Bedford (IN) Daily Mail, November 15, 1901, p. 2. IN MEMORY OF MRS. MARY E. BYERS Mary E. Byers was born in Daviess County, Indiana, November 16, 1863. She was the youngest of eight children of Benjamin P. and Desty Herron Phipps, all of whom except the mother have preceded her to that other land. She was married September 16th, 1883, to George L. Byers. To this union were added six children who, with their father, survive her. They are Ethel, Alice, Everett, Paul, Thelma and nine-month-old Gladys, to whom the mother gave her devoted attention a half hour before the spirit left her. The greater part of her life was spent in and near Bedford. While the family was residing in Ft. Wayne early in 1890, Mrs. Byers united with the Wayne St. Methodist Episcopal Church and was a regular and devout attendant upon its services. As the cares and duties of wife and mother became greater, she was often deprived of attendance at divine worship but retained her faith in the loving Jesus and sent her little ones to Sunday school and trained them in right paths. It is noteworthy that her life was pure and good as a girl; that she was a loving, obedient daughter; that her virtues as a wife and mother were legion and that she was the central spirit of a loving, devoted and beautiful home life. Her devotion to her own and her happy, unselfish spirit in all the paths of her life can be cherished by her friends and especially by her bereft family as an example worth of emulation. The home which is now so stricken was very happy under her as the guiding spirit and the chair she has left vacant, while a sorrow, cannot be else than a reminder of the devotion of the wife and mother and the gentleness and sweetness of her Christian character. Her loved ones can recall nothing but happiness while she was among them. Her children were her constant care; their guidance by precept and example was uppermost in her mind. No labor or self-denial was too great. The great wondrous, uplifting mother's love which we cannot explain or describe was bountifully bestowed and beautifully received. She departed this life early in the morning of Friday, November 1, 1901, and her spirit rests with Him who gave it. George L. Byers and Children