Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of CAPT. SAMUEL F. TYREE This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 129-130 CAPT. SAMUEL F. TYREE. Frank Tyree, of Mountain Cove, Fayette county, West Virginia, and a brother of William M. Tyree, well known there, was the father of the subject of this sketch. Capt. Samuel Tyree was born in Fayette county in 1840, and died January 14, 1912. A good portion of his early life was spent in Fayette county, where he was reared OTi a farm and obtained his education. He then came to Greenbrier county. Upon the breaking out of the war between the States in 1861, he volunteered as a soldier in Company E. commanded by his uncle, William Tyree, and was at-tached to the Twenty-second regiment. Later he organized a company of independent rangers to take part in that great struggle, and of which he was chosen captain, and with this company he did some very effective service for the Confederacy. On September 12, 1865, Captain Tyree married Miss Sabina Feamster. She was born March 27, 1844, and died April 26, 1912. She was a sister of Joseph and Col. S. W. N. Feamster, of this county (see sketch of the Feamster family), and to this union were born seven children. Edward, married Mary Lewis Handley, daughter of Austin Handley; Frank, not married. William, married Susie C. Renick, daughter of James H. Renick; Emmette, married Millie L. Cogbill, daughter of D. J. Cogbill; Harry, married Miss Brocions, of Dallas, Texas; John, married Mary 'Bell Gillian, daughter of C. W. Gillian; Mattie R. at home. Captain Tyree bore an excellent reputation. He was a companionable, whole-souled, generous man, ever ready to do a faYor or to help the needy. His acts of kindness are still spoken of and were very many. He had the happy faculty of accommodat-ing himself to surrounding circumstances, which made of him a man among men, and, as it was said, also a "child among children." His death was felt as a personal loss by the community in general.