| H. M. Klyce, undertaker, of Alamo, Tenn., was born in Maury County,
January 15, 1819, the eighth of nine children born to Adam and Eve Klyce,
who were natives of Rockbridge County, Va., his mother attending school
near the Natural Bridge in that State, and crossing the same twice each
day for a number of years. H. M. Klyce assisted his parents on the farm
until he was nineteen years old, then began wagon-making, and afterward,
in 1854, added coaches. In 1862 he began wagon-building for the Confederacy
and made 116 wagons in as many days. He also made 500 steel-pointed bayonets.
Since the war he has been engaged in the carpenter�s and undertaker�s business.
January 16, 1838, he married Eliza Roberts, who died January 27, 1860,
having borne nine children. November 10, 1861, he married Rebecca Ann Roberts
and by her became the father of four children. This wife�s demise occurred
February 8, 1885, and for his third wife he took Susan Paris, December
21, 1885. Mr. Klyce is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
and is a Democrat politically, although previous to the war he was an old
line Whig. He is a Mason and is quite well-to-do in worldly goods.
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