Researching the Gayle/Gale families of TN; need to know the origin of the Giles Co. Gayle families listed in the 1830 census of Giles Co. Am descended from William H. Gayle, Cumberland Presbyterian minister in Lincoln, Franklin, and Giles Co. in the 1840s - 1860s. William Gayle was born in VA in 1800 and died in Jackson Co., AL in 1872.