Talbot-Upson-Crawford County GaArchives Biographies.....Dye, Emma Caroline Smith October 22, 1859 - November 17, 1947 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: T. Bradford Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 April 27, 2013, 10:22 pm Source: Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr. Family Bible; the Atlanta Constitution Mar. 7, 1911; the Dothan Eagle Nov. 17, 1947 Author: T. Bradford Willis By Bradford Willis Emma Caroline Smith was born Oct. 22, 1859 in Upson County, Georgia, the daughter of Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr. and Elizabeth M. Smith who were pioneers of Talbot and Upson counties. She was a member of the Methodist Church and married Joel Jethro Dye. They had the following children: Willie F. Dye (1894-1982) who married John Angus Garrard, M.D. (1879-1938); Lawton Eugene Dye (1896-1965); and Garnett Jethro Dye (ca. 1892-1962) who married Mary Robinson. Emma Smith Dye passed on Nov. 17, 1947 in Dothan, Alabama. There is some very interesting historical material on the Dye children. In the Atlanta Constitution, March 7, 1911, one finds: ATLANTA BOY INVENTS REGISTER TO SAVE WORK "Garnett J Dye, an Atlanta boy 19 years of age, in the employ of the Western and Atlantic railroad at Montgomery, has invented an improved register for weighing scales. The young inventor's device came about as the result of a piece of practical experience. In 1909 he was employed by Read Phosphate Company, of Nashville, Tenn, as a weigh-man, whose duty was to check the goods from the warehouse to the cars This became a tiresome job and an uncomfortable one in cold weather. He began to work on an instrument to relieve him of this work. He made a crude register, which, would punch holes in a piece of tape when each load passed over the scales The patent papers were signed In Florence, Ala, while he resided there. His first application was filed June 18, 1910, and patented February 14, 1911 Patent No 984362 Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view as to provide a registering mechanism attached to the beam of the scale for producing a permanent record, to provide inking means for the said mechanism, etc., all points being fully covered. The register is independent of the scale and may be attached to any pair of scales in short time The first weight passing over the scales is registered in figures before the weighman's eyes and also printed on the paper tape on the machine, this process being gone through with each time until the required amount has been weighed. The operator thus has a visible record of everything that has passed over the scale during the day." In his 1962 obituary, it mentions that he later invented "a radio-controlled aerial torpedo, [that] was perfected during the closing days of World War I." Lawton Eugene Dye was a landscape architect in Alabama and was the manager of Dye Landscape Company of Dothan. There are many articles in the Dothan Eagle about his work. Willie Dye Garrard and her husband, Dr. John Angus Garrard, are buried with many family members in the Roberta City Cemetery in Crawford County. Additional Comments: This article was published in the Talbotton New Era on April 25, 2013, on p. 3-A. Appreciation is expressed to its editor, Vann Chapman. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/bios/dye419bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb