Louisa Jane Dyer

Louisa Jane was born on April 3rd, 1844 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Louisa Jane's father was John Robert Dyer and her mother was Barsheba Thorp.  Her paternal grandparents were John Robert Dyer and Sarah Taylor; her maternal grandfather was John Lewis Thorpe. She had six brothers and four sisters, named Augustus W., William T., Richard Fain, Lewis, Charles Mckinney, John James, Sarah Jane, Mary Or Polly, Elizabeth Frances and Nancy Melissa.  She was the fifth youngest of the eleven children.  She died at the age of 53 in October 1897.¹