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Cyrenius W. Colyer^{[1, 2, 3]}
1824 - 1898

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• Nickname	Cy
  Birth	23 Jun 1824  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1898  [2, 3, 6]
  Buried	reported findagrave.com as Keeney Cemetery on Clay Hill Rd, Somerset KY but unmarked
  Person ID	I0848	John Colyer family of Somerset Ky
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	John Colyer,   b. 20 Aug 1781, Henry County, VA ,   d. 18 Aug 1851, Ruth, Ky (reported somewhere from Typhoid fever)
  Mother	Lydia Memes Purvis,   b. 26 May 1798, North Carolina ,   d. 25 Dec 1874, Pulaski county, KY
  Married	6 Jan 1818
  Family ID	F051	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Sarah Waddle,   b. 1832,   d. 1874
  Married	24 Sep 1851	Pulaski Co., Kentucky   [1, 2, 3]
  Children	1. Charles Waddle Colyer,   b. BET. 1851 - 1870   2. John W. Colyer,   b. 1853   3. Manerva Colyer,   b. 1854   4. Harriet Colyer,   b. 1858 > 5. Malinda J. Colyer,   b. 1859 > 6. Charles Granade Colyer,   b. 1860,   d. 1935   7. Jahue (John?) Colyer,   b. 1862,   d. 1932, Norwood, OH   8. Mary Louisa Colyer,   b. 11 Jan 1863, Pulaski County Ky ,   d. 21 Jan 1865, Pulaski Co., Kentucky   9. Cyrenius Colyer,   b. 1865   10. James Perry Colyer,   b. 15 Apr 1870,   d. 2 May 1874   11. Sarah E. Colyer,   b. 1872
  Family ID	F050	Group Sheet

  
  

• Documents		1886 Ruth Ky Warren Store ledger WARNING large 60 meg file: requires high speed: This ledger of the general store at what is now known as Ruth Ky was found in ceiling of old log home renovation 2012. The log house built by John Langdon in 1814, purchased by John Colyer 1842, then purchased by Andrew Warren 1865. Andrew's son, Mathew(born 1859), evidently ran store across the road from the house. The store later became in 1888 the first post office in the community at current day hwy 192 at Pitman Creek in Somerset Ky. The first post office in 1888 known as Juno....later became Ruth Ky. Many area family names in ledger: Colyer, Warren, Richardson, Meece, Botkin, Allen, Sword.
  		1873 Pulaski County Ky Property Tax Record Colyers in east Somerset area
  		1874 Pulaski County Property Tax Shows Linsey R(Randall) Colyer and Cyrenius Waite Colyer
  		1874 Pulaski County Kentucky Property tax records Various Colyer; Shows John G (Granade) Colyer next to Meece whom he his wife bought property from and Cyrenius Waite Colyer.
  		1875 Pulaski County Ky property tax records shows Charles Richard Colyer, Lindsey Colyer, Cyrenius Waite Colyer, Mary Silver Colyer.
  		Cyrenius W. Colyer Mexican War 1847 List of Pulaski County Kentucky soldiers in Mexican War 1847
  		1851 Masonic lodge minutes Linzy Colyer, St. Clair Colyer, Cyrenius Colyer, Epharim Meece
  		1880 Census: Charles Granade Colyer family note that son Cyrenius is listed as age 18 so born 1861, not 1865. Daughter Sarah born 1865 and thus age 14. Note that neighbor is older brother CW Colyer (Cyrenius Wait Colyer) who sold land to wife Louisa Jane of Charles Granade, in 1866....while per family tradition, Granade was living managing hotel in Nashville TN.

  
  

• Notes

  Obiturary of son, Charles Granade Colyer who was born 1860, shows that Cy Colyer and/or son Charles Granade Colyer lived on Cherry Grove Rd.




• Sources

  [S05088] Collierj.ftw--Tim Jeffries, Cincinnati OH, Tim Jeffries, Cincinnatti OH. Date of Import: Aug 6, 1998 [S14494] Alice Colyer Gala. Date of Import: Sep 19, 1998 [S27813] ColyerV2.FTW. Date of Import: Sep 30, 1998 [S01711] Kate Smith Collier file # 4 - Walter W. Smith Collection. KSC 4 - Walter W. Smith Collection. [S01737] Richard Curtis files.