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- This section begins with: 'As told me by Aunt Margaret Whitney, July 1914.' Our Revolutionary War ancestor, Jones Dyer, was Grandfather AnaniahBohanon's grandfather, his mother Mary having been the daughter of Jonesand Hannah Dyer (the latter lived to be 100 years of age.) Mary Dyer, who lived to be 91, married ______Bohanon for her firsthusband; one son was born, our grandfather, Ananiah. She married a secondtime to a man named Jackson by whom she had six daughters and two sons,Jones Jackson and Absalom [Jackson.] One of these sons, Absalom, amassed, I think, quite a fortune but wasmiserly; had his grandmother Dyers home place (think somewhere near St.Andrews [New Brunswick, Canada], but not sure.) The daughters in later life were known as Aunt McKenzie (mother of UncleJohn's first wife, Lucretia), Aunt Nash, Aunt Winslow and Aunt KeziahDimotti (Hattie Damottis mother) of Calais. Aunt Nash came to Wisconsin when Grandfather came to Minnesota. Our Grandmother Bohanon, maiden name Amy Campbell, was of Scotchparentage-her mother a lowlander and father a highlander. (Her mother wasnamed Mary.) She had two sisters and one brother. Her brother, John Campbell, wasaccidentally shot when 19 years old. One sister, known to us as 'Aunt Hall', (Mother of Mrs. Burnham, themother of Lydia Wilkinson and Julia Smith) and another sister married aman named Young. She died and was buried in a field near the home placeof Grandfather and Grandmother in Alexander, Maine. Grandmother Amy Campbell Bohanon's father was seized by British when downtown one evening, and sent to sea and not allowed to even bid his familygoodby, and his wife died without ever seeing him again. Grandmotherlived with a wealthy family in lLSt. Andrews named Mackintosh who wouldhave adopted her but their daughter Kate objected.
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