1860 Census Annotations

34 360 369 Piles, S. R., Samuel R. Pyles has a memorial stone with General S. R. Pyles on it beside his father's Col. S. R. Pyles at the old Newnansville Cemetery just northeast of the town of Alachua.  Newnansville is now the town of Alachua, Alachua Co., Florida.

32 372 380 Harn, Rebecca, maiden name Pyles.  Sister of S. R. Pyles, page 48 and L. G. Pyles, page 93.

13 700 719 Pyles, L. G., Louis/Lewis G. Pyles or Piles, the son of Col. Samuel R. Pyles (1788-1837) and his wife Charlotte Wynn.  This same L. G. Pyles was elected Major in the 2nd FL Inf.  As a LT Col, he was wounded at the first battle of Seven Pines, VA and eventually returned to Alachua where he died in 1866 in Archer (according to Masonic records).

Note: I originally transcribed L. G. Pyles as L. G.  Tyler.  I have been corrected and I have corrected my online version. (Jim Powell) 

You may want to take note that "Others have made this same mistake but listed his name as Tyus/Tyles and other mistaken transcriptions. His brother is on page 48, S. R. Piles with his brother Thomas' and sister Jane's children. (Chas B.)

Contact Chas B.

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