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Dyer of Henry County

The family is of English-Scotch extraction. George Dyer died 1827 in Henry County, Virginia. He served as a Lieutenant during the Revolutionary War and was married to Nancy Reynolds Salmons when she was nineteen years of age. He was called to duty during the War of 1812. At the time he left his wife and one child. Afterwards, he returned home where he served as a representative in the House of Delegates from Henry County, for twelve years. He died in 1844. Issue:

• David Dalton Dyer, born 1791 married to Nancy Salmons and removed to Missouri in 1841 to join their five sons. The couple had twelve children. Issue:
  1. David Patterson Dyer was born 12 Feb 1838, died 29 April 1924 was a United States federal judge and U.S. Representative from Missouri. He was also the uncle of U.S. Representative Leonidas C. Dyer. He settled on a farm of 260 acres in Lincoln County, Missouri. In 1857 he entered into the practice of law in Bowling Green under the Honorable James C. Broadhead; admitted to the bar in 1859. Later he opened a law office in a small room of the Court House. He was married to Lizzie Chambers Hunt. He became Lieutenant of the Home Guards in Gowling Green; later a Colonel of a Missouri regiment. In 1862 the family removed from Bowling Green to Pike County, Missouri. In 1864 he organized the 49th Missouri Regiment and was commissioned Colonel. After the war, he returned to the Legislature; elected Secretary of State in 1866. In 1869, elected to Congress.

David Patterson Dyer (1838-1924).


Dyer Tombstone, Bellafontaine Cemetery.

Sources: History of Henry County, Virginia; Biographical Directory of the United States Congress; Bellafontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri; History of Patrick and Henry Counties.