Hi Phil, I don't have any information on your relative, but can suggest you check with the Civil War registry's on the web, and the Association of American Boyers, also on the web. I've started to research my ancestors who came from the Palatinate, Germany, in the 18th century. Your ancestor may have originated there too ... ? They either landed in England, Ireland, NY, or PA. It's an interesting story starting with the French invasion of the Palatine in 1688. Carol [email protected] wrote: > Family lore is that Green Don BYERS descended from one of 11 or 13 brothers > that came from Scotland/England. > Have you heard of such a story? > Based on the 1860 Greene Co., AR census my G. D. Byers was born in SC about > 1837. Family lore is that he was from York Co. He joined the CSA AR > infantry and was killed at the Battle of Helena, AR in 1863. > His grave site cannot be found. > He may have also been Don Green Byers. The Green being the wife's surname. > Please contact me if you have any information. > Phil Di Matteo > Santa Barbara, CA > > ==== BYERS Mailing List ==== > All BYERS messages and queries at BYERS-L are archived. > You may do a search within them at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > enter BYERS in the surname search box