Hello Cousins, Sony has a new rebate offering on BACKUP disk. Rebate of $13.00 per 50 pack box! With my bulk buying store (Costco) they are $18.99 so they're $5.99 per box for me. Nows the time to stockup for all that data Ron will be sending us! I am ready for your data now Ron and hopefully some links my be found. Diane. Ron Pyle wrote: > 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...