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Edmond Lewis Byram

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Edmond Lewis Byram Veteran

Birth
Dudley, Wapello County, Iowa, USA
Death
15 Jul 1885 (aged 40)
Dudley, Wapello County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Chillicothe, Wapello County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Edmond Lewis Byram, son of, William and Mercy (Hand) Byram. He married Lucy Laura Cook March 19, 1868 in Wapello County, Iowa, daughter of Seth Cook and Nancy Miles.

Edmond Lewis Byram enlisted on July 6, 1863 and mustered out on August 13, 1865 at Macon, Georgia.

During the Civil War Edmond Lewis Byram participated in several battles, the most being; The Atlanta Campaign Nashville, Franklin and the great Wilson raid through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. While in the service his health was injured by a sunstroke, which ultimately caused his death.

He was listed in Co., B 8th IA Calvary and was a veteran betw. 1861-1865 in the Civil War.

Source1) Iowa Military Service Record Books in the Iowa Collection in the Ottumwa Public Library in Ottumwa, Iowa.
2) Ottumwa, Iowa City, Directories 1890 - 1891
1890 - 1891
3) Edmund, laborer, resides on the west side of Willard Street south of Finley Avenue on the south of Finley Avenue on the south side of Ottuma.
1892
Edmond , teamster, resides on the southwest of corner of Willard Street and Wilson Street on the on the south side of Ottumwa.

These records were copied by Ed Sisk.
Note: Notice: that Edmond's last name is spelled Byram but his headstone states it as Byram.

Edmond Byram and Lucy Cook's children are:

Nancy Ann Byram b. 6 Mar 1866
Mary Rosena Byram b. 16 Aug 1870
Seth C. Byrum b. 5 Feb 1872
James Benjemin Byram b. 4 Feb 1876
Marrion Everett Byram b. 22 Sept 1880
Edmond L. Byram Jr. b. 1 Dec 1873
Bessie Byram
Emma Byram b. 8 Jan 1875
Ella Byram b. 8 Jan. 1875
Maria E. Byram
Wesley Byram
Lucy C. Byrum

Note: Our orginal Family Name was Byram, but a cenus taker changed the name from Byram to Byrum.

Family Information contributed by family member:

Yvette E. (Byrum) Aune
email: [email protected]

Tombstone Photo contributed by family member:

Wade Kelley
Edmond Lewis Byram, son of, William and Mercy (Hand) Byram. He married Lucy Laura Cook March 19, 1868 in Wapello County, Iowa, daughter of Seth Cook and Nancy Miles.

Edmond Lewis Byram enlisted on July 6, 1863 and mustered out on August 13, 1865 at Macon, Georgia.

During the Civil War Edmond Lewis Byram participated in several battles, the most being; The Atlanta Campaign Nashville, Franklin and the great Wilson raid through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. While in the service his health was injured by a sunstroke, which ultimately caused his death.

He was listed in Co., B 8th IA Calvary and was a veteran betw. 1861-1865 in the Civil War.

Source1) Iowa Military Service Record Books in the Iowa Collection in the Ottumwa Public Library in Ottumwa, Iowa.
2) Ottumwa, Iowa City, Directories 1890 - 1891
1890 - 1891
3) Edmund, laborer, resides on the west side of Willard Street south of Finley Avenue on the south of Finley Avenue on the south side of Ottuma.
1892
Edmond , teamster, resides on the southwest of corner of Willard Street and Wilson Street on the on the south side of Ottumwa.

These records were copied by Ed Sisk.
Note: Notice: that Edmond's last name is spelled Byram but his headstone states it as Byram.

Edmond Byram and Lucy Cook's children are:

Nancy Ann Byram b. 6 Mar 1866
Mary Rosena Byram b. 16 Aug 1870
Seth C. Byrum b. 5 Feb 1872
James Benjemin Byram b. 4 Feb 1876
Marrion Everett Byram b. 22 Sept 1880
Edmond L. Byram Jr. b. 1 Dec 1873
Bessie Byram
Emma Byram b. 8 Jan 1875
Ella Byram b. 8 Jan. 1875
Maria E. Byram
Wesley Byram
Lucy C. Byrum

Note: Our orginal Family Name was Byram, but a cenus taker changed the name from Byram to Byrum.

Family Information contributed by family member:

Yvette E. (Byrum) Aune
email: [email protected]

Tombstone Photo contributed by family member:

Wade Kelley


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