| Name: | Elizabeth Byrom | ||||||||||
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| Age: | 33 | ||||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1817 | ||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||
| Home in 1850: | Union, North Carolina | ||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||
| Family Number: | 956 | ||||||||||
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This is the record that is driving me crazy. The 14 year old, Mary L Byram, who is seen living very close to her future in-laws, Fred Jr. and Elizabeth Starnes, is my third Great-Grandmother. While Elizabeth Byram/Byrum/Byrom, at 33, is old enough to be her mother, the 1880 census shows a Martha Byrum whose occupation was "boarding" and who was born in South Carolina in 1810, as being her mother, naming her as F. F. Starnes mother-in-law. Then there is 70 year old Mary Byram.
As the name Byram had multiple spellings, I am going to remain with Byram, as I believe it the most likely version in my line.
The farmer, Ephraim Starnes, who was living with them, can be traced with some accuracy. He married Nancy E Holden and had 4 children, Doctor Franklin Starnes, John Robert "Bob" Starnes, Susan J Starnes and Susan Starnes Craig, before he died in Elmira Prison, New York, in 1865, during the course of the Civil War.
I am posting this record in hopes that some Byram/Byrum researcher or family member, knows who these ladies are. Was Elizabeth a widow? Was Mary her Mother-in-law? Was Elizabeth actually the same person as Martha and the age wrong. (If the 1880 census was accurate, Martha would have been 40 in 1850). ![]()
Does anybody out there know anything at all about the Byram/Byrum/Bynum family?