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Topic: DYER, BRANCH, THOMAS
Conf: Morris County Queries, Msg: 97595
From: Tom Halvorsen Gatlin (tgatlin@techline.com)
Date: 3/4/2006 08:42 PM

The family of SAMUEL and ELIZA DYER lived at Council Grove sometime between 1870 and 1893. They had 10 children, James Stevens, John Henry, William David, Sarah Katherine "Kate", Elizabeth Jane,Joshua Caleb, Nathaniel S., Samuel, Aaron Charles, and my great-grandmother, Eliza Ann.

Samuel Dyer (the father) died in July of 1877. We don't know where, but would LOVE to find his gravesite.


Elizabeth Jane married Isaac Milo Thomas in Council Grove in 1883. We would like to get a marriage record of some kind.

Eliza Ann (the daughter) married a man with the last name of BRANCH. We think his first name was SHERMOND, but are having no luck finding anyone by that name anywhere. Maybe Sherman? Or Sherwood? They had a daughter, RHODA VIOLA BRANCH, my grandmother, on Oct. 30, 1890. It would be one of my greatest delights to find record of her birth or her parents existence in Kansas. Eliza and Rhoda left Shermond and moved to Washington. But we have never found ANY record of Shermond at all -- anywhere. We do have a professional photo of the three of them taken in Kansas about 1892, with his name on the back. But that is all we have of him. Can anyone help??? THANKS! Tom