John R Byrd's biography, Constantine, St Joesph County, Michigan

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JOHN R. BYRD
Was born in Southampton county, Va., April 29, 1832, and was a son of
Jared and Clora Matilda Byrd, deceased. He was married Aug. 25, 1855,
in Bellefountaine, Ohio, to Mary M. Moxley, who passed to her reward
December, 1866. The three children of this union, Giles P., Massack Y.
and Hopeful T., are deceased. He was married secondly March 12, 1868,
to Mary E. Preston, who was born in Warren county, Va., March 15,
1842.  Comrade Bryd enlisted to defend the flag of his counry. He was
enrolled February, 1865, at Bellefontaine, Ohio, in 5th U.S.C.H.A.  In
August, 1865, he was stricken with rheumatism and bone fever, for
which he was treated in Vicksburg hospital about two months.  Owing to
the lateness of his enlistment and the close of hostilities so soon
thereafter, he was not called into active serice, and was honorable
discharged February, 1866, in Vicksburg, Miss. His brother James
served in 54th Mass. V.I., and was wounded at Ft. Pillow with fragment
of shell; his maternal grandfather was a cousin to Pres. Jackson and a
slave holder.  Comrade Byrd is a member of Joss Post, and his
postoffice address is Constantine, Mich.





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