When Erasmus Corwin Byers was born on 19 December 1841, in Noble Township, Morgan, Ohio, United States, his father, John Albert Byers Jr., was 22 and his mother, Nancy Jane Goodrich, was 22. He married Martha Elizabeth "Lizzie" Funk on 18 November 1875, in Villisca, Montgomery, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Glenwood Township, Mills, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Edna Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 19 March 1918, in Cumberland, Cass, Iowa, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Newlons Grove Cemetery, Cass, Iowa, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States 1851: Mills, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Scottish (Borders) and English (Cumberland and Durham): topographic name for someone who lived by a cattleshed, Middle English byre, or a habitational name from any of several places called with Old English b̄re ‘cattleshed’, for example Byers Green in County Durham or Byres near Edinburgh.
English: variant of Byer , with either an original plural or a post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: variant of Byas .
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