THROUGH
MOUNTAIN MISTS
Early Settlers of
Their
Descendants...Their Stories...Their Achievements
Lifting the
Mists of History on Their Way of Life
By: Ethelene Dyer Jones
The designation
“Jr.” was
not attached to Bluford Elisha Dyer’s name when he came into
We’ve
finally located a place we are fairly certain Bluford Elisha Dyer, Jr.
was
buried. Thanks to Harold Dyer who
explored the land and remembered what his father and grandfather told
him, the
knoll on which we firmly believe Bluford Elisha Dyer, Jr. was buried
has been identified. The land has a long
record of being “passed
down” through the generations. Harold
received it from his father, William Edward.
Before him James C. Dyer, Harold’s grandfather, owned it. It came to him from James Marion Dyer, who
was one of the sons living at home away back in 1834, when the
household of
Elisha (Jr.) was listed in
We’re
erecting a monument to mark the “spot near where” the burial took place. We will remember this ancestor and his
beginnings in
The
lineage of Choestoe Dyers is a bit hard to trace. But
some facts are rather well
established. John Dyer (Sr. ca. 1710 –
1773) was first in
John
Dyer moved from
Elisha, Sr. was our ancestor. He migrated from Caroline County, Virginia to
Wilkes County, North Carolina, next moving to Pendleton District, SC,
and then
finally to Warren County, Kentucky, where he died in 1816.
We
wonder why Elisha Dyer, Sr. moved so much.
He and his wife, Amey Laws Dyer, were patriots in the American
Revolution. We do not have a record of
his serving as a soldier, but this couple is recognized as rendering
“material
aid” during the war. This may mean that
they provided horses or mules for soldiers, provisions of food,
clothing and
“provender” for animals, or other significant aid to further the effort
to win
Elisha
Dyer, Sr. and Amey Laws Dyer had ten known children, a daughter (name
unknown
who married a Barber), Josiah who married Sarah Whittingdon, Rosannah
who
married Benjamin Hubbard, Anna who married William Johnson, Abner who
married
Nancy Jane Moore, Manoah who married Rebecca Tremble, Caleb who married
Rebecca
Howard, Elizabeth who married Bollin Clark, Bluford Elisha, Jr. who
married
Elizabeth Clark and John who married Sophia Young.
We will concentrate on Bluford Elisha, Jr.,
our ancestor, who moved with his father from
Bluford
Elisha Dyer, Jr. was born about 1785 in
To
Elisha and Elizabeth were born these children:
Mary Elizabeth (called Sallie) Dyer (1803 – ca. 1860) who
married Eli
Townsend; two or three girls, first names unknown; Lucinda Dyer
(1811-1870)
[note this name may have been Lurrina, not Lucinda, as Watson B. Dyer
listed it
in his Dyer Family history book] married William Crow;
Joseph Dyer (1814-1874) married Narcissa
Crow; Elisha Dyer (1816-1870) married Mary Jane Younce;
Micajah Clark Dyer (1817-1889) married
Harriet Logan Hall; Elijah Dyer (1819-1870) married Mary “Polly”
Kettle; James
Marion Dyer (12 Oct. 1823-27 Apr. 1904) married Eliza Ingraham (5 Mar.
1827 – 7
Mar. 1907); Lucinda Dyer (1826-1902) [note possible error—it is not
likely they
named two daughters Lucinda] married James Monroe Crow; Malinda Dyer
(ca.
1827-?) married William B. Harkins; Matilda Dyer (ca. 1830 - ?) married
Francis
M. Swain; and Bluford Lumpkin Dyer (1832-1907) married Ruthie Turner.
Note
that eldest daughter Sallie had a son, also named Micajah Clark Dyer
(13 July,
1822 – 26 Jan. 1891) who married Morena Elizabeth Owenby (
After
living in
It
is good, finally, to identify a spot where Bluford Elisha Dyer, Jr. was
buried. It is believed his wife,
Elizabeth, was interred in the
[Ethelene Dyer
Jones is a retired educator,
freelance writer, poet, and historian. She may be reached at
e-mail [email protected];
phone 478-453-8751; or mail 1708 Cedarwood Road, Milledgeville, GA
31061-2411.]
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