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Submitted: 4/21/19 • Approved: 5/21/19 • Last Updated: 5/24/19 • R1265997-G1265996-S3
Apr 11, 1897 - July 18, 1915
Daughter of Jacob L. "Jake" Byrd and Martha Ann Tapp.
Husband of Bertha L Acton (1894–1985).
(Interred in Bethlehem Cemetery, Faulkner, AR)
When Bertha L Acton was born on July 22, 1894, in Arkansas, her father, Thomas, was 35, and her mother, Martha, was 21. She married William Virgil "Virgie" Byrd and they had two children together. She then married John Irvin Davis and they had three children together. She died on July 12, 1985, in Greenbrier, Arkansas, at the age of 90.
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When William Virgil "Virgie" Byrd was born on April 11, 1897, in Arkansas, his father, Jacob, was 28 and his mother, Martha, was 22. He married Bertha L Acton on May 18, 1913, in Faulkner, Arkansas. They had two children during their marriage. He died as a teenager on July 18, 1915, in Faulkner, Arkansas, and was buried in Greenbrier, Arkansas.
(Note; Murdered by his father-in-law, Tom Acton.)
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