Individual Details

Named as Wilson in father's abstracted will; online databases show his name as "Wisner". Apparently never married and made his home with his brother Booker - in 1900 Wisner was found living with his nephew Owen Dyer.

1850 Census. Grainger Co TN, 14th District, Hh 1657
Booker Dyer, age 42. Serena, age 27. Eleander age 7.
Nancy, age 75, b. VA.
Wisenor, age 30

1860 Census. Grainger Co TN, 14th District, p.515
Booker Dyer, age 52, b. TN
Vander M. 17, Leander 5, Sirena 3, Owen, age 1.
Wisenor, age 41.

1870 Census. Grainger Co TN, 14th District, p.154, Hh 44
Wisner Dyer, age 50, farmer, b. TN
Booker Dyer, age 63, farmer, b. TN
LeeAnder, 13. Owen R. 11. Sarina 15.
Caroline, 38, Black, domestic servant, b. VA
Daniel Harris, 30, mulatto, day labor, b. VA

1880 Census. Grainger Co TN, 14th District, p.480, Hh 58
Booker Dyer, age 73, farmer, b. TN, parents b. VA
Salena, 22. Owen 21. both b. TN
Caroline Dyer, Black, age 50.
Ada Dyer, age 3, cousin, b. TN, parents b. AR.
Wisner Dyer, age 60, brother, b. TN, parents b. VA


1900 Census. Grainger Co TN, 14th Civil District, Hh 114
Owen Dyer and family. Owen b. Dec 1859.
Wisner Dyer, Uncle, b. Jan 1820, age 80, b. TN.

Birth	16 Jan 1820	Grainger County, Tennessee
Death	8 Nov 1908	Grainger County, Tennessee

Father	William Dyer ( - 1838)
Mother	Nancy Ward (1775 - )
Sibling	Sarah Dyer (1798 - 1870)
Sibling	Elizabeth Dyer (1799 - 1870)
Sibling	Owen Dyer (1800 - 1871)
Sibling	Mahala Dyer (1801 - 1876)
Sibling	Anderson Dyer (1804 - 1894)
Sibling	Booker Dyer (1807 - )
Sibling	Calloway Dyer (1810 - 1874)
Sibling	Cynthia Dyer (1812 - 1884)
Sibling	Andrew Jackson Dyer (1814 - 1875)