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... mother's side ( John Sal- mon ) , was of Irish descent , and also served in the Revolutionary War . My father , David Dalton Dyer , and my mother , Nancy Reynolds Salmon , were born in Henry County , Virginia , in the years 1791 and ...
... mother's side ( John Sal- mon ) , was of Irish descent , and also served in the Revolutionary War . My father , David Dalton Dyer , and my mother , Nancy Reynolds Salmon , were born in Henry County , Virginia , in the years 1791 and ...
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... mother sixteen . They could not boast ( as most Virginians do ) of kinship with either Washing- ton , Jefferson , Marshall or Lee . Without dis- tinguished ancestry and without property of very great value , they had to rely upon their ...
... mother sixteen . They could not boast ( as most Virginians do ) of kinship with either Washing- ton , Jefferson , Marshall or Lee . Without dis- tinguished ancestry and without property of very great value , they had to rely upon their ...
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... mother , with the seven remaining children and a few slaves , left the old home in Henry County , Virginia , and after six weeks of hardship on the way , came to Missouri . The means of transportation used by my father from Virginia to ...
... mother , with the seven remaining children and a few slaves , left the old home in Henry County , Virginia , and after six weeks of hardship on the way , came to Missouri . The means of transportation used by my father from Virginia to ...
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... mother . After weeks of pain and struggle , the master closed his eyes in death on the 8th of October , 1844. He was buried on the hill near the house he had built , and there for more than three quarters of a century his ashes have ...
... mother . After weeks of pain and struggle , the master closed his eyes in death on the 8th of October , 1844. He was buried on the hill near the house he had built , and there for more than three quarters of a century his ashes have ...
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... mother of twelve children - five sons and seven daughters -seven of whom survive her , viz : Capt . James C. Dyer , of Warrenton ; Mrs. Sallie A. Mason , Mrs. Jane Wyatt , Mrs. Elizabeth Ball and Mrs. Matilda Foreman , of this vicinity ...
... mother of twelve children - five sons and seven daughters -seven of whom survive her , viz : Capt . James C. Dyer , of Warrenton ; Mrs. Sallie A. Mason , Mrs. Jane Wyatt , Mrs. Elizabeth Ball and Mrs. Matilda Foreman , of this vicinity ...
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Page 38 - And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now : for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Page 319 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — .left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 38 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straight way out of the water : and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him : and, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 38 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 319 - It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims.
Page 233 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 233 - ... they shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than ten years; and shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust created by the constitution or laws of the United States.
Page 319 - It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject.
Page 233 - ... the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured, they shall be fined not more than...
Page 72 - His justice can not sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery by a public act; and as the prospects of a general emancipation grew more and more dim, he, in utter hopelessness of the action of the State, did all that he could by bequeathing freedom to his own slaves. Good and true men had, from the days of...