William Byrd

Family/Spouse: Jennie Rivers. Jennie was born on 11 Sep 1839 in Austin, Texas; died in 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Eleanor Bolling Flood on 15 Sep 1886. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Helen R. Flach
Note: Burke's American Families with British Ancestry, 1975, p. 2597,
Byrd formerly of Broxton.
From West Virginia Encyclopedia, p. 748:
U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia, born in Martinsburg, the son of
Richard Evelyn and Eleanor Bolling (Flood) Byrd. He was educated in
public schools and in Shenandoah Valley Academy in Winchester,VA. At the
age of 15 he began to work for the Winchester Star, of which he became
publisher as an adult. He operated several apple orchards and was
interested in geneeral farming and peach culture as well. He was elected
to the Virginia State Senate in 1915 and 1923, was chairman of the
Democratic State Committee in 1922 and 1924 and in 1926 was elected
Governor. He was appointedSenator in 1933 to fill an unexpired term and
was re-elected in 1934 and served successively until 1965, when his son,
Harry Flood Jr. took his seat in the Senate. A folklore explanation of
why Byrd was born in West Virginia: His mother couldn't make it over the
line in time."
He represented Shenandoah, Frederick, and the city of Winchester in the
Virginia State Senate.

Harry married Anne Douglas Beverley on 8 Oct 1913 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Helen R. Flach
Note: Burke's American Families with British Ancestry, 1975, p. 2597,
Byrd formerly of Broxton.
Read Adm, U.S. Navy, Officer, French Legion of Honour, has Special
Congressional Medals, 1930 for Antartic Expedition I and 1937 for
Antartic Expedition II. --Burke's American Families with British
Ancestry, 1975, p. 2597, Byrd formerly of Broxton.
From Encyclopedia Brittanica:
"Naval officer, pioneer aviator, and polar explorer. Having become a
naval pilot, Byrd developed an interest in polar aviation and claimed to
have flown over the North Pole on May 9, 1926. Although his claim was
later seriously disputed, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for the
achievement. In June 1927 he flew across the Atlantic Ocean from west to
east, and the following year he began to explore the Antarctic from the
air. Establishing a base camp, called Little America, on the Ross Ice
Shelf, Byrd discovered unknown regions of the Arnarctic and also flew
across the South Pole (1929). He nearly lost his life on a second
expedition to the Antarctic in 1933-34. After World War II Byrd led
Operation High Jump, a project to discover and map large tracts of
Antarctic territory; he also directed allU.S. operations in the
Antarctic, known as Operation Deep Freeze, in 1955, and flew over the
pole for the last time in 1957."

Rear married Marie Ames on 20 Jan 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Byrd Lewis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]