James
Porter
Byers
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of John Byers
and Jane Porter
Brother of
Isabella Byers, William Byers, John Thomas Byers, Walter Dinwiddie Byers, Ebenezer Wiley Byers, Mary Jane Byers, Esther B. Byers, Ellen Byers and Maggie Byers
Husband of
Eliza J (McMillin) Byers
— married
2 Feb 1857 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Adam Byers, Ellen F. Byers, John P. Byers, Maggie Byers, William W. Byers, Elizabeth A. Byers, Hattie B. Byers and Harry K. Byers
Died
at age 75
in Lawrence County PA
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Oct 2010
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Contents |
Birth
- Birth:
- Date: 2 MAY 1828
- Source: #S386
Burial
- Burial:
- Place: Pulaski, Lawrence Co., Pennsylvania
Occupation
- Occupation: farmer
Religion
- Religion: Presbyterian
Note
- Note: @N121@
- @N121@ NOTE
- Enlisted in 1861 and served in Company B, the 100th PA Voluntary Infantry during Civil War. His regiment was known as the “Roundheads” because nearly all the members were descendants of Scotch families who had been followers of Cromwell. He was in this regiment for 3 years and was in the following engagements: Port Royal, Port Royal Ferry, James Island, second Bull Run, chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Weldon R. R. While in the service, Byers contracted small-pox which resulted in his loss of hearing,
- A James Byers “probably kept the first hotel in Pulaski Village in the building at the northwest corner of Union Street and the Mercer road.” (Could this be the same one?)
- Tombstone says he served as a Private in Company B in the 100th Rg. Pa. Vol. 1861-1865.
- @S174@ SOUR
- Type: Book
- Author: Anonymous
- Periodical: History of Mercer County Pennsylvania: Past and Present
- Publication: Brown, Runk & Co.
- Volume: Volume II
- Page: 590-91
- Date: 1888
- @S142@ SOUR
- Type: Book
- Periodical: Cemetaries of Lawrence County, PA
- Volume: Book 6 (Pulaski Township)
- Page: 39
- Source Locality: Newberry Library; Chicago, Illinois
User ID
- User ID: C69BE5630C6C431DBB2186F68A5D94257916
While processing relationships in the gedcom some additional information was found which may be relevant.
- @F833@ FAM
- Husband: @I1125@
- Wife: @I1140@
- Marriage:
- Date: 21 JAN 1823
- Source: #S386
- User ID: 26A8AE78397248549F24026F2F1A7AB4E607
- Child: @I1141@
- Child: @I1147@
- Child: @I1146@
- Child: @I1142@
- Child: @I1148@
- Child: @I547@
- Child: @I1143@
- Child: @I1144@
- Child: @I1145@
- Child: @I1149@
Sources
- Source S386
- Type: Web Site
- Author: Mary Lou Cole
- Title: Gibson/Wallace/Scott family
- URL: http://awt.ancestry.com/
- Date: 10/16/2004
- Owner: Dave Gibson has the Gibson/Byers family Bible
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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~6.25%
Bruce Gibson
:
AncestryDNA
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~3.12%
~12.50%
Ellen (Jenkins) Jennings :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A149952 [compare], Ancestry member ellenjennings78
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~0.78%
Starla Sholl :
23andMe
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