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Name: Thomas Monroe Pile
Birth Date: 23 Apr 1855
Birth Location:
Death Date: 30 Nov 1937 (aged 82)
Death Location:
Burial: Memphis Cemetery
City: Jefferson Township
County: Scotland County
State: Missouri
Country: USA
Memorial ID: 73999541

BIO: JOSEPH R. PILE. No young citizen of Joplin who has honored the community through productive activity and civic loyalty is more worthy of recognition in this volume than Joseph B. Pile, member of the real estate firm of Pile & Perry. Although young in years he stands as one of the most enterprising factors in the city development, Mr. Pile is a native son of the state, his birth having occurred in Memphis, Missouri, July 2, 1880. Glancing over his ancestral history it is discovered that his forebears on both the paternal and maternal sides were Scotch, and the history of both families is alike in that both located in Kentucky in the pioneer days in the Blue Grass state. The subject's father, Thomas M., was a native of the state of Missouri, to which his father came from Kentucky. He was a farmer and is now living retired at Memphis, Missouri. The mother, Arabella Jenkins, was born in this state, and she and her husband were the parents of eight children. Mr. Pile laid the foundation of a particularly happy life companionship when on November 25, 1906, he was united in marriage to Miss Pearl Luckett. Mrs. Pile was born in Pettis county, Missouri, and her parents, L. J. and Maria Luckett, were natives of Kentucky and Missouri respectively, the father being now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Pile have one daughter, Catherine, horn in Joplin. September 6, 1930. Their. home is one of the hospitable and cultured abodes of the city and both are recognized as excellent young citizens.

[The History of Jasper County and its people, Joel Thomas Livingston; PUBLIC DOMAIN] 73999541 Thomas M. Pile husband of 73999646 Eliza Aarabella Jenkins Pile and son of 71368776 Benjamin Pile of KY., and 71369052 Nancy N. Newton Pile (1827 - 1880) Joseph R Pile Head M 39 Missouri Pearl Marie Pile Wife F 36 Missouri
Catharine Pile Daughter F 9 Missouri Joseph R Pile Jr. Son M 5 Missouri
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, Joseph R Pile, Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States; citing sheet 6B, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,921.

This information provided by FindAGrave volunteer Roy Fredrick (47654299) of Joplin, Missouri
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Son of Benjamin and Nancy (Newton) Pile; both born in Indiana.
This information from MO dc 43297
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Family Members
Parents
Benjamin Pile Sr 1821–1909
Nancy N. Newton Pile 1827–1880
Spouse
Eliza Aarabella Jenkins Pile 1856–1941
(m. 1877)
Siblings
Sarah Elizabeth Pile Coons 1843–1934
Joseph M. Pile 1849–1889
Nancy Alice Pile Whitehead 1851–1927
William P. Pile 1856–1924
Dr Oscar F. Pile 1858–1911
Eugene Halleck Pile 1860–1934
Emma A. Pile Witt 1862–1945
Schuyler W. Pile 1867–1939
Anna Margaret Pile 1869–1947
Half Siblings
Sherman Benjamin Pile 1864–1936
Children
Sherman Benjamin Pile 1864–1936
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Pile 1878–1966
Joseph R. Pile 1880–1967
Ethel M Pile Walker 1882–1952
Leo V. Pile 1886–1953
Alta Verlee Pile Prather 1889–1953
Ada Edith Pile Fullen 1891–1970
James W Pile 1894–1983
Hollis L. Pile Sr 1897–1982