Rachel noted as a school teacher living in East Marlborough at age 16 in 1870 Census and age 26 in 1880 Census taught in Quaker school (one assignment was Marlborough Meeting School. In 1878, the east end of Marlborough Meetinghouse became a schoolroom, used intermittently through the 1890's. @ 1880 Rachel A. Pyle was hired as a teacher for six months at a salary of $300 for the term. The school began with 24 pupils, 12 of who were members. Meeting members attended free; non-members paid $10 for the term or 50 cents a week." ) but she wasn't Quaker. At age 28, in 1881 (after August?) she married Quaker George Martin Cloud, age 34, who was member of Marlborough Meeting. The Meeting was trying to get him to apologize for marrying a non-Quaker but he wouldn't apologize so he either left or was kicked out. His farm was across Marlborough Road from Marlborough Meeting. Where were they married?
1860 Census she's 6 years old living with her family & 27 year old Uncle Jacob Pierce (bricklayer) in Kennett Boro, these Pierce's we're from DE.
1870 Census she's 16, her father a Master Brick Mason, mother keeping house & brother William a farmer. NOTE: in census they are 4th family from abolitionists John & Hannah Cox in Longwood (also living with John & Hannah after 2 of their daughters, a daughter from John's first wife, their granddaughter Belle aka Isabelle daughter of Jacob & Hannah Cox, a domestic servant & a farm worker). Where was their residence?
Rachel and G. Martin Cloud, married 1881, had 5 children:
--Mary C. or R. Cloud (2/9/1882-1972) married A. Brinton Reynolds 2/15/1912 and had 5 children: Martin Cloud Reynolds (married Alice Augusta Yeatman and had 3 children; Elva Mary Reynolds (7/13/1914-5/18/1916); Anna Nichols Reynolds married Charles William Davis 11/25/1946, no children, then married George Steele 9/21/1996; Elizabeth Cloud Reynolds married Charles Raymond Hilaman 12/31/1944 and had 6 children; and Ahia Brinton Reynolds married Virginia White and had 2 children, then married Sharon Dodson and had 3 children.
--Twin Boys Cloud born and died August 1884.
--Pusey Cloud ( married Ida Hoopes 2/28/1911 and had 9 children.
--Samuel Pyle Cloud ( married Helen McFarland 5/8/1911, no children.
Parents: Samuel (1821-1899) & Rebecca (Pierce, 1821-1863) Pyle.
Siblings: Brother William
Other relation or close friend: What is relationship between Rachel & John Paxson Pyle (1846-1890 buried Union Hill, he was storekeeper and postmaster at Willowdale, parents Joseph Pyle & Julia Paxson; grandparents John Pyle & Amy Pennock; GGP James Pyle & Hannah Neal; GGGP John Pyle & Rachel Walter; 3rdGGPs Willam Pyle, Member of Assembly, Justice of the Courts of Thornbury, Chester Co. PA, & Olive Bennett; 4th GGPs Original to America Robert Pyle & Ann Stovey, they emigrated to Pennsylvania c1683. Robert Pyle was an active Quaker & clerk of meeting. The Quakers were founded by George FOX in 1647. He bought 150 acres in Bethel Twp, Chester Co now Delaware Co from William SMITH. A member of the Chichester meeting. In 1698 he issued a statement on the emancipation of slaves owned by Friends. This was later printed in the Friends Intelligencer in 1874 and again in the Journal of Negro History 1937 (Vol 22 p488). A juror of the Chester Court, Member of the Provincial Assembly of Penn. and a Justice of the Peace) whose wife Anna M. Pyle (nee Bane, 5/28/1850-4/6/1941 Sconnelltown, PA) is listed in 1930 census, 79 years, widowed, married at age 25 (but in 1881 she's @21), living with Rachel's son Sam Cloud & his wife Helen in the Sconnelltown half of house. Anna lived with them until her death in 1941. Was John Pyle Rachel's cousin, he's @ 7 years older than her????The house is owned by Sam's parents G. Martin & Rachel Cloud & they live in other half.
Rachel's father Samuel Pyle's obituary: Samuel Pyle was one of Kennett Square's best known and venerable citizens, a man thoroughly identified with the town and surrounding neighborhood, passed quietly away at the home of his daughter, in Marlborough, this morning. The deceased was 78 years of age, and was born in Kennett Township. He was a bricklayer by trade, and worked for many years with his brother, Thomas, a carpenter, erecting a large number of buildings in Kennett Square. A daughter, Rachel, wife of Martin Cloud of Marlborough, is his only survivor.
Schoolhouses:
•1804-1834, behind the Meetinghouse, it was raised. "1803 "The friends appointed to Consider the Propriety of building a schoolhouse report that they are united in believing it would be useful in the Neighborhood... Richard Barnard, David Chalfant, and William Wickersham are appointed to take in subscriptions and promote the building of a stone house about 20' square in the clear and report to a future meeting."
1804 The schoolhouse was completed in July.
C. 1820 From Isaac Martin's memoirs: "Eusebius Barnard tought school in the old house on the meeting house lot. The school house, meeting house and some sheds for horses were the only buildings on the hill... The road that now passes through the village had not then been laid out. The whole scenery around the meeting house was that of a thick forest... The grave yard was of about one-half its present size. The school house stood near the lower end of the meeting house lot. It was a stone structure 20 feet square."
•1834-1878 or 1880. "1834 Decision to build a "suitable schoolhouse... a building with two apartments one above another well lighted and ventilated one for the reception of children in the rudiments of learning and other adapted to pupils in the higher branches of literature and furnished with maps globes and scientific apparatus". "This was built next to the schoolmaster's house (built 1829-used as such till @ 1851, then sold by the meeting in 1925. In 1827 Cyrus Barnard was commissioned by the meeting to build this house, to be used by the schoolmaster of the Friends school. Isaac Martin and his wife lived here from 1831 to 1851, and here their three children were born. From 1851 until 1925, when the meeting sold it, the house was rented out )." "1861 The schoolhouse was rented to East Marlborough Township for $30 a year." "1927 The 1834 schoolhouse was sold to Marshall and Blanche Brown and the schoolhouse was razed."
•1878 or 1880-1890s, in the Marlborough Meeting house. "In 1878, the east end became a schoolroom, used intermittently through the 1890's. There is accommodation for 40-50 students." "1878 Friends decided to establish a school "similar to that of Friends at London Grove… [and] to put another story on our school building [which was never done] … in the meantime the east end of the meeting house might be used for that purpose."
1880 The meeting's east end was fitted for a school at the cost of $640.40. Rachie A. Pyle was hired as a teacher for six months at a salary of $300 for the term. The school began with 24 pupils, 12 of who were members. Meeting members attended free; non-members paid $10 for the term or 50 cents a week.
•1901-1923. "1901 East Marlborough Township rented meeting land across the road on which they built a schoolhouse." "On the fourth corner of the crossroad stands a two-floor brick building which was built in 1901 as a one-floor, two-room brick schoolhouse. Original entry was through the two doors on the two-bay northeast gable side facing Marlborough Spring Road. A square date stone is centered above the doors. When school consolidation made small schools obsolete, ca.1925, the building was sold in 1926/8 to a private party." "In 1901 East Marlborough Township built this new brick schoolhouse– "rather pretentious," the Daily Local News called it. One and a half stories high, it had separate entrances for boys and girls in the east end, where a datestone can be seen. It served the village area for a score of years, closing when the new consolidated school was built in Unionville."
•"In 1921 it was decided that a new school was needed to serve the four townships of East Marlborough, West Marlborough, Pocopson, and Newlin. The Unionville Joint Consolidated School was the first joint school to be built in the state of Pennsylvania. Nineteen smaller schools were closed in 1923 when the new Unionville Joint Consolidated School was completed. The original school enrollment was 661 students in all grades. The cost of the building was $122,402 including furnishings." "The Unionville Joint Consolidated School was opened in September 1923 for grades 1 to 12, bringing a close to the 19 one-room schools dispersed throughout the four townships. A bond was secured for 175,000 and six acres of land was purchased for 4,000.00. The building was originally designed for 635 students."
1860 Census she's 6 years old living with her family & 27 year old Uncle Jacob Pierce (bricklayer) in Kennett Boro, these Pierce's we're from DE.
1870 Census she's 16, her father a Master Brick Mason, mother keeping house & brother William a farmer. NOTE: in census they are 4th family from abolitionists John & Hannah Cox in Longwood (also living with John & Hannah after 2 of their daughters, a daughter from John's first wife, their granddaughter Belle aka Isabelle daughter of Jacob & Hannah Cox, a domestic servant & a farm worker). Where was their residence?
Rachel and G. Martin Cloud, married 1881, had 5 children:
--Mary C. or R. Cloud (2/9/1882-1972) married A. Brinton Reynolds 2/15/1912 and had 5 children: Martin Cloud Reynolds (married Alice Augusta Yeatman and had 3 children; Elva Mary Reynolds (7/13/1914-5/18/1916); Anna Nichols Reynolds married Charles William Davis 11/25/1946, no children, then married George Steele 9/21/1996; Elizabeth Cloud Reynolds married Charles Raymond Hilaman 12/31/1944 and had 6 children; and Ahia Brinton Reynolds married Virginia White and had 2 children, then married Sharon Dodson and had 3 children.
--Twin Boys Cloud born and died August 1884.
--Pusey Cloud ( married Ida Hoopes 2/28/1911 and had 9 children.
--Samuel Pyle Cloud ( married Helen McFarland 5/8/1911, no children.
Parents: Samuel (1821-1899) & Rebecca (Pierce, 1821-1863) Pyle.
Siblings: Brother William
Other relation or close friend: What is relationship between Rachel & John Paxson Pyle (1846-1890 buried Union Hill, he was storekeeper and postmaster at Willowdale, parents Joseph Pyle & Julia Paxson; grandparents John Pyle & Amy Pennock; GGP James Pyle & Hannah Neal; GGGP John Pyle & Rachel Walter; 3rdGGPs Willam Pyle, Member of Assembly, Justice of the Courts of Thornbury, Chester Co. PA, & Olive Bennett; 4th GGPs Original to America Robert Pyle & Ann Stovey, they emigrated to Pennsylvania c1683. Robert Pyle was an active Quaker & clerk of meeting. The Quakers were founded by George FOX in 1647. He bought 150 acres in Bethel Twp, Chester Co now Delaware Co from William SMITH. A member of the Chichester meeting. In 1698 he issued a statement on the emancipation of slaves owned by Friends. This was later printed in the Friends Intelligencer in 1874 and again in the Journal of Negro History 1937 (Vol 22 p488). A juror of the Chester Court, Member of the Provincial Assembly of Penn. and a Justice of the Peace) whose wife Anna M. Pyle (nee Bane, 5/28/1850-4/6/1941 Sconnelltown, PA) is listed in 1930 census, 79 years, widowed, married at age 25 (but in 1881 she's @21), living with Rachel's son Sam Cloud & his wife Helen in the Sconnelltown half of house. Anna lived with them until her death in 1941. Was John Pyle Rachel's cousin, he's @ 7 years older than her????The house is owned by Sam's parents G. Martin & Rachel Cloud & they live in other half.
Rachel's father Samuel Pyle's obituary: Samuel Pyle was one of Kennett Square's best known and venerable citizens, a man thoroughly identified with the town and surrounding neighborhood, passed quietly away at the home of his daughter, in Marlborough, this morning. The deceased was 78 years of age, and was born in Kennett Township. He was a bricklayer by trade, and worked for many years with his brother, Thomas, a carpenter, erecting a large number of buildings in Kennett Square. A daughter, Rachel, wife of Martin Cloud of Marlborough, is his only survivor.
Schoolhouses:
•1804-1834, behind the Meetinghouse, it was raised. "1803 "The friends appointed to Consider the Propriety of building a schoolhouse report that they are united in believing it would be useful in the Neighborhood... Richard Barnard, David Chalfant, and William Wickersham are appointed to take in subscriptions and promote the building of a stone house about 20' square in the clear and report to a future meeting."
1804 The schoolhouse was completed in July.
C. 1820 From Isaac Martin's memoirs: "Eusebius Barnard tought school in the old house on the meeting house lot. The school house, meeting house and some sheds for horses were the only buildings on the hill... The road that now passes through the village had not then been laid out. The whole scenery around the meeting house was that of a thick forest... The grave yard was of about one-half its present size. The school house stood near the lower end of the meeting house lot. It was a stone structure 20 feet square."
•1834-1878 or 1880. "1834 Decision to build a "suitable schoolhouse... a building with two apartments one above another well lighted and ventilated one for the reception of children in the rudiments of learning and other adapted to pupils in the higher branches of literature and furnished with maps globes and scientific apparatus". "This was built next to the schoolmaster's house (built 1829-used as such till @ 1851, then sold by the meeting in 1925. In 1827 Cyrus Barnard was commissioned by the meeting to build this house, to be used by the schoolmaster of the Friends school. Isaac Martin and his wife lived here from 1831 to 1851, and here their three children were born. From 1851 until 1925, when the meeting sold it, the house was rented out )." "1861 The schoolhouse was rented to East Marlborough Township for $30 a year." "1927 The 1834 schoolhouse was sold to Marshall and Blanche Brown and the schoolhouse was razed."
•1878 or 1880-1890s, in the Marlborough Meeting house. "In 1878, the east end became a schoolroom, used intermittently through the 1890's. There is accommodation for 40-50 students." "1878 Friends decided to establish a school "similar to that of Friends at London Grove… [and] to put another story on our school building [which was never done] … in the meantime the east end of the meeting house might be used for that purpose."
1880 The meeting's east end was fitted for a school at the cost of $640.40. Rachie A. Pyle was hired as a teacher for six months at a salary of $300 for the term. The school began with 24 pupils, 12 of who were members. Meeting members attended free; non-members paid $10 for the term or 50 cents a week.
•1901-1923. "1901 East Marlborough Township rented meeting land across the road on which they built a schoolhouse." "On the fourth corner of the crossroad stands a two-floor brick building which was built in 1901 as a one-floor, two-room brick schoolhouse. Original entry was through the two doors on the two-bay northeast gable side facing Marlborough Spring Road. A square date stone is centered above the doors. When school consolidation made small schools obsolete, ca.1925, the building was sold in 1926/8 to a private party." "In 1901 East Marlborough Township built this new brick schoolhouse– "rather pretentious," the Daily Local News called it. One and a half stories high, it had separate entrances for boys and girls in the east end, where a datestone can be seen. It served the village area for a score of years, closing when the new consolidated school was built in Unionville."
•"In 1921 it was decided that a new school was needed to serve the four townships of East Marlborough, West Marlborough, Pocopson, and Newlin. The Unionville Joint Consolidated School was the first joint school to be built in the state of Pennsylvania. Nineteen smaller schools were closed in 1923 when the new Unionville Joint Consolidated School was completed. The original school enrollment was 661 students in all grades. The cost of the building was $122,402 including furnishings." "The Unionville Joint Consolidated School was opened in September 1923 for grades 1 to 12, bringing a close to the 19 one-room schools dispersed throughout the four townships. A bond was secured for 175,000 and six acres of land was purchased for 4,000.00. The building was originally designed for 635 students."
Rachel noted as a school teacher living in East Marlborough at age 16 in 1870 Census and age 26 in 1880 Census taught in Quaker school (one assignment was Marlborough Meeting School. In 1878, the east end of Marlborough Meetinghouse became a schoolroom, used intermittently through the 1890's. @ 1880 Rachel A. Pyle was hired as a teacher for six months at a salary of $300 for the term. The school began with 24 pupils, 12 of who were members. Meeting members attended free; non-members paid $10 for the term or 50 cents a week." ) but she wasn't Quaker. At age 28, in 1881 (after August?) she married Quaker George Martin Cloud, age 34, who was member of Marlborough Meeting. The Meeting was trying to get him to apologize for marrying a non-Quaker but he wouldn't apologize so he either left or was kicked out. His farm was across Marlborough Road from Marlborough Meeting. Where were they married?
1860 Census she's 6 years old living with her family & 27 year old Uncle Jacob Pierce (bricklayer) in Kennett Boro, these Pierce's we're from DE.
1870 Census she's 16, her father a Master Brick Mason, mother keeping house & brother William a farmer. NOTE: in census they are 4th family from abolitionists John & Hannah Cox in Longwood (also living with John & Hannah after 2 of their daughters, a daughter from John's first wife, their granddaughter Belle aka Isabelle daughter of Jacob & Hannah Cox, a domestic servant & a farm worker). Where was their residence?
Rachel and G. Martin Cloud, married 1881, had 5 children:
--Mary C. or R. Cloud (2/9/1882-1972) married A. Brinton Reynolds 2/15/1912 and had 5 children: Martin Cloud Reynolds (married Alice Augusta Yeatman and had 3 children; Elva Mary Reynolds (7/13/1914-5/18/1916); Anna Nichols Reynolds married Charles William Davis 11/25/1946, no children, then married George Steele 9/21/1996; Elizabeth Cloud Reynolds married Charles Raymond Hilaman 12/31/1944 and had 6 children; and Ahia Brinton Reynolds married Virginia White and had 2 children, then married Sharon Dodson and had 3 children.
--Twin Boys Cloud born and died August 1884.
--Pusey Cloud ( married Ida Hoopes 2/28/1911 and had 9 children.
--Samuel Pyle Cloud ( married Helen McFarland 5/8/1911, no children.
Parents: Samuel (1821-1899) & Rebecca (Pierce, 1821-1863) Pyle.
Siblings: Brother William
Other relation or close friend: What is relationship between Rachel & John Paxson Pyle (1846-1890 buried Union Hill, he was storekeeper and postmaster at Willowdale, parents Joseph Pyle & Julia Paxson; grandparents John Pyle & Amy Pennock; GGP James Pyle & Hannah Neal; GGGP John Pyle & Rachel Walter; 3rdGGPs Willam Pyle, Member of Assembly, Justice of the Courts of Thornbury, Chester Co. PA, & Olive Bennett; 4th GGPs Original to America Robert Pyle & Ann Stovey, they emigrated to Pennsylvania c1683. Robert Pyle was an active Quaker & clerk of meeting. The Quakers were founded by George FOX in 1647. He bought 150 acres in Bethel Twp, Chester Co now Delaware Co from William SMITH. A member of the Chichester meeting. In 1698 he issued a statement on the emancipation of slaves owned by Friends. This was later printed in the Friends Intelligencer in 1874 and again in the Journal of Negro History 1937 (Vol 22 p488). A juror of the Chester Court, Member of the Provincial Assembly of Penn. and a Justice of the Peace) whose wife Anna M. Pyle (nee Bane, 5/28/1850-4/6/1941 Sconnelltown, PA) is listed in 1930 census, 79 years, widowed, married at age 25 (but in 1881 she's @21), living with Rachel's son Sam Cloud & his wife Helen in the Sconnelltown half of house. Anna lived with them until her death in 1941. Was John Pyle Rachel's cousin, he's @ 7 years older than her????The house is owned by Sam's parents G. Martin & Rachel Cloud & they live in other half.
Rachel's father Samuel Pyle's obituary: Samuel Pyle was one of Kennett Square's best known and venerable citizens, a man thoroughly identified with the town and surrounding neighborhood, passed quietly away at the home of his daughter, in Marlborough, this morning. The deceased was 78 years of age, and was born in Kennett Township. He was a bricklayer by trade, and worked for many years with his brother, Thomas, a carpenter, erecting a large number of buildings in Kennett Square. A daughter, Rachel, wife of Martin Cloud of Marlborough, is his only survivor.
Schoolhouses:
•1804-1834, behind the Meetinghouse, it was raised. "1803 "The friends appointed to Consider the Propriety of building a schoolhouse report that they are united in believing it would be useful in the Neighborhood... Richard Barnard, David Chalfant, and William Wickersham are appointed to take in subscriptions and promote the building of a stone house about 20' square in the clear and report to a future meeting."
1804 The schoolhouse was completed in July.
C. 1820 From Isaac Martin's memoirs: "Eusebius Barnard tought school in the old house on the meeting house lot. The school house, meeting house and some sheds for horses were the only buildings on the hill... The road that now passes through the village had not then been laid out. The whole scenery around the meeting house was that of a thick forest... The grave yard was of about one-half its present size. The school house stood near the lower end of the meeting house lot. It was a stone structure 20 feet square."
•1834-1878 or 1880. "1834 Decision to build a "suitable schoolhouse... a building with two apartments one above another well lighted and ventilated one for the reception of children in the rudiments of learning and other adapted to pupils in the higher branches of literature and furnished with maps globes and scientific apparatus". "This was built next to the schoolmaster's house (built 1829-used as such till @ 1851, then sold by the meeting in 1925. In 1827 Cyrus Barnard was commissioned by the meeting to build this house, to be used by the schoolmaster of the Friends school. Isaac Martin and his wife lived here from 1831 to 1851, and here their three children were born. From 1851 until 1925, when the meeting sold it, the house was rented out )." "1861 The schoolhouse was rented to East Marlborough Township for $30 a year." "1927 The 1834 schoolhouse was sold to Marshall and Blanche Brown and the schoolhouse was razed."
•1878 or 1880-1890s, in the Marlborough Meeting house. "In 1878, the east end became a schoolroom, used intermittently through the 1890's. There is accommodation for 40-50 students." "1878 Friends decided to establish a school "similar to that of Friends at London Grove… [and] to put another story on our school building [which was never done] … in the meantime the east end of the meeting house might be used for that purpose."
1880 The meeting's east end was fitted for a school at the cost of $640.40. Rachie A. Pyle was hired as a teacher for six months at a salary of $300 for the term. The school began with 24 pupils, 12 of who were members. Meeting members attended free; non-members paid $10 for the term or 50 cents a week.
•1901-1923. "1901 East Marlborough Township rented meeting land across the road on which they built a schoolhouse." "On the fourth corner of the crossroad stands a two-floor brick building which was built in 1901 as a one-floor, two-room brick schoolhouse. Original entry was through the two doors on the two-bay northeast gable side facing Marlborough Spring Road. A square date stone is centered above the doors. When school consolidation made small schools obsolete, ca.1925, the building was sold in 1926/8 to a private party." "In 1901 East Marlborough Township built this new brick schoolhouse– "rather pretentious," the Daily Local News called it. One and a half stories high, it had separate entrances for boys and girls in the east end, where a datestone can be seen. It served the village area for a score of years, closing when the new consolidated school was built in Unionville."
•"In 1921 it was decided that a new school was needed to serve the four townships of East Marlborough, West Marlborough, Pocopson, and Newlin. The Unionville Joint Consolidated School was the first joint school to be built in the state of Pennsylvania. Nineteen smaller schools were closed in 1923 when the new Unionville Joint Consolidated School was completed. The original school enrollment was 661 students in all grades. The cost of the building was $122,402 including furnishings." "The Unionville Joint Consolidated School was opened in September 1923 for grades 1 to 12, bringing a close to the 19 one-room schools dispersed throughout the four townships. A bond was secured for 175,000 and six acres of land was purchased for 4,000.00. The building was originally designed for 635 students."
1860 Census she's 6 years old living with her family & 27 year old Uncle Jacob Pierce (bricklayer) in Kennett Boro, these Pierce's we're from DE.
1870 Census she's 16, her father a Master Brick Mason, mother keeping house & brother William a farmer. NOTE: in census they are 4th family from abolitionists John & Hannah Cox in Longwood (also living with John & Hannah after 2 of their daughters, a daughter from John's first wife, their granddaughter Belle aka Isabelle daughter of Jacob & Hannah Cox, a domestic servant & a farm worker). Where was their residence?
Rachel and G. Martin Cloud, married 1881, had 5 children:
--Mary C. or R. Cloud (2/9/1882-1972) married A. Brinton Reynolds 2/15/1912 and had 5 children: Martin Cloud Reynolds (married Alice Augusta Yeatman and had 3 children; Elva Mary Reynolds (7/13/1914-5/18/1916); Anna Nichols Reynolds married Charles William Davis 11/25/1946, no children, then married George Steele 9/21/1996; Elizabeth Cloud Reynolds married Charles Raymond Hilaman 12/31/1944 and had 6 children; and Ahia Brinton Reynolds married Virginia White and had 2 children, then married Sharon Dodson and had 3 children.
--Twin Boys Cloud born and died August 1884.
--Pusey Cloud ( married Ida Hoopes 2/28/1911 and had 9 children.
--Samuel Pyle Cloud ( married Helen McFarland 5/8/1911, no children.
Parents: Samuel (1821-1899) & Rebecca (Pierce, 1821-1863) Pyle.
Siblings: Brother William
Other relation or close friend: What is relationship between Rachel & John Paxson Pyle (1846-1890 buried Union Hill, he was storekeeper and postmaster at Willowdale, parents Joseph Pyle & Julia Paxson; grandparents John Pyle & Amy Pennock; GGP James Pyle & Hannah Neal; GGGP John Pyle & Rachel Walter; 3rdGGPs Willam Pyle, Member of Assembly, Justice of the Courts of Thornbury, Chester Co. PA, & Olive Bennett; 4th GGPs Original to America Robert Pyle & Ann Stovey, they emigrated to Pennsylvania c1683. Robert Pyle was an active Quaker & clerk of meeting. The Quakers were founded by George FOX in 1647. He bought 150 acres in Bethel Twp, Chester Co now Delaware Co from William SMITH. A member of the Chichester meeting. In 1698 he issued a statement on the emancipation of slaves owned by Friends. This was later printed in the Friends Intelligencer in 1874 and again in the Journal of Negro History 1937 (Vol 22 p488). A juror of the Chester Court, Member of the Provincial Assembly of Penn. and a Justice of the Peace) whose wife Anna M. Pyle (nee Bane, 5/28/1850-4/6/1941 Sconnelltown, PA) is listed in 1930 census, 79 years, widowed, married at age 25 (but in 1881 she's @21), living with Rachel's son Sam Cloud & his wife Helen in the Sconnelltown half of house. Anna lived with them until her death in 1941. Was John Pyle Rachel's cousin, he's @ 7 years older than her????The house is owned by Sam's parents G. Martin & Rachel Cloud & they live in other half.
Rachel's father Samuel Pyle's obituary: Samuel Pyle was one of Kennett Square's best known and venerable citizens, a man thoroughly identified with the town and surrounding neighborhood, passed quietly away at the home of his daughter, in Marlborough, this morning. The deceased was 78 years of age, and was born in Kennett Township. He was a bricklayer by trade, and worked for many years with his brother, Thomas, a carpenter, erecting a large number of buildings in Kennett Square. A daughter, Rachel, wife of Martin Cloud of Marlborough, is his only survivor.
Schoolhouses:
•1804-1834, behind the Meetinghouse, it was raised. "1803 "The friends appointed to Consider the Propriety of building a schoolhouse report that they are united in believing it would be useful in the Neighborhood... Richard Barnard, David Chalfant, and William Wickersham are appointed to take in subscriptions and promote the building of a stone house about 20' square in the clear and report to a future meeting."
1804 The schoolhouse was completed in July.
C. 1820 From Isaac Martin's memoirs: "Eusebius Barnard tought school in the old house on the meeting house lot. The school house, meeting house and some sheds for horses were the only buildings on the hill... The road that now passes through the village had not then been laid out. The whole scenery around the meeting house was that of a thick forest... The grave yard was of about one-half its present size. The school house stood near the lower end of the meeting house lot. It was a stone structure 20 feet square."
•1834-1878 or 1880. "1834 Decision to build a "suitable schoolhouse... a building with two apartments one above another well lighted and ventilated one for the reception of children in the rudiments of learning and other adapted to pupils in the higher branches of literature and furnished with maps globes and scientific apparatus". "This was built next to the schoolmaster's house (built 1829-used as such till @ 1851, then sold by the meeting in 1925. In 1827 Cyrus Barnard was commissioned by the meeting to build this house, to be used by the schoolmaster of the Friends school. Isaac Martin and his wife lived here from 1831 to 1851, and here their three children were born. From 1851 until 1925, when the meeting sold it, the house was rented out )." "1861 The schoolhouse was rented to East Marlborough Township for $30 a year." "1927 The 1834 schoolhouse was sold to Marshall and Blanche Brown and the schoolhouse was razed."
•1878 or 1880-1890s, in the Marlborough Meeting house. "In 1878, the east end became a schoolroom, used intermittently through the 1890's. There is accommodation for 40-50 students." "1878 Friends decided to establish a school "similar to that of Friends at London Grove… [and] to put another story on our school building [which was never done] … in the meantime the east end of the meeting house might be used for that purpose."
1880 The meeting's east end was fitted for a school at the cost of $640.40. Rachie A. Pyle was hired as a teacher for six months at a salary of $300 for the term. The school began with 24 pupils, 12 of who were members. Meeting members attended free; non-members paid $10 for the term or 50 cents a week.
•1901-1923. "1901 East Marlborough Township rented meeting land across the road on which they built a schoolhouse." "On the fourth corner of the crossroad stands a two-floor brick building which was built in 1901 as a one-floor, two-room brick schoolhouse. Original entry was through the two doors on the two-bay northeast gable side facing Marlborough Spring Road. A square date stone is centered above the doors. When school consolidation made small schools obsolete, ca.1925, the building was sold in 1926/8 to a private party." "In 1901 East Marlborough Township built this new brick schoolhouse– "rather pretentious," the Daily Local News called it. One and a half stories high, it had separate entrances for boys and girls in the east end, where a datestone can be seen. It served the village area for a score of years, closing when the new consolidated school was built in Unionville."
•"In 1921 it was decided that a new school was needed to serve the four townships of East Marlborough, West Marlborough, Pocopson, and Newlin. The Unionville Joint Consolidated School was the first joint school to be built in the state of Pennsylvania. Nineteen smaller schools were closed in 1923 when the new Unionville Joint Consolidated School was completed. The original school enrollment was 661 students in all grades. The cost of the building was $122,402 including furnishings." "The Unionville Joint Consolidated School was opened in September 1923 for grades 1 to 12, bringing a close to the 19 one-room schools dispersed throughout the four townships. A bond was secured for 175,000 and six acres of land was purchased for 4,000.00. The building was originally designed for 635 students."
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