Margret Lavina Byers

     Margret Lavina Byers was born in June 1826 at North Carolina.¹ She married Roberson Cloer, son of Elisha Cloer, circa 1839 at North Carolina. Margret Lavina Byers died after 21 June 1900 at Iredell Co, North Carolina.
     To this point (1993), there has been no definite connection to the Byers of Iredell County, although it is most assuredly there. In 1809, papers show Thomas, Robert, Joseph, James Smith, Jane, Amelia Byers, married sisters Esther Falls and Polly Simonton gave to Washington Byers, their youngest brother, 386 acres of land, as their father had not provided for him before his death. While Falls and Washington were names used often in this part of the county, I feel strongly Lavina was related to this family.
     On 11 Oct 1895, The Statesville paper indicated " Lavina Clore was ordered admitted to the county home when delivered there". On May 10, 1900, the newspaper listed Lavina Cloer as a pauper, receiving $3 per quarter from the County Commissioners.^2,3 She appeared on the census of 21 June 1900 in the household of Bam Washington Cloer at Concord Twp, Iredell Co, North Carolina;
     Bam Cloer was single, 25, and living with his mother, Sarah Martha Cloer, 53, and his grandmother, Lavina Byers Cloer, 73. Lavina had mothered 10 children, 8 of whom were still living.¹