Back Row (L-R) John Perkins, Lee Mattox, Pet Whitaker; Middle (L-R) Delia Dyer, Perlina Powell Dyer, and wife of Lee Mattox Front Row: (L-R) Eva Jennings, Oscar Jennings, Ellis Jennings, unknown infant of Lee Mattox

I would like to dedicate this page to my ggg-grandmother, Palina Ann (Powell) Dyer.  She is in the center of the picture and is surrounded by a daughter, Delia (Dyer) Mattox Perkins and grandchildren.  She was the daughter of Dr. David Ellis Powell and Lucinda (Shoemaker) Powell in Macon, Missiouri in 1839.  While still young she moved with her parents to Collin County, Texas and they settled near Honey Creek.  She married John Richard Dyer and after his death during the civil war she married his youngest brother, Martin VanBuren Dyer.  They remained in Collin County, Texas for some time and after the birth of their youngest son, Dock David Dyer, they moved to the Chickasaw Indian Territory, in or around the town of Roff, Oklahoma.  She lost her second husband, Martin, on May  6, 1900 and he was buried in the East Hill Cemetery at Roff.  Several of the ggg grandchildren and their children met for the first time a couple of years ago when I took the corrected Civil War Headstone to the cemetery and we had a ceremony in which Confederate re-enacters did the gun salute, after which the newly found cousins set the headstone.  Many of us also went to the cemetery located in Ada where many of our relatives were buried.  We are still searching for the date of death for Palina Ann.  We believe that it was between 1910 and 1920 at or near Francis, Oklahoma.  If anyone can help us with this we would appreciate a date.