TX BIOS:  Edgar Dyer
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   Washington, 1994.
   
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   Range Lore 700 240
   
   FOLKWAYS
   
   Martha S. Jennings, . .
   
   McLennan County, Texas.
   
   District 8.
   
   No. Words 129
   
   File No. 240
   
   Page No. 1
   
   Reference
   
   Mr. Edgar Dyer, Professional Bldg., Waco, Texas.
   
   Mr. Dyer's family was living in what is now Mill County in 1836. They
   were engaged in raising cattle, and a brand was issued to Mr. Dyer's
   grandfather, Judge J. H. Dyer, in 1836, with which to brand his
   cattle, the brand was called "Circle J".
   
   This brand is on exhibition in the Livestock Building of the Texas
   Centennial at Dallas, it being one hundred years ago since it was
   first put on record, he thinks at New Orleans.
   
   Mr. Dyer says there is a tree on a place owned by his grandfather in
   Bosque County which had one of these branding irons hung, on a limb of
   the tree years ago, and the tree has grown around the iron, embedding
   it in the trunk of the tree.

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