Local History Collections

(Description ID: 607409)

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums 

Byram E. James

LH-446

Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory 

Introduction
The Byram James collection was donated to the Rutherford B. Hayes Library and Museums in 2021. 

Biographical Sketch
Byram E. James, son of Joseph C. James, was born in November 9, 1842 in Chester Township, Morrow County, Ohio. He enlisted in the Civil War in the 81^st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Co. G as a private on November 1, 1861. He was discharged on June 14, 1862 at St. Louis, Missouri, having suffered a fractured tibia from an accidental gunshot wound. He enlisted again as a corporal in 1864 in Company K of the 174^th Ohio, serving until June 21, 1865 when he was discharged at Charlotte, North Carolina. He married Maria McVey, September 1, 1867 who was born in 1845 in Morrow County, Ohio. The couple farmed in Morrow County and had their one and only child, Gussie N. James, on September 9, 1873. Between 1890 and 1900, the James family moved to Bradner, Ohio where Byram died, June 21, 1929. He was a member of the local GAR and the Methodist Church and was one of three remaining Civil War veterans in the community.

Gussie married Thomas Benjamin Daily on July 1, 1894 at Bradner, Ohio. Thomas was the son of George K. and Ellen (Adams) Daily. He was born October 14, 1868 and died in Genoa, Ohio in 1950.  Gussie taught school in Bradner. Ohio. She and Thomas were the parents of five children: Jessie (Walter Hanely); Clyde Edmund (Helen Vance); Vern Harry (Irene Keller); Grace (Nolan Thomas Barnes); and Ellen Marie (Philip Arthur Updegraff).

Scope and Content
This collection provides the history and genealogy of the family of Byram E. James and his wife Maria McVey of Bradner, Ohio, their daughter Gussie and her husband Thomas B. Daily and their descendants. It includes the diary and letters of Byram E. James during a portion of his Civil War service as well as his pension papers and other Civil War documents.  Perhaps most importantly, the collection contains an unusually large portion of identified photographs of the families, their relatives, and residences.

Photographs were removed from the large photograph album and enclosed in mylar due to the poor condition of the album. These identified photographs are grouped together and listed in folder number 7. 

Inventory
Ac. 6081
1 ½ feet

Inventory
Ac. 6081
1 ½ feet

1. Byram E. James Civil War Correspondence

• March 12, 1864 to Maria McVey, Nashville, Tennessee
• March 30, 1864 to Maria McVey, Nashville, Tennessee
• October 30, 1864 to Maria McVey, Decatur, Alabama
• November 16, 1864 to ? Decatur, Alabama
• January 18, 1865 to Maria McVey, Clifton, Tennessee
• February 18, 1865 to Maria McVey, Washington, D. C.
• March 16, 1865 to Maria McVey, Kingston, North Carolina
• April 2, 1865 to Maria McVey, Wheat Swamp, Westinghouse
• April 18, 1865 to Maria McVey, Wheat Swamp, Westinghouse
• n.d. to Maria McVey, Washington, D. C.

2. Byram E. James Civil War Diary, 174^th Ohio: Sept. 14, 1864 – July 11, 1865

     3. Civil War Documents and Pension Papers

4. Death and Burial

     5. James family photographs

• James House, E. Main St. Bradner
• James House, E. Main St. (after remodeling, 1916) (2)
• James House, E. Main St. (before remodeling)
• Byram E. James
• Byram E. James, 1915
• James House, (built 1861) (ambrotype)
• Dewitt and Mary Lott, Byram and Gussie James (tintype)
• Joseph James, father of Byram (tintype)
• Mary McVey James, grandfather was in Revolutionary War, York Co. PA; Mary Lott (sister of Maria)
• Joseph James home, 1940, Chester Twp. Morrow Co., Ohio
• Mary McCreary James, 1809 – 1882
• Byram E. James, April 24, 1915 (2)
• Byrum E. James House (before remodeling) (2)
• Byram E. James
• Byram E. James and wife Gussie (taken indoors Dec. 5, 1916)
• Mary McVey
• Gussie James, 1874
• Byram James (ca. 1920s)
• James Y. James, (brother of Byram)
• McVey Family Picnic, Aug. 8, 1926 (Central Ohio, off Rt. 23)
• Byram E. James
• Chester Church, 1940, Chester Twp., Morrow County, 1940
• Bradner Cemetery, Tombstone, Byram E. James, Maria McVey James
• Bradner Cemetery, Tombstone, Byram E. James, Maria McVey James
• Chester Cemetery, Tombstone, Joseph and Mary James, (ca. 1940)
• Chester Cemetery, Tombstone, George McCreary, Revolutionary War soldier
• Chesterville Cemetery, Tombstone, Joseph and Mary James
• Bloomfield Cemetery, (outside Sparta), McVey Lott

6. McVey family photographs

• James (Margaret Love) McVey, b. 1812 – 1889, (buried Sparta Cemetery)
• Mary McVey Lott and Daily family
• Lavila (Bine) McVey and Mary McVey Lott
• Byram E. James and Gussie with family members
• “Great Grandpa McVey”

7. Photographs removed from portrait album

• Dave Daily
• Bob (Charles) Daily
• Amanda (Doyle) wife of Will Daily
• Will Daily
• Gussie (James) Daily and “Lott Cousins on the James side”
• Jessie Daily
• Bell (Daily) Elder, wife of Guy, Homer, Illinois
• Jim and Lou Lott
• Al Daily, Portage, Ohio
• Ebenezer and Lena James (?)
• Uncle El and Aunt Lib
• James Y. James (2)
• Lena James, wife of Ebenezer James
• Byram E. James
• Gussie James Daily and Lena Reese Carter
• James Brothers, Byram E., Tom, Elijah, James Y, Ebenezer
• Tintype and CDV of unidentified babies

8. Thomas B Daily Correspondence

• G. K. Daily (Mother), "home" to TBD, June 14, 1885
• ? to Gussie James April 18th, 1893
• Gussie James, Bradner to TBD May, 28, 1893
• Gussie James. Bradner, to TBD June 7, 1893
• Gussie James, Bradner, to TBD June 12, 1893
• Gussie James. Kingston, to TBD Dec. 24, 1893
• Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Shroyer to Mr. and Mr. TBD, Bradner, n.d.

9. Daily family photographs

• Clyde Daily
• Tom Daily
• Clyde Daily House, Newark, Ohio, 1939
• Jessie Daily, Maude Hiser, at Bowling Green Normal School, 1918
• Jessie Daily
• Jessie Daily, Lura Bell
• Jessie Daily at Heidelberg College, 1917
• Aunt Bell Daily
• Jessie Daily
• Jessie Daily, Lura Bell
• Jessie Hanely, Gussie Daily
• Jessie Daily, Grace McLaughlin, Bradner, Ohio [in car]
• Jessie Daily
• Jessie Daily [on horseback]
• Grace and Jessie Daily
• Gussie and Thomas B. Daily, Bradner
• Gussie and Thomas B. Daily, Bradner
• George Daily family
• Thomas B. Daily
• Byram James Family
• Daily Family
• Vern Daily
• Mary Lucida McVey Lott
• Clyde Daily
• Jim Carter, 1925 (?)
• Jessie Daily, Lura Bell
• Jessie Daily
• Byram James, Jessie Daily Hanely, Eleano, Hanely Richards
• Ellen Marie Daily
• Jessie Daily Hanely
• Daily Grave Markers (2)
• Grace, Ellen, Esther Daily, 1920
• Ellen Marie Daily Uptegraff
• Jessie, Clyde, Vern, Daily, children of Tom and Gussie
• Tom Daily
• Tom Daily
• Gussie James Daily
• Gussie Jams Daily

10. Thomas B. Daily Photographs

• Jessie Bernice Daily, 1895
• George Daily Home
• Daily Family, 1920
• Daily Family, 1916
• Thomas B. Daily
• Pearl Daily King, Jessie Daily Hanely, Belle Daily Elder, Daily Fox
• Clyde and Helen Vance Daily, 1954
• Byram and Gussie James Daily, 1916
• Thomas Daily Farm
• Gussie James Daily and family
• Clyde Daily Farm, Newark, Ohio
• Clyde Daily
• Belle Daily Elder
• Wayne Daily, WWII
• Lou Daily Jessie Daily
• Belle, Jessie, Pearl Daily
• Jessie Daily, 1913
• Daily Family, 1916
• Thomas B. Daily Home
• Clyde Daily
• Charles "Bob" Daily Family
• Jessie Daily, 1915
• Lu and Lenore Daily Family
• Gussie James Daily, Teacher, Bradner, Ohio School, 1893-1894
• Clyde Daily, Football Team member, Bradner, Ohio, 1915
• Tom Daily Family on porch of home
• Tom Daily Home
• "Grandfather McVey's House', Delaware Co. Ohio
• Daily Reunion "Taken at Uncle Al's in Portage"
• George K. Daily Family
• Daily Reunion

11. Thomas Daily, 1886 

• Thomas Daily, 1868 (Tintype) 1868, Homer, IL
• Thomas Daily, 15 months

12. Hanely Family Photograph

• Jessie Daily Hanely
• Eleanor Ruth Hanely
• Eleanor Hanely
• Eleanor Hanely            
• Eleanor Hanely
• Eleanor Hanely

13. Unidentified Images (including 3 ambrotypes)

14. Family tree of Byram E. James and Maria McVey

15. Miscellaneous envelopes

16. Unrelated James family history

17. CDV photograph album (images partially identified)

• page 6. Virginia Casseopia, slave child
• page 12. L. James
• page 19. Uncle Jim James
• page 25. Maria McVey James
• page 38. Mary McVey Lott
• page 39. DeWitt Lott
• page 44. Mary McVey James

Transferred to the Museum: Eating Utensils