Dyer - Sydney
Source: Crawfordsville Sunday Star 1-2-1899
Mrs. Mattie Dyer Butts has received intelligence of the death at his home in Philadelphia of her aged father, Dr. Sydney Dyer.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 30 December 1898
Mrs. Mattie Dyer Britts has received the news of the death of her father, Rev. Dr. Sidney Dyer, of Philadelphia. Dr. Dyer was well known all over the country for his work both in prose and poetry. Some of his hymns are in almost every hymn book and his scientific stories for young people in the school libraries of nearly all the leading cities, besides having been translated into five languages. Some of them are in our city school library. Dr. Dyer was a minister of national repute, and has a number of times filled the pulpit of the Baptist Church in this city while on a visit to his daughter. Coming so soon after the death of Mrs. Nellie Owens, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Britts, makes this affliction doubly hard to bear.