Carl was the last of the five boys born to Jane Bible Lyda and Gideon Paloris Lyda at the home place near Sycamore Creek in Pleasant Valley in 1900, only four years before his father's death. He lived there until he went to business school in Austin and got a job with a Judge as a secretary in 1920. This employment led to his getting the position of Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court of Texas, a position that he held until he retired in 1966.
Carl had tuberculosis of the bone in the hip joint when he was very young which caused him to have one leg shorter than the other; however, this did not keep him from doing anything that he wanted to do. He also developed tuberculosis during his early years and went back to live at the house with his mother and brother, Clyde and family. A room (screened-in sleeping porch) was built for him to use during his recovery.
Carl met Lucile Clendenin at the Texas Sanatorium near San Angelo in 1925. While it was against the rules at the Sanatorium for men to visit with the women, they were given special permission to see each other. They corresponded with each other for about seven years before they got married in 1932. They bought a lot and built their house at 814 Columbus Street in Austin, where they lived until 1985 when they moved to Westminster Retirement Home on Jackson Street in Austin, Texas.
One of his main accomplishments, besides being a good husband, father and a faithful employee of the Supreme Court, was his research of the Lyda family history and compiling the Lyda Ledger in 1965 after years of relentless work in doing research and by contacting relatives and others in person or by correspondence. Every vacation he took was to areas where relatives lived to learn more about them. Assembling the mountains of information and presenting it for others in book format must have taken its toil on his health, although he considered it his hobby and apparently enjoyed it. Most of the information about our earlier ancestors has been copied from his records.
He was well respected by all his kinsfolk and most all of them came to him for advice at one time or other; especially, if it was of a legal nature. He was well versed in law although he did not practice. He would be proud to know his genealogy work is being preserved and that his memory is being kept alive by those attempting to continue this work.
Source: Margaret Lyda Byrd
Carl had tuberculosis of the bone in the hip joint when he was very young which caused him to have one leg shorter than the other; however, this did not keep him from doing anything that he wanted to do. He also developed tuberculosis during his early years and went back to live at the house with his mother and brother, Clyde and family. A room (screened-in sleeping porch) was built for him to use during his recovery.
Carl met Lucile Clendenin at the Texas Sanatorium near San Angelo in 1925. While it was against the rules at the Sanatorium for men to visit with the women, they were given special permission to see each other. They corresponded with each other for about seven years before they got married in 1932. They bought a lot and built their house at 814 Columbus Street in Austin, where they lived until 1985 when they moved to Westminster Retirement Home on Jackson Street in Austin, Texas.
One of his main accomplishments, besides being a good husband, father and a faithful employee of the Supreme Court, was his research of the Lyda family history and compiling the Lyda Ledger in 1965 after years of relentless work in doing research and by contacting relatives and others in person or by correspondence. Every vacation he took was to areas where relatives lived to learn more about them. Assembling the mountains of information and presenting it for others in book format must have taken its toil on his health, although he considered it his hobby and apparently enjoyed it. Most of the information about our earlier ancestors has been copied from his records.
He was well respected by all his kinsfolk and most all of them came to him for advice at one time or other; especially, if it was of a legal nature. He was well versed in law although he did not practice. He would be proud to know his genealogy work is being preserved and that his memory is being kept alive by those attempting to continue this work.
Source: Margaret Lyda Byrd
Carl was the last of the five boys born to Jane Bible Lyda and Gideon Paloris Lyda at the home place near Sycamore Creek in Pleasant Valley in 1900, only four years before his father's death. He lived there until he went to business school in Austin and got a job with a Judge as a secretary in 1920. This employment led to his getting the position of Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court of Texas, a position that he held until he retired in 1966.
Carl had tuberculosis of the bone in the hip joint when he was very young which caused him to have one leg shorter than the other; however, this did not keep him from doing anything that he wanted to do. He also developed tuberculosis during his early years and went back to live at the house with his mother and brother, Clyde and family. A room (screened-in sleeping porch) was built for him to use during his recovery.
Carl met Lucile Clendenin at the Texas Sanatorium near San Angelo in 1925. While it was against the rules at the Sanatorium for men to visit with the women, they were given special permission to see each other. They corresponded with each other for about seven years before they got married in 1932. They bought a lot and built their house at 814 Columbus Street in Austin, where they lived until 1985 when they moved to Westminster Retirement Home on Jackson Street in Austin, Texas.
One of his main accomplishments, besides being a good husband, father and a faithful employee of the Supreme Court, was his research of the Lyda family history and compiling the Lyda Ledger in 1965 after years of relentless work in doing research and by contacting relatives and others in person or by correspondence. Every vacation he took was to areas where relatives lived to learn more about them. Assembling the mountains of information and presenting it for others in book format must have taken its toil on his health, although he considered it his hobby and apparently enjoyed it. Most of the information about our earlier ancestors has been copied from his records.
He was well respected by all his kinsfolk and most all of them came to him for advice at one time or other; especially, if it was of a legal nature. He was well versed in law although he did not practice. He would be proud to know his genealogy work is being preserved and that his memory is being kept alive by those attempting to continue this work.
Source: Margaret Lyda Byrd
Carl had tuberculosis of the bone in the hip joint when he was very young which caused him to have one leg shorter than the other; however, this did not keep him from doing anything that he wanted to do. He also developed tuberculosis during his early years and went back to live at the house with his mother and brother, Clyde and family. A room (screened-in sleeping porch) was built for him to use during his recovery.
Carl met Lucile Clendenin at the Texas Sanatorium near San Angelo in 1925. While it was against the rules at the Sanatorium for men to visit with the women, they were given special permission to see each other. They corresponded with each other for about seven years before they got married in 1932. They bought a lot and built their house at 814 Columbus Street in Austin, where they lived until 1985 when they moved to Westminster Retirement Home on Jackson Street in Austin, Texas.
One of his main accomplishments, besides being a good husband, father and a faithful employee of the Supreme Court, was his research of the Lyda family history and compiling the Lyda Ledger in 1965 after years of relentless work in doing research and by contacting relatives and others in person or by correspondence. Every vacation he took was to areas where relatives lived to learn more about them. Assembling the mountains of information and presenting it for others in book format must have taken its toil on his health, although he considered it his hobby and apparently enjoyed it. Most of the information about our earlier ancestors has been copied from his records.
He was well respected by all his kinsfolk and most all of them came to him for advice at one time or other; especially, if it was of a legal nature. He was well versed in law although he did not practice. He would be proud to know his genealogy work is being preserved and that his memory is being kept alive by those attempting to continue this work.
Source: Margaret Lyda Byrd
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