The Dykes Family
Alabama to Sabine Parish, Louisiana
Includes links to Hardees and Crumps
Your hosts are the family of
Thomas Lee Dykes and Nina Estelle Hardee,
to whom all of our genealogical efforts
The concept of "home" (for us) will "Last one through - knows what to do..."
The Sons of Tom and Nina Dykes
Grandmother
The Shuford Family The Scott Family
Our Earliest Known Ancestors
David Dykes and Harriet McKinsey
If you are looking for the descendants of We are still looking for the parents of
Granddaddy's father
Please visit
Each of the sermons at the bottom of the page
Hardee/Dykes Pictures from the Past
Corrections to Errors found Online
No - David Dykes did not marry Lizzy Carter No - Levi Thomas Dykes and Alice S. Crump were
Sabine Parish, Louisiana
This is the home page of our Dykes/Crump/Durr cousin
It is an extensive project that should be the Carl has our Dykes and Crump Databases online.
Samuel D Crump and Elizabeth Varnon
The pictures above belong to Marvel Crump Phillips. Samuel and Elizabeth are the parents of Alice Strother Crump. Granddaddy's sister (Alice Obedience Dykes -
Although Ed Crump is not related to us, he is
are dedicated.
forever be interwoven with garden gates, white
organdy curtains, a wall of Seven Sisters roses,
a "sidewalk" of St. Augustine and crepe myrtles,
and a pecan tree planted on the day my father was
born. Yet, after all these years, it is our
gates we remember with the greatest fondness.
Our Fathers and Mothers
Nina Estelle Hardee Dykes
Dick and Jacque Dykes Shuford
Carol Ann Dykes Scott
David Dykes and Harriet McKinsey, please get in
touch with me. The files are in great shape now
and I will be glad to put you in touch with the
cousins you need to contact.
David Dykes and Harriet McKinsey. Can you help?
I am especially interested in ANY information
about the seven McKinsey brothers who "died
with their boots on."
is remarkable. We are very proud of D.L. and of
his accomplishments. We are also proud of the
manner in which his wife and son are carrying
on his work. Please read the link to the
Shreveport Journal's article about D.L..
after Harriet died. David only survived Harriet
a little more than a year and lived all of that
time in the home of his youngest son, Levi Thomas
Dykes - my g-grandfather. It was David's grandson
(David Floyd Dykes - son of James DeLeslie Dykes)
who married Lizzy Carter.
not born in Barbour County, AL; nor did they live
and die there. Levi Thomas Dykes was born in
Alabama, we do not know where, and brought to
Louisiana at the age of four. We do know that
Alice Crump's parents were from from Alabama but,
they married in Natchitoches Parish and Alice
lived her entire life within about 20 miles of
Pleasant Hill, LA.
starting place for anyone looking for roots in
Sabine Parish.
She is just wonderful and the pictures are
deeply appreciated.
Alice and Levi Thomas Dykes are Granddaddy's parents.
"Beadie") was named after their mother, Alice
Strother Crump, and their mom's sister, Obedience
Crump Winn. Please visit Rod Hendrick's Database.
Rod is a descendant of Obedience Crump Winn.
a wonderful genealogist and has done extensive
work on our Crump family. Please visit his database:
The Crumps of Natchitoches Parish