Our Story
Four Generations. One Standard.
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First GenerationA.M. "Snooks" Samples, 1930 to 2016
Snooks Samples roofed across north Georgia through the 1950s and 1960s, and he pastored Shiloh Baptist Church in Norcross. He was a man of faith and a man of the trade, and he passed both down.
He taught his son Danny to roof, and with it the habits that have carried through four generations: show up, work hard, and do the job right.
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Second GenerationDanny Samples, 1950 to 2021
Danny Samples learned the trade from his father, A.M. "Snooks" Samples, and spent 55 years on north Georgia roofs. In 1976 he started his own roofing company and ran it for 35 years, working cedar shakes, asphalt, and just about everything in between.
Danny was no nonsense, and he outworked everyone around him. He believed a roof should be done right the first time, and he did not leave a job until it was. His reputation grew one roof at a time, and his company grew with it.
He passed everything he knew to his son Mark, who started on his crew at 15. When Danny retired in 2011, Mark took over the business, and Danny stayed on as his advisor for the next ten years. In the woods behind his home, he also built and roofed a treehouse for his wife, Deborah. She called it Shiloh.
His standard is still the one we work by.
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Third GenerationMark Samples, Roofing Advisor
Mark started on his father Danny's crew at 15 and later took over the family roofing business. In 38 years on north Georgia roofs, he has become known for the specialty work many crews will not touch: cedar, standing seam metal, slate, and tile.
Today Mark serves as Shiloh's Roofing Advisor, backing our team with everything his father taught him. Ask him how he works and you will hear what he has said for decades: "If a job is not worth doing right, it is not worth doing."
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Fourth GenerationLandon Lyle, Founder and CEO
Landon started on his uncle Mark's crew at 16, hauling cedar shake debris to the dumpster. It taught him the job before the trade: work hard, leave the site clean, and know that every detail counts. A stray nail in the yard matters. So does how you carry a bundle up a ladder.
Before founding Shiloh, Landon spent years in healthcare leadership, rising to Chief Operating Officer.
He founded Shiloh to bring that discipline home and carry the family trade into its fourth generation. When you call Shiloh, you work with Landon from the first conversation to the final walkthrough.
Why Shiloh
Shiloh Specialty Roofing is named for a place of prayer.
In the early 2000s, Danny Samples built a treehouse in the woods behind his home for his wife, Deborah. He roofed it himself in cedar shakes. Deborah named it Shiloh.
Shiloh was where Deborah prayed. She interceded there for her husband Danny, for her children Mark and Amy, for her grandchildren Landon and Alicia, and for her sisters and extended family. The name meant something to this family long before the treehouse. A.M. "Snooks" Samples pastored Shiloh Baptist Church in Norcross, where Mark and Amy were baptized.
Deborah went home to be with the Lord in 2011. Her prayers remained.
Her daughter, Amy Lyle, learned her faith at her mother's side: the gospel, and what it means to walk with Jesus every day. Today Amy lives on that same land and prays there every day. She and her husband Jeff are turning the property's shop into Shiloh Collective, a ministry training center for young adults, in Deborah's honor.
Amy has always believed the Lord restores what has been lost. Part of that restoration is keeping roofing in the family, in the hands of her son and her brother. That is why the company carries the name. Every roof we build carries it too.
