This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DYER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3h.2ADE/1454.1 Message Board Post: DONT KNOW WHERE YOU GOT THE MAY 18, 1909- BUT I KNOW WHO YOU ARE TAKING ABOUT - MY GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS .LUCILLE WAS MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER -STICK WITH ME TO THE FLOYD COUNTY PART . HERMAN ENGLISH DYER SR WAS BORN 28 FEB 1882 IN SUMNER COUNTY, TENNESSEE THE YOUNGEST OF TEN CHILDREN BORN TO ISAIAH WASHINGTON DYER ( 1837-1888 WAS IN THE C.S.A. ) AND HIS WIFE MARTHA ANNA FRANCIS " PUSS " GLENN ( 1843- 1912 ) HE MARRIED FIRST TO MAGGIE BLATTON IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN AND HAD FOUR CHILDREN THEN AFTER SHE DIED OF T.B.IN 1912 HE MARRIED DELLA ANN BURNETT ON 24 JUNE 1918 AT LOUISVILLE,KY SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF ANDERSON WARREN BERNARD BURNETT AND HIS WIFE ADA BRUSE SHE WAS BORN 28 AUG 1895 AT LEITCHFIELD , GRAYSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY . HER MOTHER DIED IN 1906 AND SHE CAME TO LOUSIVILLE, KY WHERE SHE MET HERMAN A WIDOWER WHO HAD ONE LEG HE LOST IN A STREET CAR ACCIDENT IN NASHVILLE - THEY MARRIED AS I SAID AND HAD 7 MORE CHILDREN - TWO OF THE SONS( BROTHERS TO LUCILLE ) JOHN BERNARD (J.B. ) AND WILLIAM EDWARD " BILLY " DYER EACH DIED AT SIX YEARS OF AGE AND ARE BURIED WITH HERMAN AND DELLA AT FAIRVIEW CEMETERY IN NEW ALBANY, FLOYD COUNTY, INDIANA . THE DYER FAMILY MOVED FROM LOUISVILLE TO HARRISON COUNTY IN LATE 1919 BEFORE THE BIRTH OF THEIR FIRST SON TOGETHER HERMAN ENGLISH DYER JR ( BROTHER OF LUCILLE )-HE MAY BE THE ONE YOU ARE THINKING OF WE IN THE FAMILY CALLED HIM JUNIOR HIS FRIENDS HERMAN - LUCILLE MARIE DYER WAS BORN 9 APRIL 1923 AT ELIZABETH HARRISON COUNTY, INDIANA - IN LATE 1924 THE FAMILY MOVED TO NEW ALBAY, FLOYD COUNTY, INDIANA AND H! ERMAN OWNED DYER AND SON GROCERY AT 700 W. CHERRY STREET - CORNER OF 7TH AND CHERRY - HE DIED THERE ON 2 NOV 1938 AT AGE 56 FROM INFECTION THAT SET IN LEG - HE WAS UP FOR COUNTY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE RE-ELECTION WHEN HE DIED - HE HAD BEEN A SHERIFF, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, JUDGE, FLORIST , OWNED TWO GROCERY STORES ( ALTHOUGH THE RED CROSS DID A GOOD JOB OF CLEANING HIM OUT AFTER THE FLOOD IN 27 AND NEVER REALLY PAID HIM BACK BEFORE HE DIED ) HE ALSO OWNED FIVE HOMES AS RENTAL PROPERTY - HE LIVED ABOVE HIS GROCERY AND PRIOR TO THAT OFF HEDDEN COURT WHERE HE WAS A FLORIST HE ALSO OWNED RENTAL CABINS A DANCE HALL AND 2 DINERS .AS FAR AS MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER LUCILLE - SHE MARRIED FISRT TO SHERMAN EMMITT WRIGHT SON OF EDMOND MACK WRIGHT AND NANCY CATHERINE FULTON WHO CAME FROM JAMESTOWN, FENTRESS COUNTY, TENNNESSEE WHERE HE WAS BORN ON 26 MARCH 1917 - THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1939 - THE HARRISON COUNTY COURTHOUSE BURNED AND THEY CANT FIND THE EXACT DATE - SHE ALWAYS SAID SPRING SO WE FIGURE APRIL OR MAY - SHE AND SHERMAN HAD TWO CHILDREN - ANN KATHERYN WRIGHT - MY GRANDMOTHER AND RONALD N. WRIGHT WHO LIVES NEAR WASHINGTON, DC . - SHE THEN DIVORCED SHERMAN IN 1948 AND MARRIED RAYMOND HAROLD CREECH OF HARLAN COUNTY, KY - THEY HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN TOGETHER - MARSHA MARIE CREECH BELLA RAE CREECH EVA JO CREECH LAURA ROSE CREECH HAROLD STEVEN CREECH JEFFERY BARTON CREECH MARRY MARGARET CREECH - THEN LUCILLE DIVORCED HIM AND AFTER LIVING IN CALIFORNIA FOR AWHILE SHE CAME BACK TO INDIANA - SHE WAS SINGLE ALONG TIME AND IN HER LAST YEARS SHE MARRIED MARTIN FIELDS WHO WAS A WIDOWER WITH CHILDREN - THEY HAD NO KIDS TOGETHER AND HE DIED CA. 1981- LUCILLE MARIE (DYER0 WRIGHT , CREECH, FIELDS DIED AT HERDON VIRGINIA ON THE NIGHT OF THE 6TH INTO THE 7TH OF APRIL 1989 AND SHE WAS TAKEN BACK TO INDIANA FOR BURIAL SHE IS IN A CRYPT AT WILSON- ST.PIERRE'S FOREST LAWN CEMETERY ABOUT FIVE MILES FROM ME IN GREENWOOD,INDIANA JUST SOUTH OF INDIANAPOLIS . - DELLA( HER MOTHER ) OUTLIVED HER AND DIED WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER - I REMEMBER HER WELL AND SHE WAS SHARP UNTIL THE DAY SHE DIED .I LOVED HER VERY MUCH - LUCILLE HAD SOME TROUBLE WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER AND MY GRANDMOTHER LIVED WITH HER GRANDMOTHER DELLA DYER UNTIL SHE WAS 15 WHEN SHE CAME TOLIVE WITH LUCILLE IN INDIANAPOLIS - DELLA TOLD US ALL ABOUT HER HISTORY AND BACKGOUND AND DELLA'S FATHER A.W.B. BURNETT " WARREN " LIVED WITH HIS DAUGHTER DELLA AND GRANDAUGHTER ANN . HE DIED IN 9149 WHILE MY GRANDMOTHER WAS VISTING HER MOM - LUCILLE IN CALIFORNIA . - I WOULD LOVE TO SHARE WITH YOU FARTHER - THE " KNOBS " OF CORSE AR THE FLOYD KNOBS WHICH ARE THE SMALL MOUNTAINS THAT SURROUND THE OHIO RIVER . - PLEASE CONTACT ME . AT ONE POINT THE WHOLE TOWN KNEW THE DYER FAMILY AND THE DYER FAMILY KNEW THEM . SCOTT B. BUSH 1126 LONDONERRY LANE GREENWOOD,IN. 46142-1632 (317) 884-0276 EMAIL : [email protected] -THATS THE ONE I CHECK EVERYDAY - ALSO [email protected],COM AND [email protected] .