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AMOS DYAL
Among the self-made men and honored citizens of Orion who have laid aside business cares to spend their declining years in peace and quiet is the subject of this review, who has been a resident of Henry county since the 1st of October, 1856.
A native of Pennsylvania, he was born in the city of Pittsburgh on the 7th of October, 1834, and is a son of ****William HO.. and Eliza A. (Stewart) Dyal, both natives of West Virginia, though their marriage was celebrated in the Keystone state. ***The father was born in 1807, and in early life was engaged in flat boating on the Ohio river, running coal barges. He finally located on a farm in Coshocton County, Ohio, and devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits. There he died in 1891 at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. The mother died in 1885.
On the home farm Amos Dyal grew to manhood, receiving but limited school privileges in his youth. In the fall of 1856 he came west, arriving in Henry county, Illinois on the 1st of October, and for about four years he worked by the month on the farm of D.C. Welton, one of the early settlers of Illinois, who came to Henry county from Peoria county. Later he rented land and engaged in farming on his own account for three or four years in Osco and Andover townships. In 1862 he purchased eighty acres of land on section 14, Western township, but did not locate thereon until two years later. At the time of purchase this was a wild tract, which Mr. Dyal fenced, broke and improved, and as his financial resources increased he added to his property from time to time until he now owns two hundred and thirty-four acres of rich and arable land, which he has placed under a high state of cultivation and improved with a good set of farm buildings, including a pleasant residence and two barns. He raised and fed considerable stock for market, and in all his undertakings met with a fair success.
In November, 1860, in Henry county, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Dyal and Miss Isabella McFarland, who was born and reared in Holmes County, Ohio, and died here in 1872. leaving two children. Ida Eliza, the older, is now the wife of Harry McCleese (sis), of Hancock County, Iowa, and they have seven children: Myron, Clarence, Walter, Bertha, Isabella, Ralph K and Hazel. Robert, the younger child of our subject grew to manhood and married, but died May 8, 1896. In union being with ****Mrs. Marietta Hove, who was born in New York, but 1874 Mr. Dyal was again married, his second was reared in Henry County, Illinois, and engaged in teaching school prior to her marriage. She died in 1889. and June 29 1892, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, M. Dyal united in marriage with Miss Mary Showalter, a native of that county, educated at George's Creek Academy and the Lock Haven Normal School, and also a school teacher. Throughout his active business life her father, James Showalter, also followed that profession, but is now living a retired life in Smithfield, Pennsylvania. He belongs to an old family of that state. In his political views Mr. Dyal is independent, being a strong temperance man, he usually supports the men and measures of the Prohibition party. He and his wife attend the Baptist Church of Orion, with which he holds membership, but she is still connected with the Presbyterian Church of Smithfield, Pennsylvania, having been reared in that faith. As a citizen of Henry county, with whose interests he has long been identified, he is highly respected, enjoys the confidence of his neighbors and friends, and is regarded as a man of excellent business judgment. His success in life is due entirely to his own well-directed efforts, diligence and sagacity. He is now living retired in Orion, to which he removed in October, 1895, and where he owns a home.
Source: "Biographical Rocord of Henry Co" Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1901 p152
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Household Record 1880 United States Census
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
William DYAL Self M Male W 73 VA Farmer VA VA
Elizebeth DYAL Wife M Female W 75 VA Keeping House VA MD
Source Information:
Census Place Tiverton, Coshocton, Ohio
Family History Library Film 1255003
NA Film Number T9-1003
Page Number 212C
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Amos was married to Marietta when the census was taken.
Household Record 1880 United States Census
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Amos DYAL Self M Male W 40 PA Farmer VA VA
Marietta DYAL Wife M Female W 38 NY Keeping House NY NY
Ida DYAL Dau S Female W 18 IL Unemployed PA NY
Robert K. DYAL Son S Male W 13 IL Works On Farm PA NY
Source Information:
Census Place Western, Henry, Illinois
Family History Library Film 1254213
NA Film Number T9-0213
Page Number 487A
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