BYLER
Third Generation

8. Jacob Franklin BYLER b. 10 Jun 1765, Berks County, Pennsylvania, m. 24 Mar 1791, Bathsheba Caroline OXFORD, 
b. 4 Nov 1774, Lincoln County, North Carolina, (daughter of Samuel OXFORD, Jr. and Bathsheba BARRETT) d. 13 Jan 1836,
Lauderdale County, Tennessee, buried: Jacob F. Byler Home Cemetery.  Jacob died 19 Mar 1846, California, Moniteau County, 
Missouri.  Jacob Franklin Byler was at one time a member of the North Carolina General General Assembly, representing Buncombe
County; a Colonel in the Tennessee Militia; a member of the Alabama Legislature representing Lauderdale County, Alabama; and
a judge in Moniteau County, Missouri.  Another source gives death date as 27 Mar 1846. Bathsheba: Burial site is the old
"Col" Jacob F. Byler homeplace now owned by Bernice Crain, about 3 miles north of Ripley, Tennessee on old Highway 51.
    Children:
    13. i Abraham b. 3 May 1792.
    14. ii Elizabeth b. 11 Sep 1794.
    15. iii Mary Ann "Polly" b. 31 Oct 1796.
    16. iv Sarah "Sally" b. 7 Jul 1799.
      v Rebecca BYLER b. 2 Dec 1801, m. Ebenezer G. YOUNG.
    17. vi Anna b. 16 Jun 1804.
      vii Synthia "Cynthia" BYLER b. 26 Nov 1806, m. Solomon DeSPAIN.  Synthia died __ ___ 1884, buried: Hall Cemetery,
Grayson County, Texas.
    18. viii Elvira b. 12 Jun 1809.
      ix Alfred Tyra BYLER b. 25 Nov 1811, m. Mahulda Gowen HAND.
      x Albert Gallatin BYLER b. __ ___ 1813, m. Caroline KELLY.  Birth year is about 1813.

9. Abraham BYLER b. 11 Apr 1769, Berks County, Pennsylvania, m. __ ___ 1795, Nancy LOVE, b. 11 Apr 1775, Augusta,
Virginia, (daughter of Joseph LOVE and Mary TEAS) d. 3 May 1842, Rover, Bedford County, Tennessee, buried: Byler Cemetery,
Rover, Tennessee.  Abraham died 27 Dec 1826, Rover, Bedford County, Tennessee, buried: Byler Cemetery, Rover, Tennessee.
      Abraham Byler, the son of Jacob and Katherine Kish Byler and the father of the Bylers who settled in Izard County, Arkansas
was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania about 1769.  He left Pennsylvania as a young man and accompanied his father to North
Carolina where he purchased an occupancy of 200 acres on the 4th of March 1789 in Burke County.  Like the land his father
and brother David bought, Abraham's land fell within the boundaries of Buncombe County in 1792.
      In 1794 or 95 Abraham Byler had moved to Washington County, North Carolina.  Washington County comprised a large
portion of present day Tennessee and, by the time Abraham had settled on land on Rouse Creek and Laurel Fork, the land he
owned was in the new state of Tennessee and the new county of Carter.
      In 1799, [ 5 Jun 1799] Abraham was appointed as Sheriff of Carter County, Tennessee by Governor John Sevier.  Through
his office as Sheriff, Abraham became acquainted with many of the prominent men of the state and was to become engaged in
land speculation with the Love brothers, Thomas and Robert, as well as several other families.  By 1808, he had moved to land
located in Bedford County, Tennessee.  He had been appointed a justice of the peace for Williamson County but, when the
order was about to be signed by the governor, it was not Williamson County.  The appointment was changed to read Bedford
County and Abraham became one of the men responsible for the setting up of the Bedford County government.  In 1811, he was
on the Board of Trustees for the Shelbyville Academy, located in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
      Between 1795 and 96, Abraham Byler had married Nancy, who is thought to have been the daughter of John Love.  Abraham
Byler and John Love were working together on several large land deals in the 1790's in Tennessee and, according to Carter County,
Tennessee deed records, may have been partners in a mercantile business in Elizabethton.  This John Love is thought to have been
the same as Col. John Love of Virginia and North Carolina, a brother of Samuel Love, and uncle of Thomas and Robert Love. 
The prevalence of Love for a middle name in Abraham's children and grandchildren is additional indication of a Love family connection.
      Nancy Love Byler was born probably in Virginia, on 11 April 1775 and died 3 May 1842.  Abraham Byler died 27 December
1826 and lies buried beside his wife in the Byler Cemetery, Rover, Bedford County, Tennessee.  Abraham and Nancy Love Byler
were the parents of nine children. Source: The Izard County Historian, Vol 13, No 4, 1982, "The Ancestry of the Byler Family in
Izard County" by Edgar D. Byler, III, p 20.
   Another source gives birth date for Abraham as 31 May 1769. Nancy: Others have reported Nancy and Abraham buried in
Byler-Marchant cemetery but on a visit in 1999 I found that Byler and Byler-Marchant cemeteries to be two different cemeterie
s and that Abraham and Nancy are in the Byler Cemetery. Another source gives death date as 3 Nov 1842.  Have seen some
sources that give Nancy's middle initial as C.
    Children:
    19. i John b. 23 Jan 1797.
    20. ii William Love b. __ ___ 1800.
    21. iii Jacob Matthew b. 27 Jul 1802.
    22. iv James Taylor b. 11 Apr 1804.
    23. v Nancy Love b. Abt__ ___ 1805.
    24. vi Elvira b. __ ___ 1806.
    25. vii Mary Love b. 19 Dec 1809.
      viii Abraham BYLER, Jr. d. 11 Nov 1893.
    26. ix Orpha Dungan b. 5 Jul 1818.

10. David BYLER b. 30 Mar 1772, Berks County, Pennsylvania, m. Elizabeth WHITE, b. 4 Apr 1776, Virginia, d. 21 Jun 1851,
Adams County, Illinois.  David died 14 Dec 1847, Adams County, Illinois.
    Children:
    27. i John b. 20 Apr 1798.

11. Joseph BYLER b. __ ___ 1772, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, m. (1) 19 Apr 1803, in Washington (Carter) County, TN,
Rebecca DILLARD, b. __ ___ 1784, Jonesboro, Washington County, Tennessee, (daughter of Thomas DILLARD and Martha 
WEBB) d. __ ___ 1820, Cooper County, Missouri, m. (2) Rachel HARPER, b. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, m. (3) Mary "Polly" Black
WILSON, b. 16 Oct 1792, d. 6 Sep 1851, Missouri, buried: Beside road in Morgan County, MO.  Joseph died 24 Jul 1858, 
Cooper County, Missouri.
    Children:
      i Jacob BYLER b. __ ___ 1804, North Carolina.
    28. ii Thomas Dillard b. 10 Oct 1805.
      iii Abraham BYLER b. __ ___ 1810, North Carolina.
      iv David Cooley BYLER b. 13 May 1812, North Carolina.
      v Mary Ann BYLER b. __ ___ 1814, NC (or TN).  Birth date about 1814.
      vi James Harper BYLER b. 2 Aug 1823, Missouri.
      vii Joseph C. BYLER b. 7 May 1826, Missouri.
      viii William Perry BYLER b. 26 Jan 1837, Missouri.
      ix Sara Ann BYLER b. 24 Mar 1840, Missouri.

12. Catherine BYLER b. __ ___ 1774, m. Bef __ ___ 1800, Samuel PETERS, b. __ ___ 1769, Culpeper County, Virginia, 
d. __ ___ 1859, buried: Gallagher Cemetery, Tipton, Missouri.  Catherine died 16 Nov 1847, Cooper County, Missouri.
   Catherine Byler was born 1770 - 1775 d. 16 Nov 1847 (or 1842) Cooper County, Missouri.  The tombstone was broken,
making it impossible for me [Roger L. Byler] to tell whether she died in 1842 or 1847.  The stone says she was in her 72nd year. 
Therefore,if it was 1842 when she died, she must have been born about 1770 but, if it was 1847, she must have been born about
1775.  I have not found an obituary.  She was buried on the farm of her brother, Joseph, about two miles south of Rankin's Mill 
in Cooper County, Missouri.  I [Roger L. Byler] found thestone with Joseph's along the side of an abandoned road near where
the old cemetery had been.  I repaired the stone as best I could and placed the two stones in the Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery by arrangement with the caretaker, Mr. Clif Hunt.  We erected themin the southwest corner of the cemetery near the stone of his son
Thomas Dillard Byler and wife Jane Gilbreath and some other members of the family.  At that time, I did not know where her 
husband Samuel Peters was buried.
    Source: "Jacob Byler of North Carolina" by Roger L. Byler, pg 242 Samuel:
   Catherine Byler married Samuel Peters who is said to have been born in 1769 Culpeper County, Virginia.  He died in 1859
in the home of his daughter, Sarah Gallagher, and was buried in the Gallagher Cemetery near Tipton, Missouri.  It is said that in
his youth, he fought the Creek Indians.  In Tennessee Cousins by Ray it is stated that S. Peters bought land in Elizabethton in Carter
County, Tennessee in 1786.  Tennessee Tax lists for Carter County give Samuel Peters 1796, 1797, 1798.  He is shown in the 
Bedford County tax list for 1812.  The book, Tennessee Marriage Records Vol. 1 Carter County, gives that John McAnulty
and Sarah Peters got a marriage license with Abraham Byler as surety.  Sarah was probably a sister of Samuel but I do not 
know any more about her.  Abraham was certainly a brother of Catherine.  In a Moniteau County History, it is stated on p. 318
that Thomas Smyley brought his family from Tennessee in 1818 where one of his daughters married S.B. Peters.  She died in 1885.
 I leave it to someone else to find the connections, if any.
   Apparently, Samuel Peters took his family westward into mid-Tennessee with Abraham, John, Jacob and Joseph Byler about 
1810-1812.  We have only a legend to support the idea that Joseph was in mid-Tennessee.  The legend says he was in Giles
County for about three years.  Certainly, his brother Jacob was there as a Baptist deacon in Old Lyn Church and Justice of the
County Court.  Their brother, David, was in Hawkins County fairly early and was in McMinn County by about 1822.  Abraham 
and John were in Bedford County.  However, in a few years we find John in Lawrence County, Alabama in1818, Jacob in
Lauderdale County, Alabama about the same time, and Joseph and Catherine in Cooper County, Missouri as early as 1817.  We
have no record as to how they traveled or by what route or even if they traveled together.  I would suppose that Joseph Byler and 
Samuel Peters went on a scouting expedition together into the wilds of Missouri before setting out on such a journey with their 
growing but still young families.   Samuel Peters was foreman of the first Grand Jury in Cooper County, Missouri and voted in the 
first election held in Cooper County in August 1819.  The Peters family settled in Palestine Township about two miles north of
Joseph Stephens at a place later called Petersburg.  It is on the Osage Valley and Southern Kansas Railroad.  This town did 
not last long.  (Incidentally, there was a place called Petersburg in western NC which was nearly wiped off the map by the building 
of a highway interchange.)  From History of Cooper County by Levins and Drake p. 177, comes the following:  "When Samuel 
Peters raised his dwelling he invited his neighbors to come help him, stating that he would, on that day, kill a hog and have it for dinner.
 As this was the first hog ever butchered in this part of the State, and as very few of the settlers had ever tasted prok, it was no little
inducement to them to be present and assist in disposing of such rare and delicious food, for the settlers, previous to that time had 
subsisted on wild game......"  Before they got settled in their new homes enough to have hogs to eat, they had been living on wild
game and, in particular, upon bear for meat to cure and for frying fat.  There was a plentiful supply of dear but deer meat is difficult
to cure except by drying, and the fat is no good for frying things.  It is tallow like the fat of beef.  The boiling point is too high.  So,
the killing of a hog signalled the progress of civilization to the extent that they would not have to depend on the wild game.  The first 
hogs brought in were in demand as breeding stock.  To have any left over for eating was a milestone in that darly day.
   Again from Levins and Drake:  "In the winter of 1818, Miss. Rhoda, daughter of Joseph Stephins, Jr. was married to Dr. B.W. 
Levins, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Luke Williams the first Baptist minister in Cooper County.
   "On the same evening, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Peters, and James Hill were united in marriage by the same minister. 
The two last mentioned had been engaged for some time, yet did not expect to be married so soon.  But Mr. Peters declared that
if they intended to marry they must do so that night or never.  So, the parson immediately went down to Mr. Peters' house and in
accordance with the statutes in such cases.........prounounced them husband and wife."  I have wondered about this account.  I do 
know that preachers were scarce in those early settlements and that sometimes the settlers did not see one for months, or even
years.  In some cases, the young couple set up housekeeping and were formally married when a preacher happened along. 
Maybe this was what Mr. Peters was trying to head off.
   SOURCE:  "Jacob Byler of North Carolina" by Roger L. Byler, p 242-243.
    Children:
    29. i Elizabeth b. Abt __ ___ 1800.
    30. ii David B. b. 16 Apr 1805.
    31. iii Priscilla V..
    32. iv Samuel B. b. Abt __ ___ 1810.
      v Mewton C. PETERS. Moniteau County Marriages and Wills, Elsberry:  Newton Peters m. 1858 Sarah Margaret Hill.
    33. vi Catherine "Katy" b. 19 Nov 1816.
    34. vii Sarah "Sally" b. Abt ____ 1819.
      viii _____ PETERS. Married Mr. Mr. McFarland.