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"Jacob Ellis Dyer grew up in Polk County, Tennessee. He later went to Whitfield County, Georgia, near Dalton, where he met, wooed, and wed Sallie Clark Chastine. Both families had been slave owners. Sallie was the daughter of John B. and Susan Kincaid Chastain. Jacob had one brother, Jasper. Sallie had four brothers, Jeff, Webb, Bill, and Wren, and three sisters, Susan, Rado, and Amy.
Jacob and Sallie moved to Cobb County, Georgia, near Marietta, where they farmed the poor soil with the aid of guano for fertilizer. Four children were born to them (while in Georgia): Ida, who married Charley Coombs; May, (Mary) who married J. A. Brewer; Lena, who married Jim Quinton; and Tom, who married Annie Morris.
They learned that land was soon to be opened in the Indian Territory. In 1889 they came by train to Van Buren, Arkansas, where they loaded their wagon and team and traveled northward into what was then Flint District of the Indian Territory.
They traveled by covered wagon over the mountains to the home of Gus Rider, (who was an Indian) north of what is now Stilwell, Okalhoma. Jacob worked at Evansville and Dutchmills building log houses, splitting clapboards, palings, railings, rails, fence posts, and building chimneys. It was while they were living at the Rider place that Susan (Susie) was born on March 17, 1891.
They received an opportunity to take a lease on some land belonging to Walk and Nan Gott. This farm was about three miles east of Stilwell. Two more children were born here: Deborah on November 7, 1893, who died in infancy; and John on June 13, 1897, who married Pearl Davis. Tragedy struck when most of the family had typhoid fever.
Jacob decided to take his family back to Arkansas, but when they reached the Big Mulberry Creek, it was at flood stage. A wagon that had just crossed was almost swept away by the current. While Jacob was trying to decide what to do, Sam McKinney persuaded him to turn back and settle in Prices Chapel community and work for Mr. Quesenbury and Ben Brackett cultivating strawberries. When they arrived at Prices Chapel, Mr. Quesenbury let them have a tent to live in.
In 1900, they moved into Sallisaw, Oklahoma, and lived in a log house. There seems to have been one bank, two stores, and two railroads in Sallisaw at that time. Most of the land that is now covered with houses was once covered by strawberries fields and other crops. In 1905, they leased land owned by Charley Littlejohn, which was about one mile west of the Brushy School. In 1909, they moved to the George Benge place, and then back to the Littlejohn place, where they were living in 1913.
They spent the rest of their working years as tenant farmers in the Brushy community. "Jake" and Sallie spent hours talking about their old home in Georgia, but they were never privileged to visit it again.
Jacob died in 1947; Sallie died in 1949; Mary (May) died in 1910; Lena died in 1936; Tom died in 1948; and John died in 1956. They are all buried in the Brushy Cemetery. At this writing (1974), Susan (Susie) is the only one of the family living. She is eighty-three years of age.
Ida passed away a few years ago and is buried in a cemetery near the Peavine School north of Stilwell."
[The above was written in 1974 by Ira Clark Brackett of Sallisaw, Oklahoma. He included it in a letter dated November 18, 1978 to John Bunyan Gordon of Moore, Oklahoma. He in turn sent a copy of it in a letter dated February 12, 1993 to Caleb Glenn Teffeteller of Maryville, Tennessee]
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