Photos of Ollie Phillips Dyer Helsel & her family:
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Ollie Phillips & siblings | 1892 approx | The five children of Thomas W. Phillips and Sarah Jane Moore. Back row is Ollie (Betty's mother, born 1883) and Lula (born 1881). Front row is Clemmie (born 1885), Loren (born 1889) and Flora (born 1887). Guessing Loren is about age 3. |
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Ollie Phillips | 1903 approx | Not sure when this photo was taken. Guessing at about age 20? |
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Bessie B. & Ollie Dyer | 1910 approx | July 3, 1909 - Free Methodist evangelist license
renewed for Ollie Dyer at Capps, Boone Co., Arkansas. Pres. W.C. Bastian,
Sec'y Ollie Dyer There is a postcard addressed to Ollie in Harrison, Arkansas
in 1909 from her sister Bessie (Clemmie). 1910 census Harrison Twp., Boone Co., Arkansas, taken April 1910: Ollie Dyer (companion), age 27, divorced, b. MO, parents born MO: Bessie B. (companion), age 9, b. MO, parents born MO (Notes: Living in household of Eliza Witherspoon. Ollie & Eliza both listed as occupation Minister. Ollie listed as having 1 birth with 1 child surviving at time of census) Sept. 24, 1910 - Free Methodist evangelist license of Ollie Dyer renewed at Harrison, Boone Co., Arkansas. Chairman W.C.Bastian, Sec'y, Ollie Dyer |
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Ollie & her sisters | 1917 approx | Photo belonged to Betty Belle Dyer Dye. Back of photo says "mother & her sisters". I think the people in the photo are (left to right): Docia Phillips, Ollie Phillips & Hattie Ruth Phillips. Docia & Hattie are Ollie's half-sisters, children of Thomas W. Phillips & his second wife, Sarah Margaret Murrell. Ollie, Docia & Hattie all settled in Kansas. |
