Lawrence DYER
- Born: Hubbarton, Rutland, Vermont, USA
General Notes:
BOOK
Barber Genealogy, Sect I Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor Connecticut 1614-1909, Sect II Descendants of John Barber of Worcester Massachusetts 1714- 1909, Publ John Barber White, Ed Lillian May Wilson, Haverhill Mass, Press of the Nichols Print, 1909, clxiv 659p 24cm, 10-11369, CS71.B24 1909, Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor Connecticut 1614-1909.
p84: "In 1783 David Barber and his wife removed with their family from Simsbury, Conn., to Hubbardton, VT. In passing over some bad roads on their journey, the team became stalled and in trying to assist by lifting a wheel of the wagon, David was fatally injured and died before they reached their destination. The widow afterward married William Dyer of that place...
"Miss Julia Barber (No. 2264) of Charleston, WV, who with her brother, Levi Allen Barber, has made careful study of this branch of the family, writes on this point as follows:
"`I remember hearing my father and his old Uncle David H Barber (No. 671) who married Clarissa Whelpley, talking of her (Sarah Lawrence) when I was a young girl. He told my father of her second marriage to William Dyer, which my father had not known of before that time (1857). She had two sons by her second husband, one named Lawrence Dyer.'
"As this old Uncle David H. was the eldest son of David and Sarah (Lawrence) Barber, he would be unquestionable authority as to his mother's name..."
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