Eli Vincent Dye was the great grandson of David and Hannah Disbrow Dey/Dye of Cranbury, New Jersey.
ELI VINCENT DYE, the owner of a fine farm near Dutch Neck, West Windsor
township, Mercer county, New Jersey, who has been closely identified with all
movements for the betterment and advancement of the interests of the
community in which he resides, is a member of one of the old families of the
county.
Henry Dye, grandfather of Eli Vincent Dye, was born in West Windsor township,
Mercer county, New Jersey, and followed agricultural pursuits.
Eli Dye, son of Henry Dye, was born at Lawrence Station, Mercer county, New
Jersey, and followed in the footsteps of his father as a farmer. He was a man
of considerable influence in the community, having filled to the entire
satisfaction of his fellow citizens a number of public offices. He was a
freeholder for about sixteen years, and a member of the township committee.
He married Lucy Rogers, daughter of John Rogers, a farmer of West Windsor
township.
Eli Vincent Dye, son of Eli and Lucy (Rogers) Dye, was born on a farm on the
Hightstown Road, West Windsor township, Mercer county, New Jersey, July 28,
1837. He was educated in the district school at Lotus Corner, and upon the
completion of his education engaged in the occupation of farming, as his
forefathers had done. For many years he was the owner of a fine farm of one
hundred acres near the Hightstown road, which he kept in an excellent and
profitable state of cultivation, but this he has recently sold to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which is building a line through that section
of the country. Mr. Dye then purchased another farm near Dutch Neck, which he
is cultivating very successfully. He is a consistent member of the Dutch Neck
Presbyterian Church, and an elder in that institution. At one time he filled
very efficiently the office of commissioner of appeals. He is a man of good
ability and sound judgment, and is held in high esteem and respect by his
fellow citizens.
He married Hannah Hunt, of Pennington, daughter of Smith and (???) (Primmer)
Hunt, and they have had children: 1. Laura, married Rulof C. Perrine, a
farmer of Cranbury, New Jersey, and they have one child, Ada, who married
Harvey Day, also of Cranbury. 2. Smith, a farmer in Washington township,
married Annie Rogers, of Dutch Neck, and has children: Eli, Lizzie and May.
3. Alice, married (first) George R. Cubberly, who died in 1891, and had one
child, Edgar L. Married (second) Wyndham E. Smallburn, of England.