BIOGRAPHY

SAMUEL DYE - OF BETHANY, NY

Samuel Dye, born in the town of Mayfield, Montgomery County, NY, June 20, 1818, came with his parents to Springwater when 13 years of age. In 1841 he married Sarah Bevins, of Springwater. They had eight children, now living: Samuel H., William R., Jennie M., Julia A., Ada M., Eudora H., and George E. Samuel H. owns a fruit farm on road 20. In the war of the Rebellion he enlisted, August 30, 1862 in Co. I, 136th Inf. NY Vols., and was discharged on surgeon's certificate of disability by loss of use of left leg, from a gun-shot wound received in the battle of Gettysburg, from the hospital at Philadelphia, Pa. At the same time he was shot in the right arm near the shoulder, which was broken, and also through the third finger of the right hand, the ball passing through the fleshy part of the hand, under the thumb, into the wrist.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, NY 1890