1889 - 1971 (81 years)
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| Name |
Byers, Alonzo Hiram 'Hira' |
| Birth |
24 Aug 1889 |
Clay County, Illinois  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Minister |
| Reference Number |
BYER.A001 |
| _FGRAVE |
67044503 |
| Death |
3 Feb 1971 |
St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham, Effingham County, Illinois |
| Burial |
Keens Chapel Cemetery, Iola, Clay County, Illinois |
| Person ID |
I11033 |
Carl Wayne Gray Research |
| Last Modified |
15 Mar 2022 |
| Family |
Rufty, Jennie Flora, b. 26 Jan 1897 d. 1996, Effingham, Effingham County, Illinois (Age 98 years) |
| Marriage |
12 Jun 1915 |
Effingham, Effingham County, Illinois |
| Children |
| + | 1. Byers, Margaret Maxine, b. 18 Aug 1916, Iola, Clay County, Illinois d. 18 Feb 2012, Clay County Hospital, Flora, Clay County, Illinois (Age 95 years) |
| > | 2. Byers, Franklin Crawford, b. 5 Jun 1918, Iola, Clay County, Illinois d. 18 Dec 1998, St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham, Effingham County, Illinois (Age 80 years) |
| > | 3. Byers, Nona Jean, b. 18 Sep 1923, Clay County, Illinois d. 2 Jan 1980 (Age 56 years) |
| | 4. Byers, Infant Son, b. 1926 d. 1926 (Age 0 years) |
| | 5. Byers, Alonzo Hira, b. 1928 d. 2017 (Age 89 years) |
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| Family ID |
F5298 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Jan 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Rev.Hira Byers, 81, of near Iola, well known Pentecostal minister of this area, died Wednesday morning at the St. Anthony Hospital in Effingham.
Funeral services will be held in the United Pentecostal Chapel in Iola with burial in Keen's Chapel Cemetery, near Iola. Rev. Byers was a brother of the late Mrs. W. E. (Mamie) Smith of Olney and he was an uncle of Mrs. Thelma McClain of Olney.
He entered ministry in 1912 and served as pastor of the United Pentecostal Church for 45 years. He married Jennie Rufty, June 12, 1915, Effingham.
He leaves his wife: two sons, Franklin, Edgewood; Hira, Jr., Neoga; three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Haum, Louisville; Mrs. Ruth Forbes, Barnhill; Mrs. Nona Dehart, Edgewood; 12 grandchildren; seven
great-grandchildren.
Taken from the Olney Daily Mail, Olney, IL, February, 1971.
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