Hi gang, Just a little lesson about genealogy that we all should share. This was the family history that I was left to start my research with a little over three years ago. This was the family story as told by my great-grandmother Mary Mack Pyle to her granddaughter Lulu Spangler. PARENTS OF OUR GRANDPA PYLE. (Our GREAT*GRAND PARENTS) ROBERT PYLE Born the latter part of 1700 (Probably in the 1780's or 1790's) in the state of Pennsylvania. . moved to Ohio. He had a large family of brothers and sisters, but our Grandma Pyle did not know their names MARTHA MALONE PYLE Grandma did not know when nor where she was born. but said her maiden name was Martha Malone and that she was called MOLLIE MALONE There were four in her family . . . Martha Malone (Our Freat Grand-Mother) Frances Malone Samuel Malone, and William Malone. It seems like William Malone was not very well liked by the Mack Family as we have a letter to Grandma from our Great-Aunt Margaret Hannaman, dated from Toronto, Vermillion County,Indiana, dated March 11th,1855, telling what a scalawag he was, and what tall tales he started against the Mock family, and called him that "Devil Bill Malone...Will's Uncle". ROBERT PYLE AND MARTHA MALONE (Our Great Grand-Parents) were married in Ohio in the early part of 1800. Their children were WILLIAM ROBERT PYLE (Our Grandpa Pyle) Born March 9th, 1824, in Chillicothe.,Ross County, Ohio. He was the eldest of the family of seven. He died in Santa Ana, Orange County, California March 26th, 1890. Francis Pyle Julia-Pyle. Married a man by the name of Jones. Mary Pyle . (Same name as our (Grandma ) Martha Pyle . .Who married Albert Smith of Portland, Oregon.They had One Child named Lucy Truscott Smith. When living Albert Smith owned a lumber yard in Portland, was quite wealthy, and highly respected. so far as we know our cousin Lucy never married Samuel Pyle, There is a letter here from him dated October 15th, 1870, from Toronto, Indiana, and asking about the folks in Texas. He had two sons that we know about, one of them named after Grandpa Pyle (William) and two daughters, one whose name was Mrs. Franklin Saxon and who lived at Dana, Indiana. ALFRED PYLE.He came to California with Grandpa Pyle in 1850 or 1851. The party they were with started to California withthe Donner party but separated from it and came to California by way of Oregon. Our Great Uncle Alfred Pyle was called "Dock Pyle,?., He later returned to Toronto, Indiana, and married. There is a letter from him dated August 8th,1857, saying he would return to California whenever he could. . possibly the next year unless he bought a certain farm there in Toronto. His wife's name was Bell. note: Our Grandma Pyle said that several of the Pyle family moved to Texas, and settled near Galveston, Texas, and there are several letters to her and Grandpa Pyle here asking if they had heard anything from the folks in Texas. When our Great Grandpa Pyle (Robert Pyle) died their farm,was sold and the property divided between the children.There is a letter here from a man by the name of A. T. Smith, Florence, Williamson County, Texas, dated March 5th, 1867, to Grandpa Pyle, stating that he had Grandpa's share of the partial distribution of the estate, and if GrandPa would tell him where to send it he would send it to him. note: The names and the datet were told to me by Grandma Pyle the way she knew and remembered them. However some of the information I secured from old letters that Grandma left when she died. You will note that Our Great Uncle Samuel Pyle named one of his sons after our Grandpa Pyle (William) and there is a possibility that the William S. Pyle mentioned by your young man named Ben Pyle is the son of Samuel Pyle. However, you would have to find out from what state they all came from, and and if they know any of their Uncles and Aunts a couple of generations back. - You had better put this information in your Family Bible, Grantie., because your sons and grandsons fifty or a hundred years from now might want to know who were their antecednts and you and I and Bernice would not be here to tell them. Some day I will send you all the information of Grandma Pvle that I have here, which is very complete., and you can put the two together. Grandma told me this in 1916, and she was born in 1830, go she was 86 years old at that time and could look back almost 100 years of"-family life. In the Pyle Book, it states that Robert Pyle was born in 1800 in VA. Grandmother Mary states that William and Alfred left Indiana in 1850 or 51 with the Donner Party. (The Donner Party was snowbound in 1846), She also stated that it was Alfred and William that left, while it was actually Samuel that arrived in Ca. with William. Samuel left after 1860 to return to Indiana to marry Nancy Hammond and become the grandfather of Ernie Pyle. Grandmother tells of Mary Pyle marrying a guy named Jones, actually Mark Jones of Williamson Texas, but the Albert Smith, husband of Martha Pyle and wealthy lumberman from Portland Oregon was actually the A.T. Smith who mailed the share of the estate from Florence, Williamson County Texas in 1867. I was never able to locate Lucy Truescott Smith in my research. My father Grantie as named in the above letter did receive the rest of the story but sent it back, claiming that there were already too many monkeys in the family tree. Just wanted to pass some thoughts on to everyone and maybe catch a big one out there that has been lurking around and never realized they were related to me. Get back to you later Ron