BIOS: Hon. David Byers, Nicholas Co., KY

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Bio of Hon. David BYERS, Mason Co. KY, including NESBIT, RAY, TURNER, SANDERS

Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.
Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Richland Township, p. 624

Hon. David BYERS, retired farmer, is a son of David and Elizabeth BYERS, natives of
Pennsylvania and North Carolina,  David BYERS, Sr., located in Mason County, Ky.,
having come down the Ohio River on a flat-boat about 1783.  He married Miss Rachel
NESBIT, and was father of five children.  After her death in 1803, he married Mrs.
Elizabeth (RAY) TURNER, with an issue of three sons, and died in 1817, aged fifty-nine
years.  He was a superior man, both in mind and body.  After his decease, Mrs. BYERS
came with her family to this county in 1827, and some time lived, and finally died,
with our subject, in 1852, aged eighty-three years.  David BYERS, Jr., was born June
20, 1806, in Nicholas County, Ky., where he was trained to farming; he was studious
and ambitious, and became a teacher after coming to this county, and as such a
pioneer.  In 1835, he located where he now resides, and created a home and farm from
the wilds of nature.  January 30, 1831, he married Miss Rachel Sanders, and to this
union where bestowed nine children, only two of whom survived - Lafayette and Thomas,
Jr.;  Mrs. BYERS died June 21, 1874.  Mr. BYERS' second son, James K.P., was a Soldier
of the Fiftieth Indiana Regiment, and died in 1867.  Mr. BYERS was a Democrat until
the Kansas troubles, when he became a Republican.  He was Representative to the
Legislature in 1840-41, and in 1844-45, having led the "Seminary" and "State
University Re-organization" bills.  He served as Justice of the Peace eight years, and
as county Commissioner from 1830 to 1840 - the only one living that served under the
old law. Since 1842, he has been an active worker in the Church of Christ.