I hope the group don't mind, but I'm going to start posting some of my database. I have so much and I know that somebody will benefit from what I have and maybe they can come up with an answer to my puzzle. Thanks, Ron Pyle, Angels Camp Ca. From:DeSoto Parish History, Sesquicentennial Edition 1843-1993 DeSoto parish Genealogical Society, page 282 Pyle, Samuel Andrew Samuel Andrew Jackson Pyle, otherwise known as Jack Pyle was b. AL, ca 1818, son of Thomas Pyle and Margaret Mosley, m. 2/26/1838 in DeSoto Parish Almyra Abbott. Evidently this m. lasted only a short time for on 10/17/1848, he m. Mary Ann Headrick, DeSoto Parish. In the 1860 census of DeSoto Parish, he was the owner of five male and two female slaves. Their ages ranged from 38 years to 10 months. Following the Civil War, this family left DeSoto Parish and came to Grimes Co., TX. Several other people related by blood and m. came as well. They settled in what is today the Keith Community, ten miles S. of Iola and ca 25 miles east of Bryan and College Station, Tx. The ch. of Jack Pyle were: Louise (1842) 1st m. Samuel Andrew Jackson, Jr. (ca 1849), Milford "Dump" (8/1851), Frances (6/5/1856), Jefferson Davis (2/1863), Mary R. (ca 1868). All the ch. but Mary R. were b in DeSoto Parish, she was born in Keith, Grimes Co. Tx. In Grimes Co, Jack Pyle purchased two separate tracts of land. He d. 1873 and Susan A. Vaughn, dau of Louisa Pyle who had d. 1868 and James Ackerman Vaughn inherited the home place as her share of her gr. fathers' estate. Jack Pyle was bur in front of his home. His widow Mary Ann Headrick Pyle (5/20/1828, Ga - 11/15/1904) bur. Martins Prairie Cem, Keith. She is surrounded by numerous Pyle desc. Three present day desc. of Jack Pyle are Sanford Blount and Talmage Blount, gr. sons of Francis Pyle and Robert R. Burns, and Oma Lee Pyle Vaughn (wife of John Davis Vaughn), gr dau of James Marion "Buck" Pyle. All three live on what was once land owned by Samuel Andrew Jackson (Jack) Pyle. Ruby Vaughn Maxwell From DeSoto Parish History, Sesquicentennial Edition 1843-1993 DeSoto Historical and Genealogical Society, Mansfield, La. page 281, 282 Pyle, Gerald and Mazie Gerald Woodrow Pyle (3/14/1913), the fifth son of Varnel and Gwendolyn Shirey Pyle, was b. in a log cabin seven miles north of Logansport. He attended community school and transferred to the school in Logansport when all the country school were consolidated. He farmed cotton, corn, and tomatoes; hauled logs; worked as a roughneck on oil rigs and drove a school bus for DeSoto Par. for almost 30 years. While driving a school bus to Logansport, he operated a dairy farm for a few years and a poultry farm. His gr. par. were Benjamin Lafayette Pyle and Amanda Mares Pyle, who purchased the land where Gerald lives today with hold inherited from her father's estate. His gr. gr. par. were Peter "Pete" Pyle and Medissa Bridges Pyle. They left Rome, GA, 10/1860 crossing the MS River at Vicksburg Ferry. After traveling five weeks by wagon, they arrived in DeSoto Par. on Thanksgiving Day. When Peter Pyle d. 10/1879 after a long illness (typhoid fever), he was bur. in his cotton filed. His was the first grave in the family cem. The Pyle Cem. is located a mile off the old Marshall-State Line Road approx. eight miles N. of Logansport. Gerald's maternal gr. par. were Wiley B. Shirey and Susan Goode Shirey who came to DeSoto Par. from Dothan, Al. They are bur. in the Holmes Cem. in the Belle Bower Community. The ch. of Varnel and Gwendolyn Pyle are: Murray Lee Pyle (9/20/1903-2/10/1981), Infant son (11/8/1904-11/8/1905), Knox Leon Pyle (12/28/1906-5/15/1982), Auvis Varnel Pyle (2/3/1910-10/2/1974), Gerald Woodrow Pyle (3/14/11913-), Doris Pauline Pyle Fuller (9/6/1916-8-12-1985), Lillian Beatrice Pyle Swanson (11/25/1919-), Mary Aileen Pyle Ratcliff (1/19/19230), Josie Imogene Pyle Leggett (6/30/1926-). Gerald Pyle m. Mazie Worth McFadden 1/7/1940. Mazie's par. were Richard Pete McFadden and Maye Louise James McFadden of the Shiloh community near Longstreet. Mr. & Mrs. McFadden came to DeSoto Parish from Deadwood, Tx, which was their birthplace. Rita Wallace of GA. Dear Ron: My name is Rita Pyle Wallace. I have just moved to Atlanta, Georgia from Arkansas. I got your name from the roots database. I have research on the descendents of William Rowan Pyle, 1821, from Floyd Co. Georgia. We have only been able to trace to 1821 and I wonder if you have info that might help me find his parents. Would be glad to trade info on Pyle family in Arkansas. I have most of the family traced--my son, Jason, is the seventh generation from William Rowan. E-mail me at RiTA33699@aol.com or contact me at home, 5649 Fern Creek Drive, Lilburn, GA 30247, 770-638-1213. Thanks! Looking forward to hearing from you. Pyle database as sent by Lydia Pyle 07-08-96 John B. Pyle Sr b Jul 1893 Kemp, TX d.17 Dec. 1945 mar Jettie Stewart James Kilgore Pyle b Feb 1856 Kaufman Co., TX d. 7 Nov 1946 mar Nancy E. Phillips 19 Jul 1883 John Kilgore Pyle b. 14 Sept 1834 Sumpter Co. Alabama d.At 09:46 PM 7/7/96 mar Marienna Bowlden John Jackson Pyle b. 1 Mar 1796 GA d. 6 Jan 1869 Pyle Prairie Cem. Kaufman Co., TX Mar Thursa Kilgore Samuel Pyles b 1770/1774 SC d. bef 1834 Henry Co., GA mar Charity Eason Samuel Pyles Charity Eason's Issue 1.Nicholas E. Pyle b 1793 GA d 1867 Kaufman Co., TX mar Mary Westbrook 1 Jan 1831 Fayette Co., GA 2.John Jackson Pyle b 1 Mar 1796 GA d 6 Jan 1869 Pyle Prairie Cem Kaufman Co., TX mar Thursa Kilgore 3. James B. Pyles b 1804 Ga d. bef 1870 DeSota Par,La mar Mary Betsill 9 apr 1828 Fayette Co GA 4. Abraham Pyle b abt 1800 d mar 2 Dec 1830 Putman Co., GA 5. Peter Pyles b 1803 GA d. mar Mariah Davis Jun 1826 Fayette Co., GA 6. Thomas Pyles b. 1795 d. 1850 DeSota Parish, La marMargaret Mosley 30 Oct 1811 Jasper Co., Ga 7. Samuel Pyles b. d 1841 Sumter Co., Al mar Sarah 8. Sarah Ann Pyles b 1812 d marJohn Westbrook 24 Mar 1828 There is much contraversy on the Father of Samuel Pyles b. 1770/1774...I have no proof yet on his parents...