Welcome to Peake-Stiles
PEAKESTILES CONTAINS OVER 15,000 CONNECTED FAMILY MEMBERS, SPANNING MANY GENERATIONS, CENTURIES AND CONTINENTS.
Preserving and Sharing Our Family History
For generations my family has lived among the hills and hollows of Knob Creek, Kentucky. Discovering how we came to settle this land, and who those pioneering ancestors were, has led to the creation of this site. It is a collection of thousands of individual people, whose past life stories have shaped our present lives.
Family surnames include Peake, Stiles, Howard, Stark, Greenwell, Howell, Rapier, West, Boone, Cambron, Benningfield, Beam, Thompson, Fried, Short, and hundreds more.
W.O. & Nancy R. Stiles Collection
W.O. Stiles Family 1920s – 1930s
Courtesy of Ann Mattingly Payne
Courtesy of John B. Stiles III
Mary Leone Edelen Letter – 1946
Courtesy of Karen Mattingly Gentry
Individual Family Photos
These individual photos are divided into four groups, based on the family lines of my great-grandparents.
Peake – Greenwell
Howard – Howell
Stiles – Rapier
Stark – West
Headstones & Cemeteries
Browse the final resting places of our ancestors.
Stories
Tall tales and recollections of our ancestors. Some funny, some sad, all interesting.
Complete Family Tree
A complete, fully indexed listing of over 15,000 relatives.
Each family card shows parents, grandparents and children.
Navigate up and down through the generations.
Click the person’s name, tree icon, or media icon to see more information about them.
Tree Introduction
Search by Surname
Person Index
Family Records
Births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, wills, deeds, and more.
Help the Tree Grow
Send me your information, photos and stories. I’ll include them on the site.