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From: "Susan Tilleman" <>
Subject: [PYLE] PILE/PILES Family of Orange Co., NC, and Fentress Co., TN
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:01:17 -0500
References: <mailman.835.1159765250.23846.pyle@rootsweb.com>


This is in reply to Jim SMEE's () Oct. 1, 2006, posting to
the RootsWeb PYLE list titled "Henderson PILE (c1820-1898)." The Levi PILE
you mention was my ggg-grandfather. Additional information about Levi and
his family can be found at the following sites:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/GENE15-000
1.html
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/PILE/2003-04/1051387819

A photograph of Levi's son George Washington PYLES, can be found on my home
page at the following site:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/PHOTO/0039
photo.html

In summary:
1. I have been trying for almost 25 years to connect my ggg-grandfather
Levi PILE to the Conrad "Old Coonrod" PILE family of Fentress Co., TN. I do
believe there is a connection, but I have not yet identified the exact
connection. Another researcher previously told me that Levi's wife Nancy
Anna "Anna" MCFARLAND appeared in the household of Conrad's son Elijah on
one of the censuses,. Furthermore, back in the 1930s or 1940s, my
great-grandfather told my mother that they were related to Sgt. Alvin C.
YORK of World War I fame. Alvin YORK was a direct descendant of Conrad
PILE. The fact that Levi was born in Tennessee and lived in the same area
as Conrad's family also suggests that he is somehow related to Conrad. As
noted in my previous posting to the PILE list, Levi and his family were
living next-door to Elijah's son John in Fentress Co., TN, at the time of
the 1850 census.
2. As noted in my previous posting, it appears that Levi PILE may have been
a Civil War deserter. I have not yet been able to gather any information
about him since that time. A story has also been passed down through our
family about somebody "going over the hill," but the details have been lost.
3. Also, as noted in my previous posting, it appears that Conrad's father,
also named Conrad, may have been a Hessian mercenary during the
Revoluationary War named PFEIL. This means that this PYLE family is most
likely not related to the PYLE family that is of English origin.

Sue Tilleman
Live Oak, Texas
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/index.html

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Sent: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:31:17 EDT
Subject: [PYLE] Henderson PILE (c1820-1898)

Hello to Steve PILE,

I've been working with your cousins Nancy and Jack PYLE of Grants Pass, OR
to try to place her Henderson PILE (c1820-1898). She sent me your way.

If I understand correctly, a DNA match between her Jack PYLE and you(?)
would say you and Jack both descend from Conrad PILE. Your descent is from
Conrad
's Jacob PILE. Jack's descent is from Henderson, but it is unclear who
Henderson's father was. Based upon age, we're assuming Henderson was a
grandson to Conrad.

1. Conrad did not leave a will or estate record in Fentress County. Aaron
PYLE's book and Howard PYLE's book name his children (with Howard's
information mostly credited to Aaron, I think). Do you know how the list of
ten
children was developed or proven?

Jacob born c1785 (to IN by 1818)
Daniel born c1787 (to IN by 1818)
Catherine born c1788 (married a RICH)
Delila born c 1790 (married a CROCKETT)
Elizabeth born c1793 (married Henry HELM; seems to be in WI with Henderson
PILE by 1846)
Elijah born c1795
John possibly born c1802
Jehu born c1802 (migrated about 1838 to Stephenson Co IL, which happens to
border Lafayette Co Wisconsin; died in IL in 1882. His will "proves" that
Henderson was NOT his son.)
William born c1810
Martha born ?? married James LATHAM

2. There is quite a gap between Elijah and John PYLE's births (c1795 to
c1802). What would you think about a "theory" that there was a PILE male
born
to Conrad in the 1795 to 1802 time frame, who by c1819 married Nancy ___,
had
Henderson (born c1820) and then Levi PILE (born c1824 and also unplaced).
This male died shortly thereafter, leaving a widow Nancy PILE, who appears
as
a household head in the 1830 census (need to see that record). She remarried
to George HELM, but then herself died c1840 (per an 1881 remembrance in WI
regarding George HELM).

Could "Carr PILE", age 20 to 30 years, of the 1820 Fentress County census be
that male? (I need to see that original census record to see if "Carr" is
some other more recognizable name. I've only seen a transcription.)

I apologize for an overly long e-mail, but I'm hoping it might spark a
response to help Nancy and Jack, and maybe descendants of Levi PILE as well.

Jim SMEE
Pittsburgh PA


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