A Brief Family History
Our Matriarch: Sophia Atkins Duckett Pylas AKA
Our Matriarch: Sophia Atkins Duckett Pylas AKA "Grandma Sophie"

Grandma Sophia was a loving mother, devoted wife, and a wonderful person to all who knew her. She was born to a slave. Her father was a sharecropper in the Piedmont section of Newberry, South Carolina.

When she became a young lady, she married Will Duckett. and they were blessed with 12 children. After the death of Will, Sophie married Hillery Pyles who had 11 of his own children. Sophie loved the children as if they were her own.'

Hillery Pyles

Geneology Documents
Genealogy Documents
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1912 Marriage Certificate of Nathaniel DUCKETT and Daisy PYLES
1919 Birth Certificate for Cornell DUCKETT
1940 WW2 Draft Card for Cornell DUCKETT
1940 Census Record of Household of Daisy PYLES DUCKETT
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