Vashti Leary Dyer

Meet Vashti Leary Dyer, Diane and Marsha's third great-grandmother. The line goes back like this: Marilyn, George Hosmer, Mary Hallett, Sophronia Mann Dyer, Vashti Leary who married Jonathan Dyer. Vashti was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts (at the tip of Cape Cod) on 19 November 1795 and died in Provincetown on 7 June 1881. Her husband Jonathan was a mariner.

Found At Last: The Marriage of James Sonday and Zoe Shirley!

Eureka! I was finally able to locate the marriage date and place for my aunt Zoe Shirley and her husband Jim Sonday. I have been looking for this for at least twenty years. The Mormon church has placed Indiana marriage records from 1811 to 1959 online and I decided last night to see if Zoe and Jim's record had been added and there it was: They were married in Putnam County, Indiana on 14 December 1936