Biography of David Dyer (1844 -  )
History of Lincoln County, Missouri (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888) page 532.

David A. DYER is one of seven surviving members of a family of twelve children born to John S. and Martha A. (BASSETT) DYER, and was born in Monroe County, Mo., in 1844. The father and mother were born in Henry County, Va., in 1819 and 1818, respectively, were married in 1839, and in 1840 came to Missouri, locating first in St. Charles County, and later in Warren County, then in Monroe, and finally came to Lincoln County in 1852. The father was a farmer, and died in 1880, leaving his children well supplied with worldly goods. He was a brother of Col. D. P. DYER of St. Louis, who was once a Republican candidate for governor of Missouri, and served during the late war in Capt. Thomas Carter’s company as second-lieutenant, and was a participant in the battle of Lexington. While on his way home, he was captured and taken to St. Louis, where he was kept in prison about four months. He was a man of good business ability and an honest, upright citizen. David A. DYER was educated in the common schools, and in 1864 joined Capt. Wood’s Company, Shelby’s Brigade, and operated in Arkansas and Texas until the close of the war. In 1869 Laura M. WRIGHT became his wife. She is a daughter of Marion WRIGHT, of Virginia, and became the mother of the following children: Hattie M., John, George, Nannie, Otis, Mattie, Alexander, Dadin, and Shapley. Mr. DYER owns 250 acres of land in different tracts, and in his political views supports the principles of the Democratic party. Mrs. DYER’s grandparents, John and Caroline (ROSS) GEIGER, were born in Kentucky, and came to Missouri in 1812, there being but three white families in the county at that time, and the woods were full of Indians.

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