Has anyone researched Jonas Bedford Byars, my g grandfather? He died at Yorktown, Va in the Civil War according to my father. He was in the 5th Alabama Infantry Co E. I would like to know about siblings and other family. Margaret White, wam972@aol.com

My Great-Great Grandmother was Sarah Elizabeth Byars, b. in Ga in 1848. Married to William H. Bottoms in Dawson Co. GA in 1860. William was killed in the Civil War, and Sarah Elizabeth Byars Bottoms then married a Turner. They moved to Alabama. I don't know of any Acton's in the line though. Arlene AHamptonResearch@aol.com

HI- FROM ROME, GA! MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S NAME WAS SARAH BYARS AND IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, I BELIEVE, HER MOTHER ALSO WAS NAMED SARAH. THE NAME ACTON DOES NOT RING A BELL, BUT I WILL HOLD ONTO YOUR E-MAIL AND WILL PROMPTLY NOTIFY YOU IF I RUN ACROSS ANY INFORMATION I FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO YOU. GOOD LUCK AS YOU CONTINUE YOUR RESEARCH. BEST WISHES, DAWN WALKER Whiskeydawn@aol.com

Hello From Canada: My cousin, Margaret Taylor, and I are researching the ACTON family from Chester/Leicester. A number of ACTONs immigrated to Montreal, QC, in the mid 1800's. Our Elizabeth ACTON, b. 1832, was daughter of Samuel ACTON, b. cir 1804, and possibly Sarah BYERS/BYARS, b. cir 1806. We believe Elizabeth could have had a brother, Samuel, c. 1836, Leicester and another brother Arthur, d. 1867, Montreal, QC. Elizabeth did have a brother, Robert, b. 1848, with the same parents Samuel and Sarah. If anyone has run across the name ACTON in their research, please get in touch with us. Regards, Gord Hulbert 11 Sierra Morena Gardens S.W. Calgary, AB, T3H 3P4 (403)240-4636 hulbertg@cadvision.com

Some time back, I joined the list in hopes to find a connection to my Tennessee Windrow family. I have the following names in my ancestry. These are in my direct line back: John Byars "Bias" Windrow b. 1807 John "Johnnie" Brice/Bias Windrow (Or this might have been Byars also) The parents of my first John Byars Windrow were John Windrow b. VA and Zilpha Thomson b. NC. I'm searching for a connection from the Thomson, or the Antony (Anthony) line to the Byars line. I believe the first John was named for someone's maiden name. Does anyone have a Thomson, Antony, or Windrow connected to your Byars? Arline >I am looking for information on Byars from kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, >Alabama, would appreciate your help.

We are anxious to hear from you, please copy and paste your message directly to Byars-L@Rootsweb.com the request part of the addy just sends it to me alone Susan, listmom D Byers wrote: > I am searching for Byers from Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas & Oklahoma. Any Descendants of William Byers b. 1647 and married Louisa Kinkade. Can any one out there help me? > > My e-mail address is: oramaeb@worldnet.att.net > > Thank you so much for any information on this line and it will be greatly appreciated. > > Ora Mae Byers

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------9A016D5B004E30F7EAF9468E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Time for us all to rename our Byars Wish List of 2001 I'm interested in Byars/Caldwell Connections of Calhoun Co. Mississippi Susan in Texas --------------9A016D5B004E30F7EAF9468E Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: by mail.texoma.net (mbox hawkins) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Fri Dec 29 20:50:12 2000) X-From_: listadmin-bounces@rootsweb.com Fri Dec 29 20:36:09 2000 Return-Path: <listadmin-bounces@rootsweb.com> Delivered-To: hawkins@mail.texoma.net Received: from smtp.texoma.net (smtp.texoma.net [209.151.96.5]) by mail.texoma.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D40215EB6F for <hawkins@mail.texoma.net>; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:36:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from lists7.rootsweb.com (lists7.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.56]) by smtp.texoma.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eBU2a9W18689 for <hawkins@texoma.net>; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:36:09 -0600 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists7.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id eBU2a3l10338 for BYARS-admin@lists7.rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:36:03 -0800 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:36:03 -0800 X-From_: Moochsw@aol.com Fri Dec 29 18:36:03 2000 Received: from newmail.rootsweb.com (newmail.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.103]) by lists7.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eBU2a3210315 for <BYARS-L-request@lists7.rootsweb.com>; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:36:03 -0800 Received: from imo-r14.mail.aol.com (imo-r14.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.68]) by newmail.rootsweb.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBU2ZXY12754 for <byars-l-request@rootsweb.com>; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:35:33 -0800 Received: from Moochsw@aol.com by imo-r14.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.35.) id e.39.ea23b4f (4566) for <byars-l-request@rootsweb.com>; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 21:35:59 -0500 (EST) From: Moochsw@aol.com Message-ID: <39.ea23b4f.277ea40e@aol.com> Old-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 21:35:58 EST Subject: Byars Ancestory To: byars-l-request@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: 6.0 sub 148 X-Diagnostic: Already on the subscriber list X-Diagnostic: 21 Moochsw@aol.com 32760 Moochsw@aol.com X-Envelope-To: BYARS-L-request Sender: listadmin-bounces@rootsweb.com I am looking for information on Byars from kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, would appreciate your help. --------------9A016D5B004E30F7EAF9468E--

I just found this great Civil War site someone has started. You can add photos of your Civil War ancestors if you have any photos. I have already sent in about five of them. He needs to know the regiment, etc, also. http://www.geocities.com/coh41/units.html

I'm researching the Byars family of Alabama, specifically Lawrence Co mostly. John Andrew Byars m. Louisa Caroline Stubbs. His father was John Logan Byars. Paula Hurst

about time for a rollcall, this list has been toooo quiet. I 'm researching Byars of Calhoun Co. Mississippi susan

I joined the list some time back in hopes that I would see a connection to my Windrow family. The early ones seem to like to use Byars as a middle name. Some examples are: John Byars "Bias" Windrow b. Jan. 2, 1807 Rutherford Co. TN was the son of John Windrow b. NC and Zelpha Thompson b. VA (I assume he was nicknamed Bias for Byars). "Bias" was the grandson of Richard and Millender Antony both b. in Va and died in Rutherford Co. TN. Then his grandson was named John Bias Windrow. He was called Johnny. Probably named Bias for his grandfather's nickname. So it seems that the Byars name had some importance for the family. If anyone runs across a Byars/Windrow or Byars/Thompson or Byars/Antony connection please let me know. Thanks! Arline

Everyone welcome our new member. We have been very quiet lately but so have many of the rootsweb lists. The summer takes a toll on our time. I am always looking for the Mississippi Byars. They elude me. How about you? Who are you looking for. susan

the Byars I need are fairly recent: The one I need the most is William Byars b. Jun 1870 in Miss. and wed Margaret Elizabeth Caldwell who was b. in Aug.1873 in Calhoun co. Miss. They had three children I know of James A. 1897 , Andy Mae1898, and Osie H.1900. These folks lived in Miss. and I don't think they left. I don't know, but guess he is related to William Cuton Butterfield Byars who is related further back in this family tree. He was b. 17 Jan.1834 in S.C. and d. 20 Feb.1926 in Calhoun Co.Miss. He wed Elizabeth Minerva" Eliza" McGuire who died in 1874 in Calhoun Co. Miss. and also to Susan Emma Patterson b. 1849 in ala. She was his 2nd wife. The only children I have for this William are Rosa L. , Wm. Randloph, John Raleigh, Joseph and an infant son. Any clues on Calhoun County Byars families are welcomed. susan Moochsw@aol.com wrote: > I have all the Byars information that I would like to share with anyone who > might be interested in doing their Byars Family Tree. I have my ancestors > back to 1442. E-mail me if you are interested.

I have started a Byars Family site on My Family.com. If you are interested in joining it, you have to be sent an invitation. If you want an invitation, please send me an email msg with your first and last name and your email address. paulahurst@gateway.net

I'm sorry, but the little information that I have on the Byars family does not show any of the names you mentioned. I believe my Sarah Byars father was James Henry and I know that she was the wife of John Webb. Good luck! Katy Ogle

I am looking for information on Alfred BYARS and Emaline EDWARDS, married in Lumpkin Co. GA in 1837. I would like to know if this couple had a daughter named Sarah Elizabeth who married William H. Bottoms in Dawson Co. GA in 1860. Would also like to know any other information at all on Alfred Byars or Sarah Elizabeth Byars. Thank you, Arlene

Please help! My grandfather was John S. Byers/Byars/Byiers, born c 1859 in PA /NJ. We can only find him from 1882 on to his death in 1931 in Louisa Co., VA. On his marriage licenses in Spotsylvania Co. & Louisa Co., VA, he says his father and mother were Jacob & Rosa Byers/Byiers. Someone surely has heard of these people or seen reference to them. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Sally

Pay Close attention to this! It happened yesterday! There is a worm circulating that comes in an attachment. When it gets into your computer it invades your Email and sends itself out as an Email from you or from someone that you have saved Email from with a subject line that appears in your saved mail. The best thing to do is not open any attachments without confirming with the person who sent it, that they really did send it. Some of the email says it comes from Rootsweb which it does not. I will never send an attachment to any maillist!. Nor to an individual without a separate Email first saying what I am sending and why first. Be careful about opening those Email cards! Protect yourself. - -------------------------- This info for the digest version part of the listmembers By the way the people who gets the digest versions of email lists , when yours comes in as attachments that is your own email handler doing that. It took me a long time to find out how that happened. The reason it doesnt' happen every digest is the size of the digest varies. If it is a certain lenght or longer it coverts to an attachment in your email handler. Susan in Texas Listmom I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Hi Byars researchers! This is my little introduction... since I just joined the list... My name is Glenn Frank, and my oldest known BYARS family member was John Byars... He does not got that far back... he is my GGG Grandfather. Here is the info I have on his family: John BYARS Birth: 9 Dec 1819 Kentucky USA Death: 11 Jan 1900 Burial: Artesia Cemetary, Cerritos, CA USA Marriage: 3 Nov 1841 Switzerland County, IN USA Spouse: Annareta FRANKLIN Birth: 18 or (28) Mar 1823 Rising Sun, Switzerland, IN Death: 2 May 1897 Norwalk, CA USA Burial: Artesia Cemetary, Cerritos, CA USA Father: ? Mother: ? Children: 1 F: Rebecca Jane BYARS Birth: 2 Sep 1843 Indiana USA Death: 28 Sep 1910 California Spouse: Simon P. STIFFLER Marriage: abt 1874 2 F: Charlotte BYARS (Died as Infant) Birth: Apr 1844 Indiana USA Death: Sep 1844 3 F: Emily BYARS Birth: 13 Jul 1845 Indiana USA Death: 27 Apr 1936 Long Beach, (Los Angeles County) CA Spouse: James Harvey STIFFLER Marriage: abt 1863 Spouse: Adam STIFFLER Marriage: 10 Sep 1906 St. Charles, Madison County, IA USA 4 F: Clara Bell BYARS Birth: 27 Dec 1851 Switzerland, IN USA Death: 21 Oct 1938 Whittier (Los Angeles Co.) CA USA Spouse: George Conrad LAWHEAD Marriage: 11 Jan 1872 St. Charles, Madison County, IA USA 5 M: George Washington BYARS Birth: Apr 1854 IA USA Death: abt 1910 California 6 F: Elsie Zepharah BYARS (Twin) Birth: 11 Dec 1861 Warren County, Iowa Death: 16 Mar 1946 Spouse: Joseph Marion CLANTON Marriage: 27 Feb 1879 Warren County, Iowa 7 M: Daniel Oscar BYARS (Twin) Birth: 11 Dec 1861 IA USA Death: 1863 Jackson Township -------- I am decended from Elsie Zepharah BYARS who married Joseph Marrion CLANTON. They had a son, Leroy and daughter, Ivy M. CLANTON who married Raymond Linsford BARTON (My Great Grandparents). --------- Back to John and Annaretta: They are burried in Cerritos CA (Artesia Cemetary) and I have been there an taken photos of the headstones. Here is a link to my genealogy website if you want to see the photos of the head stones and other info I have on my family... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~frankbarton/cemetarys/artesia.html or go to the front page at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~frankbarton This is some info I took off the headstone marker for John and Annareta: There is a nice looking 4-5 foot high, four-sided pillar monument with John Byar's name on one side, and Annareta's on the other with dates for each. On the other two sides of the pillar... one side was blank. The other bore this passage of words: "Not dead but asleep Asleep in Jesus That dear friend on whom our happiness depends Farewell Father and Mother Fairwell for a while. We soon will meet you again on that other shore. Where we will never take the parting hand anymore. For we hope to meet you on the other shore." ---- Annaretta (FRANKLIN) BYARS has an obituary I have found on-line at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamadiso/obitsb.html (go to the very bottom of the page.. last one on the page) I do not have any reliable info on Annareta's parents. I suspect it might be a Benjamin FRANKLIN (1780-?) (not THE Benjamin Franklin) and his wife named Zipporah (~1799-?) but have not been able to verify anything other than conjecture) anyway... hello... Please contact me if anything here looks familier to you! Sincerely, Glenn Frank ============================================ http://home.earthlink.net/~glennfrank/familytree

Hello List! My grandmother is Ella Ruth Byars born 7 April 1907 in North Carolina. Her father wa George Washington Byars, born abt. 1880 (place unknown but probably North Carolina). He had 3 brothers, Wlll Byars, Paul Byars and Jack Byars. Will Byars had two children - Effie Byars and Frank Byars. George Washington Byars was married to Elizabeth Tabatha Gibbs and they divorced while my grandmother was a young child. I'm afraid rhat is ALL I have at this point. Are any of these names familiar to anyone??? I would sure appreciate any information!! Judy (McClintock) Leago