Leon County FlArchives Obituaries.....Byrd, Joshua H. October 10, 1848
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The North-Carolina standard (Raleigh, N.C.)  November 15, 1848 Page 3

              DIED
    Died at his summer residence, on St. James' Island,
on the night of the 10th October last, Captain Joshua
H. Byrd, in the 56th year of his age.
    Capt. Byrd was a native of Lenoir County, North
Carolina, and emigrated with his family to Florida
in the year 1826, and has been a citizen of Leon County
ever since till within the present year when he moved to
Wakulla county.
    For some months previous to his death, he was in bad
health, having had an attack of billious fever last fall,
from which he never entirely recovered, though he was 
sometimes able to attend to his ordinary business. Kind
and affectionate in his family, a generous friend, and
a hospitable neighbor, he was respected and beloved by 
all who knew him.
                            Tallahassee Floridian

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