Calling all Dial family descendants! Please join my Dial Family Facebook group. This group is for all descendants of Rebecca "Becky Ann" and William Dial from Green Hill, Lauderdale County, Alabama. Click here to go to the Dial Family from Green Hill, Alabama Facebook group. Questions for me? Email downhomegenealogy@gmail.com.
Newspapers are an often forgot resource to family history seekers. Accessibility is an issue, but local libraries, newspapers.com and Chronicling America are a few access points. I recently lucked up while searching for "J.W. Dial" on newspapers.com. (Tip: put your ancestor's name in quotation marks to search for their exact name - "J.W. Dial", "Dial, …
Last updated: April 20, 2018 Rebecca and William Dial were my third great-grandparents. William lived his early years in Lauderdale County, Alabama and Lawrence County, Tennessee, but made his home with Rebecca in Green Hill, Lauderdale County, Alabama right over the Tennessee state line. No one knows his wife’s real last name or her parents. …
John Wesley Dial was my great-great-grandfather. He was born on March 19, 1875 in Green Hill, Lauderdale County, Alabama to Rebecca and William T. Dial. He married Martha Ada Boyd when he was 24 on September 12, 1899 in Wayne County, Tennessee. The problem is that A LOT of family trees on Ancestry and beyond …
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I have some family photos that I can't identify that belonged to my grandmother's mother, Waymon Dial Pigg. Waymon lived in Wayne County, Tennessee in Iron City. Her mom was Martha Ada Boyd (child of Jane Hayes and Levi Boyd) and her father was John Wesley Dial (child of Rebecca and William Dial). John's family …
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