When Mary Polly Pyle was born in 1808, in Floyd, Georgia, United States, her father, John Pyle, was 41 and her mother, Mary Jane Maxwell, was 34. She married Benjamin Garrett on 27 January 1825, in Fayette, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Floyd Springs, Floyd, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Wood, Texas, United States in 1860. She died after 1860.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1832: Floyd, Georgia, United States
English: from Middle English pile ‘stake, post’ (via Old English from Latin pilum ‘spike, javelin’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a stake or post serving as a landmark, or sometimes perhaps a nickname for a tall thin person.
Americanized form of Dutch Pijl: metonymic occupational name for a marksman or an arrowsmith, from pijl ‘arrow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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