Video clip, jamesReunion: James Downing performing a special reunion rendition
IMG_2680.JPG: Sunday morning events. Devin and Martha scanning photos
IMG_2681.JPG: Stephen Pile during his rescheduled presentation
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IMG_2684.JPG: Stephen was excited to find his grandfather Walter Pile in the 1951 Reunion photograph
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IMG_2686.JPG: Kathy telling how she traced the Keller and Bundy family history back to 17th century Germany.
IMG_2689.JPG: The Cains and Charlyn Baker
IMG_2690.JPG: Milling around before taking the group photos
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IMG_2695.JPG: One iteration of the group photos. Front row: Kathy Hartmann, Tristan, Genevieve and Amber Downing, Martha Cook, Yvonne Cain, Dorothy Estes, Carolyn Wadsworth, Karen Hauser, Sharon Daily, Louis Daily. Back row: James and Aria Downing, Devin Pipes, Ralph Cain, Charlyn Baker, Karl Musselman, Ann Downing, Doug Hauser, and Luther Cook.
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IMG_2703.JPG: Front: Eric and Joyce Owens, Dorothy Estes, Stephen Pile and Jim Downing. Middle: Emily Haight, Genevieve, Tristan, and Amber Downing, Martha Cook, Karen Alison, Yvonne Cain, Carolyn Wadsworth, Karen Hauser, Sharon and Louis Daily, Kathy Hartmann. Back: James and Aria Downing, Devin Pipes, Ralph Cain, Charlyn Baker, Karl Musselman, Ann Downing, Doug Hauser, and Luther Cook
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IMG_2714.JPG: Eric, Karen, Joyce, and Charlyn
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IMG_2717.JPG: Sunday lunch break and some people having to say goodbye. James Downing taking pictures of Louis Daily holding Aria Downing.
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IMG_2723.JPG: Doug Hauser waving for folks to load up for the Sunday afternoon bus tour down to Mineola with stops in Caddo Mills and the Clinton Cemetery on the return trip.
IMG_2725.JPG: First stop was the Owen Pinkney Pyle historic home in Mineola TX. It is an example of the Queen Ann architectural style with a southern flair.
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IMG_2730.JPG: Looking back up the street from the house toward downtown Mineola.
IMG_2731.JPG: Doug and Luther checking out the house.
IMG_2732.JPG: Morning lily in the front flowerbeds
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IMG_2735.JPG: We were treated to a brief lecture on how this couple purchased and restored the home. She said it had fallen into serious disrepair before they started the restoration. I did not get their names - shame on me.
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IMG_2741.JPG: Heidi Hoke is daughter of the couple who restored the OP Pyle house. She operates several businesses from the house including the Vitae Pondera Health and Education Center. Apparently this business deals mainly with alternative treatments for various disorders.
IMG_2742.JPG: Louis Daily checking out the kitchen
IMG_2743.JPG: Tristan Downing in the pantry and back porch
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IMG_2747.JPG: Ann Downing and Doug Hauser in the dining rooom
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IMG_2751.JPG: Devin Pipes and Karl Musselman checking out the massage table. To say the least I found it a bit strange to find this in the parlor of a historic house.
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IMG_2756.JPG: The staircase
IMG_2757.JPG: Recently opened attic conversation area
IMG_2758.JPG: Luther points out a gear on this gas powered computer that he does not have on his computer back in Idaho.
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IMG_2761.JPG: This is art? Double steam powered Singer sewing machines
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IMG_2764.JPG: Don't ask questions --- it's art!
IMG_2766.JPG: The south side yard gazebo
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IMG_2769.JPG: the north side yard pond and gezebo
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IMG_2772.JPG: Little girl - big tree
IMG_2773.JPG: The Caddo Mills Opera House museum was our next stop
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IMG_2775.JPG: Jim sneaking a photo of Devin sneaking a photo
IMG_2776.JPG: Ann and Karen discussing something in the "orchestra section" of the old opera house.
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IMG_2778.JPG: Charlyn Baker and Stephen Pile enjoying the cool shade of a tree beside the Opera House with "downtown" Caddo Mills in the background.
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IMG_2780.JPG: At the Clinton Cemetery. Doug and Karen Hauser, Devin Pipes and Martha Cook.
IMG_2781.JPG: Many of the Pile and Massey family markers are in sad shape, much in need of attention.
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IMG_2785.JPG: Karl Musselman, Karen Hemphill Hauser, and Ann Musselman Downing share Ivy Pyle Wells as their grandmother and Henrietta Pile as their great grandmother. Henrietta (Hattie) was Jesse W. Pile's second wife.
IMG_2787.JPG: All descendants of Jesse Wilson Pile standing behind his grave monument.
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IMG_2792.JPG: William E. Johnson was the husband of Mary (Mollie) Florence Pile, Jesse W's 5'th child.
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IMG_2794.JPG: For some reason William Johnson got two makers, one of his own and then one with his wife Mollie
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IMG_2796.JPG: Charlyn Baker standing beside her grandfather's grave marker.
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IMG_2798x.jpg: This is an obscure inscription at the base of Jesse Wilson's marker. I can read the second line: life well spent. The first line is not clear.
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IMG_2798xo_Sharp.jpg: I attempted to increase the contrast and make the inscription sharper.
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IMG_2809.JPG: Martha Cook and Devin Pipes at the entrance to the cemetery
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IMG_2817.JPG: Before we left Greenville on Monday I stopped to take a picture of the Kavanaugh Methodist Church where Charles and Frank Pyle were married in July 1903. As it turns out, the church where they were married was taken down and replaced by this building in 1923.
IMG_2826.JPG: We also stopped to get a picture of Landon Winery where we had such a good time Saturday evening.
IMG_2882.JPG: This is a poster I assembled to show pictures of all members of the Jesse Wilson Pile family.
IMG_2886.JPG: This is a poster for the 1951 reunion. I was asking people to help me identify people in the group photo.
IMG_2889.JPG: This poster shows the 1923 group photo and the names that were determined for the people in that photo.
IMG_2890.JPG: This poster shows the 1921 group photo and the names that were determined for the people in that photo.