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James Calvin “Calvin” GILES - Spring City Cemetery, Spring City, Rhea Co, TN
Dica Ann “Dicy” GILES - New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery, Loudon Co, TN
Paint Rock, Roane Co, TN (image courtesy of US Library of Congress)
Photo collage copyright 2006 D Giles Loiselle. Personal, noncommercial use only.
Preface: FINDING DICY
UPDATED notes (Analysis section rethinking: 17 May 2007)
My research: In the 1960s, my first cousin Jerry DENNEY conducted the earliest known family research for our GILES line. Though she knew that our great-grandmother Dicy GILES had been married twice and that she had several children when she married our great-grandfather James Calvin “Calvin” GILES, she did not know Dicy’s maiden name or the name of her first husband. My own questioning of family members over several years had uncovered very little more about Dicy than Jerry had discovered. I refused to give up, however, and now I can happily report that my research was the first to uncover documentation that definitively links Dicy GILES of Paint Rock, Tennessee to