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That same Richard Dwyer had fallen heir to part of one of his brother’s estate. That other brother had died in 1883, which date put Richard Dwyer in Polk County, Missouri, at least by then, as I found in the Administrator’s list of heirs of James Dwyer.
Awhile after this I wrote the Clerk of the Circuit Court in Bolivar, the county seat, requesting some info on the abovementioned Richard Dwyer. The clerk sent me a couple of items, i.e., telephone book listing Dwyer names, and tombstone inscriptions in the various cemeteries in Polk County.
With this information, especially the latter, I had a death date of Richard Dwyer. I had obtained his birth date from having seen the original recordation in the Family Bible (now in possession of Robert Compton of Reva, Culpeper County, Virginia). I had also gathered much information while in Ohio earlier. Among that material was a collection of marriages in Cochoctan County where I’d copied one of a Richard Dwyer to a Lucy Compton.
Now I’ll go back to arriving in Bolivar. Last July was the first Dwyer family reunion. Held at the fire hall in Washington. The day previuos to the reunion I thought I’d try calling the number of Benton Dwyer listed on page from the phone book sent me by the clerk of the court
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