Re: sugarloaf twp.columbia county ,pennsylvania
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Re: sugarloaf twp.columbia county ,pennsylvania
christopherdavid kile 2/19/06
I am looking for male Kile/Kiles or Cole's from the Columbia County Pa area to take part in the Coil/Kyle/Kile DNA project. My surname is Kyle, but I have reason to believe that my Kyle's were once Kile/Kiles, that came from the Columbia County area. My Kyle's vanished around 1815 in Huntingdon County Pa. I have a civil war vet named George Kyle/Kile burried between my gg and ggg great grandfathers. We have no idea how he is related to us, his grave stone reads Kyle and his military records read Kile. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, George Kyle (Kile) was born in 1847 and volunteered for a Three month enlistment with Washington's Light Infantry, Company D of the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He enrolled at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County Pennsylvania on April 19th 1861, and mustered out as a First Sergeant, on July 30th 1861. His date of death is unknown. Schuykill County borders Columbia County. Several old ducuments show my ancestors surname as Kile or Kiles, so I believe this George the civil war vet is the tie between the Kyles of Huntingdon County and the Kile/Kiles of Columbia County. You can contact me about the DNA project here:
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http://kylehistory.tripod.com/index.htmhttp://kylehistory.tripod.com/index.htm
The History of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania by J. H. Battle, 1887
page 226
"Jonathan Robbins arrived in the same year [1795] from Bethlehem township, Huntingdon county, New Jersey. He located upon land now owned by David Lewis and planted an orchard at that place with seeds brought from his former home. Two brothers of Mr. Robbins, Daniel and John, also settled in this region. Godfrey Dilts and William Bird, from New Jersey, David and Jacob Herrington from New York, became residents of this section at a later period. James Seward, Jesse Hartman, James A. Pennington, Ezekiel Shultz, William Shultz and others have crossed from Fairmount township, Luzerne county. The population of Sugarloaf in 1800 consisted of the Hesses, Kiles, Laubachs, Robbins and Cole's. Expecting a comparatively small element of the inhabitants the same remark applies equally well to-day."