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1845 - 1908 (62 years)
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Name |
Perry Green Byars |
Title |
Elder |
Birth |
22 Nov 1845 |
DeKalb County, Tennessee [1, 2, 3, 4] |
- DeKalb County was formed in 1837 from land in Cannon, Warren, and White counties, and is named for Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb.
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Incorporated Towns in Dekalb County: Smithville, Alexandria, Liberty, and Dowelltown
Unincorporated Communities: Allens Chapel, Antioch, Bethel, Belk, Blue Springs, Bluhmtown, Buckners Chapel, Cherry Hill, Cross Roads, Dismal, Dry Creek, Helton, Indian Mound, Jefferson, Keltonburg, Laurel Hill, Midway, Mt. Moriah, Pisgah, Phillipi, Shiney Rock, Snows Hill, Temperance Hall, Watkins, Williams Crossroads, Young Bend
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Gender |
Male |
Occupation |
Farmer [5] |
Ordained |
18 Sep 1886 |
DeKalb County, Tennessee [6] |
- as an Elder of the New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church
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Religion |
Primitive Baptist Elder |
- Primitive Baptists, are also known as Hard Shell Baptists, Anti-Mission Baptists, or Old School Baptists. The adjective "Primitive" in the name has the sense of "original".
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Military |
CSA Infantryman [7] |
- CSA Private of Co. "B", 23rd Tennessee Infantry
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Death |
25 Feb 1908 |
Warren County, Tennessee [8, 9] |
Burial |
New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee [8, 9] |
- Cemetery notes and/or description:
From Smithville, take Hwy. 56 South for seven miles and turn east on Seven Springs Rd. Go about one mile and turn right. The cemetery is on the left.
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Person ID |
I699 |
The Hennessee Family |
Last Modified |
27 Mar 2014 |
Father |
Harrel Byars, b. 1825, Warren County, Tennessee d. BY 18 Sep 1846, DeKalb County, Tennessee (Age 21 years) |
Mother |
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magness, b. 11 Jan 1830, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 24 Sep 1891, DeKalb County, Tennessee (Age 61 years) |
Marriage |
(~1846) |
(DeKalb County) Tennessee |
- (DeKalb or Warren County, Tennessee)
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Family ID |
F271 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Ascenith Potter, b. 14 Oct 1844, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 24 Oct 1913, DeKalb County, Tennessee (Age 69 years) |
Marriage |
20 Feb 1866 |
DeKalb County, Tennessee [10] |
- by his uncle , P. G. Magness, Jr., M.G.
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Residence (Family) |
1870 |
DeKalb County, Tennessee [11] |
Residence (Family) |
1880 |
DeKalb County, Tennessee [2, 4] |
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Children |
| 1. William Harrell "Harrell" Byars, Sr., b. 21 Nov 1867, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 20 Feb 1947, Marion County, Tennessee (Age 79 years) |
| 2. John Watson "Pa" Byars, b. 30 Sep 1869, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 8 Apr 1931, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee (Age 61 years) |
| 3. Joseph Lee "Joe" Byars, b. 27 Oct 1871, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 29 Apr 1942, Oroville, Butte County, California (Age 70 years) |
| 4. Floyd Byars, b. 6 Aug 1873, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 8 Sep 1966, Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma (Age 93 years) |
| 5. Julius Ceasar "Ceasar" Byars, b. 8 Jun 1875, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 18 Mar 1944, Denton, Denton County, Texas (Age 68 years) |
| 6. L(eander) Poper "Pope" Byars, b. 27 Jun 1877, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 30 Jul 1945, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas (Age 68 years) |
| 7. Samuel Thomas Byars, b. 13 Feb 1879, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. Bef 1952 (Age 72 years) |
| 8. Perry Green "Doc" Byars, Jr., b. 13 Feb 1879, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 1 Dec 1958, Warren County, Tennessee (Age 79 years) |
| 9. Mary Elizabeth Byars, b. 8 Mar 1881, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 23 Jun 1952, Oak Ridge, Anderson County, Tennessee (Age 71 years) |
| 10. Harriet Etta Byars, b. 30 Oct 1882, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 15 Oct 1933, Seven Springs Hotel, DeKalb County, Tennessee (Age 50 years) |
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Family ID |
F272 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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Photos
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| The Family of Perry Green Byars (1845-1908) Standing, Left-to-Right: John Watson Byars (1869-1931), Joseeph Byars (1869-1931), L(eander) Poper Byars (1877-1945), Perry Green "Doc" Byars (1879-1958), Floyd Byars (1873-1966)
Sitting Left-to-Right: Mary Elizabeth Byars Cantrell (1881-1952), William Harrell Byars, Sr. (1867-1947) and Harriet Etta Byars (1882-1933)
Photo & description provided by Marie Byars Ponder (1941- |
| The Earliest Perry Green Byars' Family Photo Perry Green Byars (1845-1908) on his lap is Floyd Byars (1873-1966) in the middle is Harrell Byars (1867-1947) Ascenith Potter Byars (1844-1913) and on her lap is John Watson Byars (1869-1931). Photo taken circa 1870 in DeKalb Co.,TN |
| Elder Perry Green Byars (1845-1908) I wish to extend many thanks to Elder Ricky Arnold, current Elder, of the New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church, for his explanation of "2-Seed" Primitive Baptist doctrines and providing a chronology of Perry Green's service to the church. |
| New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church New Bildad Primitive Baptist to Celebrate 200 Years
It's one of the oldest churches in DeKalb County and this week, the congregation of the New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church is celebrating 200 years of service to the Lord.
Elder Ricky Arnold, pastor of the church, invites everyone to join them. "Starting this Thursday night, June 18th, the New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church celebrates it's 200th anniversary. The church was constituted in June 1809. It lettered from the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, which is still in existence."
"The New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church has been in the Seven Springs-Keltonburg community for 200 years now. We wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate and to thank God for His amazing Grace. In 200 years, the church has probably touched the lives of a lot of people and families that are here in DeKalb County. We'd love for those folks to come back and visit us."
"The church divided in 1854 and the church that became known as Old Bildad changed their original church covenant but the church that became known as New Bildad still holds the church covenant and the Articles of Faith from 1809 and we still practice and worship as they did 200 years ago. We have a rich history and we want to thank God for that." |
Headstones |
| Elder Perry Green Byars (1845-1908) located at the New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church, near Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee.
Photo taken by his great-great-great granddaughter, Dawn DeCuennick Cline, April 6, 2013 |
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Notes |
- 26 May 2007:
Perry Green Byars, CSA Private of Co. "B", 23rd Tennessee Infantry
History and Genealogy
Military Records > DeKalb County Confederate Pension Applications
NAME: Byars, Perry G.
WIDOW: Byars, Senith
PENSION #: W3428
end of note [7]
- New Bildad Primitive Baptist to Celebrate 200 Years
It's one of the oldest churches in DeKalb County and this week, the congregation of the New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church is celebrating 200 years of service to the Lord.
Elder Ricky Arnold, pastor of the church, invites everyone to join them. "Starting this Thursday night, June 18th, the New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church celebrates it's 200th anniversary. The church was constituted in June 1809. It lettered from the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, which is still in existence."
"The New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church has been in the Seven Springs-Keltonburg community for 200 years now. We wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate and to thank God for His amazing Grace. In 200 years, the church has probably touched the lives of a lot of people and families that are here in DeKalb County. We'd love for those folks to come back and visit us."
"The church divided in 1854 and the church that became known as Old Bildad changed their original church covenant but the church that became known as New Bildad still holds the church covenant and the Articles of Faith from 1809 and we still practice and worship as they did 200 years ago. We have a rich history and we want to thank God for that."
end of description [12]
- I wish to extend many thanks to Elder Ricky Arnold, current Elder, of the New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church, for his explanation of "2-Seed" Primitive Baptist doctrines and providing a chronology of Perry Green's service to this church.
end of message [13]
- Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
The 1893 and 1896 minutes identified the Caney Fork Association as an association of "Predestinarian Two Seed Baptists." Just how long it had been identified by this theological label and theology, we do not know. The Big Fork Church in its early years and other churches on the early Stockton Valley Association era certainly did not espouse this doctrine, which was not created until the mid-1820s.
"This strange group was organized by Elder Daniel Parker of Virginia in the 1820's. Parker had been ordained in Tennessee in 1806, and labored there until 1817. Thereafter, he ministered in Illinois until 1836, where he edited a periodical known as Church Advocate. The latter years of his ministry were spent in Texas.
While in Illinois, he had published in 1826 and 1829 two pamphlets setting forth his peculiar theory of the two seeds in Eve, imparted by god and Satan respectively. This was his explanation of the doctrine that some are predetermined to be saved and some to be lost. According to his teaching, Christ can reach sinners without the aid of ministers or organizations of any kind. He and his followers, however, believed in a ministry invested with "legal authority" through the laying on of hands by the presbytery acting for a gospel church. Many were opposed, nevertheless, to a paid clergy. Like Arminian Baptists, they followed the practice of footwashing, regarding it as an ordinance. White their number was not larger than thirteen thousand members at the close of the nineteenth century, they were to be found in twenty-four states, though most numerous in Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Their four hundred and seventy-three churches, with a property value of more than one hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars, were organized in fifty associations. The decline of extreme forms of Calvinism among Baptists is nowhere more clearly apparent than in the diminishing membership of this group which numbered a mere two hundred in 1945."
end of this history [14]
- Perry Green Byars
Birth: Nov. 22, 1845
DeKalb County
Tennessee, USA
Death: Feb. 25, 1908
DeKalb County
Tennessee, USA
Family links:
Spouse:
Mellisa Asenith Potter Byars (1844 - 1913)
Children:
William Harrell Byars (1867 - 1947)*
Mary Elizabeth Byars Cantrell (1888 - 1952)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
Smithville
DeKalb County
Tennessee, USA
Created by: G. W. Bowen
Record added: Dec 18, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 82106185
end of cemetery profile [9]
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Sources |
- [S809] 1900 DeKalb Co.,TN Census, Transcribed & Indexed from a Microfilm Copy of the, p. 224 (Reliability: 3).
- [S53173] "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MD79-TLQ : accessed.
- [S54] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Byars&GSiman=1&GScid=2300721&GRid=82106185&.
- [S11164] "Percy G Byars", 1880 DeKalb County Census,.
- [S48670] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MD79-T2Y.
- [S48838] Elder Ricky Arnold, New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church | Telecon Interview | 13 Apr 2013 | rdarnold@dtccom.net | 615.59.
- [S47713] http://tennessee.gov/tsla/history/military/pen224.htm.
- [S102] "DeKalb County Cemeteries",by Thomas G. Webb,DeKalb County Historian,Audrey D., p. 48 (Reliability: 3).
- [S11147] "Perry Green Byars", Cemetery Profile, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Byars&GSiman=1&GScid=230072.
- [S7808] "DeKalb Co.,TN Marriage Book", compiled by Jorene Washer Parsley, Route 5,, p. 44 (Reliability: 3).
- [S48671] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MD8R-M38.
- [S47714] http://www.wjle.com/news/2009/new-bildad-primitive-baptist-celebrate-200-years.
- [S30] David A. Hennessee, HENNESSEE Researcher & Compiler, 626 Biscayne Drive,West Palm Beach,FL 33401, 561.832.6612, info@c.
- [S50351] http://www.danielhaston.com/places/churches/bigfork/big-fork-cf-assn.htm#1851-messengers.
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