U.S. Data Repository
http://www.us-data.org/
 -- USGenNet Inc. --
 
Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on 
the following page:
<http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Hyer, N. M., Captain
-------------------------------------------------------------------
History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia
by John Davison Sutton
Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919

Pages 389-390, Captain N. M. Hyer. 

The founder of the Hyer family came from Germany at an early period
of the country's history, and settled on the James river at or near
Jamestown. He had two sons, one of whom emigrated East, and the
other moved to Rockingham county, Va. It was here that Leonard
Hyer, grandfather of the deceased, was born about the year 1758. He
was captured by the Indians at the age of thirteen, and kept in
captivity for three years. After regaining his liberty, he joined
General Washington's army, and served until the independence of the
country was gained, then returning to Rockingham he married a lady
by the name of Rohrbaugh and reared seven children. Two of these
children, Christian and Mary, came to Harrison county, now Braxton,
and settled near Flatwoods about 1817; the other five emigrated to
Ohio.

Captain Hyer was a son of Christian and Julia Hyer; his mother's
name was Sirk; she was a niece of the celebrated Adam Poe. It was
at the exemplary Christian home of his parents that he grew to
manhood, and whence he received his early moral and religious
training.

He married Elizabeth Jane, daughter of James W. Morrison, and their
children are James M., Mary E., Nancy V., Emma T. and John W.

In 1862, when the struggle waged the fiercest and vast armies were
struggling for supremacy, Mr. Hyer volunteered as a private in
Company F, Tenth West Virginia Infantry, and was shortly afterwards
made 1st Lieutenant of the company, and then elected Captain, a
position that he held until the close of the war. He was taken
prisoner in 1863 and was sent to Libby and then to Charleston, S.
C., from there he was sent to Savannah, Ga., remaining as a
prisoner seventeen months and eleven days. He had as companions in
Libby, Bishop C. C. McCabe, Neal Dow, the great temperance advocate
of Maine, and others of national celebrity. His prison life was one
of great privation and danger, and at the time of his release his
life hung upon a very brittle thread.

Captain Hyer died at the age of seventy-five.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other
biographies for Braxton County, WV by going to the following URL: 
http://www.us-data.org/wv/braxton/bios.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------