John Alford Stiles (1838 - 1912): Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

1838 - 1912 (74 years)

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Name	John Alford Stiles [2]
Birth	1838	Lynchburg, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States [2, 3]
Gender	Male
Death	1912	_______, _______, Tennessee, United States [1, 4]
Burial	1912	Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Vanntown, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States
Person ID	I3325	Lindell-Herndon Genealogy
Last Modified	27 May 2018

Father	James Stiles, b. 1809, _______, Laurens District, South Carolina, United States d. 1875, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States (Age 66 years)
Mother	Mary Ann Taylor, b. 15 Nov 1811, Edgecombe, Pender County, North Carolina, United States d. 26 Dec 1897, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States (Age 86 years)
Marriage	1826	Taylorville, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States [5, 6]
Family ID	F597	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Mariah Payne, b. 14 Aug 1835, _______, _______, Tennessee, United States d. Abt 1865, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States (Age 29 years)

Marriage 2 Feb 1860 Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States [2, 5]

Children

	1. Rufus Washington Stiles, b. 15 Jan 1861, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States d. 5 Jul 1929, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States (Age 68 years)
	2. James Lorenzo Stiles, b. 27 Jan 1863, Kelso, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States d. 19 Jun 1929, New Market, Madison County, Alabama, United States (Age 66 years)
	3. Younger Taylor Stiles, b. 10 Feb 1864, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States d. 3 Feb 1905, _______, _______, Tennessee, United States (Age 40 years)

Family ID F2445 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 27 May 2018

Family 2	Sarah Catherine Baxter, b. 14 Aug 1835, _______, _______, North Carolina, United States d. 24 Dec 1913, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States (Age 78 years)
Marriage	26 Dec 1867	_______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States [5, 7]
Notes	[Stiles-1999] lists the date of Sarah Catherine (Baxter) McDaniel’s marriage to John Alford Stiles as 25 December. [2]
Family ID	F2560	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	27 May 2018

Event Map

	Marriage - 2 Feb 1860 - Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States
	Marriage - 26 Dec 1867 - _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States
	Death - 1912 - _______, _______, Tennessee, United States

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Notes

There are multiple burial references for John Alford Stiles. One has him buried at Pleasant View Cemetery, Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee. However there is no first hand evidence of a grave site or marker. More likely, John Alford Stiles is buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Vanntown, Lincoln County, Tennessee, located on the site of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. Pleasant Hill Cemetery is where his second wife Sarah Catherine McDaniel is buried, and John Alford Stiles was married to Sarah for almost 35 years. [4, 5, 7]
[LDS-AF-2002a] has birth at Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Virginia. [3]
[USGenWeb-1998c] has an obituary entry for a “John A Stiles” who died sometime before 1 Jan 1914. [8]

Reference Herndon, William Robert. "John Alford Stiles", Lindell-Herndon Genealogy. [Online]. Available: https://lindell-herndon.org/getperson.php?personID=I3325&tree=LindellHerndon. [Accessed: 06-Jun-2026].

Sources

[S315] [Herndon-2025] Herndon, William Robert, Lindell-Herndon Genealogy, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin: By the author, 2025.
[S272] [Stiles-1999] Stiles, Leon, Descendants of Joseph Stiles.
[S271] [LDS-AF-2002a] Taylor, Margaret and Opal T Allen (submitters), "Descendants of James Stiles and Mary Ann Taylor," Ancestral File (familysearch.org), Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2002.
[S1520] [Pleasant-Hill-1912a] "Burial Reference for John Alford Stiles," Interment Records of Pleasant Hill Cemetery (Lincoln County, Tennessee), Find A Grave (findagrave.com), 2015.
[S1496] [Stratton-2002b] Stratton, Marsha Romney, "Modified Register for James Stiles".
[S173] [LDS-AF-1999f] Stratton, Marsha Romney and Opal T. Allen (submitters) , "Descendants of William Stiles and Mary Traylor Rowlett (partial)," Ancestral File (familysearch.org), Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1999.
[S1519] [Pleasant-Hill-1913a] "Gravesite of Sarah Catherine Stiles," Interment Records of Pleasant Hill Cemetery (Lincoln County, Tennessee), Find A Grave (findagrave.com), 2015.
[S275] [USGenWeb-1998c] Winsett, Dwight S. (contributor), Index to 2,025 Death Notices from the Fayetteville Observer: January 6, 1910 - January 2, 1919, The USGenWeb Project (usgenweb.org), May 1998.

John Alford Stiles[1]

John Alford Stiles^[1]