When Elizabeth Bias was born in 1816, in Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, United States, her father, Hiram Bias, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Camden, was 31. She married Levi Hiram Vest on 14 August 1834, in Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Rockbridge Parish, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Natural Bridge, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died in 1887, in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, at the age of 71.
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Scottish (Orkney): variant of Scottish Byres (see Byers ).
English: variant of Byas .
French: habitational name from any of the places in Landes and Lot-et-Garonne named Bias.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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