BYRD, James Henry - Putnam

James Henry Byrd, 81, died Sunday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Glenn Pickel of Carpentersville. Funeral services were held at Ladoga Tuesday, with burial in the Cornstalk cemetery near Ladoga. He was born December 8, 1856 in Scott Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, the son of William and Elizabeth Britts Byrd. He married twice; first to Josephine Shackelford in 1878, and following her death, June 27, 1894, he then married Thena Martin in November 1901. She died May 29, 1932. Surviving besides the daughter, another daughter, Mrs. James Bradley of east of Ladoga, three sons; William Byrd of Russellville, Dr. E. H. Byrd of Francesville and Jeff Byrd of near Ladoga and a half brother, Homer Pinnell of California.   --- thanks so much to Marilyn W. for sending us so many of the RT obituaries :)