I am trying to find how the Joel Franklin DYER family came to Texas. Whether from TN to AR to TX or perhaps directly from KY as my father (the John C. in 1880 Census) claimed. 1880 Montague Co. Texas Census lists a Joel Dyer born about 1849 in TN, his father Joel Dyer b. 1809 also lives with him. Source: Montague Co, Tx. p.2 E.D. 121, J.P. 3, l June #14/15 "Joel F. Dyer 31 Farmer b. TN, father b. TN, Mother b. N.C. Ladema G. 26 wife b. Ala., father b. Tn, Mother b. N.C. John C. 6 b. Tx. Joda A. 4 b. Tx. Mary D. 2 b. Tx. Joel Dyer 71 Father b. Tn. Father b. Va., Mother b. Tn. (his father was listed as a farmhand) Willie E. Adkins, age 9, b. Ark. (Boarder), father & mother born in Ark. Arnold B. Pigg 34, Farmer, b.Va, father & mother b. Va Sarah J. 21 b. Tn. her parents b. Tn. Thomas G. 3 b. Tx. Idia L. 1 b. Tx. daughter" Census information from Richard Preator: Ladema G. was a second wife for Joel F. The mother of the three young DYER children was Mary Emma MEDLEY.