When Nancy Bryan Dyer was born in September 1842, in Nicholas, Virginia, United States, her father, James Dyer III, was 43 and her mother, Margaret Sawyers, was 39. She married Moses Hickman about 1869, in Webster, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Kaw Township, Kay, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Alhambra, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 July 1931, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in San Gabriel Cemetery, San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English: occupational name for a dyer of cloth, from Middle English deier, degher ‘dyer’ (Old English dēag ‘dye’; the verb is a back-formation from the agent noun). Compare Dexter . The name is typical of southern England. In the Midlands Dexter is the more common equivalent and in northern England Lister .
Irish (Sligo and Antrim): variant of Dwyer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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