Without an "E"

[petercoyl]

Gracious to chancelotGo to the following link and enter your last name to find out how common it is in the United States

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[peters_mom]

Before reading this I emailed a copy of the database to you. Unfortunately, my connection keeps dropping. I'll try again later.

As for the feud, the story was that two brothers had a fight and one decided to drop the "e" in the name. Since the name has been spelled Coyl, Coyle, Coil, and Coile on legal documents for generations it is difficult to track down the source of the feud story. However, Joseph Roy Coyl had two sons. Your G-G-Grandfather, James Samuel Coyl, and most of his descendants spell the name Coyl. James Samuel's brother, William Thomas Coyle, and all of his descendants that I'm aware of spell the name Coyle. Since William Thomas moved across the state line into Oklahoma the feud may have been between him and James Samuel. An interesting footnote to this is that the descendants of both men ended up living in the Los Angeles area by the 1940's. They lived within a few miles of each other but never knew the other was there. How sad.

BTW, Dad's Aunt Norma, Grandpa Gene's sister, spells the name Coyle.

[petercoyl]

what was the deal about the tombstone being without an E?

[peters_mom]

James Samuel Coyl was the one still living in Arkansas when his parents died so I assume he was the one erect the tombstone. That was the first piece of evidence I had that the "e" had been dropped.

[just_aims]

I think you can dowload PAF for free? I think...

[petercoyl]

yeah, but my mom has all the data of the research, etc. ;-)

[just_aims]

Oops. Right.

*forehead smack*

[chancelot]

you're welcome