2025 Kentucky Stiles Family Reunion

August 3, 2025
Location: Union Band Baptist Church

Invitation to the 89th David Stiles Reunion

 

 

Mark your calendar so you won’t miss Sunday, August 3, 2025 to catch up with cousins having the same heritage. We hope you can attend.

Please bring food for the pot-luck lunch at 1:00 in the fellowship hall of Union Band Baptist church, located at 5434 Stiles Road, New Haven, Ky. 40051 along with pictures and stories of your family. The valley was known as Stiles, Ky which is on Highway 84 between Hodgenville and Lebanon. The Stiles Family of Nelson County have met at the 169-year-old Union Band Baptist Church since 1938. It is a beautiful country church that sits on land donated by Burr Stiles with stained glass windows that were donated by the local Stiles families. The Stiles Cemetery is behind the church with a granite monument to David Stiles by the John B. Fitch D.A.R. of Bardstown, Ky, due to his service in the Revolutionary War. His children are listed and that’s where we are connected. I encourage you to visit the church and go to the cemetery following the meeting. The first church was built at the cemetery site but burned down.

We will have a short business meeting at the Stiles Reunion to elect a few officers and updates needed to maintain the cemetery. We collect donations for the church and cemetery. If you can’t come, please donate to the church or the Stiles Cemetery. Your generosity is our only income for the Stiles Cemetery other than selling grave plots to continue mowing and upkeep. It requires close to $2,700 yearly. Donations to the Stiles Cemetery can be sent to our treasurer: Bill Shoemaker, 180 Gaddie Ford Rd., New Haven, Ky 40051. You will receive a confirmation for your donation from the president.

In 2023, Palmer & Rose Stiles from Florida wanted to start a Stiles Family Archive which will receive family documents, and pictures. The archive was created due to family members not interested in preserving family memorabilia. Each item will need names, approximate year, grandparents on both sides and the main family they are descendants from: Lewis, Charles, Eunice, Densy, John, Chilion, Rhoda, Abraham, Demas or David Stiles, Jr. We need information from the giver: name, address, phone number, and email address. The president will store the donations at her home in a filing cabinet.

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Sue Stiles Lane, Reunion President
sue.lane1@twc.com