Week 3: I posted the first photo to my blog. This photo is of my Great Grandfather John Dial, standing, and his sons, on horseback. The boy in the front was adopted into the family. The photo was taken near Groveton in East Texas in the early 1900's. The Dials have been cattlemen and ranchers in East Texas for over 100 years, going back to the times when Native Americans still lived in the area. John Dial, according to my father, Adwin Winston Dial, Jr. (second son of Adwin Winston Dial, Sr.) was married to a woman who was 1/8th Cherokee. My father and others state that the Dial family came to East Texas from Louisiana. Reportedly, this ancestor from France spelled the last name Dyal, but changed the spelling to Dial when he left Louisian being accused of stealing a horse-!
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Great start. Keep going.
Week 3: I posted the first photo to my blog. This photo is of my Great Grandfather John Dial, standing, and his sons, on horseback. The boy in the front was adopted into the family. The photo was taken near Groveton in East Texas in the early 1900's. The Dials have been cattlemen and ranchers in East Texas for over 100 years, going back to the times when Native Americans still lived in the area. John Dial, according to my father, Adwin Winston Dial, Jr. (second son of Adwin Winston Dial, Sr.) was married to a woman who was 1/8th Cherokee. My father and others state that the Dial family came to East Texas from Louisiana. Reportedly, this ancestor from France spelled the last name Dyal, but changed the spelling to Dial when he left Louisian being accused of stealing a horse-!
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