David DYKES

Harriet & David

David DYKES (s/o Nathaniel DYKES & Temperance JETER), b. 10 Mar 1815 in AL, d. 1 Mar 1900 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, bur. Beulah Methodist Church-Natchitoches Pr., LA, occupation logger. He married 7 Dec 1840 in Barbour Co., AL, Harriet Elizer McKINSEY (d/o Asa McKINSEY), b. 4 Apr 1819 in South Carolina, d. 2 Aug 1898 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, bur. Beulah Methodist Church-Natchitoches Pr., LA.

Travis Wright Durr told his daughter "In 1859, David Dykes with his wife Harriet McKinsey & seven children left Alabama in an ox wagon. They camped near New Orleans on their first night in LA. The next morning when they awoke, they found a man sleeping on the wagon tongue. He was rather well to do & had gotten too drunk to get home. A trade was made & the Dykes acquired some land near Allen, LA. They stayed there a year before moving to Bear (Berry?) Break. During the Civil War David Dykes made shoes for the CSA." Thomas F. Jennings in EARLY SETTLERS & LATER FAMILIES OF THE BETHANY-JENNINGS CHAPEL COMMUNITY, NATCHITOCHES, LA, states that they resided in Coffee & Barbour counties of AL before coming to LA. They first settled at Berry Brake in Ward 5 of Natchitoches Pr., LA. Information from T. L. Dykes, Jr. states "David Dykes logging crew consisted of his 7 McKinsey brothers-in-law who were considerd to be very rough & rowdy in those backwoods days. All seven of the McKinsey brothers died 'with their boots on' & their sister, Harriet, is known to have said that had she been a man she would have died with her boots on. She was a rather small woman, very fiesty, & she smoked a small clay pipe."

Children:

  1. Martha DYKES, b. 184? in AL. She married (1) ? LAUREOSE. She married (2) ? PAYNE. It is unlikely she came to LA with the family.
  2. James DeLeslie DYKES, b. 6 Mar 1842 in Coffee Co., AL, d. 9 Jul 1922 in Sabine Pr., LA, bur. Sardis Cemetery-Sabine Pr., LA. He married 1867, Margaret VARNON, b. 28 Aug 1847 in AR, d. 28 Mar 1931 in Sabine Pr., LA, bur. Sardis Cemetery-Sabine Pr., LA.


    3. James & Margaret

  3. Abigail Jane DYKES, b. 22 Apr 1844 in Coffee Co., AL, d. 13 Aug 1898 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, bur. Beulah Methodist Church-Natchitoches Pr., LA. She married (1) 26 Aug 1858 in Washington Co., AL, A. E. William FARROW. She married (2) 30 Jun 1883 in Bethany-Jennings Chapel Community, Sabine, LA, James Madison FREE, (s/o William FREE & Mary GILCREASE), b. Aug 1859 in LA, d. 1883/84 in Sabine Pr., LA, bur. McCaskill Cemetery-Sabine Pr., LA. She married (3) 27 Nov 1884 in Natchitoches Pr., LA (9/38), Thomas J. MEGASON, (s/o William MEGISON & Fener (Timor) PALMER), b. 1840 in AL.


    4. Jane
    Jane Dykes

  4. Pamela Agnis "Puss" DYKES, b. Jul 1846 in AL, d. 1900-10 in Sabine Pr., LA, bur. McCaskill Cemetery-Sabine Pr., LA. She married 19 Mar 1877 in Sabine Pr., LA (1-284), Henry J. WILKERSON, b. 185? in AL, d. 1878-80 in Sabine Pr., LA.
  5. Margaret Amanda DYKES, b. 1848 in AL, d. 1864 (@age 15yr.) in Sabine Pr., LA. Beulah Methodist Church membership listing on GENWEB lists her as dying in 1864 of pneumonia.
  6. Mary Maria DYKES, b. 3 Aug 1850 in AL, d. 23 Aug 1937 in Sabine Pr., LA, bur. Spring Ridge Cemetery-Sabine Pr., LA. She married 27 Jan 1870 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, Alonzo Leroy "Pompey" WOODS, (s/o William Fletcher WOODS & Lucinda WALDROP), b. 22 Nov 1847 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, d. 11 May 1903 in LA, bur. Spring Ridge Cemetery-Sabine Pr., LA.
  7. Lucinda Melvina DYKES, b. 6 Jun 1852 in Barbour Co., AL, d. 19 Sept 1934 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, bur. Beulah Methodist Church-Natchitoches Pr., LA. She married 23 Dec 1869 in Natchitoches Pr., LA (5/46), William Rufus DURR (s/o David H. DURR & Paralee ALLRED), b. 7 Feb 1853 in Sabine Pr., LA, d. 9 May 1927 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, bur. Beulah Methodist Church-Natchitoches Pr., LA.
  8. Levi Thomas DYKES, b. 5 Apr 1855 in AL, d. 14 Oct 1931 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, bur. Beulah Methodist Church-Natchitoches Pr., LA. He married 10 Jun 1878 in Bethany-Jennings Chapel Community, Sabine, LA, Alice Struther CRUMP, (d/o Samuel D. CRUMP & Elizabeth Emeline VARNON), b. 2 Nov 1858 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, d. 12 Jan 1917 in Natchitoches Pr., LA, bur. Beulah Methodist Church-Natchitoches Pr., LA.
  9. William Franklin DYKES, b. 1856, d. 1856 (age 2 months).
  10. Joana Farrow DYKES, b. 1859 in AL, d. @1864 (age 5 yrs.) in Sabine Pr., LA.


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(Last edited: 3/23/2011)

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