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This is a group photo taken at the 1923 Pile Family Reunion, Aug 20 - 22, 1923 at Smith Hall, Simmons College, Abilene TX. The red numbers on each person are used to identify that person and as a link to their names. You can find their names by scrolling down to the cutouts. Cutouts are photos of the attendees, individual by individual made by cropping or cutting them from the group photo. The caption beneath each cutout will contain the individual's name. You can also view the table of attendees and that is coded with the individual code numbers. This is close but probably not the final word on this project. There are about 6 children who have not been identified. All the adults and many of their children have been named. However, based on currently available information, these results are about as good as they get.

The project to put names to the 1921 and 1923 reunion photos was conducted by Jim Downing. Thanks to Kathy Hartman for preserving and supplying these photo. Jim Downing.

1923 reunion indexed.jpg: This is the 1923 reunion photo taken at Smith Hall in Abilene, August 20, 21, 22, 1923. The red numbers are identifier for each person in the photo.

1923 reunion subgroup indexed.jpg: I have decided that this group was photographed separately because they are men (with the exception of Eliza Jane) who carry forward the Pile name. An exception was made for Eliza Jane Pile because she is one of the three remaining original Pile family members who spawned the Pile families represented in part by the men in this photo. 44 = Dennis walter Pile (CF = 80), 10 = Jesse Nickcurvers Pile (CF = 100), 45 = Ransom Leonard Pile Jr. (CF = 80) 22 = Harvey Moses Pile (CF = 90), 23 = Eliza Jane Pile Seat (CF = 90), 33 = William Elbert Pile (CF = 80), 30 = Ernest Pile (CF = 70), 2 = Perry Princeton Pyle (CF = 90), 50 = Charles Wagner Pyle (CF = 80), 1 = unidentified at this time

These photos are cut outs from the 1923 Pile Reunion photo. They are presented here to assist in comparing people in the 1921 photo and the 1923 photo and with additional photos with prior identification provided for comparison purposes. (CF = xxx) denotes my confidence factor in the identification of individuals. CF = 100 means I have seen these people with my eyes and there is no doubt about who they are, CF between 60 and 90 means the person is identified in a comparison photo on the high end or the identification fits with all other evidence about other individual in attendance, CF between 40 and 60 means I think it is right but lack confirming evidence, CF less than 40 means the identification is an educated guess.

1923_10.jpg: 10 = Jesse Nickcurvers Pyle (CF = 100)

1923_11_12.jpg: 11= Bruce Weldon Baer and his wife 12 = Clara Aletha Massay Baer, (CF = 60)

1923_13_15_16_17_18.jpg: C.D. Smith & grandkids, 15 = Charles D. Smith, his wife 17 = Cornelia (Nellie) Pile Smith, 16 = Charles Cassidy (Dorothy's son) (CF = 70), 13 = mabye the Baer's youngest child Wynne Baer, 18 = unable to identify at this time.

1923_19_20_21.jpg: Smith daughters, 19 = Lydia Smith Grayson, 20 = Bessie Smith Scudder, 21 = Dorothy (Dot) Smith Cassidy (CD = 70)

1923_1_3.jpg: Have not identified these boys.

1923_2.jpg: 2 = Perry Princeton Pyle (CF = 90)

1923_22_23.jpg: 22 = Harvey M. Pile, 23 = Eliza Jane Seat (CF = 90)

1923_24_25.jpg: 25 = Henry Lewis Leberman Jr., 24 = Mrs. Henry Leberman, (CF = 40)

1923_26_28.jpg: 26 = Dora Ellen Pyle Killian, 28 = Jeremiah Schmidt (her grandson by Myrtle Margaret Schmidt), (CF = 60)

c2.jpg: Comparison photo for Dora Ellen Pyle Killian, son Ed Killian and grandson Edward Stanley Killian, source Sherry Wilhelm

1923_27_29.jpg: 27 = Edward L. Killian and wife 29 = Marietta Leberman Killian (CF = 60)

c6.jpg: Comparison photo for Lewis Edward and Marietta Killian, source Sherry Wilhelm

1923_30_35.jpg: 30 = Ernest Pyle, and his wife 35 = Nealie Poole Pyle (CF = 60)

c9.jpg: Comparison photo for Ernest and Neelie Pyle, source Sherry Wilhelm

1923_31.jpg: 31 = Charles Henry Killian, son of Edward and Marietta Killian (CF = 30)

1923_32.jpg: 32 = Eloise Pyle, daughter of Ransom Leonard Pyle (CF = 40)

1923_33.jpg: 33 = William Elbert Pile (CF = 80)

1923_34_42.jpg: 34 = Edward Stanley Killian, son of Edward and Marietta Killian (CF = 30), 42 = ?? at this time.

1923_36_37_38.jpg: Charles Killian family, 38 = Charles Culberson Killian, his wife 36 = Alzena Ony Killian, 37 = Charles C. Killian Jr. (CF = 50)

c5.jpg: Comparison photo for Charles Killian, source Sherry Wilhelm

1923_39_40.jpg: 39 = Myrtle Margaret Killian Schmidt, 40 = Grace Helen schmidt (CF = 60)

c8.jpg: Comparison photo for Myrtle Margaret Killian Schmidt - she is holding Jeremiah Schmidt, source Sherry Wilhelm

1923_41.jpg: 41 = Alma Pheraby Killian (CF = 50)

c1.jpg: Comparison photo for Alma Pheraby Killian, source Sherry Wilhelm

1923_43_44_46.jpg: 43 = Sarah Moore Pile (Mr. D. Pile), 44 = Dennis Walter Pile, (CF = 60) 46 = Alhalia Pyle, daughter of Ransom Leonard Pyle (Cf = 40)

1923_45.jpg: 45 = Ransom L. Pyle, son of Ransom Leonard Pyle (CF = 40)

1923_47_50.jpg: 47 = LaVera S. Pyle (CF = 50), 50 = Charles Wagner Pyle (CF = 80)

1923_48_49_51.jpg: 49 = Hiram K. Hall and his wife 48 = Henrietta Pyle Hall, (CF = 60), 51 = their son Homer K. Hall (CF = 50)

c4.jpg: Comparison photo for Homer Hall, source Sherry Wilhelm

c3.jpg: Comparison photo for Henrietta Pyle Hall, Hiram Hall's wife, source Sherry Wilhelm

img478.jpg: Comparison photo for William E. Pyle family members: L-R: Rex Leo Pyle, ??, Mary K. Ridling Pyle, William Elbert Pyle, Henrietta Pyle Hall, Hettie Arena Pyle Cambell, Ernest Pyle, and Katheryn Sue Cambell

1923_4_8.jpg: 4 = James H. Pyle and his wife 8 = Jennie Burgess Pyle, (CF = 40)

1923_5-6-7.jpg: Possibly Baer daughters

1923_52_53_54.jpg: 53 = John Leonidas McKown and his wife 52 = Laura Viola Wyatt KcKown, and son 54 = Wyatt E. McKown (CF = 50)

c7.jpg: Comparison photo for the McKown family, source Sherry Wilhelm