William Dye b.1807 son of Benjamin & Elizabeth (Jackson) Dye
Not my family line, just sharing.
The following Biographical sketch was copied from the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers. 1883.
page 738, Van Buren Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.
"WILLIAM DYE was born in Miami County, Ohio, April 15, 1807, and is the son of BENJAMIN and ELIZABETH (JACKSON) DYE, both natives of Pennsylvania. The father was born December 27, 1779, and the mother June 10, 1776, and they were married in Greene County, Pennsylvania. MRS. DYE died about the year 1815; MR. DYE then married his brother's widow, and died in June 1842. He was the father of fifteen children - ten by his first, and five by his second wife. Among them were ten sons - STEPHEN, VINCENT, ANDREW, JAMES M., WILLIAM, BENJAMIN, JOHN, JEREMIAH, HORATIO and BASIL. April 6, 1826, WILLIAM DYE married NANCY MEEK, who was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, September 15, 1808. This lady died in Miami County, Ohio, January 12, 1843. In the spring of 1846, MR. DYE came to Pulaski County, (Indiana), and settled on the farm of 160 acres where he now lives, having in the meantime lived a few years in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. March 18, 1847, he married EMILY HOLLENBACK, who died November 17, 1860; December 4, 1861, he married NANCY McDONALD, who died March 9, 1872; September 18, 1873, he married MRS. ELZIRA SHEPHARD. He has had born to him fourteen children as follows: VINCENT, SARAH, JACKSON, JOHN, BASIL, BENJAMIN, ELI and HORATIO by his first wife; WILLIAM, EMESILA and an infant daughter, who died unnamed, by his second wife; JAMES M. and EMILY by his third, and EDWARD R. by his fourth wife. He has served as Justice of the Peace a number of years, and he and wife are members of the United Brethren Church."