There is an official coat of arms for the name WILES.   It is documented in "Burkes General Armory". The description is as follows:  "AR TWO BARS GU. ON EACH THREE CROSSES CROSSLETFITCHER OR"  or translated  " Silver, two red horizontal bars: on each three gold crosses    crosslet fitchee".

In my family there is an old tale that three brothers came to America from Ireland. This seemed impossible as there aren't many people named Wiles in Ireland today. Every indication was that they came from Wales. Wiles also means, "Man from Wales". Other spelling of this surname is: Whiles, Wild, Wilds, Wyles.

Another old family tale is that our ancestor immigrated on a potato boat to America.

New information is that three Wiles brothers landed in Delaware. One named Abraham settled in Delaware. The second one settled in Maryland, there is record of a Thomas there. The last one in the present state called West Virginia. Possibly there names were Samuel or Nathaniel.

I located John Wiles, also spelled Whiles, Wilds, and Wyles. Not much is known about John at this time other than he lived in Davidson County, Tennessee, latter Sumner County. He owned 384 acres of land and was active in the community. There are numerous court records in Davidson and Sumner Counties. John died in 1806. It is believe that his wife was named Sally and his adult children John, and William, and minor children were George, Jenny, Samuel, and Margaret.  His will listed his children along with a woman named Sally.

It is possible that the William Wiles listed above, married a Nancy McKee on 18 Mar 1805 in Sumner County, TN. William's surname was spelled Wyles. Nancy was the daughter of Alexander McKee of Ireland and Mary Bean of America. To further complicate matters the records are still sparse. The only record shows that William and Nancy had two daughters Elizabeth (1813) and Martha (1815). It is believed that they had three sons named John (1805), William (1807), and Alexander (1809). A record was found that did list William and Alexander as sons of William and Nancy Wyles. The source person also listed William being married to Louisa McKee. There wasn't a Louisa McKee, but a Louisa Park married John Wiles. This was confirmed from the Park Family Bible. The parents are still being researched. To further complicate matters. On the 1860 Tennessee Census for Davidson County there is a William Wyles age 53. There is also a William Wiles on the 1860 Arkansas Census from Lawrence County, age 53. All the dependents names are listed under the census web link for each state. Both William's list place of birth as Tennessee.