James B. BYERS & Mary STEVENSON

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James B. BYERS
Mary STEVENSON

Please Note: our subject is being mixed up with the James BYERS who married Elizabeth C. LEFTER and lived in Franklin Co., IN. These are two different men: they are both enumerated in the 1850 Census, each in a different place with a different wife and different children. There are many reasons to always make the effort to extract all of a family's census records, but one of them is that you catch errors like this one.

Husband: James B. BYERS
Birth: 20 Jun 1799, East Finley Twp., Washington Co., PA
Death: 18 Oct 1874, presumably in Fremont Twp., Cedar Co., IA
Disposition: buried Bellefontaine City Cemetery, Bellefontaine, Logan Co., OH
Occupation: farmer
Father: Thomas Ebenezer BYERS (1757-1825)
Mother: Margaret S. SHANNON (1768-1829)

Marriage: 3 Apr 1823, East Finley Twp., Washington Co., PA

Wife: Mary STEVENSON
Birth: 7 Sep 1805, Washington Co., PA
Death: 25 Sep 1868, Logan Co., OH
Disposition: buried Bellefontaine City Cemetery, Bellefontaine, Logan Co., OH
Occupation: homemaker
Father: Joseph STEVENSON (1779-1865)
Mother: Sarah MARQUIS (1780-1849)

Children — born in Lake Twp., Logan Co., OH:

They lived in Lake Twp., not the Bellefontaine Post Office. The Bellefontaine P.O. is where they went to pick up their mail. There was no rural mail delivery back then, so rural residents had to drive into town to pick up their mail. Without evidence to show this farm family lived in town, it is incorrect to claim the children were born in Bellefontaine.

1. Joseph Stevenson BYERS, b. 11 May 1824; d. 29 Jan 1907, Sandusky, Erie Co., OH
2. Thomas Marquis BYERS, b. 12 Jul 1826; d. 13 Aug 1902, Mechanicsville, Cedar Co., IA
3. John Wilson BYERS, b. 16 May 1828; d. 29 Jun 1907
4. Sarah BYERS, b. 20 Mar 1830
5. Margaret BYERS, b. 6 Mar 1832; d. 19 Feb 1873
6. James Edgar BYERS, b. 29 Jul 1834; d. 10 Mar 1857
7. Rachel / Rachael Ann BYERS, b. 23 Apr 1837; d. 5 Mar 1873
8. Samuel BYERS, b. 30 Aug 1840; d. 14 Feb 1893
9. Elizabeth Cecilia BYERS, b. 7 Feb 1843; d. 9 May 1928

Other Kin (nephew? younger brother?):

. Alexander BYERS, b. 1828/9, PA

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Sources:

1. Marriage Record: there were no civil marriage records in Pennsylvania before 1909, so where did their marriage record come from?

2. 1830 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #7 of 12; official enumeration date 1 Jun 1830; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1830 OH Logan Co. Lake Twp. Roll M19_135 p. 68 Ln. 6 James Byers 210 011 - 100 010 no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

2 males 4 or under 1825-1830 = John (b. 1828)
= Thomas (b. 1826

1 male 5-9 1820-1825 = Joseph (b. 1824)

1 male 20-29 1800-1810 = hired hand? brother?

1 male 30-39 1790-1800 = James (b. 1799)

1 female 4 or under 1825-1830 = Sarah (b. 1830)

1 female 20-29 1800-1810 = Mary (b. 1805)

3. 1840 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #3-4 of 14; official enumeration began 1 Jun 1840; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840 OH Logan Co. Lake Twp. Roll - p. 47 Ln. 9 James Byers 012 000 100 - 111 001 0300000 no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 male 5-9 1830-1835 = James Edgar (b. 1834)

2 males 10-14 1825-1830 = John Wilson (b. 1828)
= Thomas (b. 1826)

1 male 40-49 1790-1800 = James (b. 1799)

1 female 4 or under 1835-1840 = Rachael (b. 1837)

1 female 5-9 1830-1835 = Margaret (b. 1832)

1 female 10-14 1825-1830 = Sarah (b. 1830)

1 female 30-39 1800-1810 = Mary (b. 1805)

3 persons employed in agriculture

4. 1850 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #10 of 43): Dist. No. 8, Lake Twp., Logan Co., OH, Roll M432_704, p. 136B, 63/63, enumerated 16 Aug 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

James Byers 50 M Farmer 6000 Pa

Mary Byers 45 F Do

J S Byers 26 M Farmer Do

Thomas Byers 24 M Do Do

John W Byers 22 M Plasterer Do

Sarah Byers 20 F Do

Margaret Byers 18 F Do

James E Byers 16 M Farmer Do

Rachael Byers 13 F Do

Sa??l Byers 10 M Do

Elizabeth Byers 07 F Do

Alexander Byers 21 M Student Pa

The children were born in Ohio, not Pennsylvania.

5. 1860 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #11-12 of 14): Bellefontaine P.O., Lake Twp., Logan Co., OH, pp. 38B-39A, PN 76-77, 544/545, enumerated 13 Jun 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Jas Byers 61 M Farmer 1000 500 Pa

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Mary Byers 56 F Pa

Margaret? ? F O

Saml? ? M "

Elizabeth?? ? ? "

The page images are so faded, they're barely readable.

6. 1870 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): James BYERS (æ 71, b. PA) is living in Fremont Twp., Cedar Co., IA (p. 231A), with his son, Thomas BYERS (æ 44, b. OH), and his family.

. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

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