WILLIAM L. BYARS DIES
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LIVESTOCK COMMISSION MAN
HAD BEEN ILL A YEAR
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A Veteran of 60 Years at the Stockyards. He Moved Here From Kentucky — Services Friday.
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William L. (Bill) Byars, 84, formerly a livestock commission man and one of the oldest members of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, died yesterday at the home, 1234 Romany road. He had been ill a year.
Mr. Byars, who started in the stockyards in 1887, was widely known to cattlemen throughout the Southwest and had been a familiar figure at the yards for six decades.
Fond of Reminiscing
An expert judge of livestock, Mr. Byars was a man who made friends readily. He was fond of recalling experiences of the era when he first went to the stockyards.
Looking back over his life, he said recently:
"Had I to do it all over again, I would go to the yards. There are no worthier people, no more real mean than one works with at the yards."
Mr. Byars was born on a farm in Shelby County, Kentucky. He came to Kansas City at the age of 20 and began his career at the stockyards as a hog driver, later turning to selling.
He worked for various commission firms, including the old Evans-Snider-Buel Livestock Commission company. At one time he operated his own firm, Byars Brothers & Co.
With Two Firms.
For many years he was associated with the Burlington Livestock Commission company. From about 1935 to 1948 he was a cattle salesman for the Swift & Henry Livestock Commission company.
His first wife, Mrs. Maude Townsend Boyars, died in 1943. In 1945 he married Mrs. Gertrude Freet, who survives.
Mr. Byars had been an active member of the First Baptist church fifty-five years and was a deacon the last thirty-five years. He was a member of the Hoof and Horn club and a Mason.
Also surviving are two sons, James T. Byars, Flint, Michigan, former chief of detectives here, and W.L. Byars, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. F.I. Robertson, Dayton, Ohio.
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 o'clock Friday at the Newcomer chapel. The family requests no flowers. Memorials to the American Heart association are suggested.
(The Kansas City Times Thursday February 28, 1952 page 15)
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1900 Jackson Co., MO census has a child, James T age 1, born in Oklahoma Territory.
md 1896
1910 Jackson Co., MO census, name is incorrectly spelled Bears and these children listed: James T, 11; Doris, 8; William L. Jr, 4
—
LIVESTOCK COMMISSION MAN
HAD BEEN ILL A YEAR
—
A Veteran of 60 Years at the Stockyards. He Moved Here From Kentucky — Services Friday.
—
William L. (Bill) Byars, 84, formerly a livestock commission man and one of the oldest members of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, died yesterday at the home, 1234 Romany road. He had been ill a year.
Mr. Byars, who started in the stockyards in 1887, was widely known to cattlemen throughout the Southwest and had been a familiar figure at the yards for six decades.
Fond of Reminiscing
An expert judge of livestock, Mr. Byars was a man who made friends readily. He was fond of recalling experiences of the era when he first went to the stockyards.
Looking back over his life, he said recently:
"Had I to do it all over again, I would go to the yards. There are no worthier people, no more real mean than one works with at the yards."
Mr. Byars was born on a farm in Shelby County, Kentucky. He came to Kansas City at the age of 20 and began his career at the stockyards as a hog driver, later turning to selling.
He worked for various commission firms, including the old Evans-Snider-Buel Livestock Commission company. At one time he operated his own firm, Byars Brothers & Co.
With Two Firms.
For many years he was associated with the Burlington Livestock Commission company. From about 1935 to 1948 he was a cattle salesman for the Swift & Henry Livestock Commission company.
His first wife, Mrs. Maude Townsend Boyars, died in 1943. In 1945 he married Mrs. Gertrude Freet, who survives.
Mr. Byars had been an active member of the First Baptist church fifty-five years and was a deacon the last thirty-five years. He was a member of the Hoof and Horn club and a Mason.
Also surviving are two sons, James T. Byars, Flint, Michigan, former chief of detectives here, and W.L. Byars, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. F.I. Robertson, Dayton, Ohio.
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 o'clock Friday at the Newcomer chapel. The family requests no flowers. Memorials to the American Heart association are suggested.
(The Kansas City Times Thursday February 28, 1952 page 15)
————
1900 Jackson Co., MO census has a child, James T age 1, born in Oklahoma Territory.
md 1896
1910 Jackson Co., MO census, name is incorrectly spelled Bears and these children listed: James T, 11; Doris, 8; William L. Jr, 4
WILLIAM L. BYARS DIES
—
LIVESTOCK COMMISSION MAN
HAD BEEN ILL A YEAR
—
A Veteran of 60 Years at the Stockyards. He Moved Here From Kentucky — Services Friday.
—
William L. (Bill) Byars, 84, formerly a livestock commission man and one of the oldest members of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, died yesterday at the home, 1234 Romany road. He had been ill a year.
Mr. Byars, who started in the stockyards in 1887, was widely known to cattlemen throughout the Southwest and had been a familiar figure at the yards for six decades.
Fond of Reminiscing
An expert judge of livestock, Mr. Byars was a man who made friends readily. He was fond of recalling experiences of the era when he first went to the stockyards.
Looking back over his life, he said recently:
"Had I to do it all over again, I would go to the yards. There are no worthier people, no more real mean than one works with at the yards."
Mr. Byars was born on a farm in Shelby County, Kentucky. He came to Kansas City at the age of 20 and began his career at the stockyards as a hog driver, later turning to selling.
He worked for various commission firms, including the old Evans-Snider-Buel Livestock Commission company. At one time he operated his own firm, Byars Brothers & Co.
With Two Firms.
For many years he was associated with the Burlington Livestock Commission company. From about 1935 to 1948 he was a cattle salesman for the Swift & Henry Livestock Commission company.
His first wife, Mrs. Maude Townsend Boyars, died in 1943. In 1945 he married Mrs. Gertrude Freet, who survives.
Mr. Byars had been an active member of the First Baptist church fifty-five years and was a deacon the last thirty-five years. He was a member of the Hoof and Horn club and a Mason.
Also surviving are two sons, James T. Byars, Flint, Michigan, former chief of detectives here, and W.L. Byars, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. F.I. Robertson, Dayton, Ohio.
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 o'clock Friday at the Newcomer chapel. The family requests no flowers. Memorials to the American Heart association are suggested.
(The Kansas City Times Thursday February 28, 1952 page 15)
————
1900 Jackson Co., MO census has a child, James T age 1, born in Oklahoma Territory.
md 1896
1910 Jackson Co., MO census, name is incorrectly spelled Bears and these children listed: James T, 11; Doris, 8; William L. Jr, 4
—
LIVESTOCK COMMISSION MAN
HAD BEEN ILL A YEAR
—
A Veteran of 60 Years at the Stockyards. He Moved Here From Kentucky — Services Friday.
—
William L. (Bill) Byars, 84, formerly a livestock commission man and one of the oldest members of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, died yesterday at the home, 1234 Romany road. He had been ill a year.
Mr. Byars, who started in the stockyards in 1887, was widely known to cattlemen throughout the Southwest and had been a familiar figure at the yards for six decades.
Fond of Reminiscing
An expert judge of livestock, Mr. Byars was a man who made friends readily. He was fond of recalling experiences of the era when he first went to the stockyards.
Looking back over his life, he said recently:
"Had I to do it all over again, I would go to the yards. There are no worthier people, no more real mean than one works with at the yards."
Mr. Byars was born on a farm in Shelby County, Kentucky. He came to Kansas City at the age of 20 and began his career at the stockyards as a hog driver, later turning to selling.
He worked for various commission firms, including the old Evans-Snider-Buel Livestock Commission company. At one time he operated his own firm, Byars Brothers & Co.
With Two Firms.
For many years he was associated with the Burlington Livestock Commission company. From about 1935 to 1948 he was a cattle salesman for the Swift & Henry Livestock Commission company.
His first wife, Mrs. Maude Townsend Boyars, died in 1943. In 1945 he married Mrs. Gertrude Freet, who survives.
Mr. Byars had been an active member of the First Baptist church fifty-five years and was a deacon the last thirty-five years. He was a member of the Hoof and Horn club and a Mason.
Also surviving are two sons, James T. Byars, Flint, Michigan, former chief of detectives here, and W.L. Byars, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. F.I. Robertson, Dayton, Ohio.
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 o'clock Friday at the Newcomer chapel. The family requests no flowers. Memorials to the American Heart association are suggested.
(The Kansas City Times Thursday February 28, 1952 page 15)
————
1900 Jackson Co., MO census has a child, James T age 1, born in Oklahoma Territory.
md 1896
1910 Jackson Co., MO census, name is incorrectly spelled Bears and these children listed: James T, 11; Doris, 8; William L. Jr, 4
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