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JOHN BLOUNT BYRN

as taken from

"The Byrn Family"

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From the book

"The Byrn Family, Lauderdale County, Ripley, Tennessee"

by Wm. Harvey Johnston

 

            JOHN BLOUNT BYRN, was the first known of this family to come to this county.  It is apparent that from all is known that he was an only child.  (*Note:  this was later dis-proved)

 

            His father was Scotch and all that is known indicates that his mother was French and that they lived in Scotland.  After his parents' death, it is believed that he came to this country in about 1790.

 

            John Blount Byrn married Emily Fergason and they bought land near what is now the Central Road in Lauderdale County, near Ripley, Tennessee.

 

            Two cemeteries were laid off on the Byrn farm, one a little East and North of the house that was built and occupied by Walter Miller and the other North about 1/4 miles of this house in the E. W. Arwood field. 

 

The gravemarkers have been removed and as told to me, placed in a gulley.

 

 The Ripley-Edith Road now runs over the cemetery where John Bount Byrn and his wife Emily Fergason were interred.

           

Gravemarkers may be found on the property owned by Walter Miller and his wife Victoria Stewart.  Victoria Stewart is a descendant of this family.

Reference Page 4 (of the book).

(*Note:  Victoria Stewart, daughter of Frances Elizabeth Byrn, granddaughter of Hannah Lunsford Byrn.)

 

            Credit is given to William David Lapsley Moore (reference Page 11) for furnishing information concerning the history of the Byrn family. 

 

Other relatives have furnished much of the information concerning their immediate families for without their assistance and cooperation this booklet would have never been published.

                                                                       

WM. HARVEY JOHNSTON

Crest Haven" Rt #5

Ripley, Tennessee

1 December 1964

 

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