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Robert Henry was commonly called "Henry". He married Mary Ann Dye on August 10 1879, and the y lived on the Whited land near Mountain Grove, which he purchased from his father. In 1888 , Henry and Mary Ann moved to southwest Polk County, near the town of Aldrich. Their childre n were John Elmore (who left home in his teens an apparently was never heard from again), mal issa Jane Goerge William, Hattie Arminda, Alice Cleveland, and Freddie Albert, who died in in fancy. Mary Ann died in 1895, and Henry never remarried. They are buried in the Mitchell Camp groughd Cemetery, near Aldrich.

Determining the parents of Mary Ann has been quite frustrating, due to inconsistencies in th e spelling and the ages of the William H. Dye family in the Wright County census records, fro m 1860 to 1880. Nonetheless, I contend that Mary Ann was the daughter of William H. and Sara h M. Dye. The 1870 census shows a William ans Sarah Dye in the Hartville township, with a dau ghter Mary, age nin - the exact age Mary Ann Dye Whited would have been at the time. In 1880 , the Dyes are living in the Wood township, the same township where the Whiteds live, includi ng Henry Whited and wife Mary Ann Dye.

We know with certainty that William H. Dye was the oldest son of Kinneth Dye and Marth Ann Bu rroughts Dye of Audrain County, Missouri. An account in an Audrain County history speaks gene rously of Kinneth Dye: he was born in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1812, son of Peter and Abiga il Dye, formerly of the Commonwealth of Virginia; he was a brick mason in Pike County, Missou ri, before removing to Laddonia in Audrain County in 1866; and he died in 1878 in Audrain. W e also know that Martha Ann Burroughs dye was the daughter of George and Mary (Johnson) Burro ughs of Kentucky. Martha Ann died in 1884 in Vandalia, Missouri.

The graves of Henry and Mary Ann Whited are rather isolated in the easternmost section of th e Mitchell Campground Cemetery, which leaves open the possibility that other Dyes are burie d nearby, in unmarked plots.