{"id":2481,"date":"2024-12-05T13:38:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:45:33","slug":"byers-benjamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/byers-benjamin\/","title":{"rendered":"Byers, Benjamin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Death: 18 Jan 1875<br \/>\nSubject: Benjamon Byers<br \/>\nSource: Andrew County Republican, 29 Jan 1875, p. 8<\/p>\n<p>Obituary.<br \/>\nMonday, January 18th, 1875, at 1 p.m., of Pneumonia, Benny R., only son of William and Sophonia [sic] Byers, aged 15 months and 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet angel child of heavenly birth, He was too good and pure for earth,<br \/>\nHis spirit, like the soaring dove, Has winged its flight to realms above.<br \/>\nHis pure spirit freed from clay, To God has winged its upward way,<br \/>\nAnd there &#8216;mid angels pure and bright, Has joined their songs in worlds of light.<br \/>\nAnd there amid that happy band, With crown of gold and harp in hand,<br \/>\nThe sweetest music angels make, Will be the tune his harp will wake.<\/p>\n<p>By Mrs. M. Byers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Death: 18 Jan 1875 Subject: Benjamon Byers Source: Andrew County Republican, 29 Jan 1875, p. 8 Obituary. Monday, January 18th, 1875, at 1 p.m., of Pneumonia, Benny R., only son of William and Sophonia [sic] Byers, aged 15 months and 10 days. Sweet angel child of heavenly birth, He was too good and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-county","category-people-andrew-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}