When Della Florence Wickersham was born on 6 April 1874, in Portland, Wayne Township, Jay, Indiana, United States, her father, Henry Clay Wickersham, was 23 and her mother, Clara Belle Walters, was 21. She married Andrew Linnaeus Byers in 1894, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Marshall, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Anderson, Madison, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 16 July 1968, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.
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