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I have been researching Daniel Webster Byars and his descendants and ancestorsfor 30 years. He was born in Lawrence Co. AL. in 1835. He and his parents and siblings left Alabama and settled in Fannin Co. TX about 1857. His father Harrell Byars and a brother John and other relatives are buried in the Lindsey/Randolph Cemtery. In 1857 he married Sarah Ann Tripplett. Sarah Ann died in childbirth and was buried in Hog Eye Cemetery. In 1865 he married Amanda M. Stewart. They had a large family, one of which was my grandfather Henry Clay Byars. The story of the Gun Fight in Bonham very late in the Civil War, has been documented. After the shooting two Lindsay men lay dead in the square. Nine months after the shooting a warrent was issued for the arrest of Daniel Webster Byars for murder. It was served on him 47 years after the fact. He was arrested and acguitted.
There is a record of his first marriage. On the day he was arrested in Greenville, Hunt Co. TX. he told his children about his first marriage and the shoot out with the Lindseys.
Now there has been a question raised about the marriage to Sarah Ann Tripplett. There is a claim that she did not die and was married to a Mr. Brown, raised a large family and died in Lubbock, TX. Was there a divorce between Daniel Webster Byars and Sarah Ann Tripplett? Or did she die in child birth as he told my grandfather and his oldest grand-
daughter, my Aunt Pearl Byars Bench? Or was there two Sarah Ann Tripplets?
Is there someone in Fannin Co. that would be kind enough to check the divorce records there. I would appreciate some documentation regarding this matter. There is a marriage record and it was returned by the preacher that married Daniel W. and Sarah A. Why would he tell this story after all those years if it was not true.
Daniel Webster was a Texas Ranger and fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States. My sister search at Hog Eye Cemetery earlier this year for a grave for Sarah
but did not find one.It was late in the afternoon and she may well have missed seeing it, if it had a tombstone on it. Daniel W. said mother and child were buried together in the same grave.
I would appreciate any information that would prove they divorced. Otherwise my conclusion will stand on the documentation I have. Thank you so very much.
Clovis Byars Herring
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