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www.childers-shepherd.org, 30 Jan 2011
       John Benjamin Stiles + [unknown] Halijohn      
     |                                                            |   
John Stiles                         +          Sarah [Huntress or McCourt?]     
1757      -      1833                       1774               1754      -       1818
Virginia    Haywood (now Jackson) Co NC                            Haywood Co NC        Jackson Co NC            
                

                                |
                           William Stiles (Sarah Fergus), 1775 - 1840
                                 James Stiles (Mary "Polly" Cabe), 1777 - 1855
                             *   Julia "Jaley" Stiles (John Hibbard), 1778 - after 1879
                                 Thomas Stiles (Jane Cabe), 1780 - 1879
                                 Benjamin H. Stiles (Charity Arrowood? Susan Ballew?), 1783 - 1852
                                 Margaret Stiles (William Buchanan), 1784 - 1833
                                 (daughter) Stiles, 1787 - ?
                                 Charles Stiles (Kessiah McConnell), 1792 - 1856
                                 Others?
Note: * This connection is speculative. Several family trees on Ancestry.com indicate a daughter, of
unknown name, born this year or nearby. The more compelling suggestions are these: (1) Census
records which list a birthplace for Julia Stiles Hibbard say Lincoln, NC; likewise for some of these Stiles
men. (2) In 1821, Julia ("Jaley Hibbards") was among ten charter members of Cullowhee Baptist Church,
along with James, Jane, and Thomas Stiles. The Stiles men could well be Julia's brothers and Jane is
probably Thomas Stiles's wife. (3) Thomas Stiles's daughter Jane married Julia's son Charles Hibbard,
who may have been her first cousin.
Sources:  US Census Haywood Co NC, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840;
  US Census, Cherokee Co NC, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900;
  US Census, Macon Co, NC, 1830, 1850;
  US and International Marriage Records, Thomas Stiles and Jane Cabe, 1799, NC;
  Ancestry.com's Stiles family tree; Boiven/Dehauski-Shaffer(Miller)-Tennent family tree; Leila Robertson's People family tree;
            "Appalachian Ancestors", written by Stephen and Sandra Nipper Ratledge; Nygard/Welch family tree; Rogers/Whitaker family tree;
            Keeler & Witt family tree; Baker & Family tree;
  NC Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868;
  http://www.familytreelegends.com/trees/aharvey63/1/data/136418
    John Benjamin Stiles + [unknown] Halijohn       
                  |                                                                        |   
   John Stiles                            +                     Mrs. Lucy Beasley  
 1757      -      1833                            1820                           1776     -     1861                        
  Virginia   Haywood (now Jackson) Co NC     Haywood Co NC                     Haywood Co NC     Union Co GA/NC
                                                                   |
                                          Agnes Stiles, 1821 -  ?
                                                     Sarah Stiles, 1823 - ?  

Note: "The marriage of John Stiles and Lucy Beasely was performed by John's son, Charles, a Methodist Minister."

-David Ross Stiles, "John and Sarah Stiles Family," Heritage of Jackson County NC, Vol 1, 1992, p 442.
Dills Cemetery, Sylva,
Jackson Co NC. Photo
posted by "kemu";
Dills Cemetery, Sylva,
Jackson Co NC. Photo
posted by "kemu";