Thomas-Glynn-Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Mary S. Remington July 18 1836 - April 15 1859
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Mary S. Remington's grave marker reads that she was born in Thomasville, 
Georgia and died in Newnansville, Florida. It also notes that her parent's were 
Edward Remington and Mary A. Remington. Beside her in the old Newnansville 
Methodist Cemetery are two infant grave markers for 1857 and 1859. She died 
just four days after the second child.

Mary's parents came from Rhode Island to Thomasville. Her father's (Edward 1804-1878) 
heritage is unknown, but her mother's (Mary A. Smith 1803-1856)line goes 
back to Captain Simeon Smith and Mary Sheldon all from RI. Her siblings 
included: Edward S, Martha and Francis Remington.

Mary grew up in Thomasville and attended the Fletcher Institute just south of 
town. She is listed as a teenager on the 1850 U. S. Census. Four years later 
she would marry another youngster, Lewis G. Pyles who was also listed on the 
same census living in town. His parent's were Samuel R. Pyles (1788-1837) from 
Glynn County, GA and Charlotte Wynn (1793-1842) of Savannah, GA.

The two were married in Thomasville a day after her birthday in 1854. The exact 
date they moved to Newnansville is unknown. Their first child was Samuel R. 
Pyles born in 1855 or 1856 who was named after Lewis' brother and father. 
Numerous Ancient Records of Alachua County provide a good timeline for Lewis as 
he represented Mary's father in his mercantile business in Newnansville. 

Mary died within days of the death of her third child, leaving her only 
surviving son motherless. In 1860, the U. S. Census denotes Lewis G. Pyles as 
the Registrar in the Newnansville General Land Office. His son was also in his 
household. When the Civil War started, Lewis was elected as a Major in the 2nd 
Florida Infantry Regiment. 

His Regiment participated in the Battle of Seven Pines and he was severally 
wounded. By then he had been promoted to Lt. Colonel and to Colonel, but was 
not able to fight anymore. He returned to Newnansville and was in a skirmish on 
the City of Gainesville. 

Lewis died in Archer, Florida in 1866, probably at the home of his sister, 
Charlotte Louise Pyles who had married George Helvenston. There is no marker 
known for his grave site in Newnansville or Archer.

Young Samuel R. Pyles was then an orphan with no male uncles in Florida. It 
appears that his maternal grandfather, Edward Remington took his grandson to 
Thomasville to raise. He appears on records in the Thomasville area in 1876 and 
1879 and then on the 1880 U. S. Census as a druggist. Between 1889 and 1893, he 
was living in Cincinnati, Ohio and working for a railroad. 

According to Alachua County Deed Book 35 records filed in 1891, he was married 
to Mary J. Pyles and living in Ohio. His cousin, William E. Davies, acting as 
the Administrator for their grandfather, was settling the lands that Edward 
Remington had accumulated in Alachua and Levy County, Florida.

The final years for Samuel R. and Mary J. Pyles are not known. Perhaps other 
cousins of the Remington-Davies-Smith line might know and be able to fill in 
this last mystery.

Additional Comments:
The Newnansville Old Methodist Cemetery is located at the present town of 
Alachua in Alachua County. Alachua County Ancient Records can be viewed online 
at: http://www.clerk-alachua-fl.org/clerk/searchmenu.html
Search Ancient Records for Marriages, Deeds, Probate and Transcriptions for 
Remington and Pyles.

More on Remington-Davies-Smith can be read in the Thomasville Gen., History and 
Fine Arts Library Quarterly: Origins V2 Dec 1991 and V6 1996.

CSA Service Records and the book "Soldiers of Florida" give Lt. Col. Lewis G. 
Pyles Confederate Service Record.

More on the Pyles-Wynn families can be gleaned from Glynn Co., GA Court House 
records and from the Alachua Co., Gen. Soc's quarterly" 'LATCHUA COUNTRY NEWS.

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