This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gAC.2ACE/2737.1.1 Message Board Post: Anne - There was a Joshua Piles with a family of 4 in the list of Col. Dowdall and a Franies (sic) Piles with a family of 5 in the list orf Joseph Longacre. Looks like they were separate families even back then. In the book by Wilmer Kerns - Historical Records of Old Frederick Co - p. 313 - Piles (Piles) Francis, died March 16, 1872 in the Hampshire Co. Poor House at 89 y, 4 mo. Born Nov. 1782. Both the Piles and Kiles seem to have vanished into thin air. I can find no trace of them after 1782. Maybe they went West.