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Perry Green "Green" Byars

Male 1894 - 1968  (74 years)


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  • Name Perry Green "Green" Byars 
    Nickname Grundy 
    Born 27 Jun 1894  DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Religion Primitive Baptist  [1] 
    • 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".
    Residence Lake Park, Palm Beach County, Florida Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Pop & Ma would spend many of their winters with Mom & Dad...DAH
    Residence West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • He and Ma spent several weeks during the winter fishing in the early 1950's. I remember Dad pointing out the boarding house on Okeechobee Road where they stayed which turns out is only eight blocks from my house on Biscayne Drive...
    Residence 1910  Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    _MILT 1917-1918  [7] 
    DeKalb County, Tennessee 
    • WW I Draft Registration...
    Residence 1941-1945  Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Pop worked for "Budd Wheel" during WW II...
    Residence 1945-1968  138 Winding Way, McMinnville, TN 37110 Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • formerly, 112 North Warren Street, McMinnville, TN 37110
    _CENN Green Byars  [3, 4, 9] 
    Died 12 Dec 1968  Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 10] 
    • in the Rutherford County Hospital of cancer...
    Buried 15 Dec 1968  Mount View Cemetery, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I703  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2018 

    Father John Watson "Pa" Byars,   b. 30 Sep 1869, DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Apr 1931, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Mother Julia Lee Cantrell,   b. 9 May 1876, DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Dec 1949, DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 19 Jan 1893  Pot Leg, DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Family ID F273  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Vernia Elvira "Ma" Swindell,   b. 1 Jun 1894, Green Briar Bend, White County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Apr 1985, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Married 4 Jan 1915  DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 16] 
    Type: CIVIL 
    • Pop courted Ma only two months before they were married by W. H. Cantrell, JP

      When Pop proposed, Ma replied, "Are you sure?" - after all, it was only two months earlier that they met and Ma didn't think she was pretty enough for the most handsome man she'd ever met...
    Residence 1920  Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [17] 
    Residence 1930  Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    • District 16,
    Residence 1935  Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    • Rural Warren Co., TN
    Residence 1940  McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    Children 
     1. John Claybourne "Pete" Byars,   b. 4 Jun 1916, DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1987, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
     2. Robert Lucile "Lucile" Byars,   b. 6 Dec 1918, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Mar 2008, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years)
     3. Fred Swindell Byars,   b. 7 Dec 1920, Moores College, DeKalb County, Tennssee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1950, Sherwood, Franklin County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years)
     4. Bessie Lee Byars,   b. 8 Feb 1925, DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 2013, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
     5. Margie Sue Byars,   b. 21 Mar 1930, DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1997, Erie, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
    Last Modified 23 Nov 2019 
    Family ID F274  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Known to his siblings as, "Grundy". Mother mentioned that Pop played the fiddle until he broke a finger and never picked-up the fiddle again. It seems he played at barn dances...DAH

      Aunt Pearl tells us a different story about Pop's fiddle playing. Pop quit playing the fiddle at barn dances because he saw Ma dancing with another man...

      For more details for Pop & Ma 's hard life, go to the page, "Memories of Lucile Byars Hennessee (1918-2008)" on this website;

      http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I2&tree=hennessee

      I need not mention his parsimony as the entire family remember Pop was "tighter than Dick's hat band" when it came to money. The other side was his generosity when he'd had a couple drinks...

      end of comment [5, 20]
    • Sunday morning, October 20, 2013:

      Spoke to Aunt Pearl this morning about Pop & Uncle Pete in regards to their "troubles with the law"...

      Pop thought that if he could run one load of whiskey to Nashville, that would solve all of his financial problems as...

      This was in the early 1930's and he was living with his young family in Green Hill (DeKalb County) where he was cropping shares (for Ralston Sullivan) and hauled logs part-time. Can you imagine working the fields all day and then hauling logs to McMinnville, 10 miles away, all on foot and by mule? No wonder he thought this was an easier way to make a few dollars.

      Pop got caught. Aunt Pearl tells us that it took everything he had to avoid jail and he never did that again!

      Ma told me that Pop worked as a mechanic (probably during the 1930's). At some point, Pop began selling "Philco" radios and farm implements for Herbert Ralston "Ralston" Sullivan (1894-1962) who owned the "Sullivan Company" of McMinnville and apparently did this through the early 1950's as I remember travelling with him out in the country to call on his prospests and customers...

      Aunt Pearl told me that Pop shared crops from Ralston before he began his sales career. It seems Ralston thought well of Pop. Aunt Pearl was surprized to find out that he and Pop were the same age.

      In 1941 Pop went to Detroit. He worked for Budd Wheel through the summer of 1943. In 1945 he bought the log house on North Warren Street and the family moved there from their residence on Towles Avenue.

      Then Pop buys a taxi, about 1943, which he ran until late 1949 - early 1950. It is at this juncture that Uncle Pete became a felon. Uncle Pete borrows the taxi from Pop and drives to Manchester and picks-up a lady(ies) for an evening of dancing and driking. Pete is "higher than a Georgia pine", crashes the car and kills a passenger. He is convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison in 1949 when he returns home about three years later...Pop got out of the taxi business.

      It is at this point that he works full-time for Sullivan. It was 1950 and I remember Pop bought a brand-new 1950 Plymouth, "Sea Mist Green", 4-door sedan and this was the car we travelled in when he called on his clients.

      He retired in the mid-1950's and spent his life fishing, whittling and guarding his realm sitting in an old wood chair propped-up against the garage in the backyard...

      end of note [5, 20]
    • 1930: Aunt Pearls tells us that the family lost their house to a fire after a visit to Granny Swindell. Pop thought it was arson by a man named, "Cantrell".

      1930: Familyh moves into the "Pitt Place" in Dibrell.

      1938: Moved to the "Sullivan House", then to town to the "Hennessee House" and then to the "McGregor House"...

      1940: They lived on Towles Avenue in town

      1945: Pop bought the house at 112 North Warren Street in McMinnville

      end of comment [21]
    • Birth: Jun. 27, 1894
      DeKalb County
      Tennessee, USA
      Death: Dec., 1968
      Murfreesboro
      Rutherford County
      Tennessee, USA

      BYARS

      Funeral services for Perry Green Byars, 74-year-old retired salesman, were Saturday at Love-Cantrell Chapel. The Rev. Jerry Henessee officiated. Burial was in Mt. View Cemetery.

      A native of DeKalb County, he died Thursday at Rutherford County Hospital following a lingering illness.

      He was a Baptist.

      Surviving are one son, J. C. Byars of McMinnville; four daughters, Mrs. Lucille Henessee of West Palm Beach, Fla., Mrs. Bessie Wright of McMinnville, Mrs. Pearl Bess of Rock Island, and Mrs. Marjorie Decuenist of San Antonio, Tex.; a brother, Bob Byars of Smithville; and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Lee Jones of the Gath Community and Mrs. Senia Marsh of Nashville.

      Love-Cantrell Funeral Home of McMinnville was in charge of arrangements.

      Smithville Review Thursday December 19, 1968

      Burial:
      Mount View Cemetery
      McMinnville
      Warren County
      Tennessee, USA

      Created by: Bob Trapp
      Record added: Feb 11, 2015
      Find A Grave Memorial# 142475659 [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S11255] "Perry Green Byars (1894-1968)", Cemetery Profile, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=byars&GSfn=per.

    2. [S809] 1900 DeKalb Co.,TN Census, Transcribed & Indexed from a Microfilm Copy of the, p. 226 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S8772] "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNGR-Y8P : acc.

    4. [S8774] "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4HF-9VX : acc.

    5. [S30] David A. Hennessee, HENNESSEE Researcher & Compiler, 626 Biscayne Drive,West Palm Beach,FL 33401, 561.832.6612, info@c.

    6. [S48655] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MGNN-T5N.

    7. [S48651] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZ6H-F94.

    8. [S12643] Ma & Pop's place, https://earth.google.com/web/@35.6883271,-85.76770642,287.66885376a,0d,60y,155.33958402h,85t,0r/data=C.

    9. [S8773] "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP7L-15Q : acc.

    10. [S7] "Warren County,Tennessee Cemetery Book 3 - Macedonia Cemetery to Mullican, p. 109.

    11. [S46542] "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SRJP-6QD : accessed 17 November 2.

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    14. [S7808] "DeKalb Co.,TN Marriage Book", compiled by Jorene Washer Parsley, Route 5,, p. 168 (Reliability: 3).

    15. [S7902] DeKalb Co.,TN Marriage Book:1901-1950, compiled by Jorene Washer Parsley, p. 78 (Reliability: 3).

    16. [S8770] "Hogg DNA Project - A List of Hogg Lines", line VA1657: descendants of John Hogg of New Kent Co. VA, http://hdhdata.org/.

    17. [S12220] "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNGR-Y8P : acc.

    18. [S12219] "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP7L-15Q : acc.

    19. [S12221] "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4HF-9VX : acc.

    20. [S8473] Eva Pearl Byars Bess Fultz. Memories of her life growing up in the BYARS family. I interviewed Aunt Pearl while visiting.

    21. [S10790] Pearl Byars Bess Fultz provided the information for this person or place during a telephone conversation July 30, 2015 a.


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