Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Bayard, S. S. December 27, 1839 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates
S S Bayard, farmer and stock grower, was born near
Waynesburg, Penna, December 27, 1839, and is a son of Perry
A Bayard and Nancy Sayers Bayard. His parents were natives
of Greene County, descendants of the early pioneers and of
French and English origin. Mr Bayard's father was a farmer
and mechanic; in early life he was a stone mason in Whitely
Township. S S is the fifth in a family of seven children;
he was reared in Greene County, attended the schools of
Whitely Township, and afterwards entered Waynesburg College.
He is a farmer by occupation, and owns 200 acres of well
improved land where he resides in Cumberland Township. He
has about twenty acres of his farm in choice fruit trees.
In 1866 he married Miss Jane Webb, daughter of W T E
Webb Esq of Waynesburg. Her mother's maiden name was Mary
Stull; she was born in Virginia and was of English descent.
Mr and Mrs Bayard are the parents of four children, two of
whom are living. In politics Mr Bayard is a Republican.
In 1862 he enlisted in Company K, Fifteenth Pennsylvania
Volunteer Cavalry and was Sergeant of the company. He was
in several prominent engagements of the late war, among
others the battles of Antietam and Stone River, and was
discharged for disability in 1863. Both of his grandfathers
were in the Revolutionary War. Mr and Mrs Bayard are active
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and both are
prominent teachers in the Sabbath school.
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