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My great-great-grandfather was listed in the 1850 Murray County, Georgia, census with his family as:
James Dyke, age 33, Blacksmith, born in Tennessee
Nancy Dyke, age 28, born Ga
Lafayette Dyke, age 5, born GA
Harrison Dyke, age 3, born Ga
Henry Dyke, age 17, Laborer, born Tennessee
Isaac Hooker, age 22, Blacksmith, born Tennessee
I cannot attest to the accuracy of all this information. My great-grandfather, William Harrison Dyche, said he was born in 1845 and his brother James Lafayette was said to have been born in 1841 or 1842. So the ages of the boys don't appear to match with the years they said they born. Both boys were said to have been born in Dahlonega, Ga. Their mother was Nancy Jane Edge. Other children were Sarah Alice and Ida B.
I cannot find the family anywhere in the 1860 census. By 1870, Nancy is in Hamilton County, Tennessee, and James has "disappeared", presumably he died before 1870.
Ida B. Dyche wrote to a family member in the 1930s that her father was "Pennsylvania Dutch". Ida said that they didn't know any of her father's people other than "two uncles, James and William" who had "rich ore farms" in Rockwood.
I have studied all of the entries in Janette Dyche Fitch's book The Dyche Families of America. Janette listed my James Dyche as the son of Michael Dyche, because she couldn't fit him in anywhere else. My gut feeling is that this is not true. I spoke with Janette some years back, after the book was published, and she agreed with me at that time. Janette listed my James Dyche as James L. Dyche. She based this on the letter that Ida Dyche wrote in which Ida wrote a "Sr" after his name.
James Lafayette Dyche served in "Co B" 1st TN Cav. (Capt. Snow - known as Snow's Scouts). Also in this unit was a James D. Dyche. If these actually were two different individuals, this makes me think it is James Lafayette and his father - namely James D. Dyche. Sometimes, in the old handwriting, the letters "L" and "D" could possibly be mistaken for each other when written in cursive.
I have a feeling, one that I have no documentation for, that my James Dyche could possibly be the James D. Dyche, son of Henry Dyche, Esquire (born in 1780s) and Jane Delaney. I also have a feeling that the "two uncles" that his daughter Ida spoke about are William L. and James H. Dyche, sons of Jacob Dyche (born early 1800s) and Rebecca Hickey, and they were actually "cousins" and not uncles of
"my" James Dyche. This James H. and William L. both were in Roane County, TN, at times and, I believe, involved in the "ore" business.
I cannot say for sure who the Henry Dyke is who was living with James "Dyke" in 1850. I wonder if he was Henry Dyke, also son of Jacob mentioned above, even though Jacob's son Henry is listed in the 1850 census with his mother in Roane County, Tennessee.
I really have no concrete data that can help me definitively say who my James Dyche/Dyke was and what family he belong to. I am looking for as much information as I can about the Dyche/Dyke/Dike, etc., families of Greene and Roane Counties in the hopes that one day something will jump out at me to let me know where he belongs.
I had just started a DNA project for the Dyche/Dyke/Dike (and other spellings) with Relative Genetics when they announced their partnership with ancestry.com. Once Ancestry gets it's DNA testing going, I hope to find males with the Dyche/Dyke/Dike, etc., surname to participate in the DNA testing in hopes of connecting the Dyche/Dyke descendants and possibly finding a match to my DNA results.
I would be most grateful to receive any information you have on the Dyche/Dyke/Dike, etc., families in and around the Greene and Roane Counties Tennessee area. Hopefully one day I will get the piece of information to complete my puzzle and get me over this brick wall.
Thanks!!
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