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· Birth: 1818
Kentucky, USA
Death: Oct 13, 1862, Cooke County, Texas, USA
Rama (Ramey) Edward Dye was the son of Fauntleroy Dye & Elizabeth Young; he had the following siblings: James, Jacob, Barah Barthenia, Mildred, Bachen (Boucher), Lucinda, Fauntleroy, Rachel & Mary "Polly" Dye.
He married on 16 Jan 1842 in Monroe, MO, (1) Sarah Jane Bradley b. abt 1824 in MO, daughter of Benjamin Bradley & Margaret Campbell; Sarah & Rama had the following children: James, Margaret E., Rachel, & Thomas Dye.
He married (2) Mary Ann Dawson in Cooke Co., TX, on June 27, 1861; she was the daughter of Arphax R. Dawson and Jane (Unknown)(or Mary Horn); no children.
Rama Dye gave land to be used for a school house to Cooke Co., TX, Nov. 7, 1856; he and Sarah Jane, his wife, late of the state of TX and Co. of Cooke, now of Monroe Co., and Benjamin Bradley (her father) of Monroe Co., Bought land in Monroe Co. for $400 on Nov. 4, 1850, and Cooke Co., TX, records show Ramy Dye sold 320 acres to J. B. & R. H. Ruryear (Puryear?) on July 26, 1862. [Source: http://awt.ancestry.com, corder@msn.com]
He was hung as a Union sympathizer during the "Great Hangings at Gainsville."
Family links:
Children:
Margaret Elizabeth Dye Bullard (1844 - 1939)*
*Point here for explanation
Burial:
Dye Cemetery
Whitesboro
Grayson County
Texas, USAStory by Alice Hewitt Preston
· Great Hanging at Gainesville - SourcesPosted 08 Mar 2012 by ebullard132
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· To read more about the Great Hanging, go to:
The Handbook of Texas Online has an article on the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas 1862.Following is a link to the article: www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/GG/jig1.html
Also the following related articles can be found on The Handbook of Texas Online:
Unionism http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/UU/mzu1.html
Lynching http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/LL/jgl1.html
Thomas C. Barrett http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/fba83.html
This article is from W.T. Block on TexasEscapes.com. Texas Escapes Online Magazine; "Cannonball's Tales" by W.T. Block, Jr., December 1, 2006 column http://www.texasescapes.com/WTBlock/Hangings-at-Gainesville-Texas-1862.htm
A Blog on the Gainesville Hanging:
http://gainesvilletx1862.blogspot.com/
A great website with a list of books and articles on Cooke County, Texas. Many of the articles contain information about the Great Hanging. An index to the site can be found the Cooke County Genforum.com message board.
The Genforum.com post states that "The follow-up posts will contain links to articles/books scanned and put online for everyone to read/print."
http://genforum.genealogy.com/tx/cooke/messages/1667.html
You can also get to the list of books and articles by going directly to the Ware's of Woodbine website:
http://waresofwoodbine.envy.nu/pic4.html
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· Gainesville Hanging Newspaper IllustrationsPosted 02 Sep 2012 by ebullard132To see illustrations of the Gainesville hangings go to Gainesville, Texas 1862 Blog: www.gainesvilletx1862.blogspot.com
Bringing in Union Men. The illustration link below is from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 20 Feb 1864 and is entitled "Bringing in Union Men." On the night of 30 September 1862, men surrounded the homes of suspected unionists and at daybreak on October 1st the unionists were arrested. According to Barrett, "the heaviest rains I ever saw" started and the arrests took place in the pouring rain.
http://gainesvilletx1862.blogspot.com/2008/06/bringing-in-union-men.html
HANGING OF UNION MEN. The illustration link below is for an illustration of the Hanging from the Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 20 Feb 1864. Several smaller illustrations comprised a doublepage centerfold, about 22X16 in size and entitled "Rebel Barbarities in Texas." This illustration was in the center of the page and called, "Hanging of 30 Union Men," which depicted the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas.
http://gainesvilletx1862.blogspot.com/2008/05/frank-leslies-illustrated-newspaper-20.html
To see a picture of the complete illustration from the Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 20 Feb 1864 go to the Fold3.com link below: http://www.fold3.com/image/#52160008
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· Rama Dye Performs Marriage (Goodnight to Turner)Posted 09 Dec 2012 by ebullard132Source: George W. Turner & Sarah Frances Goodnight, Marriage Return, July 14, 1855, Vol., 1, Number 36: 18, County Clerk's Office, Cooke County, Texas.
Rama Dye performed the marriage of his neice, Sarah Francis Goodnight, to George W. TURNER on 18 January 1855 in Cooke County, Texas.
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