Sharon It would be nice if people kept better records, just for people like us. I checked the big blue Pyle book that Howard T. Pyle wrote and did not see any Colvin, Scharder or Havnes listed in it. This is a great book even though my husband is not in it. but his fathers cousin Lloyd Pyle information was in it. His wife is the one that got me interested in researching the Pyle family, they went to the Quaker church here in Richmond, so I'm sure that Howard Pyle was in touch with them. I see where Albert Colvin lived in Meade, Kansas. I wonder how close that is to Jewell City, Kansas. or what use to be Jewel City, My husbands cousin, Phoebe Pyle Dawes told us that there was someone in the family that had land there for any of the Pyle's could have land if they would come there. Her father Elmer Pyle and his mother Phoebe Pyle were the only ones that she knew of that took advantage of the free land. Phoebe' husband had already died from what I gathered from Jim's cousin Phoebe when we visited her, My husbands grand mother Cora Reeves Pyle was born and raised in Marion, Grant County, Indiana, so maybe Charles (Jim's grandfather) met her there while visiting relation. I had not found any of her family living in Richmond. Lets hope someone else will see our e-mail and help us out. Thanks for the obit shirley