Dye, Sylvester

DYE

Posted By: Robin
Date: 2/23/2026 at 21:29:10

"The Evening Nonpareil"
Saturday April 05, 1913
Page 3

SYLVESTER DYE PASSES AWAY

PIONEER OF POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY DIES IN HIS ROOMS FRIDAY

WELL KNOWN BUSINESS MAN

"Veteran in the Civil War, Serving Through the Dark Period of '61-'65--Funeral at Elks Lodge Room Sunday."

Sylvester Dye, a pioneer of the county and widely known all over the western part of Iowa, died at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at his rooms on Fourth Street, following an illness of some six weeks duration. He was 69 years old and 10 months old at the time of his death. Sylvester Dye, a pioneer of the county and widely known all over the western part of Iowa, died at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon.

Mr. Dye was born May 21, 1849, near Fort Madison, Lee County, and came to Glenwood in 1868. He married at Glenwood January 16, 1868, to Mary J. Linville, who died December 15, 1888. A second marriage was contracted with Hattie S. Cook in January, 1891, her death occurring in this city in 1906.

He had been a resident of Council Bluffs since 1904 and previous to that time a resident of this part of the state for a great many years having settled in Glenwood shortly after the war of the rebellion.

Sylvester Dye was identified with the business interests of the county for many years and the family has been prominently connected with business interests at Glenwood, Macedonia and elsewhere since an early day.

He enlisted in Company E. Nineteenth Iowa Infantry, August 11, 1860 and served in the army throughout practically all of the war being discharged July 10, 1865. He was captured and held a prisoner in the Rebel Prison at Tyler, Tex., for ten months, enduring all the hardships incident to imprisonment in the southern prisons of the civil ward.

Two sons survive, Mr. Dye, H.C. Dye of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Dr. Willoughby Dye of Deer Lodge, Mont.

Mr. Dye was a member of the B.P.O.E., No 531, Council Bluffs, and a short service will be held at the lodge rooms at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The remains will be shipped over the Burlington 5:40 Monday to Macedonia and funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church at that place Tuesday at 2 p.m., Rev. J.F. Davis officiating and burial will be in the Macedonia Cemetery