Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . /^Ucru^ CA-t^u>^^ (^l^T-T>-eAjy^^ ^.^^^ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 269 ,OBERT C. BYKRS is the owiipr of a finefarm of one liuiulred an<) ninety-seven acres<^ \\\ situated on section 28, Kocliester His father, Jacob Byers, was .a na-tive of Jefferson County, Va., and tiiroughout liisentire life followed farming in pursuit of married Catlierine Ernst, also a native of Jeffi^r-son County, and in that State they spent their en-tire lives. The subject of this sketch was born in JeffersonCounty,
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . /^Ucru^ CA-t^u>^^ (^l^T-T>-eAjy^^ ^.^^^ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 269 ,OBERT C. BYKRS is the owiipr of a finefarm of one liuiulred an<) ninety-seven acres<^ \\\ situated on section 28, Kocliester His father, Jacob Byers, was .a na-tive of Jefferson County, Va., and tiiroughout liisentire life followed farming in pursuit of married Catlierine Ernst, also a native of Jeffi^r-son County, and in that State they spent their en-tire lives. The subject of this sketch was born in JeffersonCounty, on the 19th of December. 1835, and inthe State of liis nativit} was reared to manhood,performing sncli farm labor as was allotted to himand securing an education in the schools of thecommunity. It was not until his marriage that lieleft the parental roof and started out in life forhimself. On the 26th of February, 18G1, he led tothe hymeneal altar Miss Eliza J. Crider, daughterof Jolin and Eliza (Sibcrt) Crider, the former anative of Pennsylvania, and the l
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