2. HENRY2 DYKES (JAMES1DYCHE) was born Abt. 1759. He married ELIZABETH UNKNOWN.
Notes for HENRY DYKES:
(Taken from: The Genealogical History of William Henry Kinnison (1853-1933)of Angus, Nuckolls Co., NE 1981 pg 108 , 2nd Edition by Mr. Don E. Kinnison of Berkeley, California.)
"Henry Dykes was born in Virginia ca. 1759 and died in Pikes County, Ohio sometime during the 1820s. He served in the American Revolutionary War and enlisted at Leesburg, Loudon County, Virginia, in 1776. After the war was over he migrated to Ohio with others of his family. Henry Dyke's pension statement of his service to the county judge is as follows:- He appeared before Thomas Rodgers, one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas, at Gallopolis, Galla County, Ohio, to make this statement on February 8, 1819-He said that he enlisted at Leesburgh in Loudon County, Va., for three years, in Captain Russell's Company, Colonel Gunby's Regiment and was immediately marched to join General George Washington on the north river at Stoney Point and that he served out his three years faithfully and was honorably discharged at Princeton, New Jersey, at the expiration of said service. He did not recollect at what time he entered the Service but said he was in Gunby's Regiment and said Russell's Company in the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777. That about six months later after his discharge at the northward, he enlisted again in said Leesburgh for two years service under Captain Brown and marched under him to the southward-when he served under said Capain Brown in Colonel's Haw'a(sicHaw's) Regiment of the Virginia Line. And under General Green that he was in the Battle of Eutaw Springs and in the Battle of Gilford, where Captain Brown was killed, the company then falling under the Command of Lieut. Tatum and that some short time after this battle he was discharged near the Cheraw Hills in South Carolina, in the fall of the year 1781, and that Captain Selden Commended the Company in which he was enrolled at the time of his discharge. That he has now neither evidence within his possession whereby he can prove said serviced and that he is in such reduced circumstances as absolutely-to stand in need of assistance of his country for his support.-(Signed "Henry Dykes"). One June 21, 1820, he also made and applied for pension in Pikes County, Ohio, and said at that time he has no family other than his wife, who was also old and infirm. His age at that time wa sixty-one (Abstract by Annie Walker Burns, Washington, D.C.). He mush have died during the 1820s as there is an Elizabeth Dykes in the 1830 U.S. Census Reports for Pikes County that was his Widow. Henry is buried at Beaver in Union Cemetery. Elizabeth Dykes was born ca. 1750 in Virginia. Some of their children were:-
II-Charles, Jason and William are all in the U.S. Census Reports, Pikes County, Ohio, in 1820 and 30. Charles was in the above 30 years of age, age group, so was born ca. 1785. In the 1820 Census Report, Charles had a family of 3 girls all under the age of ten years; one of these girls must have been Catharine as she was born in 1815.
III.-Catharine Van Dykes, born September 9, 1815 and died in 1889. Interment in the Union Cemetery, Beaver, Ohio; married David Clayborn Kinnison in 1833. Two of her sisters were:-Sally Fout and Polly McNeal. There was also a Moses, Dice and H.M. Dykes. Sarah A. was wife of Henry Dykes 1820-1910.
I have in my possession 3 grave photos:
Moses Dykes: (1849-1934)
H.M. Dykes: (1862-1949)
Alice Dykes: (1858-1944) **** this surely must by Don's "Dice"
These ages really don't match the above…
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From Dych Families of America--Dych Families of Greenbrier County Virgina--Book III pg 368
"Henry was born 1759, Virgina. He served in the Revolution War, enlisting at Leesburgh in Loudoun County, Virginia (source: Pensions File Number S44146, Certificate Number 11554) In the pension application, he states he resided in Gallia County Ohio in 1819, and Pike County 1820. On 25 May 1809, Greenbrier, Virgina, he was overseer of road from Peter Biurgesti(sp) to the fork of old Kanawha Road. Also the following persons were ordered to be taken from the list and added to the taxable lists; Henry Dike, Jason Dyche, Charles Dyche. The 1820 census of Pike County shows hims as over 45 with wife over 45. The adjacent entry is 6088..Jason Dyche. Last pension was paid 4 Sep 1848 so must be assumed he died at that time.
Tax Lists Greenbrier, County, Virginia:
1804 2 tithables Spring Creek
1805 3 tithables Sinking Creek
1806 3 tithables near Lewisburg
1807 3 tithables Milican's Creek
1809 3 tithables
1810 2 tithables (Charles Dyche now appears)
1811 1 tithable (Charles Dyche and now Jacen are listed)
1812 1 tithable
1814 1 tithable
1815 1 tithable
1816 1 tithable (Also Charles, Jason)
Children of HENRY DYKES and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN are:
