Au­gust 26, 1869, Al­bany, Il­li­nois.

No­vem­ber 9, 1952, Sa­cra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia.

Sa­cra­men­to Me­mor­i­al Lawn Cem­e­te­ry, Sa­cra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia.

Byers’ mo­ther was song writer Nancy By­ers. In 1890, he joined Daniel War­ner & Bar­ney War­ren in evan­gel­is­tic work, then joined the Gos­pel Trump­et pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny as mu­sic ed­it­or the next year. He left the Gos­pel Trump­et in 1922 for health reasons, & worked as an evan­gel­ist and pas­tor in Ida­ho & Or­e­gon be­fore tak­ing a pas­tor­ate in Sac­ra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia, in 1934. His works in­clude:

• Birth of a Reformation: The Life and La­bors of D. S. War­ner, 1922

1. Are You Adorn­ing the Doc­trine?
2. Be an Over­com­er
3. By Thy Blessed Word Obey­ing
4. By Faith and Not by Sight
5. Byers
6. Church Has One Found­a­tion, The
7. Church’s Ju­bi­lee, The
8. Consecration
9. Fill Me with Thy Spir­it
10. Forward, Ev­er For­ward
11. He Is Just the Same To­day
12. He Will Care for Me
13. I Know
14. I’ll Follow with Re­joic­ing
15. I’m Go­ing On
16. I’m on the Win­ning Side
17. In His Love Let Me Hide
18. O Church of God
19. On to the Goal
20. Our Glad Thanks­giv­ing
21. Reformation Glo­ry, The
22. Santa Fe
23. Spirit Ho­ly
24. Tell What He’s Done for You
25. We Will Work for Je­sus
26. What a Dear Friend Is Je­sus
27. When My King Shall Call for Me
28. Wholehearted Ser­vice