John J. Dyer, Jr.

Birth Date

1821

Death Date

1868

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Son of John J. Dyer, Sr., and Martha Linn Dyer. Married to Mariah Haydon Dyer in Trigg County, Kentucky, on October 20, 1842. Father of William C. Dyer, Eliza H. Dyer, Rufus K. Dyer, Cyrus Dyer, Amanda Dyer, Lucy Dyer, Julia Dyer, Sidney Dyer, and Mariah Dyer. Farmer in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Sheriff of Trigg County from 1859 to 1862. Owned five enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 325A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 44.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 373B.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994056, Trigg County Births.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film 000321335.
William Henry Perrin, ed., County of Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Louisville: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), 32.
"John J. Dyer Jr. (1821-1868)," Find A Grave, Memorial 88115825, accessed October 23, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88115825.

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