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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