This post is about my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandfather, Reuben Dye. He settled in the Flint Township area of Michigan back in 1843 so he wasn’t that old but he was really great.
The reason he was so great is he was ahead of his time. He was one of the first of about eight settlers in that Michigan area. He had a farm and a road that eventually became Dye Road. This was 50 years before gas buggies were invented.
Eventually Flint, the town to the east, became the automotive capital of the world.. So whether he was forward thinking or just plain lucky, I will never know. But what I do know is he is dead but his legacy lives on via that well-traveled road in Michigan.
Michael E Kelley 
I just came across this and think its pretty awesome as I am a descendant of Reuben myself. I grew up in the Flint area and its great to have a road named after your family name!
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