Dye, John

DYE

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Date: 10/11/2006 at 01:09:55

John Dye

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.157, Macedonia Twp.)
John Dye, farmer, P. O. Macedonia, was born in Lee County, Iowa, August 29, 1847; his father, Henry Dye, was born about 1815, and is a farmer, living in Washington Township, Lee County, Iowa. Subject's mother, Jane (Mickelwait) Dye, was born in England in 1822,. and came to America when eight years of age; she died about 1858, having given birth to seven children. Mr. Dye worked on his father's farm until March, 1873, when he migrated to Pottawattamie County and bought 160 acres where he now lives, three and a half miles southwest of Macedonia. To this land he has since added 50 acres, paying about $10 an acre for the whole. It is now finely improved and valued at $40 an acre. January 1, 1873, Mr. Dye married Miss Mary G. Snapp, of Lee County, Iowa, born February 27, 1851; her father, Simpson Snapp, was born in Washington County, Tennessee, in 1816, and migrated to Lee County, Iowa, in 1837, where he died in 1874; her mother was born about 1823 and died about 1868. Mr. and Mrs. Dye have five children - H. W., born December 10, 1874; Daisy, March 9, 1876; George, April 23, 1877; H. S., October 10, 1879, and Effie M., January 5, 1881. Mr. Dye is an Odd Fellow and a Democrat.