This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BYERS, TURNER, McDONALD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UFH.2ACEB/887 Message Board Post: Looking for information on John Francis BYERS, said to have been born in GA, in 1815. He married Meekness TURNER. Their children were Joseph A. BYERS, Cintha BYERS, William Francis BYERS, Andrew Jackson BYERS, Robert M. BYERS, and Amenda BYERS (died young). It is believed that Cintha married a Confederate soldier who was killed in battle. She and her baby then died in child birth.