I am trying to figure out who the Martin Dies is who was born 05 Dec 1931 and died Feb 1978 in Beaumont, TX. My great grandfather, Henry Hubbard Peevy, married Martha Jane Dies, whose parents were William Wilson Dies and Rachel Taylor. Would like to exchange any information I have that would be helpful to someone else.

Martin Dies was the grandson of William Wilson Dias/Dies, who lived in Miss-died I think in 1845.William was father to David Wesley Dies, who was grandfather to Martin Sr. David is buried in Freestone Co Tx.

Martin Dies was the son of David W Dies. David was the son of William Wilson Dies (Dias), whose father was Thomas Dias from Tenn.
Thomas Dias was my GGGGrandfather.

There was a son of "Black Dies" who lived in Beaumont that was named Martin. He had many brothers and sisters. The reason I know is because Julia Dies was his sister and a cousin to my mother in law. She died last year and we really miss her. I wish I had gotten more info from her because my mother in law seems to know or want to tell me about her family. My husband is deceased and he didn't know hardly anything about his cousins. Seems so odd to me since we are all so close.

Anyway, they were originally from LA. Martin Dies that is a lawyer in Orange (as well as his brother) are lawyers and are the sons of Chief Justice Martin Dies of Beaumont who died about 10 or so years ago, I think. He was the son of the congressman Martin Dies who wrote the book on Communist and his brother, Jack Dies, is with the Attornay General Office of TX. I believe they were from LA too.

Are you related to a Red Gilbert, Joseph, Clifford, Iaekial, Andrew, or Julia Dies?
Adiene

Hi, I'm also related to Martin Dies, my grandmother was his sister, Martha Louise Dies. I'm just starting my research and I was wondering if we could exchange information.

Edward,

I would be interested in getting some of the Dies lineage information from you if you don't mind. My name is Tommy Dies and I am the grandson of Roy Miller Dies Sr. Roy was the adopted son of Martin Dies Sr. - actually, Roy may have been the biological son of Martin and Nelva (my great grandmother) whom Martin had an affair with and later married, then adopting my grandfather.

contact me at eddies@comcast.net