...r of the State Constitutional Convention. His health demanding a warmer climate, he moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1847 or 1848, and in 1854-5 to Texas. The breaking out of the Civil War found us in Louisiana , about sixty miles north of New Orleans, where Judge. Hyer's too outspoken Union sentiments made him a marked man by the Rebels. He had many friends, however, who aided him on several occasions ...