The Mystery of Cloa Dye

By Charles L. Weidinger

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This file was contributed for use in the OHGenWeb Ross County by: Charles L. Weidinger

In Memory

of

Charles L. Weidenger

Aug. 19, 1932 - July 30, 2006

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The family and lineage of Cloa Dye Stinson, my third great grandmother, poses a baffling mystery. The following is extracted from the files of Prof. John Butler, site manager of The Dye Society at the University of Houston, Texas. This society was formed in order to analyze and discuss, in forum style, the lineage and history of the DYE, DEY, DUYS, and DUYTS surnames, which all have common roots from England, and Denmark.

Vincent Dye, born 1726 in Middlesex County, New Jersey, was a son of John Laurens Dey and Ann Brown. He died in Prince William County, Virginia, about 1796. The interchangeability of DYE and DEY seems to permeate this family history, which causes confusion. On 1 September 1746, Vincent Dye married one Sarah Artepe, in Middlesex County, New Jersey. They had fifteen children. Their youngest two children were Joseph Dye, born 6 February 1766, and William Dye, born 6 December 1768. Around 1810, a number of the descendants of Vincent and Sarah Artepe Dye migrated from New Jersey to the original Washington County in Ohio. Subsequent partition of this large tract caused some Dye families to be located in both Monroe and Washington Counties.

For unknown reasons, the parentage of my third great grandmother was never recorded for posterity. However, her siblings are all written down in several reliable sources, including Professor Butler's file at the University of Houston. The mystery family group is as follows:

 

Father: Unknown DYE (VA Abt 1765-Unknown OH)
Mother: Unknown
Children: Polly Dye (OH 1789-Unknown)(Married Curtis Harris)
          David Dye (OH 1791-Unknown)(Married Betsy Linton)
          Cloa Dye  (OH 1795-1831 OH)(Married Daniel David Stinson)
          Rachel Dye(OH 1797-Unknown)(Married John Harrison)
          Harrison Dye (OH 1799-Unknown)(Married Jane Riley)
          Catherine Dye (OH 1801-22 Feb 1879)(Married James Riley)
          Nancy Dye (OH 1803-Unknown)(Married Cuthbert Harrison)

Cloa and her sibling's father, according to Prof. Butler, was an "Unknown" Dye, born about 1765 in Virginia, probably a son of Vincent and Sarah Artepe Dye. William Dye died about 1819 in Mason County, Kentucky. This leaves Joseph Dye, their second youngest child, as the remaining possible candidate to be Cloa Dye's father. Research continues through the Dye Society.

Cloa and her husband Daniel Stinson were married on 16 November 1813, likely in Ross County, as this marriage is shown in the Ross County listing. They had three sons while living in Huntington Township, Ross County. They were Hugh Stinson (1823-1908), my second great grandfather, Daniel Stinson (1824), and Archibald Stinson (1826). About 1830, prior to the Federal Census, the family moved from Huntington Township to Franklin Township, where John J. Stinson was born on 16 March 1830. Cloa Dye Stinson died early in 1831, and Daniel Stinson soon moved westward, and died in Limecreek Township, Washington County, Iowa, in 1876.

Cloa Dye Stinson's exact date of death was not recorded, nor was her place of burial. She does not show up in any cemetery listing in Ross County. She may then have been quickly and quietly buried on the family farm, the location of which also does not show up on any landowner's map.

If anyone has any knowledge of this mystery woman and her family, your author and contributor would be most grateful if a contact with this web site could be made. No clue is too small to be made part of this search.