Dear Doris, Lee G. Miller in his book "The Ernie Pyle Story" reports that Ernie last seen his uncle Chester Arthur Pyle in the back woods of LA. as a share cropper and poor as a church mouse. Ernie was able to finance a trip for them to go back to Dana, Indiana to see the family. They shed tears when they seen the cornfields of Indiana. Chester Arthur Pyle's grandparents Robert and Martha Malone Pyle moved to Williamson County TX. from Vermillion County Indiana after the 1860 census. The rest of the family moved west or stayed in Indiana and Ohio. Can anyone tell me why these people moved South? Maybe they had kin there? If anyone can shed light on this subject, let me in on it! Ron Pyle, piguy@goldrush.com ---------- | From: Doris Pyle Haynes <dhaynes@HUB.ofthe.NET> | To: PYLE-L@rootsweb.com | Subject: PARENTS FOR SAMUEL AND JOHN | Date: Friday, August 01, 1997 5:39 PM | | I am looking for parents of Samuel and John Pyle, both born ca 1770-74 | in S.C. They went to GA in the late 1790's and were on the 1800 census | in Oglethrope Co. Both drew in Cherokee Land Lotteries in various | years and counties. Both were probably already married when they | arrived in GA. John to Mary Maxwell and Samuel to Charity Eason. | | I've found a Nicholas Pyle, b. 1748-50 that was in Greenville Dist (or | Co.) at that time who married (1) ? in 1771 and had four sons named | John, Thomas, _____, and _______. Indications are that two of them died | young. Nicholas married Ann Black ca 1779 and had 15 more children. He | went to Sangamon Co. Ill. where he died in 1829 living with a son, | Alfred Pyle. | | Does anyone have names similiar to these in that time and place in their | database? | | We have not been able to find siblings for Samuel and John and thought | they may have been raised by another family when Nicholas married his | second wife. (They can't be found in 1790 S.C. census in a Pyle | household) | | *NOTE: Book, Pile/Piles/Pyle/Pyles of America lists only one marriage | for Nicholas (Ann Black) I have family charts that show otherwise. Ann | Black was born ca 1759 and would have not been old enough to be mother | of the four sons I mentioned. | | This Nicholas is from the line from Bishop's Canning, Wiltshire, | England> Chester Co., Pa> Chatham Co., N.C. and Greenville Co. S.C. | | Would like to see more southern Pyles listed. (S.C.>Ga>Ala>Miss>La. and | Tex) | | Thanks all!! | Doris |