The following will was received from Guilford Couny. Will Book C page 41 File 0780. In the name of God amen, I Joseph Pyles of the county of Orange in the State of North Carolina, being sick in body, but of sound and perfect mind and menory, blessed be God do this 17th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1836, do make and publish this my last will and testament in the manner following, that-is-to-say. First I give brother James Pyle my saddle, I give my mother Elizabeth Simpson Ten dollars, to my sister Sarah Hughes ten dollars and also give my brother Moses and Enoch all my clothes, to be equally divided between them-and I give my brothers William+Wiley+George five cents a piece and all the rest of my money to my brother Nathan. Signed Joseph X Pyle William McKeel A. N. Br(unreadable) Letters of Adminsitration was granted to Nathan Pyles, who entered into bond according. This is the Piles/Pyles family that moved to Bartholomew Co. Indiana ca 1839 State of North Carolina, Guilford Co. Nov. term 1839 The execution of the foregoing was duly proven in open court by oath on William McKeel the Attorney acting thus. Let it be registered Test John W. Logan Constable

Dear Cousins, I am posting a note that I received today from Dr. Brian Leverich regarding the slow down on RootsWeb. Several of us have noticed how slow the messages have been coming in. I thought you might find this of interest. Sara pyle@airmail.net From Dr.Brian Leverich: As you probably know, load on RootsWeb has been skyrocketing. The lists.rootsweb.com server now handles about 50% of the load of the biggest listserver on Earth (plum.lsoft.com), and the www.rootsweb.com server now handles about 20-40% of the load of www.microsoft.com (and they use 15 servers (-8 ). One problem we're having is that the Linux operating system just doesn't seem to be able to handle this load gracefully. We've been having multiple system crashes each day, and it's basically preventing us from doing other things we want to do (like get search engines up and Web interfaces to your message archives). Anyway, the solution seems to be shifting to a different version of Unix -- FreeBSD -- which is generally regarded as much more stable under load than Linux. FreeBSD is used by a number of very large sites, including Yahoo and ftp.cdrom.com (the world's busiest FTP site). We'll be converting lists.rootsweb.com and www.rootsweb.com to FreeBSD over the next few days. You can expect some down time and probably some annoying glitches as we make the transition. Please bear with us -- I think we'll have the moves completed in the next few days, and I'm guessing that we'll be fully back to normal (including achieving our old 98%+ uptime performance) within two weeks.

Joy, Thanks for posting what info you have on John Piles, Jr. s/o John PIles, Sr. & Mary Hunter. There is no question that his first wife was Jemima Moxley, widow of William Windsor, whom she mar. ca 1741 in Fairfax Co., VA and by whom she had 2 sons - William & James Windsor. After William's death she mar. John Piles, Jr. & had 6 children: Patience mar. Rob't McClain, Sr; Ruth mar. Chas. Dawson; Elijah mar. Henrietta & Hannah; David mar. who?; Sarah mar. Thomas Hawkins & Hunter mar. Christina & Nancy Fortney. Jemima Moxley was d/o Thomas Moxley & Anne Gunnell of Fairfax Co., VA and was b. ca 1728 probably in Fairfax Co. I would be very happy if you find the tombstone listings for Fairfax Pond Cemetery, Joy. It would be a great help. Just wanted to give you the background on Jemima Moxley-Windsor-Piles. Joan Ruse XWTW51A@prodigy.com

Hello everyone - I have the listings in the Pyles Cemetery - and also the wives of John. John, b 11 Mar 1728/Prince George's County, MC, was one of seven children of John and Mary (Hunter) Piles; his grandparents were Francis and Mary (Bramal) Piles and his great grandfather was also named Francis. He married Jemima (Windsor?) prior to 13 Mar 1746 when their eldest son Elijah was born. John's and Jemima's children: Elijah 1/m Hannah, 2/m Henrietta; Patience m Robert McClain; Ruth m Charles Dawson; Sarah m Thomas Hawkins; David; Hunter 1/m Christina 2/m Nancy Fortney; Henry (unproven as a child) By 11 Nov 1783 John was married to the widow Ann Nancy (Tolle) Squires (widow of Thomas Squires) and living in Loudoun Co, VA. They had no issue - but Ann was my 5th g.grandmother. Sara, somewhere I have the listing for the Fairfax Pond cemetery - there's only three or four graves marked with readable stones out of about 100 or so there. Thomas Squires is buried over in Loudoun Co in what is now the middle of a barnyard near Arcola; however, I bet that John and Ann/Nancy Tolle Squires are in two of the unidentified graves. Joy

At 12:00 PM 8/10/97 -0500, pyle@airmail.net wrote: > >> Ron, Just read your post to Beth. This Hunter Piles who mar. >> Christina is son of our John Piles, Jr. & Jemima Moxley. Correct? >> This Hunter Piles b. ca 1765 Loudoun Co., VA; d. 1821?1847? Preston >> Co., WV; bur. there in Piles Cemetery at Fairfax Pond. Just wanted >> to verify that I'm correct on this Thomas Piles line. When did >> spelling change from Pyles to Piles???? >> Joan Ruse > > I do - there's only about 4 or 5 marked graves there out of about 100 burials. And the spelling changed from Piles to Pyles instead of vice versa. Joy

Hi Joan, My mother-in-law is Andrew Piles' granddaughter. Her understanding is that he is the son of Daniel Mitchell Pyles and Mary Catherine Miller. After Mary's death, Andrew left the family home and moved in with his grandparents, who apparently "adopted" him. Andrew drowned in the Monongahela River the day his son Clarence was 13 (August 12, 1905) according to my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law also believes that Andrew Piles was somehow "English", which would obviously mean he wasn't in this family line at all. I think that's kind of unlikely. Beth

Here's my Lindley list: James1 Lindley, b 1641, Cheshire, Eng., d. 10-13-1726, Cty Carlow, Ire., m. Alice James2 Lindley, b 4-16-81 1681, Cty Carlow, Ire., d in New Garden, PA. Married in 1705 in Kilcouner(sp?), Cty Carlow, IRE, Eleanor (Elender) Parke, b 2-2-1684 in Ballyredalon, Cty Carlow, Ire., daughter of Robert and Margery Parke. They had 12 children: Thomas b 2-25-1706 in Ire, d 9-14-1786 Rachel b 5-11-1707 in Ire James b 4-30-1709 in Ire Margery b 4-1712 in Ire Robert b 4-1712 in Ire William b 12-20-1714 in PA Alice b 2-25-1716 in PA Mary b 9-4-1717 in PA Jonathan b 3-11-1719 in PA, m Deborah Halliday in 1741 Elizabeth b 8-4-1720 in PA Hannah b 1-11-1723 Eleanor b 1-11-1727/28 Thomas3 m in Ire. Ruth Hadley, b 4-6-1711/12, Mote Community, Cty West Meath, Ire, d. 12-4-1785, daughter of Simon Hadley and Ruth Keran (Miller). Thomas was a member of the Provincial Assembly of PA. They were in NC by 10-6-1753, at which time they presented certificates to Cane Creek MM. They had 10 children, all but the last two born in London Grove, PA: Kathren b 9-22-1732, m. William White James b 9-22-1735, m. Mary Cox Simon b 1-5-1737/8 Thomas b 8-7-1740; d 2-28-1833, m 1) Sarah Evans, d 10-25-1796; m 2) Margery Bechingham, d. 9-18-1848 William b 12-29-1742; d 9-29-1784, Spring MM, NC Ruth b 3-25-1745; d 7-15-1795 John (Yours?) b 10-12-1747 Elender b 9-15-1750 Deborah b 6-28-1753 in Orange Cty, NC, m James Newlin, 1772 Jonathan b 6-15-1756 in Orange Cty, NC, m Deborah Lindley, daughter of Zachariah Lindley and Ruth Dick William4 Lindley married Mary Morton b 9-9-1738, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Morton. They had 6 children, all born in Orange County, NC: Ruth b 1-7-1765; d 12-12-1806 Thomas b 11-16-1769 Samuel b 12-19-1771 Mary b 7-3-1774 Elizabeth b 9-4-1776; d 8-31-1778 William b 9-27-1779 Ruth5 Lindley married circa 1786 Dr. Jehu Pyle, b 1766 in Chatham Cty NC. Their son, William Pyle married his second cousin, Mary Hadley, daughter of William Hadley, son of Joshua Hadley and Ruth4 Lindley. Ruth4 Lindley married her first cousin, Joshua Hadley, son of Joshua Hadley who was the son of Simon Hadley and Ruth Keran (Miller), see Thomas3 Lindley. Their granddaughter, Mary Hadley, daughter of their son, William, married her 2nd cousin, William Pyle. See Ruth5.

From the Illinois Civil War database here is a list of PILES/PYLES that served from Illinois. Name Company Residence Alfred PILES C, 44th Inf Reading John " B, 97th Inf Coles Co John F ' F, 15th Cav Benton John J " H 111th Inf Omega Josiah " H 111th Inf Omega Thomas J " B 97th Inf Cumberland Co Andrew B PYLES B 83rd Inf Spring Grove George F " K 47th Inf Toulon Henry " K 6th Cav James W. " F137th Inf Griggsville John F " L 10th Cav Con Lucilliers " K 142 Inf Sparta Robert " K 47th Inf Toulon Npne of this was in my line but maybe someone can use it. Les Lee

Hi all! Noticed in Joan's post that she mentioned a PILES Cemetery at Fairfax Pond. Does anyone have a listing of the graves at that location? Sara pyle@airmail.net J E RUSE wrote: > > Ron, Just read your post to Beth. This Hunter Piles who mar. > Christina is son of our John Piles, Jr. & Jemima Moxley. Correct? > This Hunter Piles b. ca 1765 Loudoun Co., VA; d. 1821?1847? Preston > Co., WV; bur. there in Piles Cemetery at Fairfax Pond. Just wanted > to verify that I'm correct on this Thomas Piles line. When did > spelling change from Pyles to Piles???? > Joan Ruse

woodyc@ix.netcom.com is Woody Campbell bpyle@nova.org is Becky Pyle (I think) Peg

I am seeking information regarding the adoption of a male infant by Ben and Annie Piles, residents ofTyler, TX (1900), Palestine, TX (1910), and Wichita Falls, TX (1920). The adoptive parents had two grown children when they adopted the child 1900 and named him Jack. 1) Texas did not register births in 1900. 2) The birth parents were Irish immigrants (surname, believed to be Martin) who lived near Dallas/Ft.Worth, TX. 3) The adoption was possibly a compassionate act toward a relative with either the surname of Martin or Piles. 4) Ben and Annie Piles' daughter (Bertha?) married a Colwell and had a daughter named Jewel. If there are Pyle/Pile (Piles) researchers who have ties to the above surnames, I would appreciate hearing from them. So far, researching the mentioned surnames has not produced clues for me to follow up. Any information or advice on research sources will be gratefully recieved. Thank yhou, Donna Pyle

Dear Allen, This is the information I have. Please keep in touch with me on the development of this line. James PYLE d. 15 Apr 1820, Orange Co., NC. The death certificate is reported in the book "Abstracts of Orance County North Carolina Wills 1800-1850" and is indexed E40. (I probably can get you a better cite than this and a copy of the text. his wife: Sarah (surname unknown) descendants: 2. Isaac 3. Moses 2. Caleb 3. Henry 2. William 2. John 3. Garrett 4. Rebecca 4. Mary 4. Elenor 2. Joseph 2. Mary 2. Rachel The above is not my line and i must apoligize for not having the proper documentation. I also have the following which is my line: James PILE d. 13 Mar 1819, Orange Co., NC m. Elizabeth (her marriage after James's death to a Mr. SIMPSON per son Jacob's will) their descendants: 2. Wiley 3. Albert 3. Allen 3. Barbara 3. Boston 2. George m. Sarah Rhoads 26 Sep 1832 Guilford Co., NC 3. Nathaniel m. Mary Swift 3. John 3. Susannah 3.Catherine E. 2. James m. Hester Ann PYLESabt 1834 Orange Co., NC 3. Elizabeth 3. Julia A. 3. Alfred W. AKA "Albert" 3. Joseph 3. Benjamine Franklin 4. Addie 4. Franklin Roy 4. Florence I "Opal" 4. Elmer 4. Laura Ethel 4. Myrtle 4. Viola Victoria m. John Thomas PARTLOW 25 Nov. 1914 Bartholomew Co., IN 4. Herbert Gilbert On the James PILE d. 13 Mar 1819 line I have additional information as does Ralph Fravel at Fravel@sonic.net. Marc Partlow mpart74960@aol.com

Sandi, I have forwarded your note to our mailing list. Please write me if you would like to subscribe. Sara pyle@airmail.net Sandi945@aol.com wrote: > > I am searching for the Pyle family from Lawrence County PA. James and > Martin, James b 1839 died 1915 and Martin b 1834 died 1919. Looking for > their parents

Who is the William Piles listed with 4 white and 1 black member of the household in the 1782 HALIFAX COUNTY VA HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS? Does anyone have a clue? Listed a few houses away from him is a Daniel JONES with 9 white members of the household. There are several other Jones families there also. Rachel Meyer -- Find out more at: http://www.bright.net/~buzmeyer Wohleben Family Online Reunion -- http://www.bright.net/~buzmeyer/wohleben/index.html Auglaize Co. OH GENWEB Coordinator -- http://www.genweb.brightusa.net/index.html Pickaway Co. OH GENWEB Coordinator -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohpickaw/index.html

Ron & Beth. I have THOMAS PILES, b. ca 1787 Loudoun Co., VA; d. 1863 Preston Co., WV where he lived at Bird's Creek. s/o HUNTER PILES & his first wife, Christina ------. Thomas mar. ca 1835 MARIAH RILEY who was b. ca 1816 Preston Co., WV. Their children were: 1 - Caleb, (1836-1926) mar. JANE MANLEY 2 - John Curry (1839- ) mar. SARAH E. RILEY 3 - Sarah Ellen (7 Jan 1842-22 May 1874) m. NATHAN MILLER 4 - Daniel Mitchell (1845-1922) m. 1) KATHRYN MILLER; 2) LOUISE MILLER 5 - Keziah (1847-1932) mar. ADAM TREMBLEY/LY 6 - Thomas, Jr. (1850-bef. 1909) mar. BARBARA E, REED 7 - Reason (1852-1939) mar. ELIZA JANE MILLER 8 - Zeporah (1855-1904) mar. JOHN POLING 9 - Kelso (1858-1906) mar. 1) MARTHA STONE; 2) CYRENA GORDAN 10 - Andrew, b. 1867, adopted. Sorry, I have no descendants of these children, but would like to have them. Joan

Joan; You are correct as to Hunter Piles relationship to John Piles who was married to Jemima____, Nancy___ and Ann___. The Pyle book shows Hunter's death date as 1841. This whole family used both the Pyles and Piles spelling all through the different families from day one. The family of John Piles 6 used Pyle, Piles and Pyles! Talk to you later. Ron ---------- | From: pyle@airmail.net | To: PYLE-L@rootsweb.com | Subject: THOMAS PILES, s/o HUNTER PILES | Date: Tuesday, August 05, 1997 3:51 PM | | This note is from Joan. | ********************* | | Ron, Just read your post to Beth. This Hunter Piles who mar. | Christina is son of our John Piles, Jr. & Jemima Moxley. Correct? | This Hunter Piles b. ca 1765 Loudoun Co., VA; d. 1821?1847? Preston | Co., WV; bur. there in Piles Cemetery at Fairfax Pond. Just wanted | to verify that I'm correct on this Thomas Piles line. When did | spelling change from Pyles to Piles???? | Joan Ruse | XWTW51A@prodigy.com |

Hi everyone, My name is Jim Stanfield. I have been on the list for about a month, but havn't had time to post. Got time now, so here goes. I want to apolagize in advance for the long post, just couldn't find a short way to list my line. I have pretty much the sam PYLE ancestors as everyone else, beginning with John b. 1594 & Mary Marie WITHERS, to Nicholas b. 1624 & Edith MUSPRAT(T). From there I am decended from Nicholas' son Ralph b. 1-31-1670/71 Aug 1741 and Eleanor RAWLINGS b. 1663 , d. 1726. The research I have (which was done by a Claude W. Pyle in the 1930s) only lists on child of Ralph & Eleanor, that being William b. mar 9, 1699/00 in Chester Co. PA, d. June 1, 1746 , Chester C. PA. married Betty Chads, (daughter of Francis CHADS & Grace STANFIELD). Mr. Pyle lists 7 children of William & Betty: 1. Ralph b. abt 1727 2. Joseph b. mar 4, 1729/30 3. John b. abt 1732 4. William 5. Elinor 6. Mary 7. Sarah Mr. Pyle's research gets very short on details for the next few generations. According to his research, he (as well as I) is decended through Ralph. b. 1727. d. June 13, 1903 in Harford Co. Maryland, m. Sarah (unknown maiden). Only one child is listed, Isaac birth date unknown, d. jan 15, 1802. No information on Isaac's spouse. Mr. Pyle lists 3 children of Isaac, 1. Isaac, 2. Harmon, 3. Harland, with no birth years on either. His research shows my line to continue through the second Isaac. No spouse is listed for this Isaac either, but 10 children are listed, they are: 1. Jessie 2. Sarah 3. William 4. Mary 5. Isaac Lewis 6. Elizabeth 7. Amer 8. Hannah Jones 9. Lydia Susan 10. Harlan b. 1790 No birth years given for any, other than Harlan My decendency continues through Amer, b. unknown, d. 1834 Jackson Co. Ohio, m. Mary Shaver. Mr. pyle stated in his research that he had no proof that this Amer Pyle was the same Amer that was the son of Isaac, but that the coincidences were such that this line would be followed untill proven wrong. Mr. Pyle's research gets more detailed again beginning with Amer. Amer and Mary Shaver had 7 children: 1. Nicholas b. 1-3-1805 2. Phoebe b. 1806 3. Leah b. 1810 4. Maria b. 1813 5. John b. 1814 6. Levi b. 1818 7. Eli b. 1819 My line continues through Nicholas b. 1805, Virginia d. Oct. 29 1858 in White Co. IL, m. Margaret (Peggy) WISHON 1806-1890, to Amer (possibly America, there is an America Pyle buried in White Co. IL with the right death date) b. 1833 d. 1883, m. Deborah Ann ACORD 1856 in White Co. IL, to Kenchen Goshen Pyle (my g-grandfather) b. 1867 White C. IL d. 1949 MO, m. Ida Belle Baker in White Co. to their daughter Inez Zella, b. 1900 Stoddard Co. MO, died 1947 MO, who married my grandfather James Henry Stanfield. (No connection as of yet to the Grace Stanfield that married Francis CHADS) What I am searching for in some information to to fill in the blanks from Ralph Pyle b. 1727 d. 1803 to the first Amer Pyle that died in Jackson Co. OH in 1834. Any info that anyone has will help. Thanks and sorry for the long post. Jim Stanfield dgoat40@aol.com

Roberta; I think that it may be possible that Martha was the grandaughter of Francis Malone, I just can't documennt it at the present time. I'm familar with the facts presented in the Pyle/Pile family book that reports that The property of William Malone in Eugene Twp. passed from William Malone to Robert and Martha Malone Pyle (my gg-grandparents), then to Samuel Pyle(g-grandfather of Ernie Pyle) and lastly Chester Arthur Pyle. I have information from my great Grandmother's sister (Margaret Hannaman) who wrote in a letter to California in the late 1850's, early sixtys that Billy Malone was a scalawag because of the things he was saying about the Mack family. Their were a number of Malones that were very successful businessmen in Vermillion county at the time. I have no doubt in my mind that Martha was related in some fashion to most of them, but would like to find some tie to her mother's side of the family. We are very close to putting this all together and I appreciate your response and will respond in kind if I get some new information. RON/Malone/ Mack/Harvey/Doody/Kane/Niemantsverdriet/Yacobuchi/PYLE ---------- | From: RHofm50129@aol.com | To: piguy@goldrush.com | Subject: malone | Date: Friday, August 08, 1997 8:50 PM | | Ron, just read your query for Ross Co. Don't you think Martha Malone Pyle | has to be connected to my Francis who also moved to Vermillion Co.? Richard | malone sr. died in 1801. He did not have a son William. His Bible record is | thoroughly known and disseminated. But it seems possible that William could | be a son of Francis. Francis was born 17 jan 1760. If Martha was born in | 1802, there is a chance that she is Francis' grand daughter. Do you know | anything about when William was born? Roberta Hofmann

Hello list members, Thanks for the opportunity to continue my genealogical research in this family line. I am researching my wife's side of the family and the PYLE name is first found with her paternal grandmother. Grace Alma Pyle, b.July 10, 1895 possibly in Indiana. Married Charles Rex Roache about 1911 possibly in Anderson City Indiana. She died in 1968 in LaGrange, Troup county, Georgia. At one time they lived in Bagdad, Santa Rosa county, Florida. Her father was Robert Marion Pyle who is thought to have died in or around Contonment, Florida. This is about all I have on this side of the family so you see why I need to find additional resources like your mailing list. I hope to be a contributing member and look forward to sharing my research with the other members. Thanks to Sara for getting me "signed" on. Craig, in soggy central Florida -----Original Message----- From: pyle@airmail.net [SMTP:pyle@airmail.net] Sent: Friday, August 08, 1997 1:45 PM To: Craig M. Kruse Cc: PYLE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: PYLE mailing list Hi Craig! Welcome to the PYLE Family list! We are so glad to have you join us. When you have time, please tell us a little about yourself and what branch of the PYLE family you are researching.

Maybe someone on the list knows. Sara bobette wrote: > > I am going to San Diego/El Cajon area....are there any good genealogical libraries nearby that I could check out? > > thanks sarah? > bob