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James Elburn Byrd, Sr.

of Randolph County, Arkansas



Submitted & © 2001 by: Kenneth E. Byrd


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Stories and Poems of Randolph County, Arkansas

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James Elburn Byrd, Sr.
James Elburn Byrd, Sr. (b. Feb. 7, 1886 Ravenden Springs, Randolph Co. AR - d. Jan. 8, 1966 Phoenix, Maricopa Co. AZ) was the oldest son of Andrew Jackson Byrd and Mary Elizabeth Simmons Byrd. He attended theological classes at Ouachita College in Arkadelphia, AR and Baylor University in Waco, TX before becoming a Baptist missionary in Texas. He married Nan Floriede Bishop in San Antonio, TX on Sept. 29, 1914 before serving as a Chaplain in the U.S. Army during WWI. Writer of prose, family history, and poetry before stopped by his Parkinson's Disease during the early 1960's in Arizona. Photo taken about 1900.



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