Byram Lee Bybee (1799 - 1864)

Born 25 Feb 1799 in Barren County, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Lane) Bybee — married 5 Jan 1820 in Barren County, Kentucky

Descendants

Died 27 Jun 1864 at age 65 in Grafton, Washington, Utah, United States

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Biography

Wills 1798-1866 Genealogical Society, Glasgow, Kentucky. On 19 June 1817 Robert Lane, of Barren County, Kentucky, purchased 302 acres of land on Nobob Creek in Barren County, Kentucky from John Bybee and his wife, Betsy, for $612.00.12

The commissioners of the estate of Robert Lain, John Button, Henry Tudor, and John Tudor, met at the house of Robert Lain, inventoried the estate of Robert Lain, deceased,and acknowledged their inventory before Peter Denham, justice of the peace, on 26 April 1827. Their initial inventory recorded the following items:

an account against Byrum Bybee, $7.29¼7.29 ¼

A List of the Property of Robert Lain, Deceased, Sold by David Lain, Administrator on the 26th of April 1827 Byrum Bybee, 1 sugar bowl, 1 tea pot1.06 ¼ Byrum Bybee, one gun shot pouch and powder horn 10.00 Byrum Bybee, 1 cow and calf 6.25 Byram Bybee, 1 sorrel stud colt 70.50 Byrum Bybee, 1 pggin .18 ¾

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1. Betsy Lane b. 24 Jun 1801 Washington County, Tennessee m. 5 Jan 1820 Byram Bybee d. 7 May 1867 Smithfield, Cache, Utah (Page 521) To Betsy Bybee, late Betsy Lain, her proportion, lot no. 2, containing 29-acres and bounded as follows, to wit:

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Will of John Bybee Barren County Kentucky May 21 1819 In the name of god amen: Fourth: I give and bequeath unto my son Byram Bybee the quantity of land on Nobob Creek out of the survey which I purchased of Robt. Craddock, Agent of Robt. Means, lying within the following boundary Towit: Beginning where Robt. Lane's line crosses the creek, thence with him to Hugh's line thence with Hugh's line to the corner thence to the creek leaving the spring of said Byram Bybee belonging to his said part about sixty yards on the right hand thence down the creek which it is by the will and desire he shall not sell or dispose of till he is twenty five years old.

Son of John Bybee and Elizabeth Kelly

Married - Elizabeth Ann Lane, 5 Jan 1820, Grafton, Washington, Kentucky

Married - Mary Hartley, 13 Mar 1852, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Married - Else Marie Knudsen, 15 Aug 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

History - Byram Lee Bybee was born 25 February 1799, in Barren County. He was a farmer and a shoemaker. He married Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Lane, on 5 January 1820. Elizabeth was born in Washington, Tennessee, 24 January 1801. She was the daughter of Robert David Lane and Mary (Polly) Chapman. Byram Lee and Betsy moved to Green Co., Missouri, about 1830, then back to Kentucky about 1836, then to Clay County, Indiana, about 1837. The Bybee family were, at this time, of the Campbellite faith. It was here in Indiana that they were first introduced to the Mormon religion by Elder Isaac Morley.

Byram Lee's family is listed on the 1840 census of Clay Co., Indiana, and it was noted they were prosperous farmers. However, the land they were tilling was not opened for entry, but was held on "Squatter's rights." The house they lived in was of logs, with a dirt roof and floor, and was built on the river bank. Byram Lee was not a healthy man and the responsibility of the family fell on his wife and sons.

Byram Lee must have had itchy feet, because again the family moved. This time to Illinois to be near the saints, as they were now members of the church. This was in 1843 or early 1844. Most of Byram's family went with him to Illinois, also his Uncle Lee Allen Bybee and some of his family. They traveled together in covered wagons and, upon their arrival in Nauvoo, they engaged in farming.

Byram Lee and "Betsy" Lane had ten children. The Bybee children remembered seeing the Prophet Joseph Smith riding on a black horse. He would often call at the Bybee home. They also recalled meetings held in a beautiful grove in the Eastern part of the city of Nauvoo. These meetings would be conducted by the Prophet Joseph. The Bybee family also mourned the death of Joseph and Hyrum with all of the Saints. Byram Lee was too ill to attend the services held for the brothers, but their mother, Betsy, took the children and they remembered this day always.

Byram Levi was one year old when the family moved from Indiana to Nauvoo, and four years later, they were on the move again. They left Nauvoo and went into Iowa. There was about a foot of snow on the ground and it was bitter cold. They crossed the Mississippi River on the ice. They could take only the bare necessities with them, and they were instructed by Brigham Young to leave their homes clean and in good order. Polly Chapman Bybee Hammon, Byram Lee's daughter, said she even left a clock ticking on the wall.

The Bybees arrived in camp at Sugar Creek and made their home out of brush and blankets, mere shanties. Some of the company, however, used their wagons for shelter. From Sugar Creek they went to Farmington, Iowa, and on to the Winter Quarters sight on the west bank of the Missouri River.

In the late summer of 1848, they moved to Buchanan Co., Mo., and lived with their daughter Polly Chapman Bybee and her husband Levi Hammon. While at Buchanan, they built wagons for the trek west. They then returned to Winter Quarters, and then Council Bluffs, Iowa, where the men built more wagons, and the women made cloth, called Lindsey Woolsey. It was a grey cloth, and they changed colors by making dye using sage, weeds, grasses and other concoctions. The saints had brought with them useful items such as looms, seeds, spinning wheels, slips of trees and shrubs, and very few personal items.

On 21 June 1851, they left Council Bluffs, for Utah. They were with the Alfred Cardon Co. They traveled in the third ten of the second fifty. Levi Hammon was their leader. There were nine families in the group. There were 5 people in Byram Lee's family; Byram Lee, "Betsy," David Bowman, Robert Lee and Byram Levi. They had 1 wagon, 4 oxen, and 6 cows. Byram Levi was now ten years old and walked most of the way to Salt Lake bare foot, although his father was a shoe maker. The shirt he wore had 17 patches on it. Byram Levi said it was hard to tell where one patch ended and the next patch began.

The company arrived in Salt Lake Valley, 6 Oct 1851. They contacted Heber C. Kimball, and he advised them to go to East Weber (now known as Uintah) and homestead. This valley had been settled one year before and Byram Lee's son John McCann, and two sons-in-law, Henry Beckstead, and Daniel Smith, helped to settle. East Weber was located at the mouth of Weber Canyon, near the Weber River. It was unprepossessing and unpromising country that presented itself to the Bybee family. It was wild and the land was covered with bunch grass; the only forest trees being willows that bordered the streams. However, the rich grass did provide food for their cattle and stock raising and primitive farming was their occupation.

The family made their home with logs, or branches, cut from the banks of the Weber River. The implements used to farm were very poor. Some plows were made entirely of wood with little strips of iron. They cultivated the land the best they could. The soil was productive and they realized a good harvest.

Byram Lee and Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" were sealed by President Brigham Young in his office on 13 March 1852.

The winter of 1855 and 1856 was so severe the settlers lost many cattle. Each morning they would go around the fort and lift up the cattle that were too weak to get up by themselves. In the daytime, they cut down willows for the cattle and sheep to browse on. They also carried wood on their backs to have firewood available to build fires, if necessary, to warm the animals.

That spring and summer were hard, and they suffered much. The women carried their small babies on their backs while they searched for segos and other roots to cook in milk to feed their families.

Sometime between 1856 and 1858, Byram Lee moved his family to Mountain Green, up Weber Canyon, in Morgan County. While there, Byram Levi, now a young man of 15 or 16, met a very lovely young lady, Jane Geneva Robinson. Her father, with one of his wives, and family, had pioneered Mountain Green. Byram Lee's family lived only a short time in Mountain Green and then returned to Uintah. However, it was long enough for Byram Levi to decide he wanted to marry Jane and he wasn't too happy about moving back to Uintah, at this time.

In 1858, when Johnson's Army threatened the valley, the Bybee's, along with other Mormon families, moved south to Dixie, as instructed by Brigham Young. Byram Levi went with his parents. However, about a year later, Byram still thinking of the "lady fair," at Mountain Green, received permission from his parents to return to their home in Weber County so he could court Jane. His mother baked him some bread, his father gave him several cows, and with his gun and very few personal belongings, Byram bade his parents goodbye, not realizing that would be the last time he would see his father alive. Byram Lee Bybee died in Washington, Utah on the 27 June 1864, and was buried there.

After his death, his wife, Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Lane Bybee, moved to Smithfield, Utah to live with their son, Robert Lee. She died in Smithfield, 7 May 1867, and was buried there.

Research Note: There is no early documents or histories that we have found that Byram's middle name is Lee. This middle name LEE was added to the Ancestral File in the 1990s by some cousins when Family Search was first introduced and it was then copied by numerous cousins and resubmitted back to Ancestral File and Pedigree Resource File. Of course then all of the various errors in spelling showed up too such a Brom, Byron, Byran, etc.

I recognize that the replacement tombstone in Grafton has Lee on it but that was done by family members who again took the information from Family Search. I have had one cousin state that the name listed on the Alfred Cardon Company immigrants was Byram Lee Bybee, but we don't find the actual list of the members of that company in the archives. -- Leslie P. Fowers

Parents

John Bybee 1770–1819 Elizabeth Kelly Bybee 1771–1819

Spouses

Elizabeth Ann Lane Bybee 1801–1867 (m. 1820)
Married - Mary Hartley, 13 Mar 1852, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Else Marie Knudsen Bybee 1820–1866 (m. 1856)

Siblings

Buford Bybee 1797–1823
Elizabeth Bybee Harbison 1798–1871 (m. 1818)
John Bybee 1801–1886
Delilah Bybee Lane 1804–1840 (m. 1823)
William Bybee 1804–1885 (m. 1827)
Mary Bybee Harlan 1808–1849 (m. 1822)
Neal McCann Bybee 1813–1859 (m. 1849)

Children

Polly Chapman Bybee Hammon 1820–1902
Rhoda Bird Bybee Bair 1823–1908
Elizabeth Jane Bybee Smith 1825–1909
Luann Bird Bybee Hoffstatter 1827–1884
John McCann Bybee 1829–1909
Lucene Bird Bybee Penrod 1831–1915
David Bowman Bybee 1832–1893
Jonathan Marion Bybee 1836–1836
Robert Lee Bybee 1838–1929
Byram Levi Bybee 1841–1905
Betsy Maria Bybee Cook 1860–1923

Burial

Byram Lee Bybee
Birth 25 Feb 1799 Barren County, Kentucky, USA
Death 27 Jun 1864 (aged 65) Grafton, Washington County, Utah, USA
Burial Grafton Cemetery
Grafton, Washington County, Utah, USA
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Marriage

1819 --- U. S. AND INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE RECORDS 1819-1900

Name: Byram Bybee [Byram Lee Bybee]

Gender: Male

Birth Place: Kentucky

Birth Year: 1799

Spouse Name: Betsy Ann Lane

Spouse Birth Place: Kentucky

Spouse Birth Year: 1801

Marriage Year: 1819

Marriage State: Kentucky

Number Pages: 1

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Citation: Source number: 4349.026; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1 --- Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. --- Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie. --- Description: This database contains marriage record information for approximately 1,400,000 individuals from across all 50 United States and 32 different countries around the world between 1560 and 1900. These records, which include information on over 500 years of marriages, were extracted from family group sheets, electronic databases, biographies, wills, and other sources.

Utah Immigrants

1851 --- PIONEER IMMIGRATANTS TO UTHAH TERRORITY

Name: Byram Lee Bybee

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 25 Feb 1799

Birth Place: Barren, Kentucky

Religion: Lds

Occupation: Farmer; Justice of the Piere

Spouse: Elizabeth Ann Lane;Elsie Macie Knudson

Marriage Date: 05 Jan 1820;14 Mar 1852

Marriage Place: Bolling Green, Barren, KT-Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT

Father: John Bybee

Mother: Betsy Killey

Departure Place: Council Bluffs, Pottowattomie Iowa

Departure Date: 21 Jun 1851

Pioneer Company: James A. Cummings (Alfred Cardon 2nd 50)

Travel Company: wife Elizabeth (50); 2 son David Bowman (19) 4 son Robert Lee (13); 5 son Byram Lee (10); dau Polly Chapman (31); son-in-law, Levi Hamman(30); Igrlan, Elizabeth Magdelena (10); 3 g-dau Seloma (6) 4gdau. Martha Jane (4); 1g-son Levi Byram(2) 4g-dau Polly Chapman (3mos)

Trail: Mormon Pioneer Trail

Arrival Place: Great Salt Lake Valley

Arrival Date: 6 Oct 1851

Place Settled: Uiatah, Weber County, UT Grafton, Washington, UT

Death Place: Grafton Washington, UT

Death Date: 27 Jun 1864

Burial Place: Grafton, Washington, UT

Burial Date: 27 Jun 1864

Submitted by: Sandres M. Wardle

Information Source: Frank Esshom, Pioncers & Pcominert Men of Utah; Betsy Robera H. Greenwell. Levi Hammon and Pally Chapman Bybee, Early Utah Pioneers; Fam Group sheet, FHL Archive

Page number: 000475

Comments: Though a Southerner, Byrar did not agree with slavery and moved his family dorth, during the civil war he was called to grow cottons Satherow, where he died in 1864

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pioneer Immigrants to Utah Territory [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. --- Original data: Questionnaires compiled by Sons of the Utah Pioneers in Salt Lake City. --- Description --- More than 1,700 pioneer immigration records for Utah.

Community Tree

1864 --- THE GENEANET COMMUNITY TREES INDEX

Name: Byram Lee Bybee

Gender: M (Male)

Birth Date: 25 févr. 1799 (25 Feb 1799)

Birth Place: Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, USA

Death Date: 27 juin 1864 (27 Jun 1864)

Death Place: Grafton, Utah Territory, Washington, USA

Father: John Bybee

Mother: Elizabeth Kelly

Spouse: Elizabeth Ann Lane

Children: Polly Chapman Bybee

View on Geneanet: https://gw.geneanet.org/lapeliroja?n=bybee&oc=1&p=byram+lee

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Geneanet Community Trees Index [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. --- Original data: Geneanet Community Trees Index. Paris, France: Geneanet. ---Description: This collection contains an index of more than 1.5 million family trees accumulated into a single database. The information in this collection was compiled through Geneanet, a collaborative genealogy website. Each record in the index includes a link to the originating family tree on Geneanet. Records from the original site can be viewed in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Cemetery

1864 --- FIND A GRAVE INDEX 1600'S-CURRENT

Name: Byram Lee Bybee

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 25 Feb 1799

Birth Place: Barren County, Kentucky, United States of America

Death Date: 27 Jun 1864

Death Place: Grafton, Washington County, Utah, United States of America

Cemetery: Grafton Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Grafton, Washington County, Utah, United States of America

Has Bio?: Yes

Spouse: Else Marie Bybee --- Elizabeth Ann Bybee

Children: Lucene Bird Penrod --- John McCann Bybee --- Byram Levi Bybee --- Elizabeth Jane Smith --- Luann Bird Hoffstatter --- Rhoda Bird Bair ---David Bowman Bybee --- Polly Chapman Hammon --- Robert Lee Bybee --- Betsy Maria Cook

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59777/byram-lee-bybee

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave™ Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. --- Original data: Find a Grave™. Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi. --- Description: This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave™ from the United States. The records are dated between the 1600s and the present. Find a Grave™ provides users a virtual cemetery experience, with images of grave markers from around the world, photos, biographies, and other details uploaded by volunteers.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #59777

See also:

• http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/bybee/702/

• John Bybee's Will

• "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW5H-GNY : 4 December 2014), Byram Bybee and Betsy Lane, 04 Jan 1820; citing Barren County, Kentucky, reference ; FHL microfilm 209,750.

• "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLY1-HQ5 : 26 December 2014), Byram Bybee in entry for Robert Lee Bybee, 04 Oct 1929; citing Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, reference 67752, Department of Health and Welfare, Boise; FHL microfilm 1,530,850.

Trees

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=42990541&pid=194

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Aron King for creating WikiTree profile Bybee-202 through the import of Aron King family tree.ged on Jul 24, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Aron and others.