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From: "Susan Tilleman" <>
Subject: [PILE] Konrad PFEIL, b. 1751/52, Waldkappel, Hessen
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:54:08 -0500


This is a follow-up to my Sept. 5, 2007, posting to the RootsWeb PILE
and PYLE lists titled "Conrod PILE, Sr., of Orange Co., NC"

See the following May 10, 2001, posting to the RootsWeb AMREV-HESSIANS
list regarding Konrad PFEIL, b. 1751/52, Waldkappel, Hessen, a Hessian
mercenary who was discharged in New York, Oct. 1783, just before his
military unit was shipped back to Germany:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/AMREV-HESSIANS/2001-05/0989540242

Also see the following sites regarding Coonrod PILE's family of origin
using the spelling "POILES" or "POYLE" in America:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/poyle/messages/2.html
http://www.jeffpylenz.com/Jeffs-blog/ARCHIVES/ANCESTRY/ORIGIN%20OF%20THE
%20FAMILY%20NAME2.htm

See the following site for a map of the present-day German states,
including Hessen:
http://members.cox.net/hessen/index2.htm

The following map shows Waldkappel as being in far northeastern Hessen,
very close to the exact center of present-day Germany:
http://www.deutschland-navigator.de/HES/37284_waldkappel.html

See the following sites for some photographs of Waldkappel:
http://www.werra-meissner.de/waldkappel/default_ie.htm
http://www.autoservice-bachmann.de/waldkappel

Sue Tilleman
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/?Welco
me=1046272098


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http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/PILE/2007-09/1189050249

From: "Susan Tilleman" <>
Sent: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:44:09 -0500
To:
Subject: [PILE] Conrod PILE, Sr., of Orange Co., NC

This is in reply to Carl WOODS's Sept. 5, 2007, posting to the RootsWeb
PYLE list. I believe I am also descended from Coonrod PILE of Fentress
Co., TN, through his son John C. PILE and grandson Levi PILE. It is
believed that Coonrod's father was a Hessian mercenary during the
American Revolutionary War. Hessen is a state in Germany. It is
believed that the German name of PFEIL was Anglicized as PILE. The
Hessian mercenaries fought on the British side during the American
Revoluationary War.

See the following site, Person's 220 and 221, for additional information
about Coonrod's family of origin:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/e/n/Carolyn-S-Genzel/GENE6-
0007.html#CHILD65795

Note that this site states that "In March 1792, Conrod Pile, Sr. signed
his name in Germanic writing." Coonrod's father Conrod PILE, Sr.,
settled in Orange Co., NC.

The book "Sgt. York and His People," by Sam COWAN, 1922, is available
through the following site:
http://www.fentressco.com/historical.html

This book includes some information about the colorful history of
Coonrod PILE and his family in Fentress Co., TN.

For additional information about this family, also see my June 18, 2007,
posting at the following site:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/TNFENTRE/2007-06/1182164555

Sue Tilleman


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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:44:58 -0500
From: "Carl Woods" <>
Subject: Re: [PYLE] full 37 for 81294, 95790-Robert Pyle line
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I'm connected to Coonrod Pile and the families story is that they came
from
Pa. and was of German ancestry or Black Dutch. I hope that one of these
days
to get further back, but just haven't had any luck yet.

Carl Woods

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