Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Byers and Mary Eakin




Husband John Byers 1 2 3

           Born: 15 Mar 1836 - Armstrong Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1915
         Buried:  - East Unity Presbyterian Cemetery, Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 4


         Father: Frederick Byers (      -      ) 1 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Sowers (      -      ) 5


       Marriage: 5 Nov 1858 6



Wife Mary Eakin 3

           Born: 1834
     Christened: 
           Died: 1926
         Buried:  - East Unity Presbyterian Cemetery, Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 4


         Father: Samuel Eakin (1807-1888) 7 8 9
         Mother: Margaret Ferguson Campbell (1808-1876) 9 10




Children
1 F Emma Byers 6

           Born: 
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         Buried: 
         Spouse: Samuel Kerr (      -      ) 6


2 M Samuel Harvey Byers 6 11

           Born: 1860
     Christened: 
           Died: 1941
         Buried:  - East Unity Presbyterian Cemetery, Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 4
         Spouse: Selina Williams (1861-1897) 6 11
         Spouse: Sarah Olive Meals (Abt 1862-      ) 6
           Marr: 17 May 1899 - Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 12


3 F Alice Byers 6

           Born: 
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           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: William Calvin Jamison (      -      ) 6


4 F Cassie Byers 6

           Born: 
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           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: James Campbell (      -      ) 6


5 M William Elmer Byers 6 13

           Born: 
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           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Zephra Carolina Jacobs (1870-      ) 13


6 F Mertilla "Tillie" Byers 6

            AKA: Myrtilla [Unk]
           Born: 1866
     Christened: 
           Died: 1931
         Buried:  - East Unity Presbyterian Cemetery, Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 14
         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )
           Marr: (Divorced on 26 May 1885)
         Spouse: Frank J. Eakin (1856-1934)
           Marr: 16 Mar 1892 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 15


7 F Ada Byers 6

           Born: 1868
     Christened: 
           Died: 1926
         Buried:  - East Unity Presbyterian Cemetery, Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 16
         Spouse: Edwin S. Kingsley (1863-1914)


8 F Mary Byers 6

           Born: 
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           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Ephraim Sloan (      -      ) 6


9 M James Marshall Byers 6

           Born: 
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           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Clara Sloan (      -      ) 6


10 M Joseph Edison Byers 6 19

            AKA: Edson Byer,17 Joseph Edson Byers, Edson Bymer 18
           Born: 1876 20
     Christened: 
           Died: 1954 20
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 21
         Spouse: Harriet Uretta "Hattie" Cross (1882-1957) 6 19 20 22
           Marr: 1902 - ? Venango Co, PA 20



General Notes: Husband - John Byers


He attended school at Annandale, Butler County, Pennsylvania, after which he learned the trade of a carpenter under William Shira of Butler County. He was married in 1858 and at that time moved to Rockland, Venango County, but later returned to Butler County and took up his residence in Venango Township, where he purchased a small tract of twenty-four acres from Jesse Jones. He subsequently disposed of six acres of this place and retained eighteen acres, although he did no farming. He erected a comfortable home on the place and built all of the other buildings, making it a most desirable country home. Carpentering and contracting was his business since early manhood and he erected many of the residences, barns and public buildings in that part of the county. He assisted in building the East Unity Church, and also two churches in Eau Claire. He was a man of wonderful constitution, and was never sick but once in his life, upon that occasion being taken with typhoid fever. For over fifty years he was a member of the United Presbyterian Church of East Unity, and in politics was a Prohibitionist. [HBC 1909, 1388]

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Sources


1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 433.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1386.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 911.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 98.

5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1388.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1389.

7 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 986.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 683, 910.

9 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 45.

10 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 910.

11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1321.

12 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #4007.

13 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 106.

14 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 99.

15 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #1957.

16 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 102.

17 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 47.

18 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 323.

19 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 519.

20 Ruby Jane (Bailey) McCord, Genealogy of the Phipps Family (Self-published), Pg 10.

21 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 75.

22 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 996.


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