HENRY CO. - CIVIL WAR WIDOW’S PENSION APPLICATION – MATTIE E. DYER

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SOURCE:  Bruce Locke

Roanoke World-News. [Ref: Anne Vestal-Miller: THE MARRIAGE REGISTER OF
HENRY CO VA, VOL I, p14 & 15, No. 51, 4 Dec 1860: Thos G. Dyer, Age 20, b
Henry Co, s/o Hugh N. & Ruth Dyer, married Martha E. Mason, Age 20, Single,
b Henry Co, Dau of Christopher and Ruth Mason. bwl]

SOURCE:  Library of VA, Application for a Pension by a Widow of a Soldier,
Sailor or Marine
THOS G. DYER He was a member of CO. H, ?, 24TH VA REGIMENT, KNOWN AS HENRY
GUARDS

SOURCE:  1880 Census, www.familysearch.org
Martinsville, Henry, VA
Thos G. DYER      Self   M   Male   W   38   VA   Liquor Dealer   VA   VA
Martha E DYER     Wife   M   Female   W   40   VA   Keeping House   VA   VA
White DYER  Son   S   Male   W   12   VA   At School   VA   VA
Reamey DYER Son   S   Male   W   7   VA      VA   VA
Ruth DYER   Dau   S   Female   W   5   VA      VA   VA
Betty G DYER      Dau   S   Female   W   1   VA      VA   VA
Lucy ABINGTON     Other      Female   W   40   VA   Seamstress   VA   VA
Creasy CAHILL     Other      Female   B   23   VA   Domestic Servant   VA
VA
Len DRAPER  Other      Male   B   47   VA   Clerks In Liquor Shop   VA   VA

SOURCE:  Library of VA, Statement of Widow, Who is a Pensioner under act of
Mar 7, 1900, to be filed before Circuit or Corporation Court, or Judge
thereof in vacation.
           I, MATTIE E. DYER, of the CITY OF ROANOKE in the State of VA, do
solemnly swear that I am the identified person named in the original
application dated on the 2 day of JUN 1900 and she filed the said
application for aid under the provisions of an act of the Genl Assembly,
approved Mar 7, 1900, for aid as the widow of a deceased soldier (sailor or
marine) of VA.  In the service of the ??, or of the Confederate ?, during
the war between the States, and that I am now an actual resident of the
CITY OF ROANOKE in the said State, and that I have not married since the
date of the filing of my sd application, and that I do not hold any
national, State city, or county office which pays me in salary or ? $150
per annum; nor have I an income from any other employment or other source
whatever which amounts to $150 per annum; nor do I own in my own right, nor
does any one hold in trust for my benefit or use, either real, personal, or
mixed property or estate, either in fee or for life, or the assessed value
of $500; nor do I receive any aid or pension from any other State, or from
the US, or from any other source, and that I am not an inmate of the
soldiers' home or other public institution; that I am 62 yrs of age, and
that I was married to my husband before the 1st  day of May 1865, and that
I have not married since his death, and that I was never divorced from my
sd husband, and never abandoned him, but was his true, faithful and loyal
wife at the time of his death, and that my sd husband (state whether he was
killed during the war, or d aft the war) and that his death resulted from
BRAIN FEVER and that he (state here when and where husband was killed or d)
IN MARTINSVILLE, VA, AUG 22, 1894.
      Jurat of Witnesses:  Geo E. Waller and JR Gregory of the Co of Henry
in the State of VA
      Certificate of Physician as to Claim of Widow:  Geo E. Waller, MD, a
presiding physician in the Co of Henry in the State of VA

SOURCE:  Bruce Locke
THE HENRY BULLETIN, Fri, Jan 5, 1917, p1, col. 2 [edited].
Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Dyer, widow of the late Thos Grief Dyer, d at her
home Sat afternoon in the 76th yr of her age.  She had been sick but a
short time with pneumonia.  When death came she was surrounded by her 5
children, RH Dyer of Portsmouth, OH; Mrs. SR Avis, W. White Dyer and Misses
Bettie and Annie Dyer of this city. The funeral was held at her home, 306
Luck Ave Sun and the remains taken to Martinsville this morning for
interment.