My "John P. Pyles" WallJohn P. Pyles is another of my walls that I'm having trouble getting around. I can't find any information on his parents either. This is an article that was found in my grand-mother's, Geneva Pyles, papers regarding the death of John R. Pyles and other members of his family. It's about all the information I have on him. I do know his wife was Mary M. I'm not sure about her maiden name. He was born about 1849. John and Mary are on the 1880 census of Heard County in the Glenlock Community. If anyone has access to any of the other census of Heard County, Georgia and can find any additional information I sure would appreciate it.
Exploding Boiler Spreads Death. Four members of family dead and five neighbors injured in a wheat field. Franklin, Ga. June 15, 1914. While several men were threshing wheat and oats in the upper portion of Heard County Friday morning the boiler, belonging to J. R. Pyles exploded and instantly killed J. R. Pyles, his son, Ed Pyles, who was firing the engine, and the two young sons of Ed Pyles were so seriously injured that they died during the day from the wounds. Ed Pyles, the fireman, was blown fifty feet and died from scalding and wounds. J. R. Pyles was blown some thirty feet, many bones in his body were broken. The young sons of Ed Pyles, Glenn & Charlie, were terribly mangled and scalded. Six others, W. Y. Moore, a prominent farmer and merchant, Joe Bagwell, a school teacher, Hugh Smith, Fletcher Jackson, and Lewis and Raymond Pyles, sons of Elder (Ed) Pyles, were all severely burned and wounded, but their condition is not considered serious. J. R. Pyles was a respectable farmer of this county. Elder Pyles and his sons were well known citizens of this county. The affair is one of the most shocking that has happened in our county in many years.
Children of John P. Pyles and Mary M., as listed in the 1880 census: Lewis - son - age 22.
If anybody has any additional information on John P. Pyles please e-mail me. Thanks. Johnny Cook
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