Byram Lee BYBEE
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Internet IGI, Dec 2007
from Bybee Forum, genforum.geneology.com BYRAM LEE BYBEE. Born 25 Feb. 1799, Barren County Kentucky; died 27 June 1864 (age 65), Grafton, Washington, Utah, buried Grafton [I visited his grave site this past summer - a most interesting place, a real "ghost town" made famous for some of the scenes in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"]; married (1) 5 Jan. 1820, Barren County, Kentucky, to Betsy Layne/Lane. He married (2) 15 Aug. 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, to Else Maria Knudson. Byram is listed in the 1820 Barren County, and 1830 Monroe County, Kentucky census. He is listed in Barren County tax records from 1820 to 1826, and again from 1833 to 1836. In 1828 he was listed in the Monroe County tax records. [note: tax records have not survived for all years.] He is in the 1840 Clay County, Indiana census. Byram, together with his uncle Lee Allen Bybee and several other extended family members joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) about 1841. Byram moved to near Nauvoo about 1841, then on to Pottawattamie County, Iowa about 1846. He was in the 1850 census of Andrew County, Missouri, working there to obtain funds to move farther west, which he did, coming to Utah in the Alfred Cardon Company in 1851. He was a Justice of the Peace 1854-1861. He is in the 1860 Davis County, Utah census. The first 10 children were by his first wife, and the last 2 by his second wife.
Had several children (5?) with first husband. Charlotte Egbert (b. 1905) writes that: "But my Grandma Penrod was Luciene or Luciein Penrod and was the wife of a Mr. Beckstead - He had three wives. She was number one. But tired of the arrangements and divorced him and remarried - William Henry Harrison Penrod (Grandpa). Came over in a covered wagon or oxcart - I don't know which...I heard she was later sealed to her first husband - Mr. Beckstead."
He married Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Lane (Layne) 5 Jan 1820 at Grafton, Washington, Kentucky . Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Lane (Layne) was born at Washington, Tennessee 24 Jan 1802 .
They were the parents of 14
children:
Polly Chapman Bybee
born 28 Oct 1820.
Rhoda Bird Bybee
born 19 Nov 1823.
Elizabeth Jane Bybee
born 23 Jan 1825.
Luanna Bird Bybee
born 3 Jan 1827.
John Mc Cann Bybee
born 17 Feb 1829.
Lucene Bird Bybee
born 7 Feb 1831.
David Bowman Bybee
born 17 Sep 1832.
(Stillborn son) Bybee
born 1834.
Jonathan Marion Bybee
born 28 Jul 1836.
Robert Lee Bybee
born 4 May 1838.
(Stillborn son) Bybee
born 1840.
Byram Levi Bybee
born 4 May 1841.
(Son) Bybee
born Abt 1843.
(Son) Bybee
born Abt 1845.
Byram Lee Bybee died 27 Jun 1864 at Grafton, Washington, Utah .
Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Lane (Layne) died 7 May 1867 at Smithfield, Cache, Utah .