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 1773 - Aft 1830 (> 58 years)
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| Name |
Nathan Byars |
| Suffix |
Jr. |
| Birth |
1770-1773 |
North Carolina  [1] |
- in the Granville District...
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| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Aft 1830 [2] |
- (Spartanburg Co.,SC or Warren Co.,TN)
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| Person ID |
I1092 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
17 Aug 2014 |
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| Notes |
- circa 1830-1831:
"SHERIFF'S SALE
Re: land in town of M'Minville, County of Warren; 100 acres of land on waters of Mountain Creek where Nathan Bias now lives; condemned at the instance of Geo. W. Jewel;"
Abstracted from "The Upper Cumberland Researcher", Volume XXI, No.1, Spring 1996,article entitled, "The Sparta Recorder and Law Journal by Anderson and Long, July 31, 1830 Vol. 1, No. 13", p. 17
Posted By: Clovis Byars Herring
Email: clovisherring@yahoo.com
Subject: I WAS WRONG about Nathan Byars Jr. See the real one
Post Date: October 24, 2009 at 12:24:00
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/byars/messages/1054.html
Forum: Byars Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/byars/
I was WRONG. When I published the Byars-Byers Family Enquirer, I thought the Nathan Byars Jr.son of Nathan Byars and Drucilla Harrelson, was the man by that name that married Emily Turner. I was WRONG. When my dear friend and fellow researcher Marjorie Stewart Tucker wrote her last paper, she reported that the Nathan Byars that married Emily Turner as Nathan Byars Jr. who went to Butts County Georgia. I do not know who his father was but I know he was NOT the son of Old Nathan and Drucilla.
The real Nathan Byars Jr. is shown on the 1850 Lawrence Co.Ala, with an Elizabeth (shown in the place we always give to the wife) and with two sons, Thomas and George W Byars. Years ago I found this census on microfilm and made a copy of it. My great great grandfather Harrell Byars md Nancy Tackett was also listed on that census. There was just one Nathan Byars on this census, and no one can tell what his age was. There is a smear over his age. Some say he was 55, some say he was 65, in fact he was 74.
In November 1850 Nathan Byars went before a Justice of the Peace and applied for bounty land for fighting in the Creek Indiam War, 1812/1813. He gave his age as 74. In fact he applied for two parcels of land for fighting in that war, for again he went before Philip Tackett (his son Harrell's brother-in-law) and again said he was 74 years old. We have copies of his service. He joined in Sparta TN and was discharged there. We do have documents showing that this Nathan was Nathan Jr. In 1819, he owned land in Warren Co. TN but was living in Madison Co. Ala (Miss Territory) He gave a Power of Attorney to Harrell Byars who lived in Warren Co. TN to sell his land. A very good indication that Harrell Byars in Warren Co. TN was his brother, also a son of Nathan Byars Sr. and his first wife Drucilla Harrelson.
A time line following the Nathan Byars who married Emily Turner has been prepared by Martha Byars, (whose husband is a descendant of the Warren Co. TN Harrell Byars) showing when and where each of these men were on the census records and it is very easy to see that they were two different men.
So I say to all the Nathanites (coined for descendants of Nathan Byars Sr. in the Byars-Byers Family Enquirer) I WAS WRONG to assume that the man that married Emily Turner was Nathan Jr. I know there will be some that will never accept this. But we cannot change history. When we find evidence we must go where it leads us.
In Marjorie's paper she showed two prospects forsons of the Nathan Byars in Butts Co. GA in 1850, but said there was no proof. I say to those who descend from those two men to find a male descendant and get him to do DNA test. There are four different men that descend from Old Nathan (my name for him because he is the oldest Nathan Byars I have found) So far the three tests that are back show they are related as they show on the paper trails. One is a descendant of Robert Byars who left TN and is found on the 1850 Claibrone Pr. LA census as Robert Byas. The other is my second cousin. Out grandfathers were brothers. He shows back on the paper trail to Nathan Byars Jr. in Lawrence Co. AL. Soon DNA tests results will be back for a descendant of Harrell Byars of Warren Co. TN.
We have not been able to prove that the Elizabeth on the 1850 Lawrence Co AL census was a Womack. We have found a marriage record that indicates she may have been Elizabeth Blansengame. If the woman on the census is a Womack then she was either a second wife or her age on the census is Wrong.
DNA testing will put us on the right trail. So please go the Byars/Byers DNA site and sign up. It's painless, and will help put our extended families in the right place.
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