Dyer Family

After arriving in Texas in 1822 as part of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, Clement C. Dyer (1800-1864) settled in present-day Colorado and Waller Counties and married Sarah Stafford, with whom he had twelve children.

Dyer served as the manager of the Stafford plantation and two years later served as a delegate to the Consultation. Following the Texas Revolution, Dyer was appointed justice of the peace in Harrisburg (now Harris) County and Fort Bend County as well as being elected county chief justice between 1843 and 1856. As a landowner, his estate was valued at $40,000 in the 1860 census. Two of his sons, William Thomas Dyer (1825-1869) and John Eli Dyer (1832-1894), also owned land in Fort Bend County.