SCHLEY COUNTY, GA - BIOS  George C. Dyers

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., pages 821-822
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


SCHLEY COUNTY

George C. Dyers, planter, Schley county, Ga., was born in
Marion county, Ga., Aug. 6, 1839.  His grandfather, Thomas
Dyers, was a large planter of Monroe county, where our
subject’s father was born and raised.  In 1863 he moved to
Macon county, where he died the same year.  George C. Dyers was
reared on the plantation and received but limited education.
At the beginning of the war he enlisted in Company B, Capt.
French, Seventeenth Georgia regiment; was in active service and
engaged in many important battles until the battle of Malvern
Hill in 1862.  In that battle he was so severely wounded as to
be completely disabled for further service, and from which he
has never recovered.  He has a good plantation of 400 acres,
where he enjoys the fruits of his labor.  Unambitious of
wealth, or of office, he is content with such prosperity as
comes from his daily toil and propitious seasons.  Mr. Dyers
was married in 1864 to Miss Margaret Peters, a daughter of
Levis M. Peters, a planter of Macon county, who, himself,
served in the state militia during the war.  Of the children
born to them four are living: Lena, wife of Joseph English,
planter, Macon county; Anna, wife of Augustus Johnson, planter,
Sumter county, Ga.; Henry and Eunice.  Mr. Dyers is a democrat,
and a member of the Primitive Baptist church.