1st Wife: Gertie Mae Carver - divorced 1915
2nd Wife: Anna Belle Gaines Byrge.
Father of one son, Onva Byrge, with Gertie Mae Carver in 1909.
Former member of the Middlesboro Police Force - Kentucky and was a National Miners Union Organizer in eastern Kentucky.
Funeral Services were held on December 26, 1937 at Old Yellow Creek Baptist Church with Rev Sam Browning and Rev Eint Bolton.
Pall Bearers were Lester Fleenor, John Sing, Doyle Byrd, Tom F. McGraw, Joe Standifer, and Frank Fallon.
**Silas was shot to death by his son Onva. It was in self defense.
1st Wife: Gertie Mae Carver - divorced 1915
2nd Wife: Anna Belle Gaines Byrge.
Father of one son, Onva Byrge, with Gertie Mae Carver in 1909.
Former member of the Middlesboro Police Force - Kentucky and was a National Miners Union Organizer in eastern Kentucky.
Funeral Services were held on December 26, 1937 at Old Yellow Creek Baptist Church with Rev Sam Browning and Rev Eint Bolton.
Pall Bearers were Lester Fleenor, John Sing, Doyle Byrd, Tom F. McGraw, Joe Standifer, and Frank Fallon.
**Silas was shot to death by his son Onva. It was in self defense.