This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dire, Dyer Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2498 Message Board Post: CROFTON Died -- Wife of John DIRE, of this town, on last Monday of fever. She was a young woman just in the bloom of youth, but was called to go. She leaves a husband and three children to miss a wife's love and a mother's care. Such is life. "In the midst of life we are in death." The entire family have our sympathy and love, for God knoweth best. (Source: Earlington Bee, Thur., Aug. 25, 1892)