The following article appears after February 5th, 1936: "Letter sent from San Francisco, Cal., February 5th Mr. Orval Baylor, Springfield, Ky. Dear Mr. Baylor: In your article, date of January 16, appearing in the Springfield Sun, wherein you discuss the family of Pile, one of the early families of Washington Co., Ky., and ask that contributions be sent for future work, please find enclosed some additional data, taken from my files. This data is rather incomplete, but the work I attempted to do some years ago, has during the past two years, been neglected. I asked The Springfield Sun to send Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin McMakin of Happy Valley, Danville, Ky., a copy of this paper and asked Mr. and Mrs. McMakin to contribute their share of the lore, which may have been handed down ot them, through their parents, Wayne and Victoria Pile McMakin. Benjamin McMakin and my father, Thomas Benjamin Pyle, are first cousins. William Bush, before his passing, gave me some data which I have used in my work - perhaps the hardest battle I had to fight after our beloved father was taken from us, was when cousin William Bush referred to papa as his dear cousin Tom - the friendship which began when both were young men, continued till the end and perhaps the grave does not erase the friendships established upon this earth plane. Cousin William lived in our home in Illinois and taught in the school of the dsitrict in which he lived. Robert and Emeline Pile Bush are buried in the old Pile burying ground near Maud, on the old Benjamin Pile homestead. I asked cousin William, once, if he did not think that the second wife of Thomas Lincoln was not of the same Bush family from whence he came. I believe the author Thwaite, in his story of Daniel Boone, mentions th eBush family as being one of the early families of Central Kentucky. May some special blessing come to your household during the year 1936, I am with kind wishes, Sincerely, Lula Rose Pyle Stuhr." Then another article: "PILE FAMILY DATA INTERESTS ONE READER Our story of the Pile family, published in the issue of January 16, 1936, occasioned the considerable interest throughout the length and breadth of the land. This is evidenced by the numerous letters we have received concerning same. [*] ...we submit the following interesting and valuable contribution to the genealogy of the Pile Family that came to our desk a few days ago from Forrest Pottinger, of Hyattsville, Maryland. What he has done, others can do. BENJAMIN PILE OF WASHINGTON CO., KY Benjamin Pile, Sr., was born December 3, 1766, and died May 9, 1824. He married Ruth Parrott who ws born March 4, 1767, and died July 28, 1827. Their graves are on a farm owned in 1910 by a Mr. Shelby. The tombstones may be seen on the north side of the Springfield-Mooresville road, on the slope of the hill a short distance from the highway. I copied these dates from the tombstones and from one of his descendants I learned that he married Ruth Parrott. At this time, I do not know the State from which the family came. It is an old family in Maryland. BENJAMIN PILE, JUNIOR Benjamin Pile, Jr., was born October 26, 1801, and died July 11, 1866 (could be 1886). He was a son of the above named Benjamin Pile and no doubt was born i Washington Co., Ky., although I do not know when the first of the family came to Kentucky. The younger Pile was a prominent and substantial citizen of the community and lived in a nice brick home about a mile east of Maud and a little off the Springfield road to the north at the foot of the "Mooresville Hill." This place when I first knew it was owned by Watty McMakin, his son in law, but not occupied by him. Benjamin Pile, Jr., was married three times. Rhoda Weathers, his first wife, and whom he married March 2, 1825, and who was the mother of all of his children, was born June 1, 1805, and died October 28, 1851. He married as his second wife, Mary B. Wirt, a teacher from Lexington, Ky., who was born October 9, 1811, and died January 11, 1875. She is buried in the town cemetery at Bloomfield, Ky. His third wife was Mrs. Ann Jones, widow of John R. Jones, (maiden name Grant) who was killed at his residence on the Bloomfield and Springfield turnpike in Nelson County by a Union Soldier in the summer of 1864. Her maiden name was Grand, sister of a Dr. Grant in Louisville. The children of Benjamin Pile, Jr., and his first wife, Rhhoda Weathers Pile were: 1. Elizabeth Pile, b. Apr 8, 1826; mar. WilliamMcMakin and settled in Shelby Co., Ky. He was a brother of Watty McMakin who marrie dher sister, Victoria Pile, mentioned below. 2. James M. Pile, b. Aug. 20, 1827; d. Oct 12, 1882 [Once again the year is faint...I think it is 1882.] 3. Susan Adeline Pile, b. May 2, 1829, d. Jan 16, 1913; mar. (1st) Feb. 3, 1848, Samuel A. Beckham; mar. (2nd) Nov. 8, 1855, Ogden Willett Stiles, she being his 2nd wife. She had at least one daughter, Elizabeth, who married David Hexley Huston and lived in a beautiful old place just south of the village of Maud, and died there on January 16, 1913. 4. John W. Pile, b. May 11, 1831; mar. Elizabeth Reed and lived in Washington County. She married as her second husband William Beam. 5. Emeline Pile, b. Dec. 24, 1833, mar. Robert Bush and lived in Washington County. 6. Jane Pile, b. Dec. 29, 1835, mar. Henry Moore and lived at Mooresville, Ky. 7. Victoria Pile, b. Dec. 7, 1839 [I think] mar. Walter (Watty) McMakin, brother of the above-named William McMakin, and lived in a beautiful old brick house about two miles east of Bloomfield, Ky., on the Chaplin Pike. 8. George M. Dallas Pile, b. Nov 11, 1844; mar. (1st) Mariah Settles of Washington County; and md. (2nd) "Sis" Murphy of the same county." That's the end of the lineage of the Pyle family in this article. There are also several historical type articles, where the names of the Piles are mentioned as serving the public in one way or another. One is that Thomas Pyle was a sheriff in 1797. And here's an interesting one: "Thomas Lincoln Delinquent Thomas Lincoln, father of President Lincoln, failed to pay his taxes in Washington Co. in 1795 and he was listed by James Horton, Deputy Sheriff, along with 34 others, as delinquent." Hope these help a little... 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