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From Thomas-Glynn-Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Mary S. Remington July 18 1836 - April 15 1859
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Mary S. Remington's grave marker reads that she was born in Thomasville, Georgia, and died in Newnansville, Florida. It also notes that her parents were Edward Remington and Mary A. Remington. Beside her in the old Newnansville Methodist Cemetery are two infant grave markers for 1857 and 1859. She died just four days after the second child.
Mary's parents came from Rhode Island to Thomasville. Her father's (Edward 1803-1878) heritage is unknown, but her mother's (Mary A. Smith 1804-1856) line goes back to Captain Simeon Smith and Mary Sheldon from RI. Her siblings included: Edward S., Martha, and Francis Remington.
Mary grew up in Thomasville and attended the Fletcher Institute just south of town. She is listed as a teenager on the 1850 U. S. Census. Four years later she would marry another youngster, Lewis G. Pyles, who was also listed on the same census living in town. His parents were Samuel R. Pyles (1788-1837) from Glynn County, Georgia, and Charlotte Wynn (1793-1842) of Savannah, Georgia.
The two were married in Thomasville a day after her birthday in 1854. The exact date they moved to Newnansville is unknown. Their first child was Samuel R. Pyles, born in 1855 or 1856, who was named after Lewis's brother and father. Numerous Ancient Records of Alachua County provide a good timeline for Lewis because he represented Mary's father in his mercantile business in Newnansville.
Mary died within days of the death of her third child, leaving her only surviving son motherless. In 1860, the U. S. Census denotes Lewis G. Pyles as the Registrar in the Newnansville General Land Office. His son was also in his household. When the Civil War started, Lewis was elected as a Major in the 2nd Florida Infantry Regiment.
His Regiment participated in the Battle of Seven Pines and he was severally wounded. By then he had been promoted to Lt. Colonel and to Colonel, but was not able to fight anymore. He returned to Newnansville and was in a skirmish on the City of Gainesville.
Lewis died in Archer, Florida, in 1866, probably at the home of his sister, Charlotte Louise Pyles who had married George Helvenston. There is no marker known for his grave site in Newnansville or Archer.
Young Samuel R. Pyles was then an orphan with no male uncles in Florida. It appears that his maternal grandfather, Edward Remington, took his grandson to Thomasville to raise. He appears on records in the Thomasville area in 1876 and 1879 and then on the 1880 U. S. Census as a druggist. Between 1889 and 1893, he was living in Cincinnati, Ohio, and working for a railroad.
According to Alachua County Deed Book 35 records filed in 1891, he was married to Mary J. Pyles and living in Ohio. His cousin, William E. Davies, acting as the Administrator for their grandfather, was settling the lands that Edward Remington had accumulated in Alachua and Levy County, Florida.
The final years for Samuel R. and Mary J. Pyles are not known. Perhaps other cousins of the Remington-Davies-Smith line might know and be able to fill in this last mystery.
Additional Comments:
The Newnansville Old Methodist Cemetery is located at the present town of Alachua in Alachua County. Alachua County Ancient Records can be viewed online at: http://www.clerk-alachua-fl.org/clerk/searchmenu.html
Search Ancient Records for Marriages, Deeds, Probate and Transcriptions for Remington and Pyles.
More on Remington-Davies-Smith can be read in the Thomasville Gen., History and Fine Arts Library Quarterly: Origins V2 Dec 1991 and V6 1996.
CSA Service Records and the book "Soldiers of Florida" give Lt. Col. Lewis G. Pyles Confederate Service Record.
More on the Pyles-Wynn families can be gleaned from Glynn Co., GA Court House records and from the Alachua Co., Gen. Soc's quarterly LATCHUA COUNTRY NEWS.
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