Hon. Benjamin Wilson Byrne

Benjamin Wilson Byrne BIRTH 16 May 1820 Burnsville, Braxton County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 12 Sep 1903 (aged 83) Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Spring Hill Cemetery Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia

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Children Photo Ella Townsend Byrne Given 1850–1929

Photo Anne Haymond Byrne Venable 1855–1944

Photo William Eston Randolph Byrne 1862–1937

Photo Gertrude Byrne White 1868–1959

Member of the Virginia Convention of 1861; son of John B. Byrne and Anne Haymond Byrne.

History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia (1919), pp. 354 and 355:
[Benjamin Wilson Byrne.
Benjamin Wilson Byrne was born May 16, 1820, near Burnsville, in Lewis (now Braxton county) Virginia. He was the son of John B. Byrne and Ann Haymond Byrne. His ancestors settled in Prince William county. Virginia, in 1720. Early in the last century his father moved to and settled in what was then Harrison (now Braxton county). His family connections were numerous, and among them were the Raymonds, Wilsons, Camdens, Holts and other distinguished families who adorned the history of Virginia and later West Virginia. He was well educated and studied law at the famous law school of Judge Lucas P. Thompson in Staunton, Va. In 1848, almost as soon as he was licensed to practice law, he was elected to the legislature from the district composed of Braxton, Lewis and Gilmer, the same territory now covering Calhoun, Upshur, half of Clay and half of Webster, and portions of Barbour and Ritchie, a grand constituency. He served in the session of 1848-49, and in the extra session of 1849, called to revise the code.
In 1849, he married Mary Louisa Holt, daughter of Jonathan Holt, and sister of the late Hon. Homer A. Holt, of the Supreme bench, and also of Mrs. T. B. Camden of Parkersburg. He was again elected to the legislature in 1857 from the counties of Braxton and Nicholas, and in that year he had the new county of Clay carved out of Kanawha, Braxton and Nicholas. He served in another session in 1858.
Colonel Byrne's children surviving him are Mrs. J. C. Given of Canton, Ohio ; Mrs. J. M. Boggs of Big Otter, this state ; Mrs. M. W. Venable, Mrs. Olin White, George Byrne and W. E. It. Byrne of Charleston. These and their children and his devoted widow will mourn him and revere his memory as a beloved husband and an unselfish and ever land father, while this city and state will always honor the memory of his useful and honorable life. His death occurred at Charleston in September, 1903.]

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