Byers, Lilburn Owen, 1825-1889
Biographical Note
Lilburn Owen Byers (also Byars) was a farmer born to Benjamin Burkhart Byers and Mary B. Owen on June 25, 1825, in Tennessee. He was baptized the following year at Bristol. During the Mexican-American War, Byers enrolled in Company D of the 5th Tennessee Infantry of the U.S. Army on November 7, 1847, in Knoxville. He mustered out on July 20, 1848, at Memphis. Byers married Olivia King on December 20, 1849, in Washington County, Virginia, and the couple had at least one child.
During the American Civil War, Byers served in the 21st Virginia Cavalry of the Confederate Army. In November 1869, Byers married a woman named Elizabeth, and by the 1880 census, They had two children and were living in Johnson County, Missouri. Byers passed away on January 2, 1889, and is buried alongside Elizabeth in the Leesburg Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Washington County, Tennessee.
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U. S. Federal Census, 1850-1880
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