Atchison Globe 08 May 1910
Alphonso Dyer one of the old-timers of the Missouri hills, died at his home, nine miles east of Atchison, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock of pneumonia. Mr. Dyer had lived in his present home fifty-five years. He was a Tennessean by birth, and made the trip from Sparta, Tenn., to Missouri on horseback, arriving at Weston September 1, 1841. He moved to Dekalb in 1844, and later to Buchanan County and though he was one of the first settlers in this section of Missouri, his wife ante-dates him. She was a Miss Sally Cash by marriage and her father mother and ten children drove to the west from Tennessee in 1840. An older sister was Mr. Dyers first wife and upon her death he was married December 30, 1848 to Sally Cash, who was then only 15 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer were the parents of nine children, six of whom are living. San Dyer of Denver who arrives in the morning and Tom Dyer living on the home place, and Mrs. Georgiana Pitts, Mrs. Phoebe Saunders, Mrs. Amanda Gore, and Mrs. Molie Seever, all living in that section. The funeral services will be held at the house at 12 o'clock tomorrow; interment at 2 in Sugar Creek cemetery. It is so seldom a Missourian has a funeral service at the house that an explanation is due. The funeral services couldnt be held at Sugar Creek Church because the seats had been removed while the floor is being painted.
Atchison Globe 08 May 1910
Alphonso Dyer one of the old-timers of the Missouri hills, died at his home, nine miles east of Atchison, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock of pneumonia. Mr. Dyer had lived in his present home fifty-five years. He was a Tennessean by birth, and made the trip from Sparta, Tenn., to Missouri on horseback, arriving at Weston September 1, 1841. He moved to Dekalb in 1844, and later to Buchanan County and though he was one of the first settlers in this section of Missouri, his wife ante-dates him. She was a Miss Sally Cash by marriage and her father mother and ten children drove to the west from Tennessee in 1840. An older sister was Mr. Dyers first wife and upon her death he was married December 30, 1848 to Sally Cash, who was then only 15 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer were the parents of nine children, six of whom are living. San Dyer of Denver who arrives in the morning and Tom Dyer living on the home place, and Mrs. Georgiana Pitts, Mrs. Phoebe Saunders, Mrs. Amanda Gore, and Mrs. Molie Seever, all living in that section. The funeral services will be held at the house at 12 o'clock tomorrow; interment at 2 in Sugar Creek cemetery. It is so seldom a Missourian has a funeral service at the house that an explanation is due. The funeral services couldnt be held at Sugar Creek Church because the seats had been removed while the floor is being painted.
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