I don't have any additional information on the Pirkles, but I believe I have some on the other side of your family. In family records of the Peters_Lewellen family, I show your mother, Margaret Louise
Petree, daugher of
Earnest M. Petree (1898 near
Rosendale MO) and Susan Marie
Stanton Petree (Jan 22, 1900
Fillmore, MO).
Earnest Matthew
Petree was the son of James Henry
Petree and and Cynthia C. Beall (1871 Resendale MO -1922
Fillmore MO) and James Henry
Petree (Feb 19, 1863 near
Rosendale MO - June 4, 1932
Fillmore, MO).
Cynthia Caroline
Beall was the child of
Reuben Pottinger Beall (Apr 12, 1845
Ohio) and Elizabeth A. Lewellen
Beall (Jan 6, 1850
Preble Co, OH).
Elizabeth was the daughter of Nancy
Peters (Feb 9, 1821
Franklin Co, VA) and
Bafford Lewellen (June 7, 1820
Preble Co OH) They were married March 11, 1847 in
Preble Co. OH, and are our common ancestor.
Bafford
Lewellen was the son of Phillip
Lewellen and Anna Runyen. I have found this branch of the family on the Ancestry site recently.
Nancy
Peters was the daughter of John
Peters and Elizabeth
Gossett.
John
Peters parents were Micheal
Peters (June 23, 1748) and Magdalene
Dillman (August 3, 1751).
Elizabeth's parents were Daniel Gosett (April 16, 1752) and Catherine Car (Feb. 14, 1756).
This research was done by primarily by Charles
Anderson Lewellen and Clifford
Peters Lewellen for the Peters-Lewellen family reunions that were held in the 1920's and '30s.
I sent a copy of this book (it was printed in a loose-leaf format so people could use it to keep up with the cousins) to the
Mormon Llibrary in
LA, which is where I started researching.
Hope this helps.
-Nancy