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Name: Margaret BYERS
Sex: F
Birth: 22 Mar 1822 in West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania ^b
Death: 12 Oct 1886 ^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:
Marriage:

Benjamin OLDHAM on 30 Oct 1844 .^m1
Benjamin OLDHAM Birth: 22 Dec 1821 in Virginia Death: 30 Apr 1888

Children:

Adaline OLDHAM Birth: 12 Dec 1846
Wylie S OLDHAM Birth: 13 Jan 1848
Mary R OLDHAM Birth: Sep 1850 Death: 12 Sep 1871
Belle OLDHAM Birth: 1853 Death: 29 Apr 1875
Thomas Byers OLDHAM Birth: 11 Apr 1855

Bibliography

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-]*].
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]*].
Bell, Raymond Martin, BYERS, Keyhole XXIII,3 (July 1995). p101-103 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bell BYERS-95 p10[1-3]].
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]*].
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]*].
Rothman, Marcia, Samuel Oldham and Rebecca Wylie, letter dated 1/1/1995. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Marcia Rothman 1/1/1995].
-, Thomas Byers Family Record, copy obtained from Virginia Gebhardt 9/4/94 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ThomasBYERS Family].
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].
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: Eagleson BYERS p13]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:: 11 Oct 1881 [Ref: ThomasBYERS Family]; 11 Oct 1887 [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p805, Craig BYERS p15]

Sources with Information about marriage to Benjamin OLDHAM

date:: [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p19, Marcia Rothman 1/1/1995],
names:: [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p805, Craig BYERS p15]; ___ OLDHAM & Margaret BYERS [Ref: WashingtonCoPA Wills 8-459],
child:: [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p19, Eagleson BYERS p20]