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The lineage of the family of this name is ancient and honorable. The men on both sides served their country well both in war and peace and wherever found were among the sturdy citizens of their respective communities. We first hear of Dr. Richard Pile, who lived in Virginia when she was a colony of Great Britain. His son and namesake was apprenticed to the saddler’s trade but ran away to join the patriot army in the war of the Revolution. He served for a time in the Eighth Virginia Regiment under General Jonathan Clark, and this body of troops rendered valiant service at the storming of Stony Point. He was also with Washington as sergeant at Valley Forge. After the war he settled in Kentucky, where he married Rebecca Clifton, of the vicinity of Bardstown. Sometime before 1798 he moved to Springville, near Charlestown, but later he removed to Jeffersonville His wife was a famous cook and prepared the dinner for the surveyors who platted the town. One of his sisters married Evan, brother of Isaac Shelly, the first Governor of Kentucky. Another sister married an ancestor of Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, of Civil war fame. Richard Pile died in 1816, and about 1820 his widow married Thomas Morgan, of Jeffersonville, by whom she had one daughter, Elizabeth, who subsequently became the wife of Samuel Athey, and removed with him to Missouri. Richard and Rebecca (Clifton) Pile had four children: Marston Green Clark, Burdett Clifton, Mary and Margaret. The elder brother (Marston Green Clark Pile) was the first white child born in Clark county, his native place being what was then called Fort Finney, but afterward Fort Steuben. Page 601, Captain Lewis C. Baird, Baird’s History of Clark County, Indiana, B.F. Brown Company, Publishers, Indianapolis, Indiana 1909. First Wife: Sarah Farras Married 3-12-1826 Second Wife: Catharine Ann Powell Married 6-15-1845 Third Wife: Bridget Brenner Married 5-29-1864? (If so, 1860 date of death is obviously in error).
William B.
