WILLIAM
SPURRIER BYERS, Ohio County, was born April 14, 1829, in Grayson
County, Ky., where he grew to manhood; in 1856 removed to Jackson County, Ill.,
in 1858 returned to Grayson County; in 1866 settled in Gibson County, Ind.; and
in 1883, located in Ohio County, where he now resides. In 1863 he enlisted in
Company H, Thirty-fifth Kentucky Infantry, and remained in the service
seventeen months. His father, Daniel Byers, a Baptist minister, was born in
Grayson County, in 1803, was a Union soldier in the late war, and died in 1875.
He was the son of John Byers, a native of Kentucky. His father, Daniel, was a
pioneer from Pennsylvania. Daniel, Jr., married Margaret, daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Avery) Bratcher, of Grayson County; born in 1805, and died in
1883, and their children are Anderson R., Avery, William S., James D.,
Elizabeth (Ford), John, and Margaret (McSheery). Mr. Byres was married December
10, 1850, to Nancy M., daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Humphrey) Tanner, of Daviess
County, born August 26, 1828, and to them have been born Daniel (deceased),
Minerva J. (Williams), William A. (deceased), Samuel P., Alonzo C. (deceased),
Kit Carson, Sarah A. (deceased), and Richard A. Mr. Byers is a farmer, owning
fifty-three acres of good land in a high state of cultivation. He is a member
of the Masonic fraternity; a Missionary Baptist, and a Republican.
Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G.
C. KNIFFIN 1895
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