U.S.CIVIL WAR
Confederate
Private
Co D
58th Militia Infantry Regiment
Virginia
Devoted husband of Isabella Thuma. Married March 21, 1867, Rockingham Co. VA.
Their children:
William Claudis 1868-1884
Mary Elizabeth 1869-1929
Ora Belle 1871-1945
Bessie Ann 1873-1873
John Edward 1874-1951
Effie May 1877-1968
Daisy Virginia 1881-1915
Jacob Arthur 1884-1953
Jacob and first-born son, William, both died in a tragic well accident on their farm @ Keighley, KS, Sep 23, 1884.
Isabella died the following year, Dec 7, 1885 of a broken heart.
from Sept. 26, 1884 El Dorado Republican:
DEATH IN A WELL
Leon, Kansas, September 24, 1884
Jacob P. Byerly, a worthy & respected father and his son Claud, a young man about sixteen years of age, who lived about 3 miles southwest of Keighley, in this county, died yesterday from the effects of carbonic acid gas in a well in which they had been blasting a few days previous. Mr. Byerly first went down into the well and the son seeing the father fall went down and was soon a victim of the noscious exhalations issuing from the well.
A universal expression of sympathy by our citizens is extended to the bereaved family. They are to be buried to-day.
Benjamine Zeenr.
Confederate
Private
Co D
58th Militia Infantry Regiment
Virginia
Devoted husband of Isabella Thuma. Married March 21, 1867, Rockingham Co. VA.
Their children:
William Claudis 1868-1884
Mary Elizabeth 1869-1929
Ora Belle 1871-1945
Bessie Ann 1873-1873
John Edward 1874-1951
Effie May 1877-1968
Daisy Virginia 1881-1915
Jacob Arthur 1884-1953
Jacob and first-born son, William, both died in a tragic well accident on their farm @ Keighley, KS, Sep 23, 1884.
Isabella died the following year, Dec 7, 1885 of a broken heart.
from Sept. 26, 1884 El Dorado Republican:
DEATH IN A WELL
Leon, Kansas, September 24, 1884
Jacob P. Byerly, a worthy & respected father and his son Claud, a young man about sixteen years of age, who lived about 3 miles southwest of Keighley, in this county, died yesterday from the effects of carbonic acid gas in a well in which they had been blasting a few days previous. Mr. Byerly first went down into the well and the son seeing the father fall went down and was soon a victim of the noscious exhalations issuing from the well.
A universal expression of sympathy by our citizens is extended to the bereaved family. They are to be buried to-day.
Benjamine Zeenr.
U.S.CIVIL WAR
Confederate
Private
Co D
58th Militia Infantry Regiment
Virginia
Devoted husband of Isabella Thuma. Married March 21, 1867, Rockingham Co. VA.
Their children:
William Claudis 1868-1884
Mary Elizabeth 1869-1929
Ora Belle 1871-1945
Bessie Ann 1873-1873
John Edward 1874-1951
Effie May 1877-1968
Daisy Virginia 1881-1915
Jacob Arthur 1884-1953
Jacob and first-born son, William, both died in a tragic well accident on their farm @ Keighley, KS, Sep 23, 1884.
Isabella died the following year, Dec 7, 1885 of a broken heart.
from Sept. 26, 1884 El Dorado Republican:
DEATH IN A WELL
Leon, Kansas, September 24, 1884
Jacob P. Byerly, a worthy & respected father and his son Claud, a young man about sixteen years of age, who lived about 3 miles southwest of Keighley, in this county, died yesterday from the effects of carbonic acid gas in a well in which they had been blasting a few days previous. Mr. Byerly first went down into the well and the son seeing the father fall went down and was soon a victim of the noscious exhalations issuing from the well.
A universal expression of sympathy by our citizens is extended to the bereaved family. They are to be buried to-day.
Benjamine Zeenr.
Confederate
Private
Co D
58th Militia Infantry Regiment
Virginia
Devoted husband of Isabella Thuma. Married March 21, 1867, Rockingham Co. VA.
Their children:
William Claudis 1868-1884
Mary Elizabeth 1869-1929
Ora Belle 1871-1945
Bessie Ann 1873-1873
John Edward 1874-1951
Effie May 1877-1968
Daisy Virginia 1881-1915
Jacob Arthur 1884-1953
Jacob and first-born son, William, both died in a tragic well accident on their farm @ Keighley, KS, Sep 23, 1884.
Isabella died the following year, Dec 7, 1885 of a broken heart.
from Sept. 26, 1884 El Dorado Republican:
DEATH IN A WELL
Leon, Kansas, September 24, 1884
Jacob P. Byerly, a worthy & respected father and his son Claud, a young man about sixteen years of age, who lived about 3 miles southwest of Keighley, in this county, died yesterday from the effects of carbonic acid gas in a well in which they had been blasting a few days previous. Mr. Byerly first went down into the well and the son seeing the father fall went down and was soon a victim of the noscious exhalations issuing from the well.
A universal expression of sympathy by our citizens is extended to the bereaved family. They are to be buried to-day.
Benjamine Zeenr.
Inscription
JACOB P.
BYERLY
Born
Feb. 1, 1843
Died
Sept. 23, 1884
Farewell dear husband a short farewell
Till we shall meet again above
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