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- "Elizabethton Star," Thursday, December 24, 1936
DAN L. HYDER SUCCUMBS TO LONG ILLNESS
Services For Prominent Resident Of County Saturday
Dan L. Hyder, 72, former Elizabethton postmaster and prominent political figure in Carter County for many years, died last night at eight o'clock at his home, two miles south of the city, following an illness of several months.
Funeral services will be conducted from the home, Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock with the Rev. Clay Wilson officiating. Interment will be in the Little Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Adial Lowdy of Johnson City will be in charge of the music, and the Jr. O.U.A.M. of Gap Creek will participate in the services at the cemetery.
Mr. Hyder was a native of this county, was the son of the late Rev. L. Hampton Hyder and Elizabeth Fletcher Hyder. His father was a prominent Baptist minister. For more than ten years he taught in the county schools. He was employed by the federal government in the revenue service from 1916 to 1921. In 1921 he was appointed postmaster here under Harding, and served in that capacity until 1931, when he was forced to retired because of ill health. He was also employed at one time as county surveyor. He was prominently affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Odd Fellows and Jr. O.U.A.M.
Forty-six years ago he was married to Miss Sallie A. Little, uniting two pioneer families of the county.
Survivors are his widow; five daughters, Mrs. Dan White, Mrs. Cale Ellis of Elizabethton, Mrs. T. A. Odom and Mrs. S. T. Lewis of Johnson City, and Mrs. Sam Dunn of Yankeetown, Florida; three sons, Lon T. Hyder, Fletcher Hyder and Dan L. Hyder Jr. of Elizabethton; one brother, W. R. C. Hyder; and 15 grandchildren.
Active pallbearers will be Hamp Hyder, C. H. Hyder, H. H. Banner, Ray Hyder, Cecil Little, Clay Little, Lawrence Hyder and Frank Little.
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1864 - 1936 (72 years)
