Ruth Elenor Peddicord-Byrd and William Hamilton Byrd were married April 27, 1881, by Rev. Dr. I. A. Wainwright at the National Hotel, in Palmyra, Missouri.
William Hamilton Byrd died January 12, 1905. He was a descendant of Sir William Byrd of “Westover,” Virginia.
Of Carolus J. Peddicord, his sister, Mrs. India P. Logan, writes:
Our youngest brother, Carolus J. Peddicord, was only twenty-two years old when taken prisoner by General Paine’s soldiers at Gallatin, Tennessee. He was during the first year of the war a member of Col. Ben Hardin Helm’s First Kentucky Cavalry, Company A, and afterward belonged to the same scouts with my brother, C. A. Peddicord. With five of his men Carolus was put in a dungeon at Gallatin, on a stone floor, without a blanket, until a comrade left his on being paroled by General Paine. He was told if he would inform on his friends and the Southern sympathizers that his life would be spared. He obstinately refused from October until December, when he was informed that he would be taken out on horseback to the country and be shot if he refused to guide them to the homes of his friends. One friend who spent the last night in the cell with him said to my brother, K. F. Peddicord, at a reunion in Dallas, Texas, “Your brother was the bravest man I ever saw. He said, ‘I can die, but never can I betray a trust.’” He was taken many miles out into the country and shot in the forehead.
Carolus had auburn hair, extremely fair complexion, was pale, slender, about five feet eight inches tall, with a graceful figure, and dark blue laughing eyes like our father’s. He is buried at the old Bell family cemetery in Kentucky.
Laura Clay Peddicord was born in Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio, and died at Fountain Head, Sumner County, Tennessee, May 18, 1867, having been an invalid her whole life. She is buried at Fountain Head Church, Sumner County, Tennessee.
Lily L. Peddicord-Webster and Thomas T. Webster were married December 21, 1887, in Kansas City, Missouri. They have one child, Frank Thursby, born December 1, 1888.