Johnson Co., TX - Obits: Mrs. Elizabeth Temperance Byars
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BYARS,--Mrs. Elizabeth Temperance Byars (nee Yarbrough) was born in Tennessee,
February 19, 1830. Moved to Arkansas, with her parents, in early childhood,
thence to Smith County, Texas where she was married to Isaac Byars October 29,
1848, who died August 17,1869.

Their home was blessed with eight children, five girls and three boys. Five
children survive her--Mrs. S. M. Rodgers and G. N. Byars, of Grandview; S. I.
Byars, of Lakeview; Mrs. E. D. Williams, Plainview, and Mrs. J. W. Chambers,
of Somerville, Texas. One sister, Mrs. H. C. Williams, of Clinton, Oklahoma,
and a large number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren mourn their loss.

In 1872, with her children, she moved to Johnson County, where she remained
until her death, which occurred February 24, 1916. She was converted in
girlhood and joined the Methodist Church, within whose communion she lived a
faithful, consistent life to the end. She loved and attended her Church
through a long life and when from age and affliction she was deprived of this
pleasure she was still interested in work and planned for its welfare. So
often have I heard her administer a mild reproof to her friends for their
negligence in Church affairs. Thank God for her helpful motherly friendship,
for a love that could chide as well as approve. She was ever mindful of her
pastor. It rejoiced her heart to have him visit her and many tokens of
kindness were received at the parsonage from her hands. Those in sorrow,
affliction and poverty found in her a friend and helper.

She was modest and unassuming in manner but never failed to speak a word for
her Savior when opportunity offered. In raising her children she planted
herself firmly on the side of right and by  her pious, godly life set them an
example worthy of emulation. Her kind sympathetic nature brought her warm
friendship and the young and the old were alike delighted around her cheerful
fireside.

For a number of years her birthdays have been celebrated by an ingathering of
relatives and friends at the home of her son with whom she lived. These days
have been occasions of great happiness to her at which times she was the
recipient of many memorials of affection.

Rarely have I seen such loving devotion as that manifested by her children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She greeted her children with a
peaceful, heavenly smile as they reached her bedside and expressed gratitude
that they were all with her as she was starting for her home beyond the skies.

She is gone. Oh, how we miss her. God grant that the friendship severed here
may be renewed in the home above where there will be no more partings and the
sad word farewell in unknown.

	                     ONE WHO LOVED HER