading the exchange of e-mails. Please utilize the subject line by putting a name and location, if possible. Or perhaps, you have some information to share on another topic, for instance, migration patterns. If you are posting a very long document or gedcom, then it should be done in 2 or 3 postings rather than the whole thing at once. For instance, you might be sending xxx pt. 1, xxx pt. 2, xxx pt 3, etc. The reason for this is very simply that some providers cannot handle large pieces of mail at one time. I know that AOL has been having some problems with this. Please DO NOT send attachments to the list because there has been a problem with that on some servers. If you have a document that is too large to do a cut and paste, then post a description of it to the list to see who might want it sent directly. If you have any questions about the list or you are not sure of what to do, please e-mail me at pyle@airmail.net Sara Broughton Pyle pyle@airmail.net RootsWeb Sponsor Thomas D, Deagan wrote: > > Subscribe > -- > Tom Deagan - Pensacola FL > http://www.pcola.gulf.net/~gdeagan > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/e/a/Thomas-D-Deagan/

What a wonderful story, it brought tears to my eyes. I have always wanted to know what happened to Alvin York. In the movie he lived in the house and acres bought for him with his soon to be wife-Gracie? Is that part true? Thanks for a great read. Vivian

Hi Ron! I know this is your night to howl but I wanted to let you know before it gets any later, how much I enjoyed the latest story you sent to the list. Enjoy your Schnapps tonight and send us another "Ronnie Story" next week! Sara in Texas

Found this on the TEXAHOMA list if anyone has a missing Mary E. PYLES from Georgia. From: John & Elnora Wyrick <ejwaa@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> To: TEXAHOMA-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU SEPTEMBER 1997 THE FAMILY OF THOS. H WHITE: I am looking for relatives and descendants of : THOMAS H WHITE, b. abt 1816,TN. Wife, MARY E PYLES/PILES/PITES, b. abt 1825, GA. They moved to the Van Zandt Co., TX area early in 1870. He was reported to be the first Postmaster of Wills Point, TX (My GG Grandparents) Their children were: MARGARET FRANCIS WHITE, b.22 Oct 1849, in AL, d. 22 August 1936, Skellytown, Carson Co., TX. (My Great Grandparents) m. John Garvin MCBEE, 28 Jan 1877, in VZ Co.,TX. ELIZABETH J (Betsey Jane/Betty) WHITE, b.1851 in GA m. John J VALENTINE, 24 June 1873, in VZ Co., TX JOHN O WHITE, b. October 1873, (prob) Van Zandt Co., TX m. Polly LEE, 25 September 1892, Van Zandt Co., TX MARTIN WHITE, b. October 1889, (prob) Van Zandt Co., TX m. Vista ROUSE, 10 November 1909, in Van Zandt Co., TX BERTIE LOUISA WHITE, b. May 1891, (prob) Van Zandt Co., TX m. J.M. MCKAY, 10 April 1920, probably in VZ Co., TX Other Surnames mentioned with this family are: GOODE, JACKSON, CHITTY, MCWILLIAMS, GALLOWAY, CARO, BUTLER, DEAN, JENNINGS, WHITWROTH Please if anyone has any information on this Family drop me a line at: Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick 902 W Shields Ave. Fresno, CA 93705-3931 E-Mail <ejwaa@worldnet.att.net>

To Doris and others with Quaker ties: The Quaker website mentioned by Dave provides a lot of information. I have sent all the info I obtained from Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. The url for the site is http://bl-12.rootsweb.com/~quakers/ The following file from that site by Cheska Wheatley will explain info from Hinshaw: FINDING YOUR QUAKER ROOTS From Cheska Wheatley, Fidonet Genealogy Conference, 1995 The Society of Friends (Quakers) probably maintained the most detailed records of any church save the Church of England. The body which maintained the vital records of most interest to genealogists is the Monthly Meeting which served a number of meetings for worship within its jurisdiction. Sometimes a Monthly Meeting served a very wide area, crossing counties and even states or a large city where there was a large population such as Philadelphia had four or five Monthly Meetings. Like county boundaries, the areas served by a particular Monthly Meeting varied over time. As Quakers moved into a new area such as North Carolina, new Monthly Meetings were set off from older ones and as people moved on Monthly Meertings were consolidated or laid down. There was no central repository for these records which were generally maintained by the Monthly Meeting. That would make our search too simple! Each Monthly Meeting had at least three books. The men's minutes, the women's minutes, and the book of marriages, births and burials. Certificates of removal were recorded and issued in men's and women's minute books. Many of these books have been lost over the years, some remain with Monthly Meetings that are still functioning, others have been turned over to the Yearly Meeting, and others can be found in the libraries of several Quaker Colleges, e.g., Swarthmore in PA and Guilford College in NC. William Wade Hinshaw abstracted many of the original records and they are contained in six volumes entitled the " of American Quaker Genealogy". These are available in most genealogy libraries and have recently been reprinted by the Genealogical . Publishing . Co. They are also available in every Family History Center on the microfiche set which contains the 300 most frequently consulted genealogy reference books. They are also available on microfilm through the FHL and can be purchased from AGLL. There is also a volume referred to as "Hinshaw VII" which was compiled by Willard Heiss and contains many of the Indiana records. These cover most of the most popular meetings but by no means all of them. Start with your local FHC. Check the microfiche collection mentioned above.. If you can find Vol. VII, it has an excellent explanation of what can be found in the Quaker records, explanations of abbreviations commonly found in the abstractions and lists of various meetings. If you can print this off, it is a great reference to keep on hand. Use the FHL catalog, checking under the author "Society of Friends" should provide a list of their microfilmed copies of the original records. Check also the locality catalog under the county you are interested in and then Church records. Here you will usually find any abstractions that have been done for meetings in that area. Once you find you have one Quaker line, you will soon find you have many Quaker lines since "good" Quakers were required to marry within the Society and would be disowned for marrying a non-member. Another plus in Quaker research is that their migration patterns were very predictable. Families and individuals received permission from the Monthly Meeting and were issued certificates to move to another meeting. When they reached their destination, these certificates were deposited with the new Monthly Meeting. Both the granting and receipt of certificates were recorded in the minutes. Once you connect to a family that were practicing Quakers it is relatively easy to track them from meeting to meeting. Even when the books of a meeting are missing entirely, you will quickly learn where to expect them next and can usually find the family in the general vicinity. The hardest part is finding a link between those Quakers who left the society and their earlier ancestors who were practicing Quakers. If you find the marriage of the person you are after in the county records this usually means the person was not a practicing Quaker as the Society did not believe in marriage by a justice of the peace and members who did marry outside of meeting would also be disowned. When you can't find a county marriage record, this is a good sign that you may have your practicing Quaker! If you still can't find the person you are looking for in the nearby Quaker minutes, then go through the land records and look for clues as to where they came from. Check wills as they will give lots of clues since the Quakers also believed in being financially responsible for their families so wills are probably more common among the Quakers than most other groups.

Hi Doris! I have been told by another researcher that Sarah Pyle's father's name was Caleb and her mother's name was Anna. He may have gotten this information from their marriage contract - I do not have a copy of the contract so I can not be sure. That's all I have. If I find out more, I'll let you know. See ya. Vivian ---------- > From: Doris Pyle Haynes <dhaynes@HUB.ofthe.NET> > To: pyle@airmail.net > Cc: PYLE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Vivian's Southern PYLE line > Date: Thursday, September 18, 1997 10:14 PM > > Do you know who Sarah's father was? > > Doris > > ______________________________

Dear Sara; I'm addicted to the fact that using genealogy, one can dig up so much that is co-incidental. My son-in-law say co-incidences are nothing more than simply what we make of them. I'm simply overwhelmed by the number of related incidences in our early days. It's easy for people to pass off these experiences when they don't have the data in their files that I do. Mark Twain used our town in Calaveras County, Ca as a setting for his short story about a jumping frog. Bret Harte wrote his story "The Outcast's of Poker Flat" about a community I was raised in called Copperopolis. President Uylesses Grant stayed in our little community in the past and anytime the folks in the foothill of the Sierra can make a buck from them, they do so. My ancestors rode with one another in the battles of the Revolutionary and Civil (uncivil?) wars and never realized that in the future they would be related by marriage. I have melded a lot of my relatives together through different records I found dated in the 1800's. I never realized in the 1970's when I worked and made millions for Mormon developers, that I was a descendant of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet. My connection is through Lucy Mack, the daughter of Solomon and Lydia Gates Mack. Lucy Mack married Joseph Smith Senior. The Developer's thought me odd, but depended on my building expertise to get them started. I have never informed them of this connection, but plan to. On and on it goes and every so often, I'll relieve my tensions by laying a story on you. I have data back to Sturgis the Stout in early Scotland around the year 940 AD. Sturgis was a viking and one of the first of my Harvey clan (Clan Keith of Montrose) to land there. Thank you for the response. Ron ---------- | From: Sara Pyle <sep1@erols.com> | To: Ron Pyle <piguy@goldrush.com> | Subject: Re: The Ronnie Story of the Week! | Date: Friday, September 19, 1997 7:14 PM | | Dear Ron, | | I'm proud that a distant cousin help Mark Twain's father. And most | interested to learn (not having read a biography of him) that Mark Twain | was the son of a Southerner. | | Now, I am a Yankee, but I think the South has produced the best American | users of the English language. And Samuel Clemens is the first among the | best, in my opinion. (I was a French lit. major and trained to see | language as an aesthetic object. And that's another reason why I hope | *you* keep on sending out stories. I'm getting addicted.) ;) | | Sara Pyle (the one in New York)

Ashley Vivian dashley@accesscomm.net Baker Paul pbaker@facstaff.wisc.edu WI Bamburg L. LBamburg@aol.com Bolinger Kay Kboling@mtayr.heartland.net Brosy Lynn paradmds@concentric.net Bruce Frances FBruce3554@aol.com SC Campbell Woody woodyc@ix.netcom.com Cassady Eve herkimerschwartz@hotmail.com Christie Nancy christie@admin.ogi.edu OR Davenport Bob bobd@mail.tigernet.gen.mo.us Davies Bernice daviesb@tdn.com Davis Rita Pyle RiTA33699@aol.com GA Doman Bobi bobette@foxinternet.net WA Dowell Dave DRDowell@aol.com Ford Sandi sandi945@aol.com IL Fravel Ralph fravel@sonic.net Fulmer Carolyn fulmerw@premier.net Gay Betty BettyGay@aol.com Gilchrist Joy hcpd.lewisco@westvirginia.com WV Gleason Lynn Brooks gleason@prodigy.net MN Greaves Diane dianeg@slip.net Grubbs Bill bgrubbs@flash.net Gunzl Linda LGunzl@aol.com Haynes Doris Pyle dhaynes@HUB.ofthe.NET TX Heckel Rebecca Pyle rlheckel@airmail.net TX Johnson Diane Orr dianej@jeeves.ucsd.edu Kalczynski Cyndi cykal@im4u.net MI Kennel Joanne masttrim@epix.net Kourey Peggy pkourey@newwave.net WV Kruse Craig M. cmkruse@bellsouth.net FL Lee Les LLee407@aol.com PA Lee Pat ELSY32B@prodigy.com FL Liggett Harry hliggett@ald.net OH Lillard Carolyn clillard@texnet.net MacKinnon Linda bdmlhm@king.igs.net Malec Debbie drmalec@sprynet.com McCachern Cindy McCachern@worldnet.att.net Meyer Rachel buzmeyer@bright.net Mitch Pat pMitch2907@aol.com IL Morelli Mary morelli@fuse.net Mortimer Randy mortimer@montana.com MT Muggli Jennie Sue jmuggli@cvtv.net TX Murray Patrick H. pat.murray@juno.com IA Myers Dawn dmyers@cobweb.net Page Dan dpage@ipa.net Partlow Marc MPart74960@aol.com Patten Jerry W. jpatten@worldnet.att.net MO Payne Marjory geopayne@mail.enter.net Pihl Lucy laps@midusa.net KS Pittman Brenda J. pittman_b@popmail.firn.edu Price Crystal darksihde@aol.com Pyle Anne ceannmor@erols.com Pyle Becky bpyle@nova.org Pyle Carl Eugene cepyle@redrose.net PA Pyle Dawn djpyle2@webtv.net VA Pyle Donna donna_pyle@juno.com Pyle Jean n8669p@pacbell.net Pyle Joe j.pyle@computer.org TX Pyle John JSCC1@aol.com Pyle Norman njpyle@azstarnet.com AZ Pyle Peggy peggy@getonthe.net MO Pyle Ron piguy@goldrush.com CA Pyle Sara Broughton pyle@airmail.net TX Pyle Sara Elizabeth sep1@erols.com NY Pyle II Scott cubsBlue@aol.com Pyles Bill pyles@digital.net FL Pyles Jim jpyles@sprynet.com Roland Brenda ARoland846@aol.com Rowe Carol 103571.702@CompuServe.COM Ruse Joan E. XWTW51A@prodigy.com IL Schriver Rhonda alkmom@aol.com Scott Roger bigblkvet@aol.com Shuff Beth Orman EMOrman@aol.com VA Soper Ken kensoper@aol.com Springer John L. springer@brigadoon.com Stanfield Jim dgoat40@aol.com Tyler John j_tyler@hotmail.com Whitaker Ann Davis jmw@hiwaay.net Wright Doni doniw@interserf.net stokley@america.com PATSKNEE@aol.com rpyle@sei-it.com guano@aol.com

Hi all, We want to welcome Bernice Davies to the PYLE list! Bernice, when you have time, please tell us a little about yourself and the PYLE(S) line you are researching. All posts must be sent to PYLE-L@rootsweb.com If you are responding to a query, please send a copy to the PYLE-L list so that the response goes to the list as well as the person making the query. The reason for this request is that someone else may have information to share or be able to get a clue on their research, by reading the exchange of e-mails. Please utilize the subject line by putting a name and location, if possible. Or perhaps, you have some information to share on another topic, for instance, migration patterns. If you are posting a very long document or gedcom, then it should be done in 2 or 3 postings rather than the whole thing at once. For instance, you might be sending xxx pt. 1, xxx pt. 2, xxx pt 3, etc. The reason for this is very simply that some providers cannot handle large pieces of mail at one time. I know that AOL has been having some problems with this. Please DO NOT send attachments to the list because there has been a problem with that on some servers. If you have a document that is too large to do a cut and paste, then post a description of it to the list to see who might want it sent directly. If you have any questions about the list or you are not sure of what to do, please e-mail me at pyle@airmail.net Sara Broughton Pyle pyle@airmail.net RootsWeb Sponsor Bernice wrote:

In 1992, I received a book from Halpert Publishing company of Ohio. In it were the family crest, a few facts about genealogy and addresses of thousands of Pyles. The book sat on my coffee table for a couple of years before I decided it was time to get twenty-nine dollars out of "The World Book of Pyles." Together with the small bits of information from our scrapbook and the mailing list, I wrote to those addresses I could find around Dana, Indiana. I received an answer from Jerry Pyle from Kokomo, Indiana. His daughter graduated from high school in 1982 and one of her assignments was to do the family history. Jerry sent me that history and copies of her documentation from Aaron Pyles book, "Limited Genealogy of Coonrod Pile and Many of His Descendants," written in 1978. The story on Conrad Pile contained the genealogy bug that bit me. Here is Coonrod's history: Conrad Pile was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1766 and came to North Carolina with his parents when he was a year old. In the closing years of the eighteenth century while British were settling along the coast, Conrad Pile climbed the eastern slope of the Cumberland Mountains and found the fertile valley of the Wolf River. The Valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf River, located in North Central Tennessee is a large territory of fertile wooded land lying in an area where three branches go together to form the Wolf River. The beautiful Cumberland Mountains surround this valley, making it a place of beauty. The soil was rich and the game was plentiful. Coonrod found a spring under some overhanging rocks and as he drank from this spring, he looked up and spied a large deer staring at him. He aimed his flintlock and felled the deer that became the first meal for a white man in the Valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf River. For more than fifty years, Coonrod lived with in a few hundred yards of where he camped that day. Coonrod Pile left his campfire burning as he hunted and surveyed the area. Other long hunters joined his camp and for several years they believed they were in Kentucky. Actually they settled seven miles from the Kentucky border and created a town known as Pall Mall, Tennessee. In 1823 Fentress, Tennessee became a county and records indicate that Coonrod was the title holder of the land in Jamestown where the Fentress County Courthouse now stands. Coonrod also owned the tract of land known as "Rock Castle," a vast tract of hardwood timber that became famous during the civil war. He built his home at the spot where he made his first camp. John M. Clemens lived in Jamestown and he and Coonrod was very close friends. John's son Samuel wrote "Gilded Age" referring to this County. Coonrod helped Clemens get elected to the office of the county clerk of Fentress County. Both Pile and Clemens were large land owners for many years before Clemens sold their land and moved to Missouri where Samuel (Mark Twain) was born. Co-incidently Mark Twain made my county famous by writing "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County!" The scene was taken from the Angels Camp Hotel which still stands and is a tourist attraction. David Crockett was another close friend and neighbor. He was the hero of the Alamo and his home still stands between Jamestown and Pall Mall. Deaf and dumb Jimmy Crockett spent the last years of his life in a home owned by Coonrod Pile. David Crockett in his autobiography tells the story of deaf and dumb Jimmy, but he places the scene in Kentucky. Coonrod Pile died in 1849 in Fentress County, Tennessee. Fentress County, located on the border between the North and South, became a no mans land during the civil war. The opinions of the people caused father to fight against son and brother against brother. Coonrod and Mary Pile were the parents of ten children. Elijah was born in 1795. It was Elijah's granddaughter Mary that married William York and their son Alvin was born on December 13, 1887. Alvin York was the third born of eight sons and two daughters. Alvin was the subject of a movie and an "objector" who finally answered his countries call and went to France in World War 1. William and Mary York raised Alvin in a one room cabin by York Springs in Fentress County, Tennessee. They lived in poverty, but was warmed by their mother's love. On summer nights, the York's sat on the stoop and sang. Alvin came from a line of mountain men who could shoot with deadly accuracy and it was with this background that he joined the US. Army in the first world's war and went to France as a sergeant with the 82nd Infantry Division. On October 8, 1918 he single-handedly killed twenty German soldiers with a rifle and a pistol and forced 132 others to surrender. Marshall Ferdinand Foch called this, "The greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies in Europe." General John J. Pershing while pinning the Congressional Medal of Honor on York, called him "The greatest civilian soldier of the war." When his troopship landed at New York he enjoyed a hero's welcome. When he appeared in the gallery of the House of Representatives, all business ceased as they turned to cheer him. No man of the mountains ever received such a welcome home. The people of Tennessee filled the depots, the streets and the Tabernacles to welcome him. Gifts ranged from a 400 acre farm paid for by subscriptions to the Rotary Club and other organizations provided blooded livestock for his farm. Other gifts were furniture of all types and it took a warehouse at the Tennessee State fairgrounds to hold the gifts given to him. The Governor of Tennessee promoted Alvin to Colonel and the Nations of Europe continued to honor him, but once home Alvin wanted no special treatment and moved back to the hills to live with his mother in her mountain cabin. When asked if she was proud of Alvin, she said "I'm proud of each of my eight boys." Alvin asked that any money given to him be used to benefit and promote the education of mountain children. York Agriculture Institute established in 1927 is a State operated High School today. I hope you enjoy! Ron

Doris Pyle Haynes wrote: > It's very sketchy: > Olive is the second child or Olive and William Pyle: > ii. Olive Pyle b. ca 1716 d.? m. Robert Mercer. > Robert born 9-28-1716 was son of Thomas and Hannah Mercer, Jr. > issue: Joseph Mercer, from Westtown, Chester Co. Pa. > settled in Jackson co., Ohio > > Source: Piles/Pyles of America by Howard Thornton Pyle. This is the data I have on the above listed family: William Pyle & Olive Bennett m. abt 1705 4 William Pyle AFN: 8R4K-1R b. 26 Jan 1685 Concord Mm, (Bethel), Chester, Pa d. abt Jan 1734 Thornbury Twp, Chester, Pa Married: abt 1705 + Olive BENNETT AFN: 8R4K-2X b. 1690 Birmingham, Chester, Pa 5 Ann Pyle AFN: 1MCK-5N b. 1706 Thornbury Twp, Chester, Pa Married: 28 Jun 1730 (28d 3m 1729) Concord, Chester, Pa (fm Quaker Records) + John WOODWARD AFN: 1MCK-4H b. 3 Jun 1708 of Thornbury, Chester, Pa 5 John Pyle AFN: 94LD-18 b. abt 1708 Thornbury Twp, Chester, Pa Married: (28d 8m 1730) (fm Quaker Records) + Rachel WALTER AFN: 94LD-2F b. 1710 5 Isaac Pyle AFN: 94LC-VF (fm Ancestral File) b. abt 1708 , Chester, Pa Married: 21 Nov 1750 of Chester, Pa + Elizabeth DARLINGTON AFN: 94LD-8G b. 1721 Aston, Chester, Pa 5 Mary Pyle AFN: 94LD-O3 b. abt 1712 , Chester, Pa Married: 23 Jan 1733 (23d 3m 1733) Concord, Chester, Pa (fm Quaker Records) + Robert LEWIS AFN: 94LD-4R b. 21 Nov 1713 (21d 1m 1714) Kennett Twp, Chester, Pa 5 Olive Pyle AFN: 94LC-ZX b. ca 1716, Chester, Pa Married: + Robert MERCER (updated fm above info) (son of Thomas and Hannah Mercer, Jr.) AFN: 94LD-5X (contains dif. data) b. 28 Sep 1716 6 Joseph Mercer (updated fm above info) (settled in Jackson Co. Ohio) b. of Westtown, Chester, Pa 5 William Pyle AFN: 94LC-XR (fm Ancestral File) b. abt 1720 , Chester, Pa Married: + Hannah HARLAN AFN: 94LD-64 b. 1722 5 Job Pyle AFN: 94LC-WL b. abt 1722 , Chester, Pa (I had abt 1710-will need to check out on Quaker Records) Married: + Elizabeth BENNETT AFN: 94LC-79 b. 1724 5 Phebe Pyle AFN: 94LC-T8 (fm Ancestral File) b. 1726 , Chester, Pa -- Doni Wright <http://www.interserf.net/doniw/Pyle.htm> <http://www.interserf.net/doniw/PyleRbt.htm>

Do you know who Sarah's father was? Doris

Lynn, It turns out that I had that info last night if I'd have looked. It's very sketchy: Olive is the second child or Olive and William Pyle: ii. Olive Pyle b. ca 1716 d.? m. Robert Mercer. Robert born 9-28-1716 was son of Thomas and Hannah Mercer, Jr. issue: Joseph Mercer, from Westtown, Chester Co. Pa. settled in Jackson co., Ohio Source: Piles/Pyles of America by Howard Thornton Pyle. There's some info on Olives siblings and parents if you need that. Doris

Hey cousins! I appreciate the invitation to the Pyle discussion list. I connect to Olive Pyle, born early 1700's daughter of William PYLE/Olive BENNETT. Siblings include Mary, William, John, Phebe, Job, Isaac, and Ann. Olive Pyle married Robert MERCER. Does anyone on this list have more info about Olive or her husband Robert? Thanks so much...Lynn

This is Vivian's post which was sent to me. > From: > "VIVIAN ASHLEY" <dashley@accesscomm.net> > To: > <pyle@airmail.net> > > > Hey! > > In response to your request for my PYLE line: > > My ggg grandmother was Sarah(Sally) PYLE b. 1809 in South Carolina, d. > 25Jan1887 in Butler County Alabama. She was married to Eli LEE b. 1798 in > South Carolina, d. after 1866 in Butler County, Alabama. They were married > 17Feb1822 in Montgomery County, Alabama. They had several children, one of > which was Samuel Asberry LEE b.14Dec1841, d. 11Jul1915 who was my gg > grandfather. > > Sally lived to be 79 and is buried at the Bethel Primitive Baptist Church > Cemetery in Covington County, Alabama outside of McKenzie. > > I have been told that her parents were Caleb and Anna PYLE, but I don't > have any info on them. > > I would love to correspond with anyone in this PYLE or related lines. > > Bye. Vivian >

This article is from Joe Pyle, j.pyle@computer.org This article was published by the Groveton News during the week of 23 August 1997. Groveton is the County Seat of Trinity County, TX. It was written by Benjamin Malrey Pyle. In June of this summer, I vacationed in North Carolina and sauntered around an old Revolutionary War battleground named Alamance near the Haw River in today's present community of Burlington, North Carolina. This is the Northwest territory of the Carolinas. Before there was a teabag thrown over the side of a ship in Boston Harbor, the citizenry of this backwoods country rebelled against high and over taxation imposed on them by officials of North Carolina and the British government These frontiersmen began to gather in groups and protest the burden of taxes. They became known as Regulators, so named because they wanted to regulate themselves rather than submit to dishonest sheriffs and extortionate fees. Herman Husband provided the leadership for these frontiersmen ready and ripe for revolt. Dr. John Pyle of Chatham County belonged to the Regulators. He was a medical doctor and not militantly talented. He was a Loyalist, having spent his entire life under British Rule. He never considered himself a Tory, but was against those who wanted to destroy law and order in the frontier. In the spring of 1775, King George instructed the Governor of North Carolina to grant leading gentlemen a commission. John Pyle was commissioned a Colonel in the British Army with authority to raise armies and grant commissions up to and including Major. Col. Pyle probably commissioned his son, John, as a Captain. Col. Pyle and his son, John, were constantly engaged in behalf of the Royalists. Records do not indicate that Col. Pyle participated in the 1771 battle of Alamance, but do show that Governor Tryon from New Bern, North Carolina, who put down the rebellion, requisitioned six wagon loads of grain and food supplies for the troops from Dr. Pyle. In 1775, Col. Pyle and his son, John, participated in the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, were captured by the Patriots and imprisoned at Halifax. The Pyles and other prisoners, whose presence in North Carolina endangered the Revolutionary movement, were sent by the Provincial Congress to Virginia or Philadelphia. While being transported, the Pyles escaped and returned to Chatham County. Dr. Pyle , on December 13, 1776, appealed to the Provincial Congress, took an oath of loyalty to the state, and upon giving bond, was permitted to remain in the State of North Carolina. In the fall of 1778, Sir Henry Clinton, the British commander in America, moved his operation south to Charleston, SC. Clinton had failed to defeat George Washington's Army in the North but had been very successful in the south. Benjamin Lincoln had surrendered his entire Patriot Army to Clinton. Shortly thereafter in June 1780,Clinton returned to New York. Before he left he turned the British command over to Lord Charles Cornwallis with orders to complete the conquest of the Carolinas. Cornwallis appealed to Loyalists to join his army. Cornwallis' appeal rekindled Dr. Pyle's sentiments and the Colonel raised a three to four hundred man army of Loyalists to join with the British forces. Col. Pyle passed word to Cornwallis and requested an escort for his army. Cornwallis instructed Tarleton to rendezvous with Pyle at a plantation a few miles from Hillsborough. General Greene's Continental Army was in North Carolina and his elite cavalry was commanded by General Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, father of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Lee's men had captured two British officers and through interrogation learned that Tarleton's unit was nearby in Hillsborough. On the same day Lee's men had met two of Col. Pyle's men who tragically mistook Lee's legions as Loyalists because they were dressed in similar attire. Light Horse Lee took advantage of the mistaken identity and encouraged Pyle's men to bring the Colonel's troops into camp the next day. Col. Pyle and his men were deceived so completely that he was shaking hands with Light Horse Harry Lee, exercising military commander theatrics of salutatory greetings, when Lee's legions unleashed their wrath upon the unsuspecting Loyalists. The Patriots decimated Pyle's command in a few minutes with sword and saber, killing and wounding over 90 Loyalists. Col. Pyle escaped on his horse and was pursued by the Patriots. Pyle jumped off his horse and hid out of sight in a pond until his men found him seriously wounded. Lee's legions inhumanely butchered Pyle's militia while they were begging for quarter and without making the slightest resistance. In the History attributed to Charles Steadman, Cornwallis' Civilian Commissary, the author repeats the charge that the American Patriots refused quarter to Pyle's men. "Humanity shudders," the author wrote, "at the recital of so foul a massacre." Pyle's defeat was more commonly referred to as "Pyle's massacre" or "Pyle's Hacking Match". The British government charged Light Horse Harry Lee with war crimes for the cruelty in which he had slaughtered the Loyalists while pleading for quarter. An excerpt from the Times-News of Burlington, NC, written by Burlington City Councilman Sam Powell, who helped gather research material for Col. Pyle's marker, said the battle brought shame on Henry Lee because the British accused him of war crimes. Powell said historians believed Robert E. Lee graduated from West Point Military Academy and went on to become a famed Civil War General in part to vindicate his father's name. Pyle's defeat and a short time later, Tarleton's mistaken attack on a smaller group of loyalists brought an end to the Loyalists' allegiance to the Crown in the Carolinas. Col. Pyle, still suffering from wounds, went to see Cornwallis and requested the British commander to make him a Brigadier General. It is believed that Cornwallis refused the request. Pyle then decided he would take matters in his own hands and honored an invitation to a societal party in Philadelphia at which General George Washington was in attendance. As was the custom in those days, an occasional party was attended by officers of both sides of the conflict. It is believed that Col. Pyle met George Washington and agreed to join his staff. The records show that both Col. John Pyle and his son surrendered to Cap. Wm. O'Neal of Washington's army. Both men being doctors then devoted their time and services to caring for the wounded in the Patriot Army. Since Pyle had been with Cornwallis and at his camp, he knew much of the plans and proceeded to help George Washington defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown. It is said that King George III offered five thousand pounds for the capture of Col. Pyle. For Col. Pyle's services to Washington's Patriot Army, many Pyle descendants are able to go into the National Patriotic organizations in the United States. John Pyle of Sam Houston's Texas Army was a grandson to Col. John Pyle of North Carolina fame. This descendant is buried at Pyle Prairie Cemetery in Kaufman County, Texas. My work on this subject is minuscule compared to sources from which I gathered my material for this story. As mentioned heretofore, Sam Powell, City Councilman, Burlington, NC; Pat Bailey of Alamance County Historical Association; Dr. George Troxler, Associate Professor of History, Elon College; Howard Thornton Pyle, Publisher of the "Pyle Family in America 1642-1980". To Ms. Kelly May, Burlington Chamber of Commerce and Ms. Reba G. Thomas, Register of Deeds, Chatham County, Pittsboro, NC, I give the utmost credit in recognition of a multitude of hard working hours dedicated by them and others I have not mentioned. Sincerely, Ben Pyle. Thanks. Joe W. Pyle j.pyle@computer.org

Hello Pyle cousins! Just wanted to let you all know that I've not run away. I work in the accounting department and the end of our fiscal year is Sept. 30th. I hope to get busy on upgrading and adding to the Pyle page in early October. In the meantime, I do read all of your posts with great interest. Keep it up and we'll all find our missing links! Rachel Meyer -- Find out more at: http://www.bright.net/~buzmeyer Including Online Family Reunions of Wohleben, Pyle & Strawser Auglaize Co. OH GenWeb - http://www.genweb.brightusa.net/index.html Pickaway Co. OH GenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohpickaw/index.html