Conrod or Coonrod Pile, b. 3-16-1766 prob. in N.Car. d. 10-14-1849 in Fentress Co., Tenn. bur. Wolf River Cem. m. Mary ____, b. 4-13-1769 in N.Car. d. 6-18-1834 Bur. Wolf River Issue: i. Jacob Pile, b. 4-16-1785 m. Evangeline C. Williams ii. Daniel Pile, b. ca 1787 d. 1865 iii. Delila Pile, m. Roger Crockett (documented) iv. Elizabeth Pile m. Henry Helms v. Elijah Pile, b. 11-11-1795 prob in NC m. 3-21-1814 to Rebecca Earp vi. John Pile, b. ca 1802 in Tenn., m. Nancy___ b. ca 1807 in KY vii. Jehu Pile, Sr. viii. William "Grady" Pile, b. 3-12-1810 in Fentress Co. m. (1) Narcissus Sabien (2) Mary Williams The Pyle Book has an intersting article on him. It quotes some of the book "Sergeant York and His People" by Sam K. Cowan. It tells of Fentress County becoming a 'no man's land' during the Civil War subjected to marauding bands from the North and from the South, a land for plunder and revenge. The county was on the military border between the free and slaveholding states. Coonrod had been a slaveholder, but very few of the mountianeers were slave owners. Those with sympathies for the south went with those forces and those with northern syumpathies went with the northern forces. The men who remained home were compelled by public sentiment to take sides. The raiding of passing soldiers was the excuse for organized raids on both sides. Two of Conrad Pile's grandsons were killed during this period, Conrod Jr. or Rod as he was called and Jeff, both sons of Elijah. Rod sympathized with the north and Jeff with the south. Sgt. Alvin York of WW II fame came from Elijah's line through daughter Nancy who married William Brooks and their daughter Mary Elizabeth who married William York. One reason this part of Coonrod's history interested me is that my husband's grandfather, Pleasant Howard, lived in Fentress County during this time period and served in the CSA and was killed by one of the "passing bands of mauraders" only a few days after he had returned home from his service. During my research on my husband's Howard, Wright and Price families there I have seen Coonrod's name spelled POILES and I had dismissed it as a typo. Doris