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    Person Info
  • Name: Thomas S BYERS
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 4 Feb 1816 in West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 25 Dec 1870 in Fairfield, Iowa d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas BYERS Birth: 22 Apr 1790 in East Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 8 Sep 1863 in Washington, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
  • Mother:
  • Margaret HAMILTON Birth: 9 May 1794 in Canton Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 15 Jan 1881 in Washington, Washington Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Children:
  1. John BYERS Death: Iowa
  2. William BYERS Death: San Francisco, California
  3. Louis BYERS Death: San Francisco, California

Bibliography
  1. Beers, J. H., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, PA, J.H. Beers Co, Chicago, 1893, reprinted by Polyanthos, Inc, New Orleans, LA, 1976. Available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651804. Available at http://archive.org/details/commemorativebio03jhbe Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p[0-9-]*].
  2. Bell, Raymond Martin, The BYERS Family of Washington County, Pennsylvania, Washington, PA, 1987, LDS Film#1320702#7. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/526675. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bell BYERS-87 p[0-9]*].
  3. Bell, Raymond Martin, BYERS, Keyhole XXIII,3 (July 1995). p101-103 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bell BYERS-95 p10[1-3]].
  4. Craig, Marion Stark, My BYERS-BONAR-SHANNON And Allied Families, 1976, LDS Film#1036519 item#3. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Craig BYERS p[0-9]*].
  5. Eagleson, Andrew S, BYERS Family History, 1908, LDS Film #1320634#5 1988. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/456946. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p[0-9-ab]*].
  6. -, Thomas Byers Family Record, copy obtained from Virginia Gebhardt 9/4/94 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ThomasBYERS Family].
  7. Truan, Van, Descendants of Thomas Byers, private email, 10/18/2000. Author address renegade dot royal at juno dot com Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Van Truan 10/18/2000].
  8. Washington County Pennsylvania Register of Wills, Will Books 1781-1872. SLC: GeneSocUT, 1972. Book 8, 1857-1872, Film#863628#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/005537972 image 285. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WashingtonCoPA Wills 8-459].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Eagleson BYERS p13, ThomasBYERS Family],
place:
[Ref: Eagleson BYERS p13]
Donegal Twp [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p805, Craig BYERS p15],
parents:
[Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p805, Bell BYERS-87 p9, Bell BYERS-95 p102, Craig BYERS p15, Eagleson BYERS p13, ThomasBYERS Family, Van Truan 10/18/2000],
father:
[Ref: WashingtonCoPA Wills 8-459]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p805, Craig BYERS p15, ThomasBYERS Family],
place:
[Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p805]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
place:
Kansas [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p13]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Eagleson BYERS p15]
Research Notes:
teacher at Fairfield, IA, for some years [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p15]

attorney at Fairfield, IA [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p805]



Pedigree of Thomas S BYERS
                                     /-----Thomas BYERS
                            /-----James BYERS
                   /-----Samuel BYERS
          /-----Thomas BYERS
         |        |         /-----Thomas WHITE
         |         \-----Jane WHITE
         |                  \-----Ann (WHITE)
 /-----Thomas BYERS
|        |                                             /-----John SHANNON
|        |                                    /-----John SHANNON
|        |                           /-----Robert SHANNON
|        |                  /-----Thomas SHANNON
|        |                 |         \-----Annal (SHANNON)
|        |         /-----John SHANNON
|        |        |         \-----Agnes (SHANNON)
|         \-----Margaret SHANNON
|                 |                  /-----Thomas REID
|                 |         /-----John Col REID
|                 |        |         \-----Mary McKEAN
|                  \-----Sarah REID
|                           \-----Jane STUART
Thomas S BYERS
|         /-----Robert HAMILTON
 \-----Margaret HAMILTON
          \-----Mary (HAMILTON)



Descendants of Thomas S BYERS
1. Thomas S BYERS m.