sent Dyer to Tampa, Florida, to prosecute companies and individuals engaged in fraudulent real estate transactions during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. Dyer died at age 56 in July 1928 during the prosecution of Clarence Saunders in the Piggly Wiggly case. The cause of death was heart disease. Following Dyer's death, an order from Washington, D.C., dismissed the case. Family Burton married Bettie Edgar in 1899, and she died in 1901. He married Betty Wilcox in 1905, and they had two sons, David (born 1908) and John (born 1913). In a draft registration card completed at the time of World War I, Dyer stated that he was a lawyer with an office in the Central National Bank Building in St. Louis. At the time of the 1920 United States Census, he was living in St. Louis with his wife and two sons, and was employed as an attorney. References 1873 births 1928 deaths 19th-century players of American football Michigan Wolverines football players Players of American football from St. Louis University of Michigan Law School alumni People from Louisiana, Missouri