Volume 3, Number 5 Winter 1969

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THE DYE FAMILY
by Bertha Dye Larson

Continued from Winter Issue 1967-68

Jean Etta Dye, born Jan. 5, 1934, married Fred Bill Brooks-one child Gary Wayne Brooks born March 22, 1954, in Fresno, Cali fornia.
Bertha Dye, born Jan. 24, 1896, married
Sanfert Linus Larson March 26, 1916. 7
Children-Sanfert Linus Larson, Jr. born April 30,
1918 and died March 30, 1922. Buried in
Spring River Cemetery near Verona,
Missouri.
John Walter Larson, born Oct. 18, 1920
(Verona, Mo.) married
Dorothy Louise Blackford in South Park,
Kansas June 18, 1939-

CHILDREN OF JOHN & MARTHA DYE

John Alonzo Dye born Aug. 2, 1899 married Edith Duncan April 18, 1921. 2 children-John William Dye, born Oct. 18, 1922, married Phyllis Brodie. They have

Suzanne Carolyn Cyr born Dec. 27, 1956.

Martha Alice Dye, born Sept. 1,

1905, married Earnest L. DeBaca. 1

child: Lorraine Alice DeBaca, born

Apr. 2, 1923

married Geofrey G. Francis-

-divorced. Married Neal Asten-1 child: Earnest Geoffrey (Fran cis) DeBaca, born July 19, 1947.

Clyde Delmar Dye, born Nov. 4, 1907, married Luella Smith, no children.

Rose Rebecca Dye (daughter of Orda), born June 20, 1910, married Mr. Crown. 1 child: Jacqueline Ordella Crown, born June 1, 1933, married James Donald Nichols. 4 children;

Jarnie Joe Nichols born Oct. 11,

1956.

Stephen Francis Nichols born

Oct. 31, 1957.

Mark Christopher Nichols born

March 8, 1959.

Jacqueline Elizabeth Nichols

born June 16, 1960.

Rose Crown divorced Mr. Crown and married Francis A. Kreuzer-no children.

Carl Orda Dye, born May 15, 1914, married-no children.

Sarah Belle Dye (daughter of John & Martha) married William J. Larkins (born Oct. 2, 1868 and died Aug. 5, 1962). Sarah Belle died Feb. 27, 1934 at Ray- town, Mo. Both are buried in Brooklings Cemetery at Raytown. They had 12 children:

Charlie Larkins born Aug. 2, 1888,

died Aug. 8,1888.

Clarence Larkins born Jan. 2, 1892,

died Jan. 7, 1892.

Orvil Larkins born Nov. 24, 1900,

died July 18, 1902.

(All of these children are buried in Meadows Cemetery in Taney County, Missouri.)

John Larkins, born July 22, 1889

(died March 28, 1918), married Lula

Lewis, June 30, 1908. 6 children:

Theo Larkins married George

Law. Barbara Larkins, Sonny

Larkins. Pat Larkins married

Hazel Sexton, they had 7 child ren: Voyd Larkins married and

Ethel Larkins, born May 24, 1903, married Taylor Braden. Taylor died in 1968 in California. They had 2 children:

Jerry Braden-married.

John Taylor Braden born 1941. Beatrice Larkins, born June 18, 1905, married Paul Sheldon. (Paul died in 1966) They had 1 child and one adopted child:

Martha Jean Sheldon, married and had 3 children.

Donna Sheldon (adopted).

Clell Larkins, born July 23, 1911, married Minerva Mc Cafe. 4 Child ren: Barbara Larkins, married and had one child.

Robert Clell Larkins, Beverly Larkins, and Brenda Larkins who died at the age of four.

Earl Larkins, born Sept; 23, 1913, married Hazel Peterson and divor ced. He then married Lorrane Hon, they had 3 Children: Betty Jean Larkins, another girl who married Robert Hutzell July 13, 1957 and Stephen Larkins born Nov. 8,1953. Clay Alvin Larkins, born July 18, 1908 (died Aug. 27, 1945), married Marie Weixeldorfer Jan. 1, 1929. 2

Children:

Clay Alvin Larkins, Jr. born

Aug. 6, 1930.

Billy Larkins, born 1934 and

died in 1934.

Myrtle Ann Larkins, born Nov. 7,

1895, married Lon E. Williams (at

Ozark, Mo.) Aug. 27, 1915. Lon

died in Kansas City Mo. Jan 15,

1948. Myrtle then married Robert

L. Hagen-no children. Myrtle and

Lon Williams had one son. Glen E.

Williams, born July 16, 1916, who

married Evelyn Bowlin. 2 Children:

Glen E. Williams, Jr. born April 5,

1942. He married Karen Alice

Hazkard (Hutchinson, Kan.) Oct.

16, 1965. Jack Edward Williams

born July 27, 1953.

Myrtle and Lon also adopted a

daughter Betty Lee, born Jan. 8,

1923, and married Bill Kent June

10, 1944. They had one child Michel

Edward Kent born July 26, 1945.

Betty Lee (daughter of Myrtle) di-

vorced Mr. Kent and married Rons Bowlin, they had one child, Diane Gay Bowlin born Aug. 13, 1951 and Rons Bowlin adopted Michel Ed ward Kent.

Elsie Larkins, born Feb. 17, 1898, married Link Moulder March 2, 1922. Link died Feb. 1948. They had 4 children:

Sarabell Moulder, born Feb. 8, 1923, married Joe Ed Potter. They had 3 children:

Ann Potter born Dec. 15,

1941.

Edward Potter born Oct.

23, 1943.

Billy Potter born March 5,

1947.

Olivelea Moulder, born Dec. 23,

1925, married Roy Casdorph

April 1944. They had one child

Dennis Casdorph born May 21,

1955 and died July 1, 1955,

and then they adopted John

Casdorph March 23, 1949.

Billy Jo Moulder, born April 5,

1929, married Ethel Goble in

1950. No children.

Ruth Ann Moulder, born Jan.

7, 1932, married Dorvil Odgen

in 1950. They had one child

Lynn Odgen. Ruth divorced

Odgen and married Byron

Smith, they had one child Pam ela Joe Smith born May 3,

1957.

Nellie Larkins, born Feb. 11, 1893,

married Albert Lewis Feb. 11, 1908.

They had 9 children:

Thelma Lewis married Eldon White-2 children.

Esther Lewis married Roy Siesser-3 children.

Ralph Lewis married Judith-2 children. Ralph died Dec. 19, 1962 in Phoeniz, Arizona.

Ethel Lewis married Dean Harrcks-3 children.

Albert Lewis, Jr. married Jean-4 children.

Guy Lewis married Margie-S children.

Evertt Lewis married Elenor-3 children.

Ina May Lewis married Roy White-3 children.

Bobby Lewis married and had one boy.

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This ends the generations of John Henry and Martha Dye. Martha Ann was the daughter of William and Martha Ann (Lemons) Smith. The Smiths are buried in Meadows Ceme tery, Taney County, Missouri.

Henry Dye, born 1882 (died Jan. 13, 1951 in Calif.) married Nora De Witt also de ceased. They had two children who died in infancy.

James Garfield Dye, brother of Henry and grandson of William and Kizzy Dye, was born May 1880. He married Mary Bilyeu Carter. James died in 1956 and Mary died Feb. 22, 1920. Their children Oneta Dye mar ried a Whitlock. Earnest Dye married and had one child Bonnie Ellen Dye who married George E. Bishop Dec. 1962. Delbert Dye married Gladys Williams. She died Feb. 20, 1961-age 45 years old. They had no children.

Ina Dye, born Feb. 9, 1903, married

Oscar Winslow. They had seven children:

Clyde Winslow born Nov. 13, 1921, married

Fern Johnson-3 children, Jean Winslow born

April 25, 1941, Wesley Winslow born Aug.

16, 1942, Bobby Winslow born Oct. 8, 1949.

Fay Winslow, born Oct.11, 1926, married

Basil Johnson-4 children, Dicky Johnson

born June 5, 1941, Dale Johnson born May 1,

1943, Stephen Johnson born Aug. 3, 1949,

Brenda Johnson born July 26, 1955. Fern

Winslow, born March 14, 1926, married Max

Stutesman-2 children, Maxine Stutesman

Sept. 14,1943 and James Stutesman born

Sept. 2, 1949. Fern died May 3, 1967. Betty

Jo Winslow, born Nov. 5, 1935, married Clell

Stutesman and had one child Betty Sue

Stutesman. Benny Winslow, born Aug. 2,

1934, married Lula Belle Grider. Danny

Winslow born April 24, 1937. Patsy Winslow

born March 9, 1949.

Tabitha Dye, (daughter of William and

Kizzy Dye) born 1856, married Milo

Stewart-some of the first settlers in Christain

County in Missouri. Tabitha died in 1917.

They had six children: Mary Ann Stewart

married William Bilyeu-Mary died in

1941-they had eight children, Jessie Bilyeu

married Daisy Cupp, Elza Bilyeu married Goldie Letteral-one child, Noah Bilyeu mar ried and had a son James R. Bilyeu, Willie Bilyeu married Freda Weatherman-two child ren, Melva Bilyeu married Earnest Gideon-

-three girls, (this family of Melva and Earnest and girls have all died except one girl), Martin Bilyeu married Clara Gill-five children-Edna Bilyeu married Phillip Cummings, Lee Bilyeu and Glen Bilyeu.

Rex Stewart (son of Milo) married

Adeline Johnson, they had five children:

Chester, Daisy, James, Elizabeth and

Lawrence.

Charlie Stewart (son of Milo) married Maud Dugger, they had three children:

Mildred Stewart married Hershel Keltner, Raymond Stewart married Fern Weatherman, and Glen Stewart.

William Thomas Stewart (son of Milo) married Anne Miller, they had three children:

Grace Stewart married Wayne Lindsay and they had three children, Shelby Stewart mar ried Lucille Bryant and had one boy, and Floyd Stewart, deceased.

Isiah Stewart (son of Milo) died in 1966 at the age of 85. He married Emma Brook- shire and they had nine children: James Richard Stewart married Clista Gill and they had eight children, Beulah Pauline Stewart, born Nov. 14,1931, married Basil Dean Bryan-two children Vicky Francene Bryan, born 1951 and Becky Darlene Bryan born Sept. 1956. Thelma Lee Stewart, born March 21, 1937, married Roy Dean Bilyeu-two children, Ricky Dean, born Nov. 2, 1955 and Ronda Levine, born Jan. 25, 1959. Lola Mae Stewart, born Oct. 21, 1939, married Delbert Howard in 1958, James Richard Stewart, Jr. born Aug. 5, 1944, Dale David Stewart, born Aug. 10, 1947, Reta June Stewart, born June 3, 1955, Marjorie Marie Stewart, born Jan. 4, 1934, deceased and Dorothy Faye Stewart, born Jan. 31, 1942, died in 1954.

Mittie Stewart (daughter of lsiah) mar ried Clayton Ware. They had fourteen child ren. The writer isn't acquainted with this family-one boy was killed in an automobile crash, he was sixteen. One son Clayton R. Ware, Jr. died Feb. 23, 1961 at the age of 32. He left his wife Betty and two daughters.

Bell Stewart (daughter of lsiah) married Chig Partick and they had four children, Robert, John, Shirley, Billy, and Milo Stewart who died in 1946.

Rosetta Stewart, (daughter of Milo) born March 11. 1884 and died in Sept. of 1963.

She married Samuel Grotz (he died Oct. 26,

1949) and they had six children, George

Grotz married Lillian Dalborn, Charles Grotz

married Opal Wymer, Opal Grotz married

Mark Ewing, Carl Grotz, Leona Grotz married

Gene Cline, Anna Grotz married Lonnie Gill

Oct. 20, 1921-one child Betty Jean Gill who

married Leon Townsend, Dec. 29, 1949, in

Merriam, Kansas. Betty was born Sept. 20,

1930. Betty Jean's children are Frost Liner

Townsend born Nov. 18, 1950 and Marsha

Lannella Townsend born Dec. 7, 1951.

James Mattison (Matt) Stewart (son of Milo) married Jewel Rowden, they had two children, one died. Freddie Stewart married Edith and they had one child Betty Jean Stewart. Betty Jean married Kenneth Tillman March 9, 1963, they were both twenty years old. Jewel died Jan. 18, 1962. She was born in 1901. Matt then married Kathleen Prewitt in May 1965.

John Stewart (son of Milo) married Katherine Steward and they had two children, Leonard and Lowell. John died in Aug. 1960 in Colorado.

James Wesley Dye (son of William and Kizzy Dye) born in 1861 and died in 1915. He married Ellie Arterberry, born May 13, 1870 and died in 1953. They had six chil dren:

Roy Dye married Verda Anderson-2 chil dren, Lorene Dye Barnhart and Imogene Dye Holt. Roy died in 1951.

Maggie Dye, born in 1890, married Isam Melton (he died in 1953). Their children are: Elma Melton married Carl Biers (de ceased) and they had these children, David, Gail, Carl, Reta, June, Johnny, Clella Melton Breshers. Clella had these children; Jerry Breshers, Mary, Billy Joe, and Theren Hill. Leonard Melton married and has four children; Rosie, Nora, Roy, Rollins and Lee Melton. Lenvil Melton

married and had five children, Dorothy Melton Braden, Orvil Glen, Carl, Richard, and Beverly Jo Melton.

Randolph Dye son of James Wesley, born in 1894, married Odessee Steward (de ceased). They had three children, Gay lord Dye, born Feb. 21, 1921, married Nellie Hasket and their children are, Ran dolph Charles, born Aug. 10, 1953 and Andy Paul Dye, born Nov. 2, 1959. Burless Dye, born March 15, 1924, mar ried Wanda Goodin in 1946. Their chil dren are, Kenneth Lee Dye, born May 17, 1947, Larry Eugene and Gary Wayne Dye, born July 10, 1948 and Cora Sue Dye, born Feb. 3, 1956. Erma Lorene Dye, born Jan. 31, 1919, married Carl Rolufs, their children are; Lary Eugene Rolufs, born April 1940, married June Ruth McNeill, Donna Carlene, born in May 1943, married Larry Presley Hamil ton, born Nov. 14, 1939, Judith Ann Rolufs, born Jan. 1946 and died shortly after birth, Nina June Rolufs, born June

18, 1947.

Vernie Dye (daughter of James Wesley Dye), born in 1897, married Johnnie Coats (he died in 1920). They had two children, Lois Coats and Earl Coats. Earl drowned in Penn Valley Park Lake in Kansas City, Mo. about 1929. Verna Later married Ed Belk.

Flossy Dye (daughter of James Wesley Dye) married Keltner, they had two chil dren, Orville and Kenneth Keltner. Flossy divorced Mr. Keltner and married Mr. Garland and they had two children, Barbara Garland Smith and Jo Ella Gar land Wilson.

Clessie Dye (daughter of James Wesley Dye) born Oct. 1908 and died July 12, 1910.

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