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[edwards.FTW] [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #0888, Date of Import: 6 May 2002] Buried at Pleasent Valley School House Cemetery, Three miles north of Postoak TX He lived on Elk River, near Eastbrook in Franklin County TN before the Civil War. Enlisted in the 2nd Tennessee Regiment, Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in 1861; and served under Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson. He was in the Battle of Gettysburg (where while seated on a pile of firewood warming his feet, a shell exploded near him, blowing off part of his left breast, leavung him apparently dead, but he was taken to a hospital where he recovered); at Chancellorsville, where he was wounded on the right hand, and at Missionary Ridge, where he was wounded on the left arm; and served until the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865. In 1866, he with his family and brother William Fletcher Byrom, moved to Texas and settled in Collins County TX near Mellisa and Rockwell; then in about 1875 he moved to Denton County; in about 1879 to Park Springs Wise County, then finally to Postoak TX where he died soon after. He was a steward in the Methodist Church of Postoak TX.
Robert \\\\
Crowe
