Hi, Are all of you aware of the Kentucky Genweb Biography project. They have details on 2 Piles so far: ALVIN C PILE was born July 10, 1845, in Fentress County, Tenn see the bio at http://www.starbase21.com/kybiog/metcalfe/pile.ac.txt and BENJAMIN F. PILE, Graves County, a young and enterprising merchant at Fancy Farm, was born August 10, 1857, in Graves County, Ky http://www.starbase21.com/kybiog/graves/pile.bf.txt Hope this helps someone. If you don't have web access I will be happy to forward the text. Cyndi Kalczynski cykal@im4u.net Lake Odessa, Michigan