HI... This message was sent to me and I'm posting it to the DYESS group.... Can anyone help this person?????? They have some great information.... Thanks!!!!! kaite... >Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 06:46:44 -0500 >From: Jim Bishop <jbishop@gte.net> >Organization: home >To: kaite <kaite@kaite.com> >Subject: DYESS Reunion > >Hi Kaite, > >I saw your announcement on the rootsweb list for 17 February. Do you >know of alternate spellings such as Dies, Dias??? I have an ancestor >whose information is below, and would love to know if you or others >researching the Dyess spelling are aware of. I have much more >information on Mary Jane, wife of Joseph Adams. > >Descendants of Andrew DIAS > >First Generation > >1. Andrew DIAS was born 16 Jun 1801. >Andrew married Ann ANDERSON about 1824. Ann was born 18 May 1805. >They had the following children: > + 2 F i. Mary Jane DIAS was born 12 May >1826 and died 19 May 1882. > 3 M ii. Joseph H. DIAS was born 30 Mar >1828. > 4 F iii. Angeline DIAS was born 5 Aug >1830. > 5 M iv. Andrew DIAS was born 5 Aug 1832. >He died 1907. > 6 M v. Samuel DIAS was born 12 May >1834. > 7 F vi. Melinda DIAS was born 15 Apr >1837. > 8 F vii. Lucinda DIAS was born 3 Feb >1839. She died 6 Jan 1841. > 9 M viii. John DIAS was born 21 Jan 1841. > 10 M ix. Thomas M.R. DIAS was born 29 Jun >1843. > > > > >Second Generation > >2. Mary Jane DIAS (Andrew) was born 12 May 1826. She died 19 May >1882. >Mary married Joseph ADAMS on 17 May 1846 in Saltsburg, , PA. Joseph was >born 8 May 1819 in , , PA. He died 26 Oct 1862 in Sharpsburg, MD. >They had the following children: > 11 M i. William Woodard ADAMS was born 8 >May 1847. He died 29 Mar 1854. > 12 F ii. Ann Marinda ADAMS was born 20 >Aug 1850. >Ann married John DAUGHERTY on 13 Feb 1872. > 13 M iii. James Andrew ADAMS was born 16 >Jan 1853. He died 1 Feb 1854. > 14 M iv. William James ADAMS was born 27 >Apr 1855. > 15 F v. Mary Jane ADAMS was born 14 Jul >1857. >Mary married Harry A. NICHOLS on 30 Sep 1875. > 16 F vi. Sara Elizabeth ADAMS was born 15 >Apr 1859. > + 17 F vii. Laura Matilda ADAMS was born 10 >Dec 1861 and died 19 Dec 1914. > > > > >Third Generation > >17. Laura Matilda ADAMS (Mary Jane DIAS, Andrew) was born 10 Dec >1861 in , , PA.. She died 19 Dec 1914 in McKeesport, Allegheny, PA and >was buried Dec 1914 in Coultersville, , PA. >Laura married George Washington GARVIN, son of Jesse Cramer GARVIN and >Mary NEVILLE, on 17 Apr 1878 in , , PA. George was born 10 Oct 1857 in , >, PA. He died 13 Jul 1929 in McKeesport, Allegheny, PA. >They had the following children: > 18 M i. Joseph H. GARVIN was born 19 Jan >1879 in , Allegheny, PA. > 19 M ii. Jesse C. GARVIN was born 10 Oct >1881 in , Allegheny, PA. > 20 M iii. William Freeman GARVIN Rev. was >born 30 Mar 1884 in Coultersville, Allegheny, PA. He died 25 Feb 1959 in >DAYTON, , OH and was buried 2 Mar 1959 in Tulsa, Memorial Pk Cem, OK, >OKLOHOMA. >William married Edna LaRue BROCKWAY, daughter of Jesse Wilson BROCKWAY >and Kathryn Jane JENKINS, on 25 Jun 1913 in Joliet, Will, IL. Edna was >born 22 Dec 1893 in Joliet, Will, IL. She died 18 Feb 1976 in >Springfield, Greene, MO. > 21 M iv. George Washington GARVIN Jr. was >born 12 Jan 1886 in , , PA.. He died 23 Feb 1959 in McKeesport, , PA and >was buried in MT.VERNON CEM., McKeesport, Allegheny, PENNSYLVANIA. >George married Grace K.. Grace was born 7 Aug 1891 in , , PA.. She died >Jul 1976. > 22 F v. Nellie M GARVIN was born 6 Mar >1888 in , , PA.. >Nellie married Harold DAVIS. > 23 F vi. Ida H GARVIN was born 6 Jan 1890 >in , , PA.. She died 6 Jul 1964. >Ida married A. C. HADBERG. > 24 M vii. Charles Neville GARVIN was born >2 Mar 1892 in , , PA.. He died Apr 1969 in Alameda, , CA. >Charles married Mazy Lillian GRANT. Mazy was born 9 Nov 1894 in >Cresaptown, , MD. She died 3 Apr 1988. > 25 M viii. Samuel D. GARVIN was born 28 Sep >1894. He died Nov 1895. > 26 F ix. Laura Marguerite GARVIN was born >27 Sep 1903. She died Nov 1983 in St.Petersburg, Pinellas, FL. >Laura married (1) Wilbur FELDSHAW. >Laura also married (2) BEALS. > > > >Appendix A - Notes > > >1. Andrew DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >1S. Ann ANDERSON >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >2. Mary Jane DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. >MARRIAGE: Joseph Adams and Mary J DYES, m. 17 May 1846, according to >Fischer, Della Reagan, "Marriage & Death Notices From Weekly Newspapers >of Westmoreland County, PA 1818- 1865," S.W. Genealogy Genealogical >Services, 1977, p. 1. Surname spelled DYES in this entry, but spelled >DIAS in Family Group Sheet of Ruth (GARVIN) BISHOP, and recorded >"births" in family Bible page of unknown source and/or origin. The >notice most likely appeared in 22 May 1846 newspaper notice, since entry >had "m 05-17-1846 (05-22-1846). In information from the Application for >Widow's Pension, National Archives, Mary Jane's surname is spelled DIES. > >2S. Joseph ADAMS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. Mother, Ruth LaRue (Garvin) Bishop's notes had the following: 40th >Infantry, Company B, Eleventh Reserve, Buried at Gettysburg, Clerk at >National Archives. >DEATH: The information about his death came from hand written notes of >Ruth (Garvin) Bishop, mother of James Bashford Bishop, Jr. But, on 1 >Jan 1997, James B. Bishop, Jr. received information from Helen Marie >More, that her Roll of Honor records which contains names and >information of all Union Army Soldiers who died during their Civil War >service contained the following: ADAMS, Pvt. Joseph - Company I, 55th >PA Infantry; Died 26 Oct 1862; Age 43: Cemetery information states the >following: Antietam National Cemetery, Maryland (Grave 20, Lot A, >Section 26). >BURIAL: Antietam National Cemetery, Maryland (Grave 20, Lot A, Section >26). >CivilWar: National Archives pension records from NA Trust Fund Board, >Washington, DC, Box #32597, Cert # 92532 - Mary Jane Adams:widow; bundle >#77 provided the following information: Joseph Adams was enrolled on 4 >August 1862 at Allegheny Co. PA in Company I 155th Regiment of >Pennsylvania Volunteers to serve three years; hge was enfolled as a >private on 2 September 1862 at Pittsburgh, PA in Company I, 155th >Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers to serve three years; On the >Company I Muster Rolls for November and December 1862, he was reported, >"Died at Hospital in Sharpsburgh, 26 October 1862, Cause of death not >stated." >CivilWar: The file further contained information that Company I of the >155th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers was commanded by Capt. Samuel >A. McKee. It further stated that Joseph Adams died of disease incurred >in service, "dysentery." >CivilWar: In her "Declaration for Widow's Army Pension" widow Mary Jane >(DIAS/DIES) ADAMS stated that she had five children then living (at time >of application 27 Sept 1864), under the age of 16: Ann M. Adams, aged 15 >years, Wm. J. Adams, 10 years (born 27 April 1855), Mary J. Adams, age 8 >(born 14 July 1857), Sarah E. Adams, age 6 (born 15 April 1859), Laura >M. Adams, age 3 (born 10 Dec 1861), all living with their mother in >Allegheny County, PA. Her declaration was certified or attested to by >Annie C. Dies and Samuel A. Deis (spellings varied in document) who >stated Mary Jane and Joseph had lived together as husband and wife for >sixteen years prior to Joseph's death. >CivilWar: >MARRIAGE: Declaration for Widow's Army Pension, National Archives,, >Box#32597, Cert. #92532, of Mary Jane Adams, widow, gave following >information on marriage to Joseph Adams: "She further declares that she >was lawfully married to the said Joseph Adams at Saltsburg in the State >of Pennsylvania by Rev. W.W. Woodend a minister on the 19th day of May >1846.." > >3. Joseph H. DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >4. Angeline DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >5. Andrew DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. >Entered 7/25/1992 from Ruth L. (Garvin) Bishop's Family Group 22. >Information on family from family Bible obtained by Ruth from source not >known. > >6. Samuel DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >7. Melinda DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >8. Lucinda DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >9. John DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >10. Thomas M.R. DIAS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >11. William Woodard ADAMS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. Information also from family record sheets of Births & Deaths, maybe >from a Bible, obtained by Ruth from source not known to me. > >12. Ann Marinda ADAMS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >12S. John DAUGHERTY >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >13. James Andrew ADAMS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. > >14. William James ADAMS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. >BIRTH: Widow's pension file of Mary Jane (DIES) ADAMS obtained in 1997 >from the National Archives, Box #32597, Cert. #92532, bundle #77; The >file contained a sworn statement provided by Mrs. Hannah Black who >appeared personally before Justice of the Peace, James M. Love, on 27 >October 1868. In the statement, Mrs. Black stated that Mary Jane >ADAMS's son William James Adams was born 27 April 1855 and that she knew >the date of birth from having been present and assisting at its >delivery, and that Ann C. DIES was also present. She further stated >that she knew of no Baptismal or other public record of the date of its >birth, nor of any physician who was present at the time. > >15. Mary Jane ADAMS >Entered 7/24/1992 from family records, Ruth L. Garvin's Family Group No. >10. Information taken from pages of family Bible entries; the copies or >pages of the Bible or book were obtained by Ruth Garvin Bishop from a >source not known. >BIRTH: Date of birth confirmed by Civil War Pension affadavits filed by >mother Mary Jane Adams, Box#32597, Cert.#92532, Bundle#77, National >Archives, as 14 July 1857. The affadavit was submitted by Isabella >Cornell, who attested, "Mary Jane Adams born 14 July 1857; that she >knows the date of firth of said child from having been present and >assisting at it's delivery , and that Ann C. Dies was also present: that >she knows of no Baptismal or other public record of the date of its >birth, nor of any physician who was present at the time..." The >affadavit was sworn to and subscribed before Justice of the Peace Jamy >M. Love, State of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny on 27 October 1868. > >Jim >