Glynn County  Georgia Pyles Cemetery 

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Amy Hedrick email:  amylyn@btconline.net


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Pyles Cemetery, Brunswick, Glynn Co., Georgia


Transcribed by:  Amy Hedrick email:  amylyn@btconline.net


From the traffic light at Hwy. 303 and Hwy. 17 North, go
1.4 miles north on Hwy. 17 and turn right into the Royal
Oaks Subdivision. Take a right onto Royal Dr. and about
.2 miles on the left is the cemetery.


The cemetery is on an easement and is right next to the
backyard of 144 Royal Dr.


The land from the bluff and going all the way back to the
McDonald's resturaunt was once owned by the Pyles family.
They were one of the more prominent black families to
settle in this town after the Civil War.  They were
intermarried with the Blue and Baldwin families of Glynn
County and they are descended from the former Sheriff
Piles, who was white.  


There is a lot of history with this family and their
settlement in Glynn County that it would make your head
spin.  I have talked with some of the family and they
have their history written down and they can just pull it
right out of their mind like it was yesterday even though
they weren't alive when many of these people lived. Any
aspiring Glynn County African-American genealogist would
find a gold mine of history here.


The downside to this cemetery is that only two of the
seven graves are marked and as yet we have no records of
who are buried in the other five graves.  One of the
graves we had to cut down bushes and small trees to find.
Another grave is open and by open I mean the cement
covering has collapsed into the grave and you can see
down into it!  There was a lot of care taken in digging
these graves as some are bricked all the way down to the
bottom!  The upside to this cemetery, other than the one
overgrown grave, is that the gentleman who lives nextdoor
has taken care to trim the weeds and grass back and keep
it looking nice.


Here are the transcriptions to the only two stones:


Scotia Tyson Pyles
Georgia
Pvt 4075 OM Service Co.
World War II
May 18, 1908 - July 14, 1966

Anna Pyles Hankins
Born: Feb 6, 1888
Died: Mar 28, 1918
Gone to a bright home
Where grief cannot come
  
The only info I have on Scotia is that he came back from
the war shell-shocked and that after the war he obtained
a degree in agriculture and started farming and helping
his family.  He was always seen walking to and from
family homes visiting all of his friends and family.
 
 
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