John Robert and Nancy Byrd
Information comes from the family files at the Campbell County Historical & Genealogical Society in Alexandria.
John Robert Byrd was born 22 Jan 1777 in Virginia and married Nancy Foster 19 Jan 1804 in Campbell Co. They lived in Claryville where he died 10 Feb 1855. John was buried in the family cemetery near there on old route 27. Nancy Foster was born in 27 Aug 1786 in Virginia, the daughter of George Foster and died 14 Oct 1852 in Claryville Ky. She was buried next to John in the Byrd family cemetery.
Children of John Robert Byrd and Nancy Foster
1. Clarissa Byrd b-1806 in Claryville; m-Isaac Dye 3 Mar 1831
2. Sarah/Sally Byrd b-7 Aug 1808 in Claryville; d-before 1866 in Grants Lick;
m-Salmon Abbott 8 Feb 1834
3. Foster Washington Byrd b-12 May 1812 in Claryville and resided in Grants
Lick; d-15 Aug 1891 in Grants Lick; m-Margaret True Gosney 12 June 1834
4. Mary Ann Byrd b-1813 in Claryville; d-14 May 1848 in Claryville; m-Nelson
Ellis 29 July 1839
5. Elizabeth (Betsey) Byrd b-1819 in Claryville
6. John Hulen Byrd b-Oct 1826 in Claryville; m (1) America Ann Stephens 15 Apr
1847; she died 8 Sep 1847 at 20 years old and was buried on Wolf Road; (2) Ann
Yelton 10 Jan 1850
7. William C Byrd b-1829 in Claryville; d-Nov 1879 in Claryville; m-Sophronia
Yelton 3 Jan 1853, daughter of Jessie Yelton and Sallie Hendricks
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Children of Sarah Byrd and Solomon Abbott
1. Mary Jane Abbott b-1836 in Grants Lick; m-George Noe 20 Oct
1860
2. John Abbott b-1837 in Grants Lick
3. William Abbott b-1844 in Grants Lick
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Children of Clarissa Byrd and Isaac Dye
1. Sarah Ann Dye b-1832 in Claryville; m-Benjamin L Bryan 19
Sep 1851
2. John I Dye b-12 June 1834; d-26 July 1836
3. Nancy C Dye b-1838 in Claryville
4. William F Dye b-1842 in Claryville; m-Elizabeth Ferguson 30 Dec 1868
5. Isaac M Dye b-1846 in Claryville
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Children of Foster Washington Byrd and Margaret True Gosney
1. Mildred Ann Byrd b-1836; d-15 Feb 1905; m-Richard F Garrett
1 June 1853
2. Washington D Byrd b-1837; d-12 Aug 1856 and buried in family cemetery
3. William Marion Byrd b-1838; m-Martha Shaw
4. Nancy Margaret Byrd b-2 June 1840; d-27 June 1918 in Fleming Co; m-Luther
McDowell Shaw 8 July 1867
5. Elizabeth Byrd b-1842; died young
6. John Henry Byrd b-18 Oct 1843; d-14 Apr 1916 in Covington in Kenton Co; br-Alexandria
Cemetery; m-Emma J Wright 14 Dec 1869
7. James K Byrd b-1845 in Claryville
8. Leila Editha Byrd b-11 Nov 1846; d-24 Dec 1937; br-Oakland Cemetery; m-Henry
Marion Aulick 16 Oct 1865
9. George Foster Byrd b-1847 in Claryville; died at age 2
10. Florence Byrd b-1848 in Claryville; died at age 1
11. Mary M Byrd b-18 Aug 1850; d-21 Apr 1918 in Covington; m-Samuel Grant 8 Apr 1872
12. Agatha Byrd b-1853; m-George Shaw
13. Foster Byrd b-1856
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Children of Mary Ann Byrd and Nelson Ellis
1. William Ellis b-1841
2. Foster Ellis b-1843
3. Malissa Ellis b-1848
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Children of John Hulen Byrd and Ann Yelton
1. Alonzo Byrd b-1851 in Grants Lick
2. Sarah Byrd b-1854 in Grants Lick
3. Theodore W Byrd b-24 Apr 1856 in Grants Lick; d-10 Jan 1938 in Florence KY;
br-Grants Lick
4. Arthur Byrd b-1860 in Grants Lick
5. Lucy Eva Byrd b-5 May 1865 in Grants Lick; d-12 Jan 1940 in Covington; br-Independence
KY; m-Robert W Shaw in 1898
6. Emma Keturah Byrd b-1870 in Grant Lick
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Children of William C Byrd and Sophronia Yelton
1. Lucy M Byrd b-1853 in Grants Lick; d-9 Dec 1855 in Grants
Lick
2. Leo Byrd b-1857 in Grants Lick
3. Ina Byrd b-1859 in Grants Lick
4. Addie Byrd b-1862 in Grants Lick
5. Jennie K Byrd b-26 Dec 1866 in Grants Lick; d-4 June 1932 in Cynthiana,
Harrison Co KY; m-John Barnes
6. Nora Byrd b-1871 in Grants Lick
7. Sallie Byrd b-1873 in Grants Lick
8. William Byrd b-1876 in Grants Lick