The Dye Family Ancestry
The Dye and Beeman Family of Allegany County, Maryland
And Fayette County, Pennsylvania
This Dye family started out in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland and moved to Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
The information below on John Dye, Jr. is based on stories from the family as far as when it is saying he was born out of widlock and some of the other stuff. I am still researcginf this and as we all know how stories seem to get a little mixed up over the years when it's passed down if you know what I mean so until than this is what I have to work with. But I also have facts to other information so I will post what I know and when I get updated material I will make the changes and let you know.
Just stop back time to time as information might change. Oh and also stop back time to time as I get more family information.
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John Dye
John Dye, was born out of widlock, February 24, 1871 in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland. He was christened Catholic at the St. Mary's Church, probably by Father James O'Brian, in the George's Creek area in Lonaconing. He was going to be Christened John Lexioner or Lexoner, but they couldn't pronounce it so they Christened him as John Bowers. His mother's name was Mary Elizabeth Phillips. I believe her last name may have been Lexioner or Lexoner also and she went by the last name Phillips. It is told that his father was German, but this is still undetermend at this time, because it is also said that John Jefferson Dye, the son of James Dye and Mary Jane (Miller) Dye, is the true father of John Dye, Jr., time and more research will tell at a later time. When John was about the age of seven or eight his mother, Mary Elizabeth married John Dye, Sr., her sister Lavina's widow. John, Dye, Sr. was raising his two daughter's at the time Susan and Collista that he had with Lavina before her death. John Dye, Sr. raised John as his own and gave him his last name Dye. So, John Bowers became John Dye.
John Dye, Jr. was of German stock through his mother, Mary Elizabeth (Lexioner, Phillips,) Dye. She was from German descent with both parents being German. John married Amanda Ellen Beeman on May 5, 1895 in Lonaconing, Maryland, by Minister and Pasture, S. M. Alford with William Henry Beeman, her brother and Miss Susan Dye, John's sister as being Witnesses to their marriage. John was 24 years old and Amanda only being 16 years old at the time they were married. The next year June of 1896, they had their first child, Grace, by the year 1900 they were living in Lonaconing District 15 Pt. 2 and had a son Lindla age 1 year old. John was a boat laborer and probably made the boats at the sawmill that is mentioned in the newspaper clipping. Their neighbors were Jacob Miller on the one side and B. F. Lashbaugh on the other side. They also lived somewhat close to John's parents as well. Sometime between the month's of August through November 1st of 1901,John and Amanda and their three children at this time Gracie, Lindla, and Flossie left Lonaconing, Maryland on their horse and buggy and traveled to Pennsylvania. It took them two weeks to get to Connellsville from Lonaconing, Maryland. They took Rt. 40 an all dirt road over the "Gateway to the West". They traveled over ice on the Youghiogheny River and would stop and camp along the road. It is said that they ended up in Connellsville, Fayette County, Penn. by accident. They had trouble with one of the wheels on their horse and buggy and stopped along the road to fix it and just decided that they would stay their.
Of course John needed a job so he ended up landing a job with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on November 1, 1901.
John and Amanda spent the rest of their lives in Connellsville, Fayette County, Penn., and had six more children; Melvin, Golden, Tinly, Buelah, Elmer, and Gerald.
Almost two and a half months later John Dye, Sr. had passed away leaving his property to his wife if she remained a widow and his three children. Making Mary, his wife and John, his son as Executers of his last Will and Testiment. Mary remained a Widow and sometime after his death she rented out the property and moved in with Collista (Dye) Groves, her step daughter and neice. Collista than passed away September 12, 1921 and than Mary moved in with her son John and daughter in-law Amanda in Connellsville, where she lived the remainder of her life until 1936 where she passed away. In the year 1937, John, Amanda, their children and heirs, Collista (Dye) Groves, deceased, her children and heirs, all sold off the property on Dan's Mountain that contained 144 to 188 acres of land that John Dye, Sr. left to his family and heirs. They reserved the mineral rights to the property. John Dye, Jr. died March 15, 1954 and his wife Amanda , died October 4, 1953 in Connellsville, Pa. both are buried in the Hill Grove Cemetery in Connellsville. John left the mineral rights to his children and heirs to sell after his death. Before the time of both John and Amanda had passed away, they had sold the property to George Loar and Gladys M. Loar his wife. On August 14, 1948, George Loar was killed in a mine explosion and therefore Gladys Loar had to sell the farm. She sold the farm to her sister Beatrice R. Duckworth and her husband Lawson Duckworth on January 13, 1949. Lawson Duckworth and Beatrice R. Duckworth than sold the farm to the State of Maryland on September 11, 1961 due to no longer was able to farm it for his son Lawson "Buddy" Duckworth was leaving for the Marine Corps. The State of Maryland still owns the property to this day and the John Dye Heirs still own the mineral rights. When the Duckworth's sold the property "top soil" to the State of Maryland the Dye heirs were not notified about this. Therefore, they had no idea that the land was sold until the day came when the Dye heirs decided that they wanted to sell the mineral rights.
John Dye, was born July 17, 1830, in Maryland according to his death certificate and census records. He died on January 23, 1902, at the age of 71 years, 6 months and 6 days, of old age and Bronchitis. John Dye, Sr. suffered for six weeks of Bronchitis until it finally caused his death. He died at home, on Dan's Mountain, Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland. John was married three times. He married his first wife Elizabeth "Betsy" Dye, on the 19th of October 1850 in Allegany County, Maryland. She was the daughter of James and Mary J. (Miller) Dye. She died October 12, 1862. He married his second wife, Lavina Phillips, sometime around 1868. John and Lavina Dye had two daughters named Susan A.,who married James H. Staup; and Collista Margaret, who married James D.Groves. Lavina died after June 12, 1978 and before June of 1880. She died at a very young age. The cause of her death is unknown. It is said that John served in the Civil War. He first paid a colored man $500.00 dollars to take his place in the war so he could stay home and take care of his wife, Elizabeth. She was ill at the time with an injury to her leg. It ended up that he had to go anyway. It is unknown to what regiment he fought in or there wasn't any records found of this event. His third marriage was to Lavina's sister, Mary Elizabeth Phillips. They were married on or soon after September 28, 1878 in Allegany County, Maryland. Mary Elizabeth had a son named John when they married. John Dye, Sr. her husband, gave her son John his last name as Dye and he raised him as if he were his own son. John Dye, Sr. owned a farm on the West side of Dan's Mountain, containing 144 acres more or less. He bought two tracts of land from John S. Combs, on July 19, 1866 for $1,500.00 dollars once known as Military lot numbers 3808 and 3809, containing fifty acres each more or less. He bought or he inherited his other other two pieces of land containing 44 acres, on January 16, 1871, by Sally Smith and others under a proven Last Will and Testament of a John A. Smith, from the City of Washington, D.C., deceased. John was a farmer, he raised Cattle and sold timber for a living. It is said that John was raised by William and Rachel (Wells) Dye. The relationship to William and Rachel Dye is not known but is most Likely John's grandparents or Uncle and Aunt.
After John, Sr's death, Mary Elizabeth, his wife, and son John, Jr. On the 6th day of February 1902, it was proven by John H. Douglas and Andrew W. Speir, two of the subscribing witnesses. The third witness, Henry Hepburn, being now a non-resident, could not be produced to prove same, and it was exhibited for probate and record and no objectious to the same having been filed, nor any caveat entered. The said Will was by the Orphans Court on this 7th day of February 1902. Admitted to probate and record. Test John B. Shannon, Reg'r.
Recorded in Wills Liber H. fols 251 tc.
Last Will and Testament of John Dye, Sr.
{Last Will And Testament Of John Dye,Sr.}
I.John Dye of Allegany County state of Maryland being in perfect health of body and of sound and disposing and memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and uncertainty of the time thereof and very desirous to settle my wordly affairs and thereby to be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence do therefore make and publish this my Last Will And Testament in manner and form following that is to say,
First and ----------.I---------my soul unto the hands of almighty God and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors herein after named after my debts and funeral charges are paid and my wifes thirds taken out I devise and bequeath as follows to my wife Mary Elizabeth Dye I give possession of my farm situated on Dans Mountain,During her natural life providing she remains a widow unmarried in the event of death ormarring then the farm shall be sold and the procedes of such sale to be divided equally among my son John Dye,Jr. and my daughters Susan A. Dye and Colista.M.Groves wife of James Groves I also device that my wife Mary Elizabeth Dye shall have two milk cows and one horse of her choosing to have and to hold as her own individual property,also the use of the household furniture as it stands dureing her life or widowhood even after appraisment if such be necessary,in the event of my widow remarrying to be percietted to take her own bed and bedding together with the two cows and horse before mentioned the balance of personal property to be sold and after my wifes thirds are taken out the residue to be equally devided between my children John Dye,Susan A.Dye,and Colista M.Groves.Should my daughter Susan or son John marry and die without issue their interest or interest to be divided share and share alike to those surviving as also in the same event of the death of Colista M.Groves wife of James Groves without issue her interest to revert back to either or both share and share alike to John Dye or Susan A.Dye if either or any of my children have issue in the event of their death their interest to be given to their children and last i do hereby our stitute and appoint my dear wife Mary E. and my son John Dye to be my Executers of this my last will and testament revoking and annolling all former wills by me herefore made ralifying and confirming the and none other to be my last will and testament in testuary whereof i here unto let my hand and seal this thirthieth day March in the year Eighteen hundred and ninety three.
John Dye Sr{seal}
over,
Signed sealed published and declared by the above named John Dye Sr as for his last will and testament in our presence who at his request in his presence and presencer and in presence of each other have hereto set our hands as witnesses thereto{John C.Douglas,Henry Hepburn,Andrew Sheir.}
Mary Elizabeth Phillips was born April 1,1852 in Hagerstown, Maryland,and died September 10, 1936 in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of John Phillips and Dorothy Dintllirow. She married John Dye, Sr. on or about September 28, 1978 in Allegany County, Maryland. Her parents were both born in Germany. They came on a ship from France to America about the year of 1850 and it is said they landed in Virginia and than made their way to Hagerstown, Maryland and than finally making their way to Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland. It is said that when they came to America their last name wasn't Phillips but a last name hard for everyone to pronounce, so the people gave them the last name Phillips. It is believed that their last name may have been Lexioner. Mary was of Catholic Religion.
Collista and James Groves. Than on September 12, 1921, Collista passed away and Mary than moved to Connellsville, Pa. with her son and daughter inlaw John and Amanda Dye. She lived with them for fifteen years until the time of her death. She was known to be a kind woman. She would make food for the guys on the railroad that her son John worked with and insist that they eat something. She is buried in the Hill Grove Cemetery, in Connellsville, Pa.
Obituary
MRS. MARY ELIZABETH DYE
The funeral service for MRS. MARY ELIZABETH DYE, mother of JOHN DYE of South Prospect Street, will be held at 2:30 o'clock, Sunday afternoon at that residence with Rev. L. S. Elliott, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating. Interment will be in Hill Grove Cemetery. MRS. Dye had resided with her son for the past 15 years, coming here from Lonaconing, MD.
Susannah A. Dye was born June 1871 and died at Myersdale, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.Susan was the daughter of John Dye, Sr. and Lavina Phillips. She married James H. Staup probably in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland. Susan was forty years old at the time she married James. They moved to Somerset County, Pennsylvania and bought a home in Myersdale. They owned a store there. Susan and James had three children. Two died at birth and one daughter that died at the age of five years old. It is not known what year and time that Susan died but she was living February 11, 1915 in Somerset County, Pa. and she died before 1936.
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