IN hopes of not getting my head chopped off agian! This is all not correct. See my posts of long ago under foxlover in the archives. I have made a mistake on the wife of one of the andrew birds but that is also in the archives. Sincerely RAY On Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:48:18 -0600 Glenda Todd <gtodd@edge.net> writes: >Someone had asked for an index to this book and it includes the >following: >Andrew Byrd m. Magdalene (the book didn't state her last name but I >believe it was Jones), their son, Mounce Byrd, m. Clara Ruddle, their >son, John Byrd, b. 1759, d. 1829, m. Eleanor (?), their son, John M. >Byrd, b. 1787, d. 1857, m. Susannah Bevin, their son, George >Washington >Byrd, b. 1835, d. 1897, m. Elizabeth Cartwright, their son, John Alva >Byrd >b. 1860, d. 1911, m. Nora Jane Sonner. > >It also states William and Thomas Byrd came to VA from England in the >late 1600's and that Thomas Byrd and wife Mary/Maria Howlett had a >son, >Andrew Byrd who married Mary Ewing and they had a son, Abraham, who >died >in Calvert Co., MD in 1698-99. > >The above John M. Byrd was probably born in Bourbon Co., KY and lived >in Todd/Christian Co., KY, Fayette Co., IN, Rush Co., IN and Wells >Co., >IN by 1850. He was in the War of 1812, Pvt. in KY Militia and died >7 April 1857 in Wells Co., IN. He married Susannah Bevins, d/o John >Bevins and had the following children: Abraham, m. 1st Elizabeth >Oldham >and 2nd Jane Andrews; John m. Amanda Brooks; William, m. Lydia Ann >Schoononer; Elizabeth, m. Allen Crissmore; Andrew Jackson; George >Washington, m. Elizabeth Carwright; Susannah and Mary Ann. > >Mounce Byrd, s/o Andrew and Magdalene, m. Eleanor (?), was a Rev. War >soldier, serving in the 8th VA Reg. in Capt. Isaac Ruddle's Co., died >1829/30 in Connersville, Fayette Co., IN. Had the following children: >John M. (above); Abraham; Rebecca, m. Zacheriah Jacobs; Mary Ann, m. >Cornelius Claypole; Sarah, m. Nathaniel Smelling and probably at least >one younger child born about 1803. > >Sorry to have been so long in getting this out. Kinda got behind >while buried in ice with no electricity. > >Glenda > > >==== BIRD Mailing List ==== >If you are going on vacation you will need to unsubscribe. There is >no "nomail" at Rootsweb. > > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]