Levi Thomas Dykes

Levi Thomas Dykes

     

Levi Thomas Dykes was born April 5, 1855
in Alabama and died in La. Oct. 14, 1931.  
He is buried in Beulah Cemetery about 5 
miles north of Marthaville, La., on the 
Ajax highway. He married Alice Strother 
Crump June 10, 1878.  He united with Beulah
Church in 1869 but withdrew in 1877. It 
is thought he joined the old Philadelphia
Methodist Church near the McCaskill 
Cemetery.  It was in 1879 that he bought 
a place from Elizabeth Fisher, widow of 
Amos Fisher, and heirs. This place lay 
just east of the cemetery and he lived on 
the Natchitoches side of the parish line.

He moved from the Fisher place to a place 
over in Sabine Parish on the upper end of 
Stacy Creek where he remained until his 
death.  His father, David Dykes, came to 
live with him after the death of his mother,
Harriet McKinsey, and ultimately died at 
Levi Thomas’ home.

Levi Thomas and Alice Crump Dykes 
had the following children:


James Leon Dykes	“Leon”	        b. 1879
     married Euna Gaddis

Charlie Dewitt Dykes	“Dewitt”	b.  1881
     married Winter Massey

David Leroy Dykes	“Leroy”	        b.  1883
     married Ruby Perley

Leoria Shelby Dykes	“Ode”		b.  1886
     married H.L. McCullough

Harriet Elizabeth Dykes	“Lizzie”	b.  1888
     married Willis Knott

Alice Obedience Dykes	“Beadie”	b.  1890
     married T.W. McCullough

Thomas Lee Dykes	“Tom”	                    b.  1892
     married Nina Hardee

Willie Mae Dykes			           b.  1895
     lived 1 month

Joseph Custer Dykes	“Joe”		b.  1897
     married Ethel Rigsby (first)

Fannie Lea Dykes	“Fannie”	           b.  1900
     married Lee Clements




Webmaster: Carol Ann Dykes Scott
g-granddaughter of Levi Thomas Dykes
granddaughter of Tom and Nina Dykes