Hunt Co., TX - Biographies - Robert Mattison Byers
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Robert Mattison Byers first married Mollie Ellen Butler
on May 28, 1879 in Grayson Co., TX.  She was born June
18, 1861 in Grayson Co., TX and died July 27, 1882 in
Collin Co., TX.  Their children were Josephine, an infant,
Mollie Ellen, and two childrn buried in Pike Cemetery,
TX near Meekness Marie Turner Byers.
 
Robert M. Byers married a second time to Melissa Alice
Butler (sister to his first wife) on November 18, 1883,
Celeste, Hunt Co., TX.  She was born July 15, 1866 in
Grayson Co., TX and died Jan. 8, 1958 in Celeste, Hunt Co.,
TX.  Their children were John Francis Byers, Nettie Meekness
Byers, Joseph Warden Byers, Herman Allen Byers.  
 
I have a partial article on Mrs. Robert M. Byers of Celeste...
on her 89th birthday.  She was a well known Celeste citizen
born in Grayson County in 1866, one year after the Civil War.
She moved to Hunt County with her husband in 1883 and moved to
Celeste in the early 1900's.  He hed in 1936.  She remembered
"going visiting" by wagon and if destination was ten or twelve
miles away, they always spent the night.  "We would throw pallets
on the floor for kids and everyboyd had a good time," she remembered.  
 
Ora Mae also has:
Joseph A. Byers born July 23, 1840, died June 8, 1863--killed in CW.
Cynthia L. Byers, born September 2, 1842
Amanda M. Byers born February 22, 1854
William Francis Byers born March 19, 1847
 
Andy Joe Byers is the son of Harbert Byers.  Harbart Byers grew up
in Celeste.  Was Celeste Postmaster.  The home place still
stands--but it bad shape. 
 
Here are some Hunt County Byers.  >From my notes... I think marriage
licenses:
Byers, Alice        Arnold, Lee                1914
"       , Belle        Kember, Charles Aaron   1920
        , Georgia    Sweet, Charlie            1914
Byers, L. H.        Hefner, Lillie             1914
"       , L. R.        Malone, Virgie          1912
        , Rosa        Bradshaw, O. T.          1917
Byers, John        Patterson, Emma             1935
Byers, L. R.        Malone, Virgie             1912
Byers, Brooks    Miller, Jenice                1944
Byers, Clinton    Patterson, Patsy Ruth        1944
Byers, H. S.      Bates, Stella                1925
Byers, Herman    McClanahan, Pearl             1922
Byers, J. M.      Groebel, Iva                 1928
Byers, Robert    Blankenship, Anna M.          1931
Byers, A. J.       Harbert, Bettie             1895
", Crockett        Hart, Melissa               1873
Byers, F. M.    Morgan, Nora                   1903
Byers, J. T.      King, Emma                   1889
Byers, Joe       Furr, Lula May                1908
", Mrs. L. C       Rice, R. W.                 1895
Byers, Letie      Milam, W. H.                 1886
", Lucy             Kurfees, R. G.             1904
", Mollie           Turner, R. B.              1893
", Nettie           Evertz, C. W.              1901
", Pearl            Bench, Calvin O.           1911
", R. M.           Butler, Ellen               1879
", T. J.             Gribble, Maud             1901
", W. M.          Coffy (Caffy), Mrs. H. R.    1893
 
These are the Byars:
Byars, O. L.    Claunch, Gracie                1917
", Frank          Martin, Audrey C.            1929
", Oscar         Horton, Madaline              1918
", Alpha          Foster, J. P.                1902
 
 
Byers, Joseph B. May 3, 1920 Greenville Evening Banner article
Greenville Banner
 
Byers, Lee          April 4, 1922
Byers, W. B.       November 13, 1919