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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

HENRY BYAL, retired farmer, Findlay, was born in Stark County, Ohio, March 23,
1817, son of John and Elizabeth (Newstutter) Byal. He is the fourth in descent
from ____ Byal, who settled in Baltimore, Md., from Paris, France. Elizabeth
Newstutter was a daughter of Henry Newstutter, who served as a Hessian soldier
with the British under Burgoyne was captured at Saratoga and never exchanged. He
came to Ohio in 1809 and settled in Stark County. John Byal came with his
father, William, to Ohio in 1809, when a lad, and after spending twenty-three
years in Stark County moved to this county in 1832, where William died in 1840,
followed by his son John in 1853* (his widow surviving him about six years).
They left a family of nine children-four sons and five daughters. Our subject,
when a young man, worked on a farm and attended the saw-mill of his father. Upon
reaching manhood he engaged in farming, and cleared up a nice place for himself,
which he rented in-1847 and embarked in merchandising in Putnam County; retiring
from that after seven years' successful experience, he returned to Findlay,
where he has been identified with many different interests since, principally,
however, in buying and selling real estate. He was married, in 1842, to Dorotha
Comer, who bore him one son and three daughters, of whom Mary Elizabeth, wife of
S. D. Houpt, is the only survivor. In 1860 Mrs. Byal passed away her life in
full communion with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is buried in Maple Grove
Cemetery with her children: Squire C., Amanda and Ida. In 1862 Mr. Byal was
again united in marriage, this time with Mary, daughter of the late Jacob Lamb.
Mr. and Mrs. Byal attend services at the Presbyterian Church, of which he has
been an efficient official. He has always been a cordial supporter of measures
tending to the advancement of the interests of Hancock County, and has served
this city and township in useful official positions.

* At page 526, through typographical error, this date is given 1859.
[Transcriber’s note - See Chapter 27]




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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Findlay Township and Village




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