The following article was in The Town Talk, Alexandria, La., Feb. 7, 1999: Look at the end of the article for his line of SLOAN ancestors.... Looking for cousins!!!! <smile> This is my uncle.... ==================== Dyess not Member of Ag Committee District 29 state Sen. B. G. Dyess, D-Alexandria, is the newest member of the Louisiana State Senate Committee on Agriculture. Senate President Randy Ewing recently named DYESS to the committee which handles legislation and other matters relating to agricultrue generally, aquaculture, livestock, rural development, soil conservation, human nutrition, the dairy industry and the plant industry. "I am pleased Senator DYESS has agreed to take on these new responsibilities as a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee," Senate President Ewing said. "Senator DYESS is a dedicated, hard-working legislator and I know he will be a real asset to the work of the agriculture committee." DYESS, who grew up on a small farm in Rapides Parish, has a special understanding of the issues facing farmers across the state and in the central Louisiana area, he said. Besides serving on the Senate Agriculture Committee, DYESS serves as vice chairman of the Senate Judiciary B Committee and is also a member of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee and the Transportation Committee. ======================== B. G. Dyess is the son of J. B. Dyess and Sarah Matilda Smith the grandson of Edmond D. Dyess and Margaret Mathis is the great-grandson of John Mathis and Margaret Carlton the GG-Grandson of Chadrach Carlton and ???? SLOAN (born ca 1796) the GGG-Grandson JOHN SLOAN and Burnita Porter