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Descendants of Unidentified Dyals

Generation No. 1

1. Unidentified¹ Dyals was born Unknown, and died Bef 1830. He married Nancy Cook Bef 1824 in Unknown.

Notes
The unidentified man with the surname Dyals was the husband of Nancy Cook and they lived in Logan Co., VA before Nancy met Jesse P. Thacker and later moved west with him to Russell Co., VA and then to Letcher Co., KY. Since there is a court instrument referred to as a Deed of gift filed in 1842 in Russell Co., VA stating that Nancy's second husband Jesse P. Thacker had known his step-daughter Betsy for twelve years, that suggests that Jesse married Betsy's mother Nancy (Cook) Diles more than twelve years earlier in 1830. Prior to 1830 Jesse was in Logan Co., VA. This is confirmed by the fact that Jesse appears on the 1824 & 1827 tax lists in Logan Co., VA with his father Reuben. Since Jesse was living in Logan Co., VA about the time he married Nancy, he may have have met her in Logan Co. This could turn out to be a very important fact that may help in tracing the origins of Nancy Cook's unidentified Dyals husband. Nancy's first husband may be somehow connected to another individual who was listed on the 1830 Logan Co., VA census as Polly Dials. This may be the same person who was identified on a certification in Tazewell Co., VA Order Book No. 1 page 271, dated November 24, 1807, which stated that "Polly Dials is the youngest child of Andrew Dials, Dec'd. and that she is now 21 years of age and that the said Andrew Dials was killed by the Indians in the year 1787." This event has been referred to as the Thomas-Dials Indian Massacre, which was also documented in many different sources including: "History of the Settlement and Indian Wars of Tazewell Co., Virginia" by Geo. W. L. Bickley, MD, published 1852; "History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia 1748-1920" page 459 written by Pendleton and published in 1920; "History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870" page 385 written by Lewis Preston Summers in 1903 and "Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and Holston Rivers of Southwestern Virginia, 1773-1794" written by Emory L. Hamilton.

There were also many Cook families in the area of Logan Co., VA. Even though Jesse & Nancy were apparently living in the same county as this Polly Dials, this by itself may not be enough to "establish" a relationship, but when you take into consideration how rare the Dials/Dyals surname was in the area, this may be a very significant piece of information that may lead to the identity of Nancy Cook's first husband. Finally, it may be more than mere cooincidence that Nancy (Cook) Dials/Diles-Thacker may have had a son named Andrew and she also lived near Polly Dials, whose father was also named Andrew. Perhaps Nancy's son Andrew was named after the deceased who was killed in the Indian massacre.

Children of Unidentified Dyals and Nancy Cook are:

+	2	i.	Sarah Mahala² Diles (alias Thacker), born Abt 1824; died Aft 1894.
+	3	ii.	Elizabeth "Betsy" Diles (alias Thacker), born Abt 1826; died Aft 1880.
	4	iii.	Andrew Diles (alias Thacker), born Bef 1830; died Unknown. He married Melissa Hanch.

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