RICHARD EVELYN⁷ BYRD, SR (WILLIAM⁶, RICHARD E⁵, THOMAS TAYLOR⁴, WILLIAM³, WILLIAM², WILLIAM¹) was born August 13, 1860 in Austin, Texas^1,2, and died November 23, 1925 in Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia². He married ELINOR BOLLING FLOOD³ September 15, 1886⁴. She died Unknown.

More About RICHARD EVELYN BYRD, SR:
Education: Shenandoah Valley Academy; University of Virginia, 1879-1881; University of Maryland, 1882-1883⁴
Occupation: Attorney; Editor of the Winchester Times Publishing Company⁴
Public Office: Commonwealth's Attorney for Frederick County, 1884-1904; Member, 1906-1814, and Speaker, 1908-1914 of the Virginia House of Delegates; U S District Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, 1914-1920^4,5,6
Religion: Episcopalian⁶
Residence: Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia⁷

Children of RICHARD BYRD and ELINOR FLOOD are:
i. CAPTAIN THOMAS BOLLING⁸ BYRD⁸, d. Unknown.

More About CAPTAIN THOMAS BOLLING BYRD:
Occupation: Associate of brother, Harry, in the orchard business⁹

ii. GOVERNOR HARRY FLOOD BYRD, SR¹⁰, b. June 10, 1887, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia^10,11; d. Unknown; m. ANNE DOUGLAS BEVERLY¹², October 07, 1913, Frederick County, Virginia^12,13; b. , Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia¹⁴; d. Unknown.

More About GOVERNOR HARRY FLOOD BYRD, SR:
Education: Shenandoah Valley Academy, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia¹⁴
Fact 1: Became a leader in the movement to establish a state highway system in Virginia¹⁴
Occupation: He and his brother, Thomas, operated one of the largest orchards east of the Mississippi River, consisting of 1500 acres containing 65,000 trees; President of Winchester Cold Storage Company, and of "Star," .¹⁴
Property: Owned a score of apple orchards in the Shenandoah Valley¹⁵
Public Office: Virginia Senator; Governor of Virginia, 1926-1930; Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, 1922-1924; United States Senator^16,17,18
Residence: Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia¹⁹

iii. ADMIRAL RICHARD EVELYN BYRD, JR²⁰, b. October 25, 1888, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia²⁰; d. Unknown; m. MARIE D AMES^20, 1915²⁰; d. Unknown.

1. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 317, "Their first son, Richard Evelyn Byrd was born in 1860."
2. Revised under the direction of BRUCE F JAMERSON, Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates 1776-1996, (Richmond, Virginia, 1996), 119.
3. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 318.
4. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 317.
5. Revised under the direction of BRUCE F JAMERSON, Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates 1776-1996, (Richmond, Virginia, 1996), 119.
6. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume V, VA Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 248.
7. Revised under the direction of BRUCE F JAMERSON, Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates 1776-1996, (Richmond, Virginia, 1996), 119.
8. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 318.
9. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume V, VA Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 248.
10. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 318.
11. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume V, VA Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 248.
12. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 318.
13. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume V, VA Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 249.
14. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 318.
15. Rothery, Agnes, Virginia, The New Dominion, (D Appleton-Century Company, New York, 1940), 35, "Those plantation families acutely conscious of their social and political responsibilities combined, with their ability to order and to rule, a practical knowledge of the soil and a tremendous love for it. These traits reappeared in Harry Flood Byrd (Governor, 1926 to 1930), who is the owner of a score of apple orchards in the Shenandoah Valley and who applied to overlapping agencies and the dead wood of useless offices the same principles he used on his apple trees."
16. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 318.
17. Rothery, Agnes, Virginia, The New Dominion, (D Appleton-Century Company, New York, 1940), 35, "When he came into office, he found the state governed by more than a hundred bureaus, boards, commissions, and departments and financed by 48 special funds outside of, and in addition to, appropriations from the state treasury. After his reorganization, Virginia found herself freed from the maintenance of several hundred unnecessary tax officials and simplified into twelve administrative departments, eleven of them directly reponsible to the Governor. The rigorous principals of pruning, spraying and clearing away applied to state taxation, fiscal and accounting systems resulted, by the time Governor Byrd left office, in an annual saving of more than $800,000, an increase of revenues of more than $2,000,000, and conversion of a deficit of $1,368,004 into a surplus of $4,000,000. The bulk of the income to a locality is the land tax. Governor Byrd brought about a segreation of taxes, so that today not a dollar of the tax on real estate goes to the state, but to the county. Out of this tax is supported the school system. These reforms led to the observation that one Byrd in the Govenor's chair was worth two at the South Pole<."
18. Revised under the direction of BRUCE F JAMERSON, Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates 1776-1996, (Richmond, Virginia, 1996), 119.
19. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume V, VA Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 248.
20. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 318.