MYERS HISTORY

Some Descendants of Hans Meier of Pequea

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

by Dorothy M. K. Adams

^, Privately Published by the Author .\J?\ tfv u~---.on, Texas V aft' & 1987 \ .o^"

F AM1LY H'.STORY LIBRARY 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84150 Copyright © 1987 by Dorothy M. K. Adams

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 86-72437 V.

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This book is a revision of Myers Lancaster County in 1710-17. English History, written and published by my and American history has largely deni­ father, William Scott Myers, in 1909. grated or ignored its minorities. The It includes data from Winkler's Histo­ German-speaking Swiss Brethren, a mi­ ry, the family of his mother, simulta­ nority within a minority later known neously published. Like my father's as Mennonites, played an important, books, this one was prepared as a gift little-recognized role in colonial A- to the extended family of first cous­ merica. The immigrant ancestors of the ins. A limited number of copies will Myers family studied in this book were be available for sale to the public. probably, though not certainly, both Swiss and Mennonite. I share with my The book extends Myers genealogy father a pride in my ancestors, who backward three generations in eight­ did little harm and more good than eenth century Lancaster County, Penn­ many Americans know. sylvania from Christian Meyer Jr. 1761- 1802 of Earl Township, to the immi­ Some of the related surnames dis­ grant Hans Meier of the Pequea settle­ cussed in this book include, with page ment, who died in 1722. The tangled references: Lenhard, 50, Hoover, 80, Meyer lines of that time and place had 102, Bear, 97,103, Stauffer, 105, Saud- never before been sorted. A chain of er, 105, Winkler, 113-134, Snavely, land records proving our line, the re­ 176, Hershey, 176, Horst, 176, North- sults of more than five years of re­ cott, 192; Green, Wilson, Morrison and search, is published herein. The book Chapman, 196. documents the many Christian Meyers and John Meyers of Earl Township who Acknowledgments inherited the ancestral land, and fol­ lows the full family of Christian Mey­ Two people, Mandas Myers and Dean er, Jr., separating those who remained Froehlich, gave so much help that the in Pennsylvania from those who moved book could not have been completed to Ohio. without them. Mandas, who died in 1982, served as family historian for The book brings Myers History for­ forty years. He, alone, provided the ward to 1987, providing genealogical necessary leads to restore the full data for two sons of the above Chris­ family of first cousins descended from tian's son John 1799-1877: first, the Christian 1833-1888, and many of our descendants of six sons of my grand­ second cousins, descendants of Christi­ father, Christian Hoover Myers 1833- an's brother, George Bear Myers 1830- 1888. In 1987 there are some 265 liv­ 1900. Without Mandas's records, whole ing family members, including spouses, branches would have been irretrievably scattered across the nation. Second, lost. many of the descendants of my grand­ father's brother, George Bear Myers, In September 1981 I was referred are also listed, and a few members of by Mandas Myers to Dean Kenneth Froeh­ my grandmother's Winkler family have lich of Rochester, New York, a descend­ been located and listed in the book. ant of George Bear Myers whose inter­ est in genealogy began, like mine, in A large section of the book is de­ childhood when he first read Myers His­ voted to background history tracing tory. By correspondence, Dean collabo­ the historical significance of the lit­ rated closely with me for more than tle settlement of Swiss Mennonites in five years, primarily in search of our

^^^ Pennsylvania roots, bringing to the I am grateful to my brother Jay research team a professionalism and and his wife Lucy, and to Norma Stand­ broad expertise far superior to my ard and the families of her brothers, own. Together we searched far and who hosted and participated in a ser­ wide for relevant material. Together ies of reunions, beginning in Houston we examined dozens of documents in the in 1978 at the home of Evelyn Myers effort to tease out our own Christians and Karen, Jay and Lee Harvey. Also, and Johns from the many found tangled to Alta Swallow and Vera and Bo Cowel in Lancaster County archives. Dean of Colorado, Mandas Myers of Detroit, found time to devote endless hours to Lucile and Roland Beetham of New Jer­ meticulous research and analysis, mak­ sey, Wanda and Sig Kvia of Wyoming, ing charts, providing forms, locating Chris and Doris Myers, Moroleen and solutions to problems of all kinds. He Annette Davis, Cheryl, Vick and Tori deserves to be named senior author or Pease, Ella, Gene, Jeanne, Wendy and co-author of this book, but declined, David Myers and Tuleta Ulbrich, all of and, after many years of joint effort, Texas. All of these traveled long dis­ bowed out to leave the writing of the tances to be present. We owe a special book to me. I cannot express adequate­ thanks to Jennie and Elizabeth Wink­ ly my gratitude to this kind and gener­ ler, Wilbur Winkler and Anita Renneck- ous man who became my steadfast men­ er for their contribution to the suc­ tor, collaborator and friend. cess of the Paradise, Ohio reunion in 1982. Those who attended all six of Froehlich also provided abundant the reunions in Texas, Colorado, Ohio records and photographs from his line, and Pennsylvania include Norma, Jay that of George Myers's daughter, Mary and Lucy, Evelyn, Karen, Jay and Lee Cedelia Myers Clear. After this book Harvey. Norma, Mandas and Evelyn also had gone to the printer we discovered attended reunions of our second cous­ we should have credited Mary Clear's ins in Indiana. To all of you, and to daughter, R. Beatrice (Mrs. Wm. DeVoe) all of the other reunion participants, Clear, for the enormous basic effort my thanks for a show of family love, of gathering records of this family by friendship and solidarity which en­ mail and by phone, and for preparing sured a favorable reception of the several of the photographs inadvertent­ book and added a rich new dimension to ly credited to Dean Froehlich, who fur­ our lives. nished them to me. Neither Dean nor I wish to minimize t;he significance of As the book neared completion in Mrs. DeVoe's contribution, though we late 1986, Evelyn Myers joined me full are unable at this late hour to cor­ time, taking charge of two sets of man­ rect all of the credits due her. uscript, cutting and pasting outlines, placing pictures and legends, doing re­ I wish to thank my brother, Bill ductions, lining, pagination, correc­ Myers of San Antonio, for placing many tions , leaving me free to draft and of the genealogical records of the proof-read the final pages with my re­ book on computer, and to thank Virgin­ dactor. Evelyn was a godsend. ia, his wife, for her hospitality and forebearance during my many visits to My thanks to all of you who have their home to transfer the informa­ contributed information to the records tion. What might have been unmanage­ by mail or by phone, including Melvin able drudgery became a delightful ex­ Myers of Indiana, who paid us a visit perience. in 1986 and returned home to round up records of more than a dozen cousins. My thanks to Clyde Groff, profes­ sional genealogist of Lancaster, who worked on portions of the project. Dorothy M. K. Adams

vv Key to Abbreviations

Abbreviations in the outline are treated as symbols without punctu­ ation, as b = born, d = died, i = interred, Cem = cemetery, m = mar­ ried, ml = first spouse, m2 = second spouse, div = divorced, Twp = Town­ ship, Co = County, A = adopted, chid = child, chldrn = children, dau = daughter, emp = employed or employee, grad = graduate, bus col = busi­ ness college.

Citations of court house documents refer in all cases to Lancaster County, PA unless otherwise noted. Three letters and numbers in paren­ theses, as (A-7-160), refer to (1) Will or Deed Book, (2) Volume, (3) Page.

Explanation of Numbering System

Our senior Immigrant ancestor, Hans Meier who died in 1722, is "M" in the outline. His children, in birth order, become Ml, M2, M3, etc. The children of Ml become Mil, M12, M13, etc. The children of Mil be­ come Mill, M112, M113, etc. (See next page). All of the family of Ml are listed in the outline before M2. All of the family of M2 are list­ ed before M3.

Each digit represents a generation. The tenth child has the sym­ bol 0. The eleventh child becomes a, the twelfth becomes b, the thir­ teenth c, etc. (See pp. 141-142).

The ancestral outline is followed for six generations. The number of Christian Hoover Myers is M32374. We see that he is the fourth child of the seventh child of the third child of the second child, etc. The seventh, or modern generation begins a new outline, with each member of that generation assigned a letter. Some families are now in the twelfth generation, as twins Brian and Byron Dunn, J14111 and J14112, descend­ ants of Christian's son John, and Barry Richard Holmes, Jr., Elllll, descendant of George Bear Myers's daughter Mary. Barry's full number is M32373-E11111. CONTENTS

Chapter Page

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. THE SURNAME MYERS AND VARIANTS 3

2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 7

PART TWO: PENNSYLVANIA

3. "M" HANS MEIER, SR., OF STRASBURG IN THE PEQUEA COLONY 35 4. Ml HANS CONRAD MEIER OF THE PEQUEA COLONY 41 5. M3 JOHN MOYER, THE ELDER, OF LANCASTER TOWNSHIP 43 6. M31 JACOB MEYER, SR., OF MANHEIM TOWNSHIP 59 7. M32 CHRISTIAN MEYER, SR., OF EARL TOWNSHIP AND M322 JOHN 63 8. M33 JOHN MEYER, III, OF EARL TOWNSHIP AND M331 CHRISTIAN 67 9. M34 ABRAHAM MEYER OF LANCASTER TOWNSHIP 71 10. MX1 JOHN MEYER, SR., "THE NEPHEW" OF EARL TOWNSHIP, MX11 JOHN, JR., AND MX12 CHRISTIAN 73 11. M323 CHRISTIAN MEYER, JR., OF EARL AND LEACOCK TOWNSHIPS 77 12. DESCENDANTS OF M323 CHRISTIAN WHO REMAINED IN PENNSYLVANIA 83 13. DESCENDANTS OF M323 CHRISTIAN WHO MIGRATED TO OHIO 87 PART THREE: OHIO

14. M3237 JOHN C MYERS OF GREEN TOWNSHIP, WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO 97 15. M32374 CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS OF PARADISE, WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO 109 16. WINKLER HISTORY 113

PART FOUR: INDIANA

17. M32373 GEORGE BEAR MYERS OF ALLEN COUNTY, INDIANA 137 18. M32373-A ELIZA ANN MYERS WHERRY AURAND 143 19. B JOHN HENRY MYERS, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND DESCENDANTS 144 20. C NANCY ELLEN MYERS MONESMITH 154 21. D ORLANDO DAWSON MYERS 155 22. E MARY CEDELIA MYERS CLEAR 156

PART FIVE: HITHER AND YON

23. DESCENDANTS OF M32374 CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS 165 24. M32374-J JOHN DELNO MYERS 169 25. L LESTER LEE MYERS 175 26. W WILLIAM SCOTT MYERS 187 27. LG LAWRENCE GRANT MYERS 198 28. A ALICE MELISSA MYERS WOLF 200 29. C CHARLES LEVI MYERS 202 30. H HARVEY WINKLER MYERS 203 31. N NORMAN WESLEY MYERS 206 32. FAMILY REUNIONS OF DESCENDANTS OF CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS 216 33. DIRECTORY OF LIVING DESCENDANTS OF CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS 219

yt List of Illustrations

Figure Page PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. Variants of the Surname Myers 4 2. A Landsgemeinde at Glarus 9 3. Portrayal of a Swiss Taufer minister (Diener das Wort) 12 also a weaver by trade 4. Typical figure of a Swiss Brethren preacher about 1750 13 showing long stockings and low shoes 5. Typical figure of a Swiss Brethren woman about 1750 14 showing apron and cap 6. Family surnames in the Palatinate 1664-1717 15 7. Map of central Europe 16 8. The port of Amsterdam about 1690 18 9. Letter from the Palatinate to Anabaptists of Amsterdam 19 describing plight of Anabaptists who fled Switzerland 10. Map of middle colonies 1607-1760 22 11. Mountain portals and river portages to the Ohio country 24 1743-1753 12. The triangular struggle for the Ohio Territory 27 prior to 1763. 13. Naturalization Act of 1729 29

PART TWO: PENNSYLVANIA

14. Journal of the Surveyor General 36 15. German will of Hans Meier, Sr. 37 16. Map showing tracts of Hans Sr. and Hans Conrad in Pequea 39 17. Marriage Agreement, Anna Lichte Meyer and Hans Groff 42 18. Map of City of Lancaster Original Land Grants 44 19. City of Lancaster Map of 1753 45 20. Land Records, Office of the Surveyor General, Patents 49 and Deeds 21. Original Land Grants, Groffdale, Showing Tract Patented 52 to M3 John Moyer (A-7-160) in 17 35 22. Land Records, Earl Township Sons and Nephew 53 23. Land Records, Sons of M3 John Moyer 54 24. Signature of M3 John Moyer and the mark of Maria, his wife 56 25. Second codicil to will of M31 Jacob Meyer, with signature 58 26. Signature of Christian Meyer, Sr., Taken from Inventory 65 of Goods and Chattels of his brother, John Meyer, late of Earl Township, 7 December 1787 27. Diagram showing land descent of Moyer tract in Earl 66 Township 28. View of ancestral land of Myers family in Earl Township 82 showing family cemetery 29. Signature of Christian Meyer, Jr. 82 30. Map, Pennsylvania and Ohio 93

Vtt, PART THREE: OHIO

Figure Page

31. M3237 John Myers 1799-1877 96 32. Residence and datestone, George and Mary Bear, family 97 home of Elizabeth Bear Myers, Lancaster County, PA. 33. Jay and Lee Harvey at Gravestone of Elizabeth Bear Myers 98 Meyer Cemetery, Earl Township, Lancaster County, PA 34. Tract map of Green Township, Wayne County, OH 100 35. John and Catherine Hoover Myers 101 36 Pedigree of John C and Catherine Hoover Myers 102 37. Christian Hoover Myers and Fannie Matilda Winkler Myers 108 38. New home of Paradise Church of the Brethren, and 111 the home of Christian and Matilda Myers, 1919 photo and 1981 photo 39. Signature of Christian H. Myers 112 40. John Winkler, obituary, Margaret Wilford Winkler 114 41. Winkler Horse Company, Orrville, Ohio 120 42. Jennie Winkler 122 43. Hester Taggart, Winkler genealogist 125 44. Hester Taggart with first husband, Amos Funk 125 45. Naomi Byers 126 46. C. A. and Melissa Winkler Spitler 128 47. Home of the John Winkler family, Paradise, Ohio 129

PART FOUR: INDIANA

48. George Bear Myers (a) and Mary Hess Myers (b) 136 49. Plat Map of Allen County, Indiana 138 50. Children of George and Mary Myers 139 51. Family Reunion, Descendants of George and Mary Myers, 1912 140 52. Victoria Belle and Cloe Iome Myers 150 53. Ray Theron and Florence Fleming Myers 155 54. Mary Cedelia Myers Clear 156 55. Family of Robert and Mary Cedelia Myers Clear 157

PART FOUR: HITHER AND YON

56. John Delno and Effie Wheeler Myers 169 57. "Just a Wyoming Holdup." 170 58. Gertrude Edith Myers Keables 171 59. Robert Henry Thew, Sr., and Family 172 60. The Reverend Leslie and Vera Braden Sweetland 173 61. Lucile Sweetland Beetham and Sons Curtis and Craig Hutchison 173 62. Lynn Loughrey 174 63. Lester Lee and Elizabeth Snavely Myers 177 64. Residence of Joseph and Sarah Martin Snavely, Orrville, OH. 177 65. Children of Lester and Elizabeth Myers 177 66. Family of Harold Hoffman 179 67. Family of Loyd Myers 180 68 Albert Myers and and Bertha Hurd (twins), Ninetieth Birthday 181 69 (a) Wanda Myers Kvia, (b) Karen Kvia Dietrich, (c) Michael 182 Kvia (d) Patricia Kvia de Haan

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70. Alta and Edgar Swallow 183 71. Ray Myers, Alta Swallow, Jessie Hubbard, "Bert" Myers 184 72. Bill, Jacqueline and Michael Walters 184 73. Thomas Lester Hubbard 185 74. (a) William Scott Myers (b) Cullie Scott Myers 186 75. W. S. Myers Residence, Houston 191 76. Letterhead, Olive & Myers Mfg. Co., Dallas 191 77. (a) Dorothy and Bob Knowlton, Sr. (b) Laura Knowlton Tidwell 193 (c) Robert A. Knowlton, Jr. (d) Tuleta Ulbrich (e) Joe Wiley Tidwell III 78. (a) Ruth Scott Myers (b) Jay and Lucile Myers 194 79. (a) W. S. "Bill" Myers, Jr. (b) Emily Myers Hood 195 80. Lawrence Grant Myers 198 81. Four Generations: Bess Harrell, Marian Cook, Sharon and 199 Traci Link 82. (a) Alice and Henry Wolf (b) Residence of Alice and Henry Wolf 200 83. Charles and Cora Myers, Alice Wolf and William Spalti Myers 202 84. (a) Harvey Myers (b) Bessie Turnbull Myers (c) Mandas Myers 205 85. Norman and Myra Backensto Myers 207 86. Norman Myers Sons and Daughter 209 87. James Powers Family 210 88. Gene Myers Family 211 89. Norma Myers Standard 212 90. Chris Myers Family (a through e) 213 91. Don Myers, Sr. Family (a through d) 215 92. Reunion, Carrizo Springs, Texas 1979 216 93. Reunion, Estes Park, Colorado 1981 218

vx Chain of Descent of the Myers Family Studied in This Book

FROM

"M" HANS MEIER ca 1670-1722 and Ana Brubacher Meier d after 1722. Late of the Palatinate of the Rhine in Germany, probably Swiss Brethren, later called Mennonites. To the Pequea Creek colony, Lancaster Co PA. to M3 JOHN MOYER ca 1700-1760 and Maria Lenhard Moyer d after 1760. Late of the Palatinate. Lancaster Township, Lancaster Co PA. to M32 CHRISTIAN MEYER, SR., ca 1721-1794 and Mary Erisman Meyer d before 1794. Groffdale, Earl Township, Lancaster Co PA. to M323 CHRISTIAN MEYER, JR., 1761-1802 and Magdalena Hoover Meyer 1772-1838 Earl and Leacock Townships, Lancaster Co PA. to M3237 JOHN C. MYERS 1799-1877 and Elizabeth Bear Myers 1802-1837. From Bareville, Earl Township, Lancaster Co PA to Green Township, Wayne Co OH in 1838. Married Catherine Hoover 1841 who d 1877.

to to

M32373 GEORGE BEAR MYERS 1830-1900 and M32374 CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS 1833-1888 Mary Magdalena Hess Myers 1830-1894 and Fannie Matilda Winkler Myers 1833- Pioneers of Allen Co IN. 1872 Paradise, Green Twp Wayne Co OH.

to to

Certain descendants to 1986 All descendants to 1986

x PART ONE

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

The Surname Myers and Variants

The surname Meyer comes from the Ger­ translated into their English equiva­ man speaking countries of Europe. In lent. Thus, Stein became Stone, Zim­ feudal times, it was a high-ranking, merman became Carpenter, Groff (Graf, though non-royal, title on the estate Graeff) became Earl. But English or­ of a nobleman. The meier was steward thography was by no means standardized or head servant over the peasants on in the eighteenth century. Twentieth the land (Smith 351). He collected century readers are far more sensitive rents, kept accounts, and rounded up to deviant spellings of all words than soldiers in time of war. He was given were readers of that day. Spelling for his personal use a tract of land, standards, including surnames, gained farmed by peasants. Originally, nei­ favor in the United States with the ther the land nor the title was heredi­ coming of public school education and tary, but as the feudal system deterio­ usage of dictionaries, early in the rated the meier was permitted to pass nineteenth century. Before that time, both on to his heirs. A dispute over surnames, particularly those from the the entitlement of the term meier German language in Lancaster County, arose in Switzerland in 1476. The might be spelled several ways, even matter was debated by the Earl of within a family or by a single individ­ Aarberg and Duke Karl von Burgund, ual. For this reason, in genealogical with the former defending the original research, all possible variants must be use of the name. The Duke, being of considered, with little or no signifi­ higher rank, prevailed. Henceforth, in cance placed on variations. Switzerland the title carried no sig­ nificance (Staub 12). It is customary for publishers of family histories to adopt a single The name was spelled Meyer or spelling of the surname, uniformly Meier by Swiss refugees in the Palat­ throughout the book. In the present inate following the Thirty Years War instance, however, the name spelling in (Diefenbacher 118-22). Usually it the signatures on wills and deeds of appeared with the umlaut (two dots) our direct ancestors (as we read them) above the first "e". In colonial Penn­ evolved with each generation from Meier sylvania, English authorities had much to Moyer to Meyer, and finally to difficulty, and perhaps little pa­ Myers. Myers became the permanent tience, in spelling German names. spelling adopted by those descendants They Anglicized these names phoneti­ of Christian Meyer (1761-1802) who mi­ cally in a variety of ways in court grated to Ohio. The author finds it records, often paying little heed to jarring, and historically inaccurate, the signatures of parties to the to employ the final spelling at the out­ action. Some German surnames were set. For this reason, the evolution of Ma her Mahers Mahor Mahors Mahr Mahrer Mahrers Mahrs Maier Maiers Mair Mai re Maires Mairs Mauer Mauers Mawer Mawers Mawyer Mawyers Mayer Mayers Mayeur Mayeurs Mayhar Mayhars Mayhe r Mayhers Mayor Mayors Mayr Mayrs

Mear Mears Meer Meers Mehr Mehrs Meiar Meiars Meier Meiers Meir Meirs Mers Meyer Meyers Mier Mieras Miers Mire Mires Moier Moiers Moyer Moyers Myar Myars Myer Myers My her Myhers Myre Myres

Fig. 1. Variants of the surname Myers. the name spelling is reflected in the on land purchased by his great-grand­ Pennsylvania section of the book. father, Hans Meier, patented by his grandfather, Hans (John) Moyer, deeded The greatest problem for family to his father, Christian, Sr., and from historians of the Swiss and German him to our Christian, who was Chris­ settlers in Lancaster County during tian, Jr., 1761-1802. At the death of the eighteenth century arose because his widow the land was sold by his their sons and daughters were named heirs, including our John Myers, 1799- from very short lists of Christian 1877. This chain of land records, names. (The eldest son was usually passed from father to son, refutes any named for the paternal grandfather, claim to descent from Vincent Meyer. rarely after himself). In time, for example, a number of Christian Meyers, According to the notes of Isaac John Meyers, and Jacob Meyers resided Hoover as recorded in the Hoover book simultaneously in the area. More than previously mentioned, the parents of one of these might have a wife Barba­ Vincent, 1721-1797, were Hans and Barba­ ra, or Christina, or Mary Magdalena. ra Landis Meyer, Swiss Mennonites who It is all but impossible, therefore, were married in the Palatinate in 1709 to differentiate these various lines and arrived in Pennsylvania with two unless a continuity of land records children before Vincent was born. This can be established. Hans died in 1754, hence could not be our Hans who died in 1722. Nothing fur­ There has been much confusion in ther is known of their two older chil­ sorting the several Christian Meyers dren, who could not, in any case, be­ who died at the turn of the nineteenth long to our family. century. For example, it has been re­ ported that our Christian, 1761-1802, In the United States, the surname was a son of Vincent Meyer, 1721-1797, has been Anglicized into more than six­ whose grandfather, Vincent Meyer, a ty variants (See Figure 1). The spell­ Mennonite minister, died in Zurich in ing Myers is most frequent, belonging 1700. This is incorrect. A compari­ to 217,000 persons in 1969, thus rank­ son of the two Christians, our own and ing 69th in popularity over all names. the son of Vincent, is made elsewhere The second most-used variant, Meyer, (Hoover 25-28). We have verified by belonged in 1969 to 148,500 persons land records that our Christian lived (Smith). Chapter 1

Works Cited

Diefenbacher, Karl, Hans Ulrlch Pflater, Kurt H. Staub, Frledrich und Ludwlg Tobler, et al. Schwel- Hotz. Swiss Immigrants Into the Kralchgau zerlsches Idlotlkon. Worterbuch der Schwelzer after the Thirty Years War. Stuttgart, 1983. deutschen Sprache. Gesammelt auf Veranstaltung der Antlquarlschen Gesellschaft In Zurich unter Hoover, Harry M. The Huber-Hoover Family Bel, History. Scottdale: Menaonlte Publishing hulfe aus alien Krelsen des Schwelzervolkes. House, 1928. Herausgegeben mlt Unterstutzung des Bundes und der Kantone. Smith, Eldon C. The New Dictionary of American Frauenfeld: Names. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Verlag von J. Huber, 1901.

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The significance of the 1710-1717 set­ years the alpine land has been a cross­ tlement by some 30 families of Swiss roads for men and women traveling up Mennonites and a few others in what and down the rivers by boat, by horse became Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and by foot. It is a coveted spot is little recognized or understood. where people exchange ideas, culture The history of America, and of the and wealth. In modern times, the western world, turned on their quiet, Swiss have held their fortunate posi­ circumspect arrival into the heart of tion by building a complex of fast Penn's Woods. They were the right trains, highways, airports and air­ people, in the right place, at the lines . right time. To understand why this is so, one must take a deep, broad look This tiny area of prosperity, nes­ back into history. tled in the security of immense, gla­ cier-covered mountains, was fought Switzerland over many times in its ancient past as migrating civilizations vied for con­ High in the Swiss Alps in a field trol of the headwaters and mountain of wildflowers, there is a small clear passes. Not until the seventeenth cen­ brook, narrow enough to jump across, tury did the Swiss find a way to with­ with fish swimming lazily across its draw from conflict and create an oasis bottom. Here the headwaters of the of lasting peace, even as war raged on great rivers of Europe join the melt­ all sides. Like the eye of a hurri­ ing Alpine snow to plunge downward in cane, they have become the crossroads thousands of waterfalls, under high­ sanctuary of the world. ways, across lakes and over dams to the Rhine River of France, Austria, The Swiss burst onto the pages of Germany, and Holland on the north, to history in 107 B.C. when a tribe of the Rhone of France on the west, and Helvetii left their home on the Rhine southward to the Ticino and the Po of to attack, conquer, and subjugate a the Italian boot. Nearby and farther Roman army. Though subsequently rout­ down the Alps another small stream ed and made a Roman colony, they were marks the beginning of the Inn/Danube, permitted to rule themselves. "Weal­ Great Mother River to the ancient thy with gold," wrote a Greek philoso­ tribes of eastern Europe. pher of the Helvetii. "Outdoing all other Gauls in martial valour," wrote Switzerland is called the heart of a Roman historian. They wrote in Europe because these rivers have been Greek script. They circulated money in the life blood of civilization since 300 B.C. They left as their heritage a prehistoric times. For six thousand decentralized political system, frag- mented in small units, which has re­ land was accomplished with completion mained a permanent feature of Switzer­ of the great St. Gotthard Pass, a land throughout its history. From short, new route between Germany and them the future nation derives its of­ Italy, and between Flanders and the ficial name: Confoederatio Helvetica. Adriatic. It was only a mule path. It was a north-south pass which, once In 47 A.D. the Romans completed a man entered, he must turn back or the great St. Bernard Pass for the wag­ follow to the end. It was accessible on trains of their armies, thus stimu­ only through narrow valleys prone to lating the flow of transcontinental avalanche. Despite these disadvanta­ traffic. This created an era of great ges, it came instantly into popular prosperity for the Helvetii, who adop­ use as a shortcut by pilgrims, sol­ ted the Latin language and converted diers, and traders. The northern ac­ to Christianity. Cities flourished, cess was by Lake Lucerne, suddenly among them Aventicum, now Zurich. For bringing into prominence the remote the first time their dual vocation forest city-states of Uri, Schwyz, and became, in their own words, "to be [a] Unterwalden, at the north end of the rampart and ineluctable thoroughfare lake. Both the emperor and the ruling all in one" (Gross 8). dynasts were determined to protect their vested interests in the entrance Over time, the land of the Helve­ to the great new pass. tii was invaded and overrun by tribes of Teutons (northern barbarians): Following the Crusades, the feudal first the Burgundians, later the Ala- system had weakened and the nobility manni (Swabians), and finally the was heavily in debt. The practice was Franks. The Burgundians and Franks begun of allowing cities and villages were Christians who adopted the Latin to purchase their freedom under the language and were assimilated into the protection of the emperor. Uri ob­ Helvetian culture. The Alamanni ar­ tained its freedom in 1231. Schwyz rived in the fourth century, possibly won this protection in 1240, but the driven from Germany by the invasions privilege was contested by the local of Attila the Hun. They were a rough, dynasts. Unterwalden, which consisted uncouth, pagan people who refused to of two communities on either side of speak any language other than their the lake, failed to obtain these privi­ own, and who did not accept Christian­ leges. The people of Schwyz took up ity until the eighth century. They arms in revolt against the local dy­ drove an ever-widening wedge between nasts. They received, in lieu of a the two Latin-speaking groups. The franchise, their banner: a red cross language of the western group evolved on a white field. Both the name and into French. The Alamanni retained the flag were to become legacies to their own customs and traditions with Switzerland from the people of the heavy emphasis on local autonomy. canton of Schwyz.

Feudal regimes appeared toward the In 1291, the emperor died. Losing end of the ninth century, and lands of no time, two weeks into the interreg­ the Alamanni came under the rule of num on August 1, the three communities the Duke of Swabia, becoming part of signed a pact of mutual assistance "to the Hapsburg Empire called Upper Ger- last, if God will, forever," declaring mania. themselves free of the Hapsburg Em­ pire. Though not recognized at the In the thirteenth century a giant time, this was the birth of Switzer­ leap in the progress of future Switzer­ land . The carefully worded document, still preserved at Schwyz, was the work of well-educated people, suggest­ ing the cooperation of the ruling houses. The cantons (states) agreed to give allegiance to any ruling over­ lord who might have jurisdiction at that time, but only to those who were natives who had not purchased their commissions. Legend relates (with a bit of archeological evidence) that the revolt was provoked by Wilhelm (William) Tell, who refused to bow to the burgher's hat, on a tall pole. The legend grew. Seven centuries later, the spirit of Wilhelm Tell would still be celebrated annually by the proud, free and independent people of Switzer­ land.

The Hapsburg emperor, angered by the rebellion signified by the pact, and eager to regain his control, out­ fitted his heavy cavalry with two or three thousand knights in heavy armor for the attack. He was soundly defeat­ ed by a thousand foot soldiers at Mort- garten in 1315. This was repeated at Laupen in 1339, Sempach in 1386 (here 6000 of the emperor's finest heavily armored horsemen were defeated by the (A)ICT photo by Stmts National Tourist Office) little army of sure-footed soldiers), and again at Nafels in 1389. The silk banners carried to victory in these Fig. 2. A Landsgemeinde at Glarus battles may still be seen at the National Museum in Schwyz.

By now the fame of the Swiss sol­ by city and community. Due to the com­ diers had spread across the continent pulsory service clause, it is estima­ and they were much in demand as merce­ ted they were capable, if necessary, naries, bringing payment in gold back of enlisting 80,000 men. to their cantons. Other communities were eager to join the alliance. By Swiss government was based on a 1332 the Confederacy had become the form of direct democracy known as the VIII Cantons, having added Lucerne, Landsgemeinde, an ancient institution Zurich, Glarus, Zug, and Bern, all in once common to all Swiss cantons and the loose alliance of mutual defense dating back to the thirteenth century under varying terms. Though it did (See Figure 2). In all matters the not possess a national army, it was community was competent to decide in the only power in Europe capable of the first instance and the canton de­ mobilizing truly national troops and cided only on appeal. Each canton grouping them under their own banners sent delegates to the "Diet" with one vote and unanimity was the rule. Arbi­ serve as guards in the royal courts of tration and mediation were essential Europe. (The Vatican is still protec­ elements of the structure, a slow and ted by the colorful Swiss guard wear­ painstaking process. There was no ing the bright cardinal-and-gold silk central government. Today only a few pantaloons of the uniform designed by cantons meet annually in the Landsge- Michelangelo). meinde to elect magistrates for the coming year, by a show of hands, to The Confederacy was not expanded vote "Yes" or "No" for any new canton­ for 300 years. Switzerland has not al legislation. In the old days they declared war on anyone in more than convened whenever matters of national 500 years. importance had to be decided. In 1765, for example, the people of Schwyz were Instead, it now struggled to assim­ called twenty-four times to vote on ilate a widely divergent and heteroge­ urgent matters (Moore 57). neous population under the loose con­ straints of a variety of alliances, The Swiss Confederation was formed often resolved by internecine wars. for mutual defense, making no attempt There were now five forms of govern­ to challenge the rights of the local ment within the tiny country: the prim­ feudal lords. Over time however many itive democracy or "People's Repub­ ruling houses were eliminated, leaving lic," Federative States where the pow­ the citizenry free. Schwyz and Unter­ er is vested in the community, Corpora­ walden became champions of the people tive States or oligarchies, Patrician in opposition to feudal lords and States governed by distinguished fami­ towns with feudal policy. Elsewhere lies, and Monarchies, both secular and in Europe, the spirit of democracy ecclesiastical (Gross 48-49). Slavery died a slow death. In Switzerland the was practiced in some cantons. Landsgemeinde became the motivating power of the Confederation. In time the country rid itself of feudal barons and princes who had Encouraged by their military suc­ grown into monarchs. They were often cesses, the Confederates began a peri­ replaced by commercial interests or od of conquest to relieve overpopula­ oligarchs who succeeded in widening tion in their prosperous valleys and their power bases without ever estab­ to drive out the last vestiges of the lishing an egalitarian form of govern­ Hapsburg from the surrounding terri­ ment. Four national languages emerged tory. Though each of the Confederates and remain permanently: German, acted on its own, they followed a con­ French, Italian, and Romansch. Three- certed plan. During this period, the fourths of the population speak "Schwy- Confederacy expanded to XIII Cantons zerdeutsch," a German-Swiss dialect with the annexation of Fribourg, Solo- with many local variations. All of thurn, Basle, Schaffhausen and Appen- these heterogeneous groups are con­ zell, and the last bonds with the Haps­ tained in a nation of XXVI Cantons In burg Empire were broken. But the en­ an area only 140 miles wide, about thusiasm for soldiering was diminish­ twice the size of Yellowstone National ing, and ended abruptly when, at Marig- Park. nano in the Italian theatre in 1515, Swiss mercenaries found themselves on As the Confederates struggled a- opposing sides and one camp soundly mong themselves to establish comfort­ defeated the other with great loss of able alliances, they were beset with life. They withdrew from the politi­ other problems arising outside their cal arena, though they continued to borders. Fifteenth-century explora-

10 tion and discovery opened vast new nations of Europe. Most of the great trade routes to the New World and to religious leaders of the Reformation the East, leaving the old trade cen­ had no notion of religious freedom for ters along the rivers of Europe to individual men and women. Luther, wither and die, just as towns in our Zwingli, and Calvin all sought and won century often die when bypassed by a the approval of state government for a new freeway. While seafaring nations compulsory state church with member­ struggled for the riches to be found ship from cradle to grave required of in overseas trade or plunder, the heav­ every citizen. This is not to say the ily populated inland nations of Europe idea of religious freedom did not ex­ sank into economic decline. A rising ist. There was a groundswell of enthu­ middle class encroached on property siasm for a free church among the fol­ previously owned by both the rich and lowers of each of these men, who were the poor. The nobility sought relief bitterly disappointed when their pleas by increasing taxes, which the peas­ for separation of church and state ants could not pay. Out of the econom­ were rejected and their connection to ic chaos, with the classes pitted one the movement was disavowed. State against the other, a new target came armies were enlisted to enforce the under attack: the Roman Catholic state religion under penalty of death, Church, whose tithes were collected whether Roman Catholic or Protestant from all people, from birth until Reformed. death, for the redemption of their souls. Over the centuries the church In little Switzerland, with its had grown decadent, corrupt and, seem­ Landsgemelnde and its ideals of free­ ingly, impervious to change. dom, independence and democracy, resis­ tance to oppression had been building. A powerful tool for overcoming the In 1519, two years after Luther's 95 heavy burdens of the masses by educa­ Theses, it formed under one man, Ul- tion was the printing press, invented rich Zwingli, a Catholic priest of the by Gutenberg about 1450. The new mid­ Grossmunster Cathedral of Zurich, also dle classes learned to read, and what an army chaplain and humanist. Zwing­ they read most were the Bible and li was more radical than Luther, con­ Psalter. The Holy Word passed out demning not only the Roman church but from the Church and into the hands of the miseries of the mercenary system ordinary men. Increasingly literate as well. He hoped to convert the Diet groups began to study and debate so­ to his creed, but was opposed by those cial and religious ideas, and clamor who favored the mercenary system as a for reform. means of subsistence, and by those in rural areas where church abuses were The Reformation not keenly felt. A special Diet con­ demned Zwingli. War broke out, and When in 1517 Martin Luther, a Cath­ Zwingli was killed in battle in 1531. olic priest teaching at a university At the peace of Kappel, the Diet in Wittenberg, Germany, drew up a list brought the Reformation to a halt in of 95 suggestions for change within Switzerland with enactment of a new the Church, the public response was rule: the status quo, which arbitrar­ overwhelming. He could not have Imag­ ily divided the country confessionally ined that his movement would leave the into six Protestant and seven Catholic Catholic Church diminished almost by cantons, later balanced evenly when half in the western world as new Prot­ Appenzell split into two half-cantons, one on either side. Geneva, which had estant churches, including his own, come under the strong influence of were adopted by the governments of the

11 John Calvin, was not yet a member of less inhabitants and their property. the Swiss Confederacy, having sought By 1648, the population of Germany was admission and been denied. It was ad­ reduced from 20,000,000 to 12,500,000 mitted later following the collapse of (Neuman and Groff 2). Protestantism the Napoleonic Empire. The Swiss Re­ still prevailed, though strife and con­ formed Church, often credited to the troversy would continue, and it would teachings of Calvin, was in fact the be many years before Germany recovered creed of Zwingli (Kubly 99-100) . A from the annihilation. long-ranging result of the legislation following the peace at Kappel was The Anabaptists Swiss political neutrality during the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. Swiss abstention from that war, in which her neighbors were decimated, was not the result of a principle of neutrality, but from the constraints imposed by the Diet.

The religious revolution in Germa­ ny angered and distressed Hapsburg Em­ peror Charles V, whose already scat­ tered and chaotic empire was heavily engaged in wars against the French and the Turks. He was determined to sup­ press the Protestants, but in 1555, af­ ter nine years of indecisive fighting, he agreed to permit each of his more than 300 princes to choose between Lu- theranism and Roman Catholicism in his own province.

The Protestant Reformation begun by Luther was followed by a Counter- Reformation of the Catholic church. It was led by Philip II of Spain who, surfeited with wealth from the New World, attempted to regain for the Vat­ ican its Protestant holdings on the continent and in England. In 1588, his Spanish Armada was sunk as he at­ tempted to reach the shores of Eng­ land. Both Spain and France overran Fig. 3. Portrayal of a Swiss Taufer the inland countries, leaving them dev­ minister, also a weaver by trade. astated. The Thirty Years' War was the last and bloodiest of the reli­ gious wars accompanying the Roman Counter-Reformation. For three dec­ As each state government adopted ades hostile German and foreign armies either Roman church or Reformed, not and their swarms of camp followers only were there many disappointed fol­ tramped back and forth across Germany, lowers of the opposing group, but a raping, killing, burning, and looting third group was left behind as well. with religious fanaticism the defense­ These were the advocates of freedom

12 from any state church. They believed their long-established manorial rights baptism of the child should be delayed and privileges, such as free use of until he or she could choose voluntari­ meadows and woodlands. When their mod­ ly as an adult. Because this violated est demands were ignored, the peasants the laws of both state and church, it erupted in a bloody rampage, killing was regarded as both treason and here­ and burning in Luther's name. Luther sy, punishable by cruel tortures, im­ repudiated them and called on civil au­ prisonment, or death, under the edict, thorities to suppress the revolt by "recantation or extermination." force. In the end, both sides blamed Luther, who incurred the anger of Prot­ Some early Anabaptists in Germany estant and Catholic alike. As a re­ were violent activists. Both peasants sult, South Germany became a permanent and aristocracy were losing ground to Catholic stronghold. a growing middle class. The aristoc­ racy began depriving the peasants of John of Leyden, a violent Anabap­ tist dictator, took control of the town of Munster in northwest Germany. After sieges of more than a year the leaders were captured by Lutheran and Roman Catholic armies. They were tor­ tured to death and their bodies hung in iron baskets from a church tower for three hundred and fifty years (Har­ rison & Sullivan 368, 371).

The great majority of Anabaptist leaders, though, were pious and gen­ tle. Conrad Grebel, the first Anabap­ tist leader, was from an upper-class family in Zurich. Menno Simons, prob­ ably the most successful, was a gentle man. George Fox, who founded the Soci­ ety of Friends (Quakers) In the mid- seventeenth century, also preached pi­ ety and pacifism; his followers have spread to many parts of the world and have furnished two presidents of the United States.

In Switzerland these Anabaptists, or "Taufers," as they were called, sup­ ported Zwingli until he denounced them in Zurich in 1523. In 1525 they as­ sembled under Conrad Grebel, who was killed in battle the following year. Many fled to Bern where for a time they were relatively safe. But on 13 October 1530, their leader, Pfister Fig. 4. Typical figure of a Swiss Myer, registered a complaint to Ber­ Brethren preacher about 17SO, show­ nese authorities protesting abuses by ing long stockings and low shoes. government officials. The following year a debate was held, later printed

13 and circulated, entitled, "A Christian faith. Many held out hope that condi­ Discussion between Pfister Myer and tions would improve for them in Swit­ the Reformed Preachers." Bernese zerland so they might return, but mat­ authorities complained Myer was too ters grew steadily worse as Berne de­ strong. Again in 1538, he participa­ termined to drive every Taufer from ted in a group discussion called by the land. the two towns of Houssten (Hochstet- ten) and Signau, where it was noted In the Palatinate, too, life grew that he had done good work at Soffin- more harsh, .with added burdens placed gen. Copies of these discussions are on their already overtaxed lives. in the State Archives in Bern (Eshle- Years of quiet desperation passed be­ man 39-40, 48). fore their prayers for a better life were answered. It is doubtful that The Anabaptists lived in hope that any of these Anabaptists survived the conditions would improve, that they Thirty Years' War in the Palatinate. would be permitted to live in peace, and off and on times were better. Then there would be purge years when they were rounded up by bounty hunters for reward, their property confisca­ ted. They were imprisoned, branded, tortured, and sold as galley slaves in Venice and on the Rhine. Some fled or were driven to seek asylum in an area of Germany known as the Palatinate, un­ der varying conditions of tolerance. In 1592 at Wier-in-Baden, one Matthias Myers was arrested by a priest who had sent a servant maid to Myers to pre­ tend she wanted to become an Anabap­ tist. Myers was then drowned in a most horrible way by holding him under water for long intervals, then drawing him out to induce him to recant. He died steadfast (Eshleman 70).

As a result of Swiss neutrality during the Thirty Years' War the popu­ lation of Switzerland increased, but its impoverished trading partners could not afford to buy Swiss prod­ ucts. Conditions worsened, and relief was sought wherever it could be had. The "Taufers," as the Swiss Brethren were called, once again became targets for extermination. During these purge years, large numbers of Anabaptists fled with their lives, their faith, and little else, to the Palatinate. But they never felt at home among Fig. 5. Typical figure of a Swiss their ancient enemies, the Hapsburg Brethren woman about 1750, showing Germans, who despised them for their apron and cap.

14 Swiss Anabaptists Of The Surname Mayer Who Were Present and Arrested For Illegal Assembly at the Meeting at Steinfurth Visited on 2 March 166T, (Best 4)

Residence Name No. in family Assessment

Reihen Michael Mayer, wife, dau 3 300 fl. Steinsfurth Hans Mayer 2 200 fl. Vincent Mayer 3 250 fl.

Mayer and Brubacher Surnames Appearing On Palatinate Mennonite Census Lists 1664-1717 (Bender 5)

Year Place Name

1664 Obersultzen Werner Mayer 1685 Gundersheim Jakob Meyer 4 Sohne 0 Tochter 1685 Verzeichnis auf dem Ibersheimerhof Hans Jacob Brubacher hat noch keine Kinder 1685 Rudelsheim Hans Mayer Hausfrau Anna Baumannin, 9 kinder, 2 sind in der Ehe, 7 hat er noch bei sich. 1685 Reyheim Samuel Mayer 1685 Steinsfurt Vincenz Mayer 1685 " Hans Mayer der alt 1685 " Hans Mayer der jung 1706 der Stadt Mannheim Ulrich Meyer 1717 Branchweilerhof Wilhelm Mayer 1717 Mannheim Ulrich Mayer 1717 Reyhen Samuel Mayer 1717 " Hans Mayer der alt, ein abgelebter Mann fur 1/2 Familie. 1717 " Michael Mayer 1717 " Hans Mayer der jung 1717 Weingarten Johannes Mayer

Note: The surnames Mayer, Brubacher and Leonhardt appear with some frequency on Palatinate Mennonite Census Lists for years 1724-1759, after the arrival in America of ancestors of the family traced in this book. The surname Lenhardt does not appear prior to 1731.

Fig. 6 Family surnames in the Palatinate.

15 The Religious Situation Long. East 10 of CrggMch in Central Europe about 1618. Lutherans _^ Gabinists f, j ZmingUans "\ Sortitions Roman Catholics , Reclaimed, to Roman Catholicism 1 -I Greek. Orthodox {^^Mohammedans

Abbreviations. r Archbishopric, Ah.-Abbacy, •Rishopric,;C.:(bunb-, H.Jhwhv, ^ect.FleOoratef¥^C.-Frec " County (Frcntht Comxt'>,- K :Ki/todom,. M.-Jfargrarale.V. Prindpalily. n ' Palatini; RKR-TbpultLU- Scale 1:9000000

Fig.^ 7. Map of Central Europe showing Palatinate of the Rhine river.

16 After 1648, they were welcomed into was the scene of a flourishing civili­ the devastated area to help repopulate zation based on trade, mineral wealth the land, but only under strict condi­ and agriculture. The Rhine and many tions and penalties. Many hoped even­ of its tributaries have the capacity tually to return to a more tolerant for carrying sea-going vessels and Switzerland, or to relocate elsewhere, barge trains of large size. but some remained in the Palatinate for two or more generations. The Palatinate was extremely weal­ thy and therefore much coveted by both The Palatinate Protestants and Catholics during the Thirty Years' War. At war's end it One of the favorite sight-seeing lay empty and desolate, villages deser­ experiences for Americans in Europe is ted, farm houses and crops burned, the the half-day, round-trip scenic cruise land a frozen field of ice and snow. along the Rhine River south of Frank­ Any Mennonites living in Germany prior fort, Germany, through the segment of to 1648 would likely have been destroy­ the river valley once known as the Pal­ ed, but few records of that period re­ atinate or, in German, the Pfaltz. main. The Palatinate derives its name from the Latin "palatium" or palace, and From 1648 until his death in 1680, was originally given to the imperial Elector Karl Ludwig was ruler of the castles where the emperor stayed on Palatinate. (An elector was one of his journeys through Germany. The seven persons who elected the emper­ chief official of these castles was or). Eager to repopulate his terri­ Count Palatine, and later the most tory and bring the land under produc­ important of these was the Count Pal­ tion, he issued an invitation to the atine of the Rhine. Here, along both poor and persecuted of other nations shores of the broad, winding river, to settle there, with offers of cer­ are hills dotted with fairy-tale cast­ tain limited privileges to those wish­ les and valleys laden with vineyards. ing to relocate. Anabaptists were ac­ There are islands in the river, some cepted under specific conditions: (1) with a castle from which the noblemen they could assemble in groups of twen­ exacted tolls from river traffic. The ty or fewer individuals, but only in romantic quality of this picturesque their own homes; (2) they could not region belles the tragedy and blood­ perform baptisms on threat of expul­ shed of its long and painful history. sion; (3) their leaders must maintain complete lists of all individuals, re­ The Rhine River rises in Switzer­ vised to include new arrivals, and (4) land, and follows a winding northward each head of household must pay three descent of 820 miles along the Swiss- florins protection money the first Austrian, Swiss-German, and Franco-Ger­ year, and six florins annually there­ man borders before crossing northwest­ after (Newman and Groff iv). ern Germany and the Netherlands to reach the North Sea. It is both histor­ The Mennonites of the Netherlands ically and economically the most impor­ tant river in Europe. Its valley forms Perhaps the most fortunate Swiss the ancient highways from the North Anabaptists were those who found their Sea to the Swiss alps, and across the way to the Dutch Netherlands at the Alps to the Danube and the Black Sea. mouth of the Rhine where in 1536 a per­ Trade from the Netherlands to the Alps manent congregation formed under a con­ has followed the Rhine since prehistor­ verted Roman Catholic Priest, Menno ic times. By the early Middle Ages it Simons. They adopted his name, "Men-

17 Utf5fi.-5.v-:

AMST E R D A M

77if Port of Amsterdam about 1690

nonite." Here, too, a schism devel­ assisted in finding permanent homes oped whereby a more strict version of for the dispossessed. Extensive cor­ the faith joined Jacob Ammann and took respondence has been preserved, docu­ the name "Amish." These groups sur­ menting these relief efforts and de­ vived under a benign government which scribing this sad chapter in the reli­ they were careful to respect. They gious history of Europe. were quiet and cautious in their activ­ ities, and performed low-paying work While records in the Palatinate so as not to arouse the envy of their have largely been translated and pub­ neighbors. The Mennonites were in Am­ lished, a great body of material ex­ sterdam when the Pilgrims arrived from ists in Amsterdam, awaiting Inspection England. The Pilgrims remained for by historians. For more than a centu­ nine years in Holland before their mi­ ry these letters and other documents gration to America on the Mayflower in have been organized and classified to 1620. Some of their number joined the facilitate research, but the English- Mennonites (Willison 78-79). speaking world has been slow to take advantage of this valuable storehouse These Mennonites of the Nether­ of historical information (Horst 3-7). lands, who numbered about 250 in 1710, This is particularly significant to for many, many years performed mission­ the Myers family studied in this book, ary services on behalf of their desti­ for several members of the family were tute Swiss brethren. They sent ships classified as "Dutch inhabitants" In to Berne to rescue those held in pris­ the Lancaster County census, and they on, and redeemed those sold as galley brought guilders with them. These rec­ slaves. They provided emergency funds ords in the Dutch and German languages to those who arrived, naked and star­ may some day provide proof as to wheth­ ving, in the Palatinate, and they er we were Mennonites and Swiss.

18 WE THE UNDERSIGNED MINISTERS OF THE CHRISTIAN ANABAPTIST CONGREGATION IN THE ELECTORATE OF THE PALATINATE, WISH ALL OUR DEAR BROTHERS AND CO-RELIGIONISTS IN ALL CITIES AND PLACES WHERE THIS MAY BE MADE KNOWN, MUCH GRACE AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY REDEEMER AND SAV­ IOR IN (THE) POWER AND AID OF THE HOLY GHOST. AMEN.

Dear Brothers, we have not been able very well to miss the opportunity to emphasize and make known, how it (is for) our dear friends and co-religionists, who have lived many years, up to now, in SWTZERLAND, and have been tolerated favorably un­ der the Government of the Magistrate's Office of the City of BERN, now because of their disfavor with their government (they have been) put in disgrace and following this (have been) driv­ en out of their fatherland, bereft of their property, and thus have arrived in the great poverty in this cold, uncomfortable time of the year, here at our place and whom we also have taken in and accepted, and according to our wealth (we) have taken care of all their destitutions as much as has been possible for us. But since these Friends, driven out, are completely naked and without means, and are about 640 souls, we find ourselves here too weak and poor in order to help them so far that each one will be able to help himself and earn his living. For this reason, it is our very friendly request to our dear Brothers and Sisters where (ever) this may be manifested or read, that yet each one according to his opportunity be so kind as to prove (his) charity and (that) these above-mentioned persecuted Friends, who have left behind their temporal goods because of the truth of the Holy Gospel, may be taken care of in their poverty. We trust (that) the Friends will manifest a work of mercy in this (affair). Which the LORD JESUS will repay again so richly in his time: thus whenever only a cup of cold water is given him in the name of a disciple, (it) will not be left unrecompensed. AND HEREWITH SHORTENING (THIS). CHARGING YOU ALL TOGETHER (IN) TO THE MERCIFUL PROTECTION OF THE MOST HIGH, (WE) WILL, AFTER VERY FRIENDLY GREETINGS. REMAIN YOUR WILLING- TO-SERVE AND DUTIFUL BROTHERS IN CHRIST,

VALENTINE HUETWOL CHRISTIAEN PETERS JACOB EVERLINGH JACOB GUT ULLY SEYLER HANS LUSCHER

Dated 1/11 (Jan) 1672 from Valentin Huetwohl in Kriegsheim, Germany to Anabaptist Community in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Translated from the Dutch. One of many letters describing the plight of Swiss Anabaptists who fled from Switzerland. (Neuman S< Groff, pp. 81,82.)

Fig. 9. Letter from the Palatinate to Amsterdam seeking aid for Swiss Brethren newly arrived from Switzerland.

19 The Age of Discovery Juan de Barajas remained invincible, and their success was limited largely Exploration by the nation states to piracy on the high seas. The three of Europe during the fifteenth century nations colonized islands of the Carib­ changed forever the economic and polit­ bean for slave trade in exchange for ical face of Europe and the world. Af­ goods to be used at home. ter Portugal had pushed around the Cape of Good Hope to India, the Pope, France strengthened her ties with in 1493, obligingly divided the world the Roman church, permitting only into two halves, giving all rights of those of that faith to settle in her discovery in the western hemisphere colonial empire. French colonists, (except Brazil) to Spain, and all of then, were largely missionaries and the eastern hemisphere (plus Brazil) fur traders in the great forests of to Portugal. Both countries remained the St. Lawrence River valley, the fiercely loyal to the church of Rome, Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. driving from the Iberian peninsula the They were usually single men, adven­ Moors, the Jews, and all opposing reli­ turers who planned to be away from gious believers. Missionaries carried home just long enough to acquire the Catholic faith to the New World wealth before returning to France to even as ancient civilizations were marry and settle down. English colo­ plundered for treasure to be returned nists, on the other hand, fled pover­ to Spain, Portugal, and the Vatican in ty, religious persecution and politi­ Rome. Spain built an invincible fort­ cal danger. They wanted little more ress, San Juan de Barajas, at Cartage­ than an opportunity to build a new na, Columbia, on a mountain of rock in home and a new life, free of the reli­ a well-protected bay. Here gold, sil­ gious persecutions suffered under a ver and jewels were gathered from state church whose tenets disagreed throughout the Spanish New World for with their own. This urge to relocate an annual flotilla (convoy) by galle­ brought English colonists by the thou­ ons over the "Spanish Main" ocean high­ sands and established a solid, stable way back to Spain. Spain and Portugal population. By 1700, there were about became the world's leading imperial 250,000 English-American colonists, and commercial powers. It is said the compared with some 13,000 French. Spaniards paid no taxes for 300 years. Despite the presence of a relative­ England and France arrived late to ly large English population, for a hun­ the New World. By 1607, when the dred years after Jamestown, English first permanent English colony was settlements clung to a narrow crescent founded in North America, a quarter of of land along the Atlantic seacoast a million Spaniards had settled in the and coastal plains. Settlers from the Spanish New World. Christianity had British Isles feared the dangers lurk­ been carried by many distinguished ing in the great deep forests which missionaries. Cathedrals had been began almost at the seashore and ex­ built and several universities had tended west as far as anyone knew. been established. The Spanish married England's claim to all land "from sea Indians; the English, as a rule, did to sea" was secured merely by a sliver not. The beautiful native American of settlements on the eastern coast civilizations of Spanish America were from Maine to the Carolinas. Spain destroyed and lost forever. occupied territory from Cape Horn to Florida and Arizona. France claimed Though England and France sought the Great Lakes with a fort at De­ to capture the Spanish treasure, San troit, and the Mississippi River val-

20 ley, including Louisiana. From the At­ literature. lantic seacoast to the Mississippi River lay a great uncharted, almost un­ Sir William Penn died in 1670, rec­ broken, mass of green verdure. Hos­ onciled to his son's Quakerism, and tile Indians, wild animals, and the young William inherited his father's risk of countless hardships diminished estates in England and Ireland. Find­ English hopes for New World conquest. ing the Quaker meetinghouse In Grace- church Street, London, padlocked, Penn William Penn (1644-1718) and William Mead preached in the street to several hundred persons. The western world does not readily They were brought to trial in Old Bail­ acknowledge its debt to one man whose ey, where the jury resisted the brow­ persistent, peaceful plea for religi­ beating of the mayor by refusing to ous freedom, despite all obstacles bring In a verdict of "guilty" as di­ placed before him, played a major role rected by the bench. The jurymen were in breaking the church-state monopoly fined and imprisoned, but were later in America and in Europe as well. The vindicated in a landmark decision in tragedy is that he did not live to English jurisprudence. The Chief Lord know the magnitude of his legacy. Justice ruled that a judge "may try to open the eyes of the jurors, but not The half-English, half-German son to lead them by the nose." The case of Admiral Sir William Penn, who thus established beyond question the served as captain of the fleet with independence of a jury. the Duke of York (later James II), young William Penn was "sent down" at Penn, like his father before him, Oxford for nonconformity in 1662. For enjoyed friendships with King Charles several years he attended Protestant II and his brother James, a rare privi­ University in France, traveled and en­ lege for a Quaker. In 1672 he married rolled in the study of law at Lin­ Gulielma Springett, step-daughter of a coln's Inn in England. In 1666, his Quaker, who bore him eight children, father sent him to Ireland to manage four dying in infancy. During the the family estates. There he deter­ 1670s he was ceaselessly active as a mined to cast his lot with the Society polemicist and minister who sought to of Friends, or Quakers, a religious improve the good name of the Quaker sect despised by English society. He faith. He undertook two preaching mis­ was Imprisoned briefly in 166,7 for at­ sions on the continent in 1671 and tending a Quaker meeting. While there, 1677, visiting small groups of Friends he wrote a letter to authorities ex­ and religious seekers in Holland and pressing his commitment to religious northern Germany. The Quakers and the freedom. Though his activities en­ Mennonites were much alike in faith. raged his father, who threatened to On his second trip, he established con­ disinherit him, Penn refused to be dis­ tacts which would later help him in suaded. He soon emerged as an able populating Pennsylvania with emigrants and outspoken defender of the Quaker from the Low Country and the Palatin­ faith. In his long literary career he ate, but his political activities dur­ published more than 100 works, from ing that decade were principally to treatise to lengthy books. For some bring religious freedom to England and of these he was committed to the Tower those areas of Europe where tolerance of London, where he continued to write the Quaker ideals of social reform. allowed for discussion. In Germany he His "No Cross, No Crown" ranks among relied again on his friendships with the world's finest examples of prison royalty by visiting Elizabeth, the Abbess of Herford, who was sister of

21 Areas settled before 1650

Areas settled between IB50 and 1700

Areas settled between 1700 and 1770

Cities with more than 10.000 inhabitants In 1770

Fig. 10. Colonial America in 1770. Pittsburg was taken from the French in 1758.

22 Karl Ludwig, Elector of the Palatin­ nent. Philadelphia was founded in ate. Elizabeth and Karl were grand­ 1682, and Germantown, today a suburb children of James I, King of England. of Philadelphia, was settled the fol­ They were both sympathetic to the lowing year by Swiss Mennonites from needs of the religious oppressed and Kreigsheim in the Palatinate whom Penn gave them shelter. Though Penn did had visited in 1677 (Newman and Groff not convert the Abbess, he was well ii). But few settlers risked penetra­ received and gained the respect and tion of the primeval forest, and some good will of the court. Elizabeth and who tried, failed. Karl both died in 1680. From the beginning, Penn's venture Despite Penn's long years of ef­ was beset with problems. The Quakers fort to improve conditions at home and quarreled among themselves and with on the continent, he grew increasingly others. There were boundary disputes. discouraged, and at last despaired of With the exception of the faithful Jon­ all hope for change. He began to athan Logan, his land agents were cor­ dream, instead, of a place somewhere rupt and disloyal. He had trouble in the known world where people of all collecting quit-rents (annual rentals religious beliefs and ethnic back­ assessed buyers of land). His eldest grounds might live in harmony. "There son became a scapegrace. Many who may be room there, though not here," sought freedom from religious persecu­ he wrote to a friend in America, "for tion had no money for the voyage and such a holy experiment." the purchase of land.

In 1681, Penn sought a grant of In England, with the accession of land from Charles II in payment of a his friend the Duke of York as James debt of L16.000 owed by the crown to II, Penn was able to have many Quakers Penn's father. The request was grant­ and political prisoners, such as John ed for 28,800,000 acres of land, 98% Locke, released from prison. The Act densely wooded, on the west side of of Toleration of 1689, passed after the Delaware River. Penn became the James's abdication, finally estab­ largest private landowner in the his­ lished the principle of religious free­ tory of the world (Rineer 89/3: 99). dom for which Penn had labored so For the crown it provided a home over­ faithfully and long. But his relation­ seas for the troublesome Quakers, and ship with James raised a cloud of sus­ created a new opportunity to penetrate picion when William and Mary ascended the primeval forest for westward expan­ the throne. His colony was taken from sion. If there were doubts as to the him temporarily (1693-94), and he re­ entry of German-speaking citizens into mained in hiding for a time in which the New England colonies, there were he wrote some of his finest works. In also abundant reassurances that these 1696, his wife having died, he married were largely Swiss immigrants whose Hannah Calloway of Bristol. They had faith disavowed war or violence. seven children, of whom five survived to adulthood. Pennsylvania, or "Penn's Woods," became the most heavily advertised Because affairs in the province real estate venture in the colonies, were going badly, in 1699 Penn and his perhaps of all time. More than fifty wife returned to Pennsylvania to ad­ treatise, books, broadsides and pamph­ dress his business there. He promul­ lets were prepared in English, Dutch, gated a revised constitution which re­ German and French, and distributed in mained in effect until 1776. Affairs the British Isles and on the conti­ in England forced him to return home

23 Fig. 11. For a hundred years after England's claim, in 1607, to "'all land from sea to sea, " that claim was protected merely by scattered settlements along a narrow crescent of land along the Atlantic seaboard and coastal plains. (Crouse)

24 in 1701. He never again saw the prov­ Indians were civil, hospitable and re­ ince. spectful. He made a treaty with the tribes, the Pequea, the Shawanese, and Penn's final years were unhappy Mingo or Conestoga, reserving a large ones. His chief steward, Philip Ford, tract (6,000 acres) in his own name, cheated him out of so much money that which he called Conestoga Manor. Land Penn was sent to debtors' prison for nearby was then made available for pur­ nine months. In 1712 he was negotia­ chase between Pequea Creek and Cones­ ting to surrender Pennsylvania back to toga Creek in what was then called the crown, reserving only the precious Strasburg, Pequea Township, later principle of religious freedom, when Conestoga Township. he suffered a paralytic stroke. He lingered on, helpless, with his wife Penn described this land in subse­ attempting to manage proprietary con­ quent solicitations: cerns, until he died in 1718. Penn did not live to see the success of the lit­ ...a goodly land...the air clean and tle Pequea colony which secured his sweet, the springs plentiful, the territory and became for England a sol­ provisions good and easy to come by. id stepping stone to the west, an in­ ...the fields here are ripe for the land city of true religious freedom. harvest. (Proud 209)

Lancaster County He was satisfied with native vegeta­ tion and wild life. On the banks of If in the year 1844 a group of ex­ the Delaware he discovered: perts had been commissioned to iden­ tify the three finest agricultural ...black walnut,cedar, cyprus, chest­ areas in the world....one area that nut, poplar, gum-wood, hickory, sass­ would have had to be included was afras, ash, beech, oaks of divers that fortunate farmland lying around sorts, as red, white, and black.... the small city of Lancaster in south­ The fruits that I find in the woods ern Pennsylvania, at the eastern are the white and black mulberry, foothills of the Appalachians. For chestnut, walnut, plums, strawber­ sheer elegance of land and profita­ ries, cranberries, hurtleberries, bility of farming, it stood supreme. and grapes of divers sorts... .Here also are peaches very good, in great James Mitchener in Centennial quantities, not an Indian plantation without them....For food as well as In Philadelphia about 1700, Will­ profit, the elk as big as a small iam Penn heard reports of a place a- ox, deer bigger than ours, heavier, long the Delaware River, a few miles raccoons, rabbits, squirrels....Of east of the Susquehanna River in what fowl of the land there is turkey was then Chester County, Pennsylvania, (forty and fifty pounds weight), deep in the backwoods, where land was heath-birds and partridges in abun­ exceptionally rich and productive. It dance....The creatures for profit was populated by peaceful, friendly In­ only by skin or fur are the wild dians who had farmed the land for so panther, otter, wolf, fox, fisher, long they believed they had sprung minx, muskrat. (Proud 248-250) from that soil. Penn did not exaggerate. The land Penn made a trip along the Dela­ was truly the paradise he described. ware, visiting the Indians and finding Some few tracts were sold to absentee the claims to be as represented. The owners and a few settlers moved in to

25 live among the Indians, hunting and all of the narrow limestone valleys of fishing with them and exchanging use­ Pennsylvania as well as the great Cum­ ful information. Still, the dense for­ berland Valley. They followed lime­ ests were foreboding, and the years stone as a needle follows a pole.... passed before a real settlement began. The limestone area in a geological map of Pennsylvania would serve as a map A Swedish traveler in 1783 writes of the German settlements. (Fletcher of the primeval forest: 49-50)

The forest is so thick that the Despite Penn's heavy advertising treetrunks almost touch, by their on the continent and in the British height and their matted branches mak­ Isles, long years passed with almost ing a dimness, cold and fearful, e- no activity along the Pequea Creek. ven at noon on the clearest day. All As Penn's problems mounted, his health beneath is grown up in green and im­ deteriorated. penetrable bush. Everywhere lie fallen trees or those half fallen, Ten years after Penn's discovery despite of their weight not reaching of the area, a large group of Swiss the ground, making every step uncer­ Brethren sent an advance party to in­ tain, and between lies a fat bed of vestigate the backwoods settlement for the richest mould that sucks up like their future home, having inquired for a sponge all the moisture....One can themselves through the Mennonites of with difficulty penetrate this Germantown. The pilot group, five to growth even a little way. (Schoepf ten families, sailed from London to 168) Philadelphia on the ship Merry Hope, arriving 23 September 1710 (Brackbill The trees were giants. A chestnut or 73). They met with relatives and poplar near Peach Bottom Ferry on the friends in Germantown, and within a Susquehanna was hollow; it was eleven month had purchased from the proprie­ feet across and a school was said to taries 10,500 acres in the Conestoga have been housed in it. A pine tree settlement for "the Swissers newly on Salt Lick Creek was twelve feet in arrived in this province." Finding it diameter. White oaks, white ash, and suitable for their needs, one of their cherry trees grew to five feet across. number returned home sometime later to A black oak felled in 1790 was eight assist in preparations for the remain­ feet in diameter (Pearson 176-182). der of the group. Another group of settlers, largely Germans and French As a rule, settlers from the Brit­ Huguenots, arrived in 1712. Most of ish Isles sought land without trees, the remainder of the original group of whereas Swiss and German farmers liked Swiss arrived on three ships in 1717. best the dense forests, such as they Ship lists were not kept for that ear­ had at home, for they knew that here ly period; only the names of the three was the richest, most fertile land. captains are extant. In all, some They judged their land by the kind, thirty families of Swiss Brethren (Men­ nonites) were settled in future Lancas­ number, and size of hardwood trees ter County by 1718. growing on it, especially preferring black walnut in large size. What they selected was limestone soil. Many Germans who suffered economic and religious deprivation were less The hunger of German farmers for fortunate than the Swiss Mennonites of limestone soil was not satisfied un­ the 1710-17 migration. In 1708-09, til they had occupied practically England's Queen Anne advertised, for Fig. 12. The little Pequea colony of 1710-17 created a stable framework of farms, sixty-five miles deep in a near-impenetrable forest, thus opening a door to the Susquehanna and the West. (Crouse).

27 all who wished, to come to London for migrants were forced to board ships emigration to New England. Thirty- for New York, in which they brushed in­ three thousand German refugees arrived habitants aside and departed for Penn­ in that city. No provisions for that sylvania as soon as they touched enormous number had been made. Of the shore. Though New York had been occu­ group, 7,000 returned to Germany. Ten pied by Europeans much longer than thousand died of hardships, starva­ Pennsylvania, it grew far more slowly. tion, and need of medical attention. Eventually, on 25 December 1709, ten Though the 1717 Swiss arrivals in ships carrying 4,000 refugees embarked what became Lancaster County, Pennsyl­ for New York. After a six months' pas­ vania, found the land and general poli­ sage (twice the usual duration) they tical climate much to their liking, arrived on 10 June 1710. Seventeen there were political problems which hundred passengers had died en route; caused them great disappointment, a- the survivors were camped in tents on bout which they continued to protest what is now Governor's Island. (Rengier 50-55). First and foremost, as aliens, the German-speaking immi­ In the fall, 1,400 were sent up grants were denied the right to make the Hudson to Livingston Manor, under wills to pass land on to their chil­ bonds to serve the Queen faithfully in dren. They were not permitted the the manufacture of tar and other naval same terms of naturalization as those stores in order to repay the costs of granted in England to foreign Protes­ their passage and subsistence. Seven­ tants, but were told their naturaliza­ ty orphans were apprenticed to people tion depended on evidence of good and in New York and New Jersey. Condi­ religious conduct and loyalty to the tions at Livingston Manor were so bru­ British Crown. After persistent ap­ tal that some of the Germans rebelled, peals, naturalization was at last at which Governor Hunter resorted to granted in 1729 to a list of immi­ violent measures to ensure obedience. grants from Germany who arrived prior With that, some 150 families went to to 1718. But legislation permitting the Schoharie Valley and settled. Af­ German immigrants to pass land to ter ten years, their titles were prov­ their heirs did not come until 1743 en defective, their lands and Improve­ (Eshleman 282). ments were taken from them. Pennsylvania was the only British One man who survived this incredi­ colony in America to collect annual ble odyssey was Johan (Hans) Ulrich Hu- rentals from purchasers of land. Many ber (Hoover), who at last made his way protested and more than a few refused to Lancaster County and settled near to pay. Nevertheless, the law re­ New Holland to enjoy a life of quiet mained on the books and was still be­ and prosperity (Diffenderfer 28-29). ing paid as late as World War II. One of his descendants became the sec­ Land was purchased in three stages: ond wife of our John Myers, 1799-1877, first, a warrant to purchase was and step-mother to his sons, George filed; second, a survey was made; and and Christian, of the family traced in finally, a patent or deed was issued. this book. (See chart, page 102). The proprietaries usually sold land in large blocks to brokers who subsequent­ The Germans neither forgot nor for­ ly sold parcels to small landholders. gave their poor treatment in New York. The price In 1710 was L5 per centum. They wrote to relatives and friends, By 1717 it was L10 per centum. With advising them to stay away from New the Pennsylvania pound worth $3.24, York. It sometimes happened that im­ this was 32 cents per acre or $32.40

28 Not to wearv the reader with general details of indi­ Crown of Great Britain should as well be secured in the en­ vidual settlers, we shall present a public document pos­ joyment of their estates, as encouraged in their laudable sessing lore than ordinary interest to the nuierous des­ affection and zeal for the English constitution; cendants of those whose naees are recorded in it. They had J? it enacted fcy the tfon. Patrick Sordon, Esq., Lieut. all coie to this country previous to 1718, and had pur­ Governor of the province of Pennsylvania, Ic, by and with chased and held lands before 1727. We are indebted to the advice and consent of the freeaen of the said province, Abrahan flevlin. of Nest Laepeter township, for a copy of in General Asseably aet, and by the authority of the saae, it. This oocuaent has been upwards of one hundred and That Martin Meylin, Hans Graaf, Christian Stoneaan, Jacob fourteen years in the possession of the Meylin faaily. It Funk, Francis Neiff, Francis Neiff, Jr., George Kindeck, is an act passed Anno Reqni, Seorqii 11. Regis Haqnae John Burkholder, John Burkholder, Jr., Abrahaa Burkholder, Iritanniae, franciae, et Mbtrniae, tertio (In the third Michael Eowaan, John Hess, John Frederick, Christopher year of the reign of George II, King of Great Britain, Premaan, Martin Harnist, Joseph Buchwalter, Felix Landes, France and Ireland). October 14, 1729. Jr., Adam Premaan, John Funk, John Bohaan, John Taylor, Henry Neiff, Michael Mire, Henry Bare, Peter Buagarner, WHEREAS, By encourageaent given by the Honorable Wil- Melcor Hufford, Melcor Ensaan, John Brubaker, Jacob Nis- liaa Penn. Esq., late Proprietary and Governor of the prov­ ley, Hans Snevely, Jacob Goot, John Woolslegle, Jacob Mire, ince of Pennsylvania, and by peraission of his Majesty, Christopher Sowers, Joseph Stoneaan, Daniel Ashleaan, King GEORGE the First, of blessed leaory, and his predeces­ Christian Feelaan, John Henry Neiff, John Henry Neiff, Jr., sors. Kings and Queens of England, &c. divers Protestants, Abrahaa Hare, John Ferie, Jacob Biere, Peter Yordea, Peter who were subjects to the Eaperor of Serianu a Prince in Leaacn, Hans Jacob Snevely, Isaac Coffaan, Andrew Coffaan, aaity with the Crown of 6reat Britain, transported thea- Woolrich Rodte, Henry Funk, RDDdy Mire, John Mylin, Jacob selves and estates into the province of Pennsylvania, be­ Eheae, John Coffaan, Michael Doneder, Charles Christopher, tween the Years one thousand seven hundred, and one thou­ Andrew Shult:, John Houser, Christian Premaan, Jacob Mil­ sand seven hundred and eighteen', and since they case hither ler, black, Henry Carpenter, Eaanuei Carpenter. Sabriel have contributed very much to the enlargeaent of the Brit­ Carperter, [aniel Herman, Christian Hersan, Philip Fiere, ish Empire, and to the raising and iaproving sundry coaaod- Hathias Slareaaker, Big John Shank, Jacob Churts, Jacob lties fit for the markets of Eurcpe, and hurt sivsys be Snevely, Jr., John Woolrich Hover, John Croyder, John haved iheiselves niiyioiislv and oeaceabls, and have paid a Leeghte, John Stampher, Martin Graaf, Peter Newcoaat, Jacob d-je re:ard and obeoience to the laws and Gcvernaent of this Bare, Jr., John Henry Bare, Jacob Weaver, Henry Weaver, province! !>nd nhereas, Many of said persons, to wit, Martin John Weaver, David Longanicker, George Weaver, Abraham heylin, Hans Graaf, and others, all of Lancaster county, in Mire, Woolrick Houser, John Mire, Henry Musselman, Michael the said province, in demonstration of their affection and Shank, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jr., Martin Miller, Pe­ real for his present Majesty's person and Fovernaent, qual­ ter Abye, Hans Goot, Christian Staner, John Jacob Light, ified theaselves by taking the qualification, and subscrib­ Adam Brand, Christopher Franciscus, Casper Loughman, Fred­ ing the declaration directed to be taken and subscribed bv erick Stay, John Line, John Swope, Bastian Royer, Jonas Le- the several acts of parliament, lade for the security of row, Simeon King, John Abye, Everhard Reaa, all of Lancas­ his Majesty's person and Government, and for preventing the ter county, be and shall be to ail intents and purposes dangers which nay happen by Popish Recusants, k., and deemed, taken, and esteemed. His Majesty's natural born thereupon, have huably signified to the Governor and Repre­ subjects of this province of Pennsylvania, as if thev, and sentatives of the freeaen of this province, in General fls- each of thea had been born within the said province; and seably, that they have purchased and do hold lands of the shall and aay, and every one of thea shall and aay, within proprietary, and others, his Majesty's subjects within this this province, take, receive, enjoy, and be entitled to all province, and have likewise represented their great desire rights, privileges and advantages of natural born subjects, of being aade partakers of those privileges which the natu­ as fully, to all intents and constructions and purposes, ral born subjects of Great Britain do enjoy within this whatsoever, as any of his Majesty's natural born subjects province; and it being just and reasonable, that those per­ of this province, can, do, or ought to enjoy, by virtue of sons who have bona fide purchased lands, and who have given their being His Majesty's natural born subjects of His Ma­ such testimony of their affection and obedience to the jesty's said province of Pennsylvania.

Fig. 13. Naturalization Act of 1729, whereby King George IT granted citizenship to certain individuals, including "John Mire," immigrant ancestor of the family traced in this book. (Rupp, with preliminary comments included).

29 per hundred (Eshleman 206). a halt, not to be resumed until land The long-bearded Swissers, eager offices acquired new authority under to begin their new lives, drew comment the heirs of William Penn in 1731. from local authorities as they busied This long hiatus created severe frus­ themselves with the arduous tasks of trations for settlers eager to acquire homesteading. They made friends with land and have it patented. Though the the Indians of Conestoga Manor, learn­ government voiced complaints about the ing from and teaching them in the iso­ "squatters" who took possession of va­ lation of the backwoods frontier. cant lands, the difficulties of obtain­ With rare exceptions these peaceable ing legal ownership from a distant and relationships existed for many years. virtually inoperative land office had Occasional French traders followed to be taken into account. Indian trails from Philadelphia to Indian villages along the Susquehan­ As the colony grew and thrived, na. After bartering for furs, the the necessity for law and order to pro­ traders carried them out by pack horse tect the community became clear. Lan­ and canoe. These Indian trails fol­ caster County was erected out of a por­ lowed buffalo runs through the dense tion of Chester County (the English woods. They were no more than two or always "erected" counties) on 10 May three feet wide and often "blind," 1729. The county seat, the Townstead overgrown with underbrush, and diffi­ of Lancaster, was established in 1729 cult to follow. on a 500-acre tract (later found to be 1,000 acres), and owned by Andrew Ham­ With the coming of white settlers ilton, prothonotary, who subsequently the trails were widened by blazing sold it to his son James for a token trees on each side, but throughout the five shillings. James was an able ad­ colonial period these crude roads were ministrator and developer, designing so treacherous and nearly impassable his town with broad streets and fine that the trip to Chester or Philadel­ public buildings. phia was usually accomplished by organ­ ized pack train. Neighbors formed an While Swiss and German farmers rap­ association, collecting pelts and furs idly filled the broad, flat, limestone about once a year to be sent sixty- Conestoga valley with their farms, the five miles over the mountains in ex­ area was also being settled by Quakers change for salt, iron, steel, cast­ (1,000 families within a decade), Eng­ ings, and other indispensible artic­ lish. Scots, Irish, and Welsh. Some­ les. A master driver was chosen, ac­ times Lancaster County is mistakenly companied by one or more young boys. assumed to be almost exclusively Men­ Two men could handle twelve to fifteen nonite and Amish. From the beginning horses, averaging about fifteen miles it was highly diversified and plural­ a day, often having to detour around istic, with the German and Swiss popu­ fallen trees or branches or deeply rut­ lation consisting of two-thirds to ted, rough, or swampy ground. The three-fourths of the total. It was trip was so fraught with peril that it divided among many religious faiths, was undertaken only out of great neces­ from the highly liturgical Lutherans sity. and Calvinist German Reformed to the Anabaptists. Later these branched off With the death of William Penn in into "German Methodist" congregations: 1718, Penn's estate became tied up in United Brethren in Christ and Evangeli­ long years of litigation. Land pur­ cal Association. During the 1720s the chases from the proprietaries came to charismatic Conrad Beissel founded the

30 Seventh Day Baptist society at the whose splendid crops were to give it Cloisters in Ephrata. Beissel attract­ the name of "breadbasket" to the Ameri­ ed many followers, who defected from can colonies. Though roads from Lan­ other faiths, including Hans Rudy Nae- caster remained notoriously poor gele, first Mennonite minister of the throughout the colonial period, there Groffdale-Weaverland community in Earl began a constant stream of settlers Township and next-door neighbor to our moving into Lancaster County and a- ancestral Meyer land. cross the Susquehanna to western Pennsylvania and the Ohio gateway. The great ethnic and cultural di­ versity of Lancaster served to create Lancaster became the largest in­ a harmony born of necessity as each land city in the American colonies. struggled with the elements of nature It played a prominent, strategic role to forge a new home in the wilder­ in the French and Indian War. Its ness. The work ethic was deeply in­ craftsmen outfitted the British army grained among Lancastrian families, with clothing, leather goods and pro­ who united in the harsh struggle for visions. Had the town not stood sol­ survival. The patchwork of connecting idly behind the American cause during "plantations" first established by the the Revolutionary War, the outcome of Swiss Mennonite community and a small­ that conflict might have been a differ­ er number of German settlers, created ent story than we now know. a stable, reasonably safe community

Chapter 2

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32 PART TWO

PENNSYLVANIA

Generation I

"M" HANS MEIER, SR., ca 1670-1722

OF STRASBURG IN THE PEQUEA COLONY

The family of "M" Hans Meier, Sr., con­ or more of the sons may have arrived sisted of his wife, Ana Brubacher Mei­ ahead of their parents, or the family er, at least three sons, Hans Conrad, may have remained together at one loca­ Jacob and John, and three daughters, tion for protection and mutual aid, Onela (Anale), Elizabeth and Mary. Mi­ without coming to the attention of tax chael and Rudy Meier may also have authorities while first one son and been his sons, but we lack evidence to then another established a wilderness claim them at this time. home.

The first knowledge we have of the The two land purchases of Hans Mei­ arrival of Hans Meier, Sr., occurred er, Sr., were recorded, one immediate­ on 30 December 1719 (the tenth month ly after the other, in the Journal of of the year under the Old Style Cal­ the Surveyor Generall, page 90 (See endar) , when he purchased 400 acres of Figure 14), on 1 February 1719, thus land in Groffdale, Earl Township, from confirming that the two tracts were Hans Groff, Mennonite land broker, pay­ purchased by one and the same man. ing half in cash and giving his note These journal entries are our proof for the balance. About six weeks la­ that Hans Meier, Sr., who died in ter in February 1719 (the twelfth 1722, was progenitor of the Meyer month), he purchased for cash from families who lived on the 400 acres John Farrer a second tract of land, (plus an additional 100 acres) in Earl 150 acres in Strasburg in the Pequea Township. settlement, fronting on the Conestoga River, then called a creek. The west­ Dean Froehlich examined the com­ ern boundary of Hans Sr.'s 150-acre plete Journal records for the years tract adjoined a 350-acre tract pur­ 1708-1732. He reports, "The only oth­ chased two years earlier, in 1717, by er Moyer I found in the Journals (of his son, Hans Conrad Meier. Hans Sr. that period) concerns Hans Conrat's lived on the 150-acre tract until his purchase of 350 acres in 1717." death in 1722. The Naturalization Act of 1729 Lancaster County historians have (Figure 13) lists the following men of reported the arrival of Hans Meier in our surname residing in the colony pri­ the colony as early as 1710 (Rupp 436) or to 1718: Michael Mire, Jacob Mire, but his name is not found among the Roody (Rudy) Mire, Abraham Mire and scant records of that early period. John Mire. Both Hans Sr. and Hans Con­ He first appears on the tax list in rad were deceased before 1729. Hans 1719. We can neither prove nor dis­ Meyer of the line of Vincent Meyer ar­ prove an earlier date of arrival. One rived in the colony too late (1720).

35 Fig. 14. Journal of the Office of the Surveyor General 1712-1732. Top left, cover. Top right, page one. Below, page 90, lower half, show­ ing entries pertaining to Hans Moyer.

36 tirhjr*

Fig. 15. Nuncupative will, in German, of Hans Meier, Sr., 30 January 1722. Note the signature of our progenitor, his son Johannes (Hans) Meier, Jr.

Generation I

"M" HANS MEIER, SR., OF PEQUEA ca 1670-1722

M HANS MEIER, SR., m Ana Brubaker

Ml Hans Conrad ca 1698-1721 m Anna Lichte

Mil Barbara ra Valentine Schultz

Mill Henry Schultz

M12 unnamed child, deceased by 1756

M2 Jacob

M3 HANS, JR., ca 1700-1760 m Maria Lenhard(y) (See separate outline)

M4 Onela (Annalee) m Jacob Kendig

M5 Elizabeth m Henry Musselman

M6 Mary m John Shank

37 County historians report that Abra­ Mennonite Church leaders performed ham Meyer was a son of Rudy Meyer and such duties as preparing wills and as­ the first white child born in what be­ sisting in other matters at time of came Lancaster County. When the Town- death. We cannot be certain that the stead of Lancaster was established in two signers, Burkholder and Herr, were 1729, the farm of Rudy Meyer lay with­ in fact the religious leaders, and not in its boundary lines. Rudy and M3 two other individuals of the same John Moyer owned adjoining farms. Mi­ name, but their presence in this ca­ chael and M3 John jointly purchased a pacity at the death of Hans Meier, 556-acre tract in Manheim in 1733, lat­ Sr., leaves little room for doubt. er patented to John alone. Hans Moyer is listed In the 1717 tax rolls as hav­ The German will is also our only ing 350 acres surveyed on the Conesto- source for his wife's name, Ana Bru- goe River, this being land patented to bacherin (Brubaker). M3 John Moyer, Hans Conrad. The 1718 list includes their son, later deeded land to "Hans Jacob, Hans Currick (Conrad) and Rudey Brubaker, a nephew," but the exact Moyer, all at the Conestogoe rate, de­ relationship with other Brubaker fami­ scribed as Dutch inhabitants. Michael lies in the area is not known. appears as an adult male in the list of 1721 (Hawbaker 37-38). Hans Meier, Pennsylvania courts would not ad­ Sr., is subsequently described in the mit documents written in a foreign 17 35 patent to the Earl Township land language. Two brief wills, referenced (A-7-160), as "late of the Palatinate 1-1-324 a and b, were written in Eng­ of the Rhine River in Germany, since lish on a single sheet of paper and deceased." presented to the court at Upland (lat­ er Chester), where they remained until Hans Meier, Sr., dictated a nuncu­ 1755, when they were copied for the pative (oral) will, In German, on his courts at Lancaster. The first was deathbed on 30 January 17222 (see Fig­ the will of Hans Konratt (sic) Miers, ure 15). In English, it reads, dated 23 June 1721. The second was the will of Hans Miers Senior, dated Today on January 30, I, Hans Meier, 30 January 1722. The latter reads, made over to my wife Ana Brubacher my plantation (blan dasche, a corrup­ Firstly it was his will that his tion of English), of above 150 acres wife should have the plantation a with grain farm buildings and belong­ hundred and fifty acres of land to ings to use what she needs. keep it with all the moveable es­ tate. Secondly when she will throw Below the text is a clerical notation, it of of [sic] land she shall give "Jacob Moyer and Johannes Moyer Extrs" it to the children. (Executors). The will was signed by Johannes and Jacob Meier, presumably The will was signed by the signers of his sons, and Hans Burkholder and his German will. Christian Herr. Burkholder was a bish­ op of the Mennonite church and Herr The 150-acre plantation was sold later became one. Both men were sign­ in 1739, but the deed was never re­ ers of the Dortrecht Confession of corded. Subsequent land records re­ Faith at an historic meeting in Phila­ cite that it was sold by two sons and delphia in 1725 (Weaver 340-341). three daughters, all unnamed.3

This is the only evidence we have Now that we have names of the fam­ that Hans Meier, Sr., was a Mennonite. ily of Hans Meier, Sr., there is the

38 hope that future studies of the bounte­ ous, untapped records of the Swiss Brethren in Holland will some day re­ veal facts about their European back­ ground. Whether they were Mennonite and Swiss, as now appears likely, may yet be known.

The first ancestral home of the family in America, the 150-acre planta­ tion of "M" Hans Meier, Sr., may be en­ tered by driving southwest from the city of Lancaster via Second Lock Road and crossing Second Lock Bridge. Hans Conrad's long finger of land (later known as Cane's Point), pointing north­ ward from the south bank of the Cones­ toga River and his father's shorter finger beside it, are readily located on the county map (Figure 16).

The land purchased by "M" Hans Mei­ er in Earl Township became home to our branch of the family for more than a Fig. 16. "A" Land of Hans Conrad Meier hundred years. His gr- gr- gr- grand­ and "B" land of Hans Meier, Sr. (Nine­ sons and granddaughters were born on teenth century map). the tract he selected in 1719. Chapter 3 Notes

^The Journal entries cited above were located In 1986 In the final year of this Investigation by Dean Froehlich, after we had sought unsuccessful­ ly for many months to gain access to a set of Journals and Ledgers (not the Day Books) housed In the Office of The Surveyor General of Pennsyl vania, as found and described by Brackblll 1n let­ ters to Clyde Groff In 1972. Dean's discovery wan a triumphant conclusion to the work of many years. The two land purchases by Hans M°ier in Works Cited 17I9, listed one after the other In the Journal, provide evidence that the two purchases, one 1n Pequea and the other In Earl, were made by the same Hans Heler, thus forging the last link of our family chain In America. At the same time, Egle, William Henry. Notes and Queries, Histori­ one must protest the concealment of these records cal and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Inte­ by the archivist. They are public property. rior Pennsylvania. Baltimore: Genealogical Ther» are no more Important records for the Lan­ Publishing Company, 1970. caster genealogist than these. Hawbaker, Gary T., Clyde L. Groff. A New Index: -We are Indebted to Carolyn C. Wenger of Lancas­ Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Before the ter Mennonite Historical Society for furnishing Federal Census, Vol. 4~ Hershey: Hawbaker and us with a copy of this will In the last year of Groff, 1985. nur research. The will Is on file In that facil­ ity. Rupp, I. Daniel. A Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch and French Immi­ ^Names of the three daughters and their husbands grants In Pennsylvania From 1727 to 1776. Bal­ were furnished us by J. Arthur Shanks, author of timore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965. a Shanks family history, who found the Informa­ tion In a query column (Egle 306). The Egle ref­ Weaver, Martin G. Mennonites of Lancaster Confer­ erence Is undocumented. ence. Scottdalel Mennonite Publishing House, T93T. 39

Generation II

Ml HANS CONRAD MEIER OF THE PEQUEA COLONY ca 1699-1721

Hans Conrad Meier died in 1721, a Hymn Book. leaving a widow, Anna Lichte Meier, and two unnamed children. Elsewhere, On 22 August 1722, the six signers it has been stated she was a widow of Hans Conrad's will again came togeth­ before her marriage to Hans Conrad, er. His widow, Anna, was now married but we find no evidence of a prior mar­ to Hans Groff1. The signers prepared a riage or prior children. One of Hans marriage agreement2 in the German lang­ Conrad's children appears to have died uage, setting forth Groff's financial young, for the other, Barbara, was lis­ and other obligations to Anna and her ted as sole heir to the estate when two children by Hans Conrad, taking in­ her son, Henry Schultz, sold the re­ to account whether or not one or both maining 150 acres in 1756 (Deed children survived to adulthood, and D-l-388). No record of sale of the whether either Anna or Hans Groff might first 200 acres of the tract has been predecease the other. found. Chapter 4 Hans Conrad left a nuncupative will, dated 21 June 1721, signed by Notes his brother, Jacob, and five leaders of the Mennonite church: John (Hans) ^•There were many men by the name of Hans Groff in Burkholder, Christian Herr, Melchior the Lancaster settlement. Our professional con­ sultant, Clyde Groff, who has made a lifelong Breneman, Johannes Bowman and Hans study of these lines and was co-author of The Herr. Burkholder and Bowman were bish­ Groff Book, advises that the Hans Groff who mar­ ops and Christian Herr later became ried Anna Lichte Meier could not be the Hans Groff of Earl who sold "M" Hans Meier, Sr., his one. Burkholder, Bowman and Christian land In Groff dale. He believes she married "B" Herr were signers of the Dortrecht Con­ Hans Groff, a much older man who died in 1730, fession of Faith in 1725. leaving a widow, Anne (Groff 17-21). ^Copy of the marriage agreement was furnished the The will contained three senten­ author by Jane Evans Best. It is on file at Lan­ ces. First, his wife should have the caster Mennonite Historical Society. plantation, 350 acres, to keep for her own. Second, she must pay the chil­ dren the money he brought to her when Works Cited he married her, which was two hundred and fifty guilders, or thirty-seven pounds, ten shillings, Pennsylvania money. Third, she should give the Groff, Clyde L., Walter B. Groff and Jane Evans Best. The Groff Book Volume I: A Good Life in children the four books he brought a New Land. Ronks: Groff History Associates, her: a Bible, two New Testaments and T58T:

41 Record of Hans Conrad Meyer's Bequest to His Successors, his Widow and Two Children

Firstly, because Hans Conrad Meyer's widow whom he left behind has now been married again to Hans Groff, It has been set on record how Hans Conrad Meyer and Anna Lichte brought together what they had when they were married.

So It is that Hans Conrad Meyer's share that he brought was 250 G (guil­ ders), which he brought to Anna Lichte.

Anna Lichte's share that she brought to Hans Conrad Meyer is 250 G.

Because there are of Hans Conrad Meyer two children left behind and Hans Groff Is now married to Anna Lichte, so It is declared that the two children who remain shall receive, from the 250 G which their father brought to Anna Lichte, some of it In advance if they need it from Hans Groff, and with the direction that when the children are 17 years old Hans Groff Is to give each of his stepchildren 8 pounds or equal value of what the children used along the way and this is to be deducted from the 250 Gulden.

And if the children remain alive they are also to remain with Hans Groff, their stepfather, and their mother, and obey them as is fitting for obedient children until they marry...and are to have wages from father and mother.

The books which were Conrad Meyer's the two children are to have to be their own, one big Bible, two small testaments and a song book.

In the event....that Hans Groff should have children with Anna Lichte these shall share equally what Hans Groff owns and brought Into the home and what belongs for them to receive.

However if Anna Lichte should die before Hans Groff, and the two stepchil­ dren have already received the aforementioned 250 G, then the plantation shall be added up whatever it is worth and be equally divided so that the first children and the second receive equally of what he has, but the right to the plantation (?) estate (?) shall be to Hans Groff ahead of the others to keep and to give out to each child his rightful share what that comes to.

But no child's share shall come to him if his wife Anna Lichte dies before he dies.

Official notation not legible. 1722

Hans Burkholder Christian Herr Melcher Breneman Johannes Bauman Jacob Meyer Hans Groff

42 Generation II

M3 JOHN MOYER, THE ELDER, ca 1700-1760

OF LANCASTER TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

M3 Hans Meier, Jr., is the only son of some of the wealthier Lancastrians "M" Hans Meier whose descendants are consisted of outstanding credits. followed in this book. He did not wit­ In Stout's case (an attorney who ness the will of his brother, Hans Con­ died in 1764, leaving an estate of rad, in 1721, but he later witnessed L435), this amounted to forty-seven his father's will in 1722, leading to per cent of the estate and in Edward speculation that he became twenty-one Smout's to a whopping eighty-eight years of age In the time between the per cent. two wills. He anglicized his name to Moyer. We know him as John, the Elder, The attorney, George Ross, Jr., son of who died in 1760. John married Maria the prominent Lancastrian who signed Lenhardy (Mary Lenhard), who survived the Declaration of Independence, died him, along with sons Jacob, Christian in 1786, leaving an estate valued at (our direct ancestor), John and Abra­ L3.152 with uncollected debts of ham, and one daughter, Barbara, wife LI,400 (Wood 170). Hans Groff of of Henry Smith. A second daughter, Groffdale and Earl Township, desig­ Mary, the wife of Henry Bare, died nated "E" Hans Groff (Groff 30), left earlier leaving a daughter, Barbara an inventory of L648 at his death in Bare. 1746, but only L348 if land Is exclud­ ed. Groff had credits of L123 out­ John Moyer, the Elder, left behind standing (Groff 30). Dr. Benjamin a fascinating trail of documents re­ Rush writes (Schmauk 86), vealing an unusual man who achieved dramatic success by Lancaster stand­ They (German farmers) often assist ards of his day. He acquired more than each other by loans of money for a 1700 acres of real estate, giving most short time, without interest, when of it to his sons and other young kins­ the purchase of a plantation makes a men during his lifetime, each for a to­ larger sum necessary than Is common­ ken fee of five shillings per tract,! ly possessed by a single farmer. yet the inventory of his property at his death, exclusive of real estate, The largest inventory we know of with­ was L773, ranking him a wealthy man.2 in Lancaster County is the one of John's son Jacob Meyer of Manheim, to Of this amount, two-thirds was In be described later.3 uncollected credits including notes, bonds, and book debt, or unsecured The security of credits as invest­ open account. Wood writes (170), ments In colonial Pennsylvania grew out of the brutal and revolting Eng­ A substantial part of the estates of lish penal laws in effect in that day.

43 Fig. 18. Map of City of Lancaster Showing Original Land Grants. Note the triangu­ lar tract of M3 John Moyer, the Elder. (Loose 10).

44 Fig. 19. City of Lancaster and Environs Map of 1753, Showing Myers Farms. Note. Map is oriented to South.

45 Generation II

M3 HANS MEIER, JR. (JOHN MOYER, THE ELDER) ca 1700-1760

M3 JOHN MOYER, THE ELDER ca 1700-1760 (Will B-l-340) of Abbeyville, Lane. Twp m Maria Lenhard(y)

M31 Jacob Meyer, Sr., ca 1720-1793 of Manheim Twp m (1) Addey Erisman (RR-2-554) chldrn 1-3 m (2) Anna chldrn 4-9 (named in Will F-l-528) M311 John M312 Barbara who m Bear M313 Abraham who d before his father M3131 Anna M3132 Jacob M3133 Abraham M314 Anna m Smith M315 Christian m Ann M316 Jacob, Jr. m Mary Brubaker M317 Mary m Shenk M318 Martin M319 David

M32 CHRISTIAN ca 1721-1794 of Earl Twp (See separate outline)

M33 John III of Earl Twp ca 1722-1787 intestate (all heirs named in OC Records 4 June 1789, 14 July 1789, 9 September 1790) M331 Christian m Magdalena (C-3-64) M332 Anna m Joseph Hoffer M333 Barbara d before 1790 m Henry Good M3331 Michael Good M3332 Jacob Good M334 Magdalena d before 1790 m Christian Genuine M3341 Magdalena Genuine M3342 Anna Genuine

M34 Abraham of Lane. Twp d ca 1773 intestate m Maria (all heirs named in OC Records 18 May 1773, 13 June 1782) M341 Magdalena m Henry Kreider M342 Susanna m Christian Shank M343 Barbara m George Heide (Heite)

M35 Mary d before 1760 m Henry Bare M351 Barbara Bare

M36 Barbara m Henry Smith, trustee of Lutheran Church across the Susquehanna in Hallem (Hellam) Twp, then part of Lane. Co, later York Co (Journal of the Office of the Surveyor General: Journal E224, dated 31 May 1746, and Journal E245, dated 24 October 1746)

46 Fletcher writes (463), migration toward a new continent.

Punishment for some comparatively John Moyer acquired, first, a minor offenses was extreme. Men and small (18-1/2 acre) triangle of land women were branded on the hands with from young Hans Brubaker, known as Al hot irons; their ears were cut off in the Brubaker outline (Brubaker and nailed to whipping posts; they 1982: 18),some time prior to May 1729, were sentenced to stand in the pil­ according to adjacent deeds (Q-2-510), lory exposed to public ridicule and (G-l-139), though his will gives the abuse; and to receive publicly a date of purchase as 13 December 1732. specified number of lashes, 'well (This deed has not been found). Moyer laid on. ' Usually the pillory was later purchased from Michael Baughman erected in the market place, the sen­ a large triangle of adjoining land, tence executed on market days when 262 acres, along the eastern boundary the populace could gloat over the of the Brubaker tract and the Erisman punishment of their wayward neigh­ tract. He obtained a patent from the bors. Sometimes these self righteous proprietaries for this tract on 10 citizens pelted the pilloried indi­ June 1734 (A-6-345). He and Maria viduals with rotten eggs. If a man raised their family and lived on this was unable to pay his debts or a farm for the remainder of their lives. fine he was auctioned off to the highest bidder, like a slave, to The small triangle was the tip of serve a 'master' for a period speci­ the southeast corner of a 1,000-acre fied by the court. Imprisonment or tract purchased by Brubaker and Mennon­ servitude for debt remained in force ite Bishop Christian Hershey in 1717. until 1786. The whipping post was Christian Stoneman's mill was about a abolished in 1790. mile west of the Moyer triangle, on land purchased from Brubaker at the Our Second Ancestral Home^ intersection of Brubaker's southern, boundary and Little Conestoga Creek. One factor in the prosperity en­ The mill necessitated paths along the joyed by John and Mary Moyer, whether Brubaker boundary lines for use by by accident or design, was the fortu­ settlers living along those lines. nate location of their land, a 280-1/2 Stoneman was one of the signers of a acre triangle pointing directly to the petition requesting a new county in west end of King Street in Lancaster. 1729, leading to the formation of Traffic coming through Lancaster to­ Lancaster County. ward the Susquehanna River, ten miles west, forked at this point in three di­ In 1730 the first Mennonite meet­ rections: southwesterly along the In­ inghouse and burial ground in Lancas­ dian trail bordering the Moyer proper­ ter County was built on Stoneman prop­ ty, known as Blue Rock or Manor Road; erty along the diagonal line of John northwesterly along their boundary Moyer's small triangle of land, sepa­ line toward Harrisburg, eventually the rated from it by Abbeyville Road. Marietta Turnpike; and through their (Prior to that time, members met in land along Columbia Road, later the private homes). In August 1750, Columbia Turnpike. A stream of traf­ Christian Stoneman deeded the acre of fic passed alongside and through the land to the Society of Mennists. The Moyer farm, or plantation, as it was church building was used until 1791 then called. Not unlike the Swiss of when the congregation moved to another long ago, their land became "rampart location. The burial ground was prob­ and ineluctible thoroughfare" in the ably used for another fifty years, but

47 early in the twentieth century the sa­ Ross was a signer of the Declaration cred land was violated through a se­ of Independence. Another neighbor was ries of changes. The cemetery was Thomas Cookson, former chief burgess plowed over, the stones broken and bur­ of the town and one of its most popu­ ied. In the 1950s, the area became a lar British leaders. Adjoining Jac­ subdivision of the city. The burial ob's land in Manheim was the home of ground, concealed beneath house lots John Brubaker, a "young kinsman" to and streets, is on Meadow Creek Lane whom John, the Elder, deeded land. about 150 or 200 feet west of Abbey- The farms of John's sons M32 Christi­ ville Road (Brubaker 1982: 18). No an, Sr., our ancestor, and M33 John landmarks remain of the meetinghouse, III, were located east of Lancaster in the cemetery, or our ancestral home. Earl township, not shown on the map. Probably some of our ancestors were buried there, among the Brubaker, Eris- Additional Land Acquisitions man, and Meier families from whom we of John the Elder~ are descended, but we have found no evidence that John and Mary Moyer were In 1733, John, the Elder, and Mennonites other than their proximity Michael Meyer purchased warrant from to the meetinghouse. the Proprietaries for 556 acres of land in Manheim Township, north of The 1753 Map of Lancaster5 Lancaster. This was surveyed one month later but no patent was issued On a survey map of Lancaster and until 24 March 1738 (Patent A-10-194), its environs, dated 1753, just prior to John alone. This was the tract to the French and Indian War, several John deeded to M31 Jacob (N-l-341) on Moyer farms are prominent landmarks. 29 September 1759. On 9 May 1747, (The map is oriented to South. West John purchased a tract of 146 acres in appears to the right and North is at Manheim. He deeded 44 acres of this the bottom). The farm of John Moyer, land to "John Brubaker, a kinsman," the Elder, is shown to the west of the following year (FF-29, Recorded town. A dotted line on the map marks EE-99 in 1786). In his will, John the route from Lancaster to the farm left the remainder, equally divided, of John's son Jacob in Manheim Town­ to his sons Christian and Jacob. ship. While the land was deeded to Christian sold his fifty acres to Jacob in 1759, we find by the map that Jacob the following year (N-l-348). he occupied it earlier. In 1735, John, the Elder, pur­ The map may have been prepared by chased the rights to the 400 acres in the British for military occupation in Earl Township for which his father had their coming war against the French made a 50% down payment of L20, plus and Indians. Lancaster was by then a quit-rent and interest, to the proprie­ thriving, well-planned town of about tary account of Hans Groff in 1719, 2,500 people, the largest inland town and had given his bond for the remain­ in the British colonial empire, with der. Moyer paid the L20 note plus in­ broad streets, homes with beautiful terest for 16 years and quit-rent. He gardens, and fine public buildings. also purchased rights to an adjoining There were about 25,000 people in Lan­ 100-acre rectangle of land at the caster County. southeast corner of the property. With these rights, on 28 May 1735, he ob­ The path to Jacob's farm passed tained patent (A-7-160) for 500 acres through the land of George Ross, form­ plus the usual 6% allowance for roads, erly owned by Mickle (Michael) Meyer. for a price of L50. 4S How did JOHN MOYER (d 1760) become "...vested with the Right..." to the 400 A he included in patent A-7-160(1735)?

THE RECORDS: OFFICE OF THE SURVEYOR GENERAL JOURNALS B 8. C, PATENTS AND DEEDS

• if*********************************-***************************** *********** + ******** + ***************# + *******************#*******

SALE COMMISSIONER OF PROPERTY TO:

John Farrer mortgage for Hans Graeff mortgage for HANS MOYER. Palatine 300 A near Conestogo 1150 A at Conestogo 350 A Strasburg Warrant 22 Aug 1716 Warrant 4 Oct 1718 Warrant 27 Sept 1717 Bond due 22 Nov 17 16 J-B-90 18 Nov 1718 J-B-80 Paid 22 Nov 1717 J-B-72

Sold 150 A by deed Sold 400 A by deed Patent A-5-297(1717) pol1 10 Feb 17 19 pol1 30 Dec 17 19 to HANS CONRAD MIER who to HANS MOYER to HANS MOYER

4^ To be confirmed to HANS MOYER •> HANS MOYER paid half 8. gave bond 150 A 1 Feb 1719 J-B-90 for half on 1 Feb 17 19 J-B-90

HANS MIER, SR d 1722 8. left 150 A HANS MOYER paid L 40 to Ledger B died 1721 8. left 350 A to wife (2 sons & 3 daughters) account on 4 Mar 1734 C-56 to wi fe & 2 children

HANS MOYER bought 100 A 2 May 1735 C-68

Heirs sold all by deed "Right" to 400 A was Barbara m Val. Schultz to Caspar Loughman on vested in JOHN MOYER & had one heir Henry 25 Dec 1739 who included it in Schultz who sold

Patent A-10-187(1740) Patent A-7-160(1735) 150 A of the 350 A by deed D-1-388(1756) to David Stoner

HANS MOYER paid 16 years quit rent on 500 A at Conestogo on 31 Nov 1735 C-94

J = Surveyor General Journal L = Ledger DKF 10/86 In 1748, John, the Elder, deeded entry in the Journal of the Surveyor the western half of his Earl tract to General,showing Sigmund Landart pur­ his son M32 Christian, our ancestor chased land in 1720. Sigmund Landert (Deed G-l-273), the northeastern 150 followed Conrad Beissel and his Sev­ acres to his son M33 John III (Deed enth Day Baptists to the Cloisters at MM-341), and the southeastern 100 ac­ Ephrata, becoming Brother Sealthiel res, the land not purchased originally 1st. His first and second wives became by his father, to "X" John Meyer, a Sisters, the first dying In 1728, the nephew (Deed II-2-646). second in 1735. Sigmund died in 1744. Also listed were Sisters Rachel, Mary Through several entries in the and Marie Landert (Heinicke 25, 26). Journals of the Surveyor General, we learned that John Moyer purchased 271 The deed of sale for the land ori­ acres in Hallem Twp, then Lancaster ginally purchased by Sigmund Landart County, later York County, by paying in 1720 may some day surface, answer­ eleven years arrearage of rent and in­ ing whether he is the father of Mary terest, on 31 May 1746 (Journal E-224) Lenhard Moyer. totaling L33.5.11. Immediately follow­ ing this item is another, Henry Smith A generation later in 1739, Barba­ paying L25.5.11 on the balance of Moy- ra Leonhardt married Michael Schreiner er's account; he having Moyer's land. in the Lancaster Lutheran Church.0 Later, on 24 October of the same year, Later, one of the executors of her hus­ (Journal E-245), Henry Smith is one of band's estate was Philip Lenhere (Len- four men who purchased "Land in Hallem hardt), believed to be her brother.' Township Lane Coty for ye use of ye Lutheran Congreg." This, presumably, Wood writes, was our John Moyer, the Elder, and his son-in-law, Henry Smith. We learn that Nineteen saddlers were living in Lan­ Barbara and Henry are now west of the caster in 1759, though by 1788 the Susquehanna, and that he is a trustee number had dropped to eleven. The of the Lutheran Church. most prominent of these craftsmen was Philip Lenhere (Lenhart), a pros­ The Lenhards perous German immigrant whose popu­ larity in the town gained for him The surname Lenhard is spelled the position of burgess in 1757 and many ways in Lancaster, though it ap­ 1758 (123). pears infrequently and may have repre­ sented only one family. There is no Lenhart provided Bullet Pouches and record of the surname in Mennonite Cen­ saddlery for the troops during the sus Lists of the Palatinate until the French and Indian War, including the lists of 1731, 1732, 1740, 1743, and Royal Americans under Colonel Bouquet 1752 (Bender),long after John and Mary (Wood 142). He was a charter member of were married. Some sources give the the Juliana Library and contributor of date of birth of their first child, Ja­ books (H185 22 Oct 1763). He bought cob, as 1720, suggesting they may have and sold several town lots. One, dated married after arrival in Pennsylvania. 15 July 1745, is referenced 1147. The next reference, 1148, was a lot bought The name Siegismund Landtart ap­ by John Myer. pears on Rupp's list of 1712 arrivals (1936: 437). A number of German and Sigmund may have been the father French Huguenot settlers arrived at of Maria. Barbara and Philip, who ap­ this time. Dean Froehlich reports an peared later, may have been related to

50 Maria, perhaps niece and nephew. John L143.14.1. Moyer's familiarity with the courts, and his rapid success in the acquisi­ Abraham now owned the livestock tion of property, suggest there was a and farm equipment. John's inventory friendly association with Philip, the included one cow, a copper still, cop­ popular saddler. per kettle, iron kettle, casks and tubs, with about 60 gallons of "appel Last Will and Testament and Estate & Bitch (peach) Licquor." Thus learn­ Inventory of John, the Elder ing that John, the Elder, was a stil­ ler, we must put the twentieth century Toward the end of his life, John, behind us and examine the literature following the custom among the Swiss in order to learn how a stiller was and Germans of Lancaster County, built judged in his own time and place. We a small annex to the large farmhouse, find, complete with kitchen and cellar, where he and Mary moved, turning the For nearly a century, a considerable farm over to Abraham and his growing proportion of the corn and rye pro­ family. Traditionally among the Swiss duced in Pennsylvania was marketed and Germans, the youngest son inher­ as whiskey. This fiery beverage was ited the homestead and, in return, the almost universal beverage of cared for his aging parents. men, women and children. There was little or no moral or religious sen­ John signed his will on 29 Septem­ timent against it then....Before the ber 1759. It was prepared by William coming of turnpikes, around 1800, Atlee and witnessed by Atlee and Rob­ whiskey was about the only farm prod­ ert Thompson. Jacob Moyer and Abraham uct it would pay to transport over Moyer were named executors. The will the Alleghenies to Philadelphia and was probated on 27 December 1760, ac­ Baltimore. A packhorse could carry companied by an inventory of the goods twenty-four bushels of rye as whis­ and chattels, rights and credits of key but only four as grain. A copper the estate. still, or access to one, was consid­ ered essential to every farmer (Flet­ William Atlee, who prepared John's cher 290). will, was a brilliant young attorney who served as chief burgess of Lancas­ Albert (171-172) writes, ter from 1770 to 1775. He chaired sev­ eral offices during the War of Inde­ There was one time in the early his­ pendence, was appointed to the Supreme tory of southwestern Pennsylvania Court of Pennsylvania in 1777, and re­ when whiskey was the one commodity appointed in 1784. In 1791 he became that had a standard value and all president judge of the district which the mediums of barter and exchange, included Lancaster, Chester, York, and such as corn, salt, tobacco, etc., Dauphin counties (Wood 176). were valued in accordance with the amount of whiskey they would fetch. The inventory was signed by Jacob When coin was almost unknown and pa­ Brubaker and John's son-in-law, Henry per money valueless, as it was for Smith. Of the L773.17 total value of some years after the revolution, a the inventory, bonds, notes and book whiskey still was as necessary as a debt accounted for L173.8.3, and addi­ grist mill. Nearly every fifth or tional incoming debts were valued at sixth farm had a copper still. The L350, together totaling L523.8, or 68% farmer who had one manufactured the of the inventory. Total cash was whiskey for his neighbors who had FAMILY HiSlOHY LIBRARY 51 - NORTH WEST TEMPLE SALT LAKE CiTY, UTAH 84150 0158644 -<- ,.-',.••-' .•.-•"A *.:*\-;.v*••^ir-s* \- ~>-3

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THE EARL TOWNSHIP SONS AND NEPHEW of

JOHN MOYER. the Elder LW8.T 6-1-340(1760)

Patent A-7-1G0(173S) 500 A on branch Conestogoe Creek

1 NE 150 A to son r W 250 A to son MM-341(1748) SE lOO A to nephew G-1-273(1748I ) I II-2-646(1743I ) CHRISTIAN, SR = Mary Erlsman JOHN, JR HANS(John) = Agatha LW&T G-1-25K 1794) K-1-88( 1761 ) d int 1787 LW&T Y-2-474(1789) A-3-13K 1797) 3 sons 5 dau N-1-348(1761 ) 1 son 3 dau 4 sons 4 dau

124 A 124 A 150 A 100 A WW-2-29(1793) SS-513(1793) SS-2-55K 1792) 23-4-454(1822)* TT-2-128(1794) CHRISTIAN, JR Magdalena JOHN Chr1st ina CHRISTIAN 1 Magdalena JOHN, SR Susanna Huber K-3-560(1801) 2 Christina d int 1802 d int 1801 d 1819 d 1nt 1794 Diertorf LW&T 0-49(1823) 6 sons 3 dau 5 sons 1 son 8 dau LW&T H-150(1801) 3 sons 4 dau R-3-15M 1804)

134 A 124 A 150 A 10O A N-6-74(1813) 26 Jan 1801** S-3-264(1805) 23-4-454(1822) 21-494(1821) MARTIN SAMUEL = Barbara Abraham & MAGDALENA HENRY Leah (MEYER) Good

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* Contains reference to deed dated 17 March 1789 by which John, Sr. bought 100 A from same 6 persons (3 of each sex) named in 23-4-454(1822).

** Samuel & his wife Barbara sold 124 A, on 26 Jan 1801, to John, Sr . . son of John, the nephew. John and Susanna then sold 99 A of that tract to their son Peter.

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Michael Baughman John Blake Hans Graeff John & Michael Moyer Roger Hunt Warrant 20 Nov 1717/8 Warrant 25 Jul 1718 Warrant 4 Oct 1718 Warrant 23 Oct 1733 Pat A-1-202 Survey 28 May 1718 1O0 acres 1150 acres Survey 2 Nov 1733 15 Feb 1738 Blake & David Jones Hans Graeff to JOHN MOYER. Lancaster to HANS MOYER 10 June 'last' ( 17347) 30 Dec 1719 iOO A Branch Conestogoe 400 A Branch Conestogoe I Creek Patent to JOHN MOYER Patent to JOHN MOYER Patent to JOHN MOYER JOHN MOYER A-6-345 (10 June 1734) A-7-160 (2 May 1735) A-10-194 (24 Mar 1738) 9 May 1747 262+ A branch little Conestogoe 500 A on Branch of Conestogoe Creek 556 A 146 A

JOHN Maria MOYER* Lenhardy b 1690ca. m 1715ca. d 1760 d after 1760 Will B-1-340(1759) Deed G-1-273 JOHN MOYER. the elder ft Maria M. Lenhardy. his wife 250 acres in Earl Twp. to their son CHRISTIAN MYER 4>~ 22 November 1748

Abraham • Maria CHRISTIAN Mary M. John.Jr JacoT b * ( 1) Addey Mary Henry Barbara Henry OC 1782 N-1-348 Erisman MM-34 1 N-341&8 Er isman Bare Smith N-1-348 XX-122 G-1-276 G-1-276 RR-554 (2) Anna K-88 d 1793 d 1773 Wil 1 G-1-25K 1794) d 1787 MM-2-419 Intest OC 14 Jul 1789 et seq Magda1ena Jacob Christian John m Henry KM der m Anna Burkholder m Christina Dlertorf m Barbara John Barbara Barbara m George Hette m Christina m Henry Good m Susannah CHRISTIAN. JR Anna Abraham m Christian Shank m Magda1ena Huber m Joseph Hoffert m Barbara Magdalena (2) Anna m Christian Meyer m Christian Jenuine m Maria TT-2-128(1794) Christian m Abraham Johns m Magda1ena Jacob •JOHN MOYER bought 18.5 A m Samue1 Greb111 m in Lancaster Twp from Eliza Mary John Brubaker ft wife on m John Sheaffer m 13 Dec 1732. Anna Martin m Jacob Laushey m David dkf 12/84 none, on shares.... It bought farms L5. Furniture in the little retire­ as now it frequently loses them. ment apartment included a bed, a chest, a clock, a safe, a kitchen cup­ John's will directed that Abraham board with bottles and glasses, sundry deliver, among other things, two bar­ pewterware, two walnut tables, a brass rels of apple cider and four barrels candlestick, several baskets and numer­ of apple liquor to his mother each and ous metal pots. Edibles consisted of every year of her life following his ten bushels of Indian corn, and honey. death. Farmers were so dependent on There was a generous supply of house­ cider that most farms advertised for hold linen: 13 bed sheets, eight or sale in the Pennsylvania Gazette about more table cloths, a supply of hand 1760, mentioned orchards and the num­ towels, nine bed cases, one pillow and ber of barrels of cider that could be eight pillowcases. Also listed were expected from each. The requirements eight pounds of bee's wax, a grind­ of a family were from ten to fifty bar­ stone, two cutting knives, a cloth rels annually (Fletcher 212). Gibbons press, a cross-cut saw, brass wire, (68) states, sundry old iron and a scale.

We are not a total abstinence (sic) John's will spelled out careful di­ people. Before these times of high rections to Abraham and his executors prices, liquor was often furnished for the lifetime care of his beloved to hands in the harvest-field. A Maria. She was to receive, first, the few years ago a meeting was held in sum of L100 and lifetime use of the a neighboring school-house, to dis­ apartment and all its contents except­ cuss a prohibitory liquor law. After ing his books, her choice of one milk various speeches, the question was cow from among those he owned at time put to a vote, thus: 'All those who of death,use of the orchard and fruits want leave to drink whiskey please therein, and the northernmost half of rise.1 'Now all those who don't want the garden. In addition to the cider to drink whiskey will rise.' The af­ and liquor previously mentioned, Abra­ firmative had a decided majority. ham was to deliver annually ten bush­ els of wheat, twenty-five pounds of Dr. Benjamin Rush has the final word: good beef, twenty-five pounds of good "...very few of (the Germans) used pork, and good and sufficient fire­ distilled spirits in their families" wood, ready cut and fit for her use, (Smauk 34). delivered at her door, as well as good and sufficient fodder,hay and pasture, John's inventory included Holy the same as his own, for one good milk books, valued at L13.6, to go to the cow for her benefit. children. Religious books were highly valued in the community, not only for Abraham,the youngest son, received their spiritual worth but also because the 280-1/2-acre family farm and all they contained lists of martyrs, in­ its appurtenances, under and subject cluding relatives of many of the Lan­ to the privileges and liberties given caster families (Gibbons 74-5,82-3). his mother, Mary, and to the provision of the sundry necessaries during the The inventory contained more than term of her natural life, to be found, 60 yards of flax and 25 yards of Dow provided and delivered by him or them cloth, a heavy, linen-like fabric, 12 to her as mentioned. Barbara Bare, yards of bagging, a small quantity of daughter of John's deceased daughter half-cotton fabric and cotton yarn. Mary, was to receive L150 when she be­ John's wearing apparel was valued at came eighteen years of age. The re-

55 mainder of his estate, including his John also provided a gift of land books, was to be divided equally among for his daughter, Mrs. Henry Smith, as his five surviving children. has previously been described. His land gifts to John Brubaker (44 acres Lifetime Land Distribution in Manheim) and his nephew John Meyer (100 acres in Earl and Leacock) provid­ It was customary among the Swiss ed additional security and mutual aid and German settlers to give the eldest to his sons and their families in the son a double share of the property,8 large tracts of wilderness, miles away as his birthright, while the youngest from the family home. son received the family "mansion place," as it was sometimes called in The terrors of daily living in the the deeds. John, the Elder, gave M31 wilds continued for two generations to Jacob a total of 606 acres in Manheim. come. The Myers men spread themselves He gave M32 Christian 250 acres in thin in an effort to build a future Earl and 50 acres in Manheim. M33 for their own families, so their sons John received only 150 acres in Earl. and daughters would not have to move The reason for this inequity is not west to find affordable land. clear. It may have been offset by cash and/or other considerations. This son John Moyer, the Elder, and Maria John (John III), was survived by three Lenhardy his wife, dreamed the Ameri­ daughters and only one son. This may can dream, and lived to see it ful­ not have been apparent, or necessarily filled. Their long years of deter­ true, during the lifetime of John, the mined effort set the course for many Elder, since other sons may have died, future generations. It was a splendid but a shortage of sons diminished the beginning. need for more land and also the abil­ ity to clear and farm it.

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Notes

-•This token amount was also paid by James Hamil­ were located on our behalf by Clyde Groff and ton to his father, Andrew Hamilton, for the town- Salinda Matt. site of Lancaster in 1734. Swiss and German sons usually paid their fathers a fair price for the *The history of this neighborhood is described in land, to be used as dowry for the daughters. detail in an excellent article (Brubaker 1985: 2-9). 2Table of Assessed Taxable Wealth in Lancaster 5Map Is file No. 2438, Myers Family Data, York Borough for 1753 lists a total of two taxpayers with wealth In excess of L100. In 1788, when next County Historical Society. tabulated, the assessment showed 24 persons with 6 wealth above L550, and eight persons whose prop­ Jane E. Best outline dated 2 February 1985. erty exceeded LI,000. Tax assessors tended to 7 undervalue estates of the more affluent (Wood David L. Schrelner, family historian, reports in 169).Lancaster Borough lies within Lancaster Town­ letter to DMA, April 1985, that Philip was the ship, but figures for Lancaster Township or Lan­ executor of Barbara's husband's will. caster County are not available. 8Clyde Groff advises that the Mennonites usually ^The unreferenced inventories of M3 John Moyer named the firstborn son for the paternal grand­ and M31 Jacob Meyer are located in the vault of father. It would be considered immodest of the the Lancaster County Historical Society. They father to name the first son after himself.

Works Cited

Albert, George D. History of the County of West­ Groff, Walter B., Clyde L. Groff, and Jane Evans moreland. Philadelphia 1882. Best. The Groff Book Volume I: A Good Life in a New Land. Ronks: Groff History Associates,1985. Bender, Harold S. "Palatinate Mennonite Census Lists, 1664-1774." The Mennonite Quarterly Heinicke, Milton H. History of Ephrata Booklet Review. Goshen, Indiana: Mennonite Historical Seven. Ephrata: The Historical Society of Society. January, April, July and October 1940. CocaTico County, 1973.

Brubaker, Landis H. "The Brubakers and Their Loose, John Ward Willison. The Heritage of Lancas­ Lands In East Hempfleld Township, Lancaster ter. Woodland Hills: Windsor Publications, Inc. County, Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania Mennonite T578. Heritage V.2. ( April 1982), 10-29. Rupp, I. Daniel. A Collection of Thirty Thousand "Plotting the Story of the Abbeyville Names of German, Swiss, Dutch and French Immi­ Mennonite Meetinghouse and Cemetery. "Pennsyl­ grants in Pennsylvania From 1727 to 1776. Bal- vania Mennonite Heritage VIII.3. (July 1985) timore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965. 2-9. Schmauk, Theodore E. An Account of the Manners of Fletcher, Stevenson Whitcomb. Pennsylvania Agri- the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania by Ben- culture and Country Life 1640-1840. Harris- jam in Rush, M.D. Lancaster: Pennsylvania Ger­ burg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Com­ man Society, 1910. mission, 1981. Wood, Jerome H.,Jr. Conestoga Crossroads Lancas­ Gibbons, Phebe E. "Pennsylvania Dutch" and Other ter, Pennsylvania, 1730-1790. Harclsburg: Penn­ Essays. Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott & Company, sylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 18?2. 1979.

57 'Sectmt/s yj&str* 7t//ry&i/ /i*,ve- r/f n^tle/eno) *A*„J •/£>. /*£

Ft<7. 25. Second codicil to will of M3l Jacob Meyer, with signature.

58 Generation III

M31 JACOB MEYER, SR., ca 1720-1793

OF MANHEIM TOWNSHIP

The name, "Jacob Meyer of Manheim," Jacob Meyer, Sr., of Manheim a- was prominent in Lancaster County for massed a huge fortune by Lancaster many years. M31 Jacob Meyer, Sr., as standards of his time. In addition to eldest son of M3 John, the Elder, In­ the 656 acres of land he inherited herited a double share of his father's from his father and later divided a- property. His farm, by size and by mong three of his sons, he purchased location, provided ample opportunity plantations for the other five surviv­ for gainful service during both the ing sons and daughters, and compensa­ French and Indian War and the Revolu­ ted the children of Abraham with gener­ tionary War, when Lancaster Countians ous provisions of cash and moveables. played a significant role in American These tracts varied in size and value, history. but Jacob maintained accounts of the land, moveables and other expenses ad­ Jacob and Christian, two sons of vanced to each child, to ensure an eq­ John, the Elder, married sisters, Ad- uitable distribution of his estate. die and Mary Magdalena Erisman, respec­ Those whose total Inheritance was less tively (Deed K-88, Deed G-l-276). The than the value of their real estate girls were daughters of Melchior and and other advances, signed bonds for Edith Erisman, Mennonite immigrants of the balance owed the estate, to be 1717, who lived next door to M3 John, paid at the rate of L50 per year. the Elder, on the southern boundary of the Brubaker (later Stoneman) proper­ The land Jacob inherited, which ty, facing the Abbeyville meeting­ his father had purchased sixty years house. Melchior died about 1720. His earlier at L10 per hundred or 2 shill­ widow continued to operate the farm ings per acre, was now "sold" to three until her death. of his sons in April 1793 for approxi­ mately L8 per acre (Deeds XX-122, M31 Jacob and Addie Meyer had RR-2-554). three children: John, Barbara and Ab­ raham. Barbara married Bear. Ab­ In July of 1793, the last year of raham died some time prior to 1793, his life, Jacob drew up his will. It leaving issue Anna, Jacob and Abraham. was witnessed by Abraham Brubaker and After Addie Erisman Meyer's death, Jac­ another, whose name is illegible. He ob married Anna , who bore him six named as executors his son, Christian children: Anna, who married Smith, Meyer, and his friend, Jacob Brubak­ Christian, who married Ann , Jac­ er. The will was also signed by Anna, ob, who married Mary Brubaker, Mary, his wife. who married Shenk, Martin, and David (Will F^T^S). In the will he left to his wife

59 her choice of one milch cow, his bed queathed to the three children of his and bedstead, and all the bed furni­ first wife the sum of L300, which was ture belonging to it. She was left their mother's portion, to be divided with the right to live peaceably in equally among them. his house adjoining the spring-house, known as the weaving house, during her Jacob added two codicils to his widowhood, with free use and posses­ will, each containing two items, on sion of the upper part of the cellar the 7th and 8th days of October. of the spring-house. But if she chose First, he gave to his wife Anna two instead to live with her son, Chris­ iron pots, a brass urn bowl, a tin tian, then he was instructed to build bucket, a milk skimmer, a little wal­ a room adjoining his house for her wid­ nut table, six pewter plates, six owhood. spoons, two pewter dishes, three apple butter "hrogs" (?), two one-pint tins, Jacob's servant girl, Duse, was to a ten-pint pan, a pewter basin, four serve her time to his wife, Anna. His earthen plates, four iron ladles, one son, Jacob, was to give Duse her free­ copper teakettle, a tub and three dom at the end of her period of inden­ buckets. Second, he stated that he ture. had already given his son, Abraham, from his estate, the sum of six hun­ Jacob was to provide his mother dred and sixty-eight pounds, nine shil­ yearly with ten pounds of heckled lings and six pence in gold or silver hemp, thirty pounds of swingled flax, coin, some in the form of money and seventy pounds of hogs meat, thirty some in household furniture. The pounds of beef, ten bushels of wheat, second codicil gave further instruc­ a cow in the pasture with suitable tions for Jacob in the payment of in­ feed, one barrel of good cider, as terest and principle of the L150 for many apples as she wanted, as much the widow, Anna, and also directed cord-wood as she needed, and the gar­ Jacob to give his mother the riding den near her house for as long as Anna horse belonging to his father. The lived in the weaving house. If she codicils were witnessed by John Huber lived with her son Christian, then he and Abraham Brubaker. was to provide the above. Anna was to receive nine pounds yearly, this being On the tenth day of October, 1793, the interest on L150, in the hands of a few weeks before his death, Jacob, their son, Jacob. The language of the Sr., of Manheim, drew up a schedule of will made clear that these benefits accounts for the settlement of his es­ lasted only through her widowhood and tate. The balance sheet was witnessed were therefore terminated should Anna by John Huber and Abraham Brubaker and remarry after Jacob's death. After An­ signed by executors Christian Meyer na's death, the L150 was to be divided and Jacob Brubaker.1 On the left-hand equally among his children. side of the ledger, he listed his ad­ vances to each of the nine children, John, the eldest son, received including their plantations, moveab­ twenty pounds, later amended to fifty les, cash and interest. He then gave pounds in gold or silver, for his each child a credit of Ll,180, plus birthright. The remainder of the es­ L100 each to Addie's children, and the tate was to go to the nine children, additional L50 to John, the eldest with Abraham's children receiving the son, for his birthright. The total a- share of their deceased father. Jacob raount of the nine gifts was L10,970, charged his executors with the care of leaving a balance on hand of L556.9.5, Abraham's minor children. He be­ for a total estate of Lll,526.9.5. 2

60 On the right hand side of the led­ In August 1798, nearly five years ger, Jacob listed the sundries re­ after Jacob's death, the executors of ceived by each child in advance, and his estate reported back to the Regis­ noted either a balance due of the in­ ters Office at Lancaster with an ac­ heritance, or a bond to pay the differ­ count of the administration of the es­ ence. The estate owed money to Barba­ tate. The original inventory, amended ra, Abraham, Anna, Mary and Martin. by collections not included previous­ Notes were signed by John, Christian, ly, totaled L4,480.9.11. Jacob and David, to pay the estate for excess sundries received. Next followed a list of 50 items paid in cash by debtors, and payment Jacob died in November 1793. His of a debt for beef and two heifers will and account sheet were signed by sold to the deceased in his lifetime. George Ross, Registrar, on 11 January There followed a large number of cred­ 1794, together with an inventory of its charged off due to insolvency. the estate made on 7 January 1794 by The largest of these was to Abel Rees, Fritz and John Huber. whose two judgment bonds for L350 in 1764 now totaled Ll,160 in principal The four-page inventory revealed and interest. The executors of the the stark simplicity of the lives of estate of Thomas Edwards pleaded the this prosperous farmer and his fami­ Act of Limitations to a book debt of ly. There was his wearing apparel, a L4.12. Several adjustments were made cow, a steer, a swine, a trough, a bed due to errors in the original invento­ and bedstead, 2 old chests, 25 pounds ry, and court and administrative ex­ of hempen yarn, 6 pounds of tow yarn, penses were paid. Cash in the amount 5 bags, 7 table cloths, 4 towels, a of Ll.525.7.5 was then distributed ac­ little cupboard, an iron hopple, 24 cording to the will. No subsequent yards of tow linen, 24 pounds of heck­ reports have been found. led hemp, shingles, a set of gold weights. The only book mentioned was Our investigation has brought to a Dutch Bible, a reminder that the fam­ light this colorful ancestral uncle of ily lived in Holland before coming to the Myers family studied in this book, America. The sum total of these per­ but Jacob Meyer, Sr., of Manheim de­ sonal and household effects amounted serves a more thorough study than can to less than LlOO. be accomplished here. His descendants have gathered a lively collection of The bulk of Jacob's estate was in memoirs concerning Jacob and his son, outstanding book debts and other notes Jacob, Jr., who, it is said, was an and bonds. A total of 53 persons owed itinerant Mennonite minister (Hawbaker book debts, ranging from a few shil­ 5). lings each, up to as much as L400. The bonds, too, represented many people, Chapter 6 including his children, and persons Notes bearing both English and German sur­ Estate records are on file at Lancaster County names. Some of the larger bonds were Historical Society. very old, dating back as far as 1763, with accrued interest. On the final ^Clyde Groff writes that he has never seen any­ thing like this in his thirty-five years as page of the inventory, there was a genealogist in Lancaster County. schedule of payments for his sons' Works Cited bonds. The inventory amounted to L4,455.0.9, with L71.4.cash on hand. Hawbaker, Gary T. "Letters to the Editor." Lan- caster County Connections. 1.1 (1984): 5.

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Generation III

M32 CHRISTIAN MEYER, SR., OF EARL TOWNSHIP, ca 1721-1794,

and M322 JOHN, "SON OF CHRISTIAN," ca 1760-1800

M32 Christian Meyer, Sr., was the last in the section of MX John Meyer, Sr. , surviving son of John, the Elder. He the nephew. died in Earl Township, Lancaster Coun­ ty, in October or November of 1794. M32 Christian Sr., accumulated a Surely he and his wife, Mary Erisman number of additional properties in his Meyer, who died earlier, were buried lifetime. In 1793, he sold the south­ in the Meyer cemetery on his land, ern half of his 250-acre ancestral although we were unable to locate the farm (124 acres) to his son John (Deed markers in 1982, and now presume they SS-513) for L500. In the following have been lost with the passage of year, shortly before his death, he time. sold the northern half, probably in­ cluding the home, to his youngest son, Mary Erisman Meyer was the sister Christian, Jr., (Deed WW-2-29), for of Addie Erisman, who married his L700. In order to provide irrigation brother, Jacob. They were daughters to both properties and to accommodate of Melchior and Edith Erisman, Mennon­ both homes, a complex plan of water ite settlers of the 1717 migration, rights was described in the deeds, who owned a farm (Patent A-7-19) ad­ with an irregular boundary line of joining the Moyer farm in Lancaster twelve courses separating Christian Township. Melchior died early, leav­ Jr.'s property from that of his broth­ ing his widow to operate the farm er, John. until her death. Christian, Jacob, and their wives were named heirs to The will stated he had previously Addie's estate (Deed G-l-276, 1760, sold land in Leacock to his son, Jac­ Myer et al., to Erisman). ob. Several tracts of land remained in trust for his daughter, Anna, and M32 Christian Sr.'s last will and her children; in his will he asked his testament (G-l-251) is in poor condi­ executors to make certain that neither tion and cannot be fully transcribed. her present husband nor any future hus­ He named his sons: Jacob, (the eld­ band would receive income from them. est), John, and Christian, Jr., (our Each of his sons received five pounds ancestor), and five daughters: Bar­ as his birthright. Two adjoining bara, wife of Christian Meyer, Maria, tracts were given to his sons-in-law wife of Abraham Johns, Magdalena, wife as tenants in common. Balance of the of Samuel Grebil (Graybill), Eliza­ estate was to be divided among his beth, wife of John Sheaffer, and Anna, five daughters. Executors of Chris­ wife of Jacob Laushey. A discussion tian's estate were his sons, John and as to the identity of Barbara's hus­ Christian Jr., and his son-in-law, band, Christian Meyer, will be found Abraham Johns.

63 Generation III

M32 CHRISTIAN MEYER, SR., OF EARL TOWNSHIP ca 1721-1794

M32 CHRISTIAN, SR., m Mary Erisman (Deed K-88, G-l-276) dau Edith

and Melchior Erisman (G-l-276)(all heirs named in Will G-l-251)

M321 Jacob

M322 John ca 1760-1800 m Christina (Deed 21-494) M3221 Samuel M3222 John M3223 David M3224 Christian M3225 Abraham

M323 CHRISTIAN, JR. 1761-1802 m Magdalena Hoover (See separate outline)

M324 Barbara 4 Apr 1750-17 Sep 1801 m Christian Meyer 1749-1801 may be son of MX1 John Meyer the Nephew. Both i Bareville Union Cem (Formerly Meyer Cem)(Will H-l-668, Deed R-3-641). Following are believed to be issue of MX12 Christian Meyer, w Barbara

M3241 John Meyer M3242 Jacob Meyer M3243 Mary m Eckert M3244 Elizabeth m Miller

M325 Maria m Abraham Johns

M326 Magdalena m Samuel Grebel (Graybill)

M327 Elizabeth m John Shaeffer

M328 Anna m Jacob Laushey

64 The estate Inventory was appraised by Christ. Carpenter and Jacob Johns, exhibited by John Meyer, Christian Mey­ er, and Abraham Johns. It was calcula­ ted in British pounds and totaled a- f*Ab&f7Mt bout L200, including two bonds for a total of L80 and a note for L8.10. His possessions included a riding horse, saddle and bridle, three cows, one red, one black, and one brown, two hogs, three sheep, a feather bed and a Fig. 26. Signature of Christian Meyer, good supply of bed and table linens, Sr. Taken from Inventory of Goods and books, 3 chests, kitchen furniture, a Chattels of John Meyer, his brother, table and several chairs, two spinning late of Earl Township, 7 December 1787. wheels, water hoes, axes, shovels and other tools, 3 hogheads, 5 barrels, 4 half-barrels, 2 still hogheads, walnut boards, a grindstone, a moiety of hay, a pair of halyards, 10 cow chains, oth­ M322 John, Son of Christian er farm equipment, a thimble, a copper still, a barrel of whiskey and barrel, After the death of Christian Sr., 17 bags, several blank books, and cash M322 John (Christian's son) and his in the amount of L2.12.4. brother, M323 Christian Jr., lived for six years on the western half of the In 1792, two years before his ancestral land in Earl. Early in death, Christian Sr. deeded an acre of 1800, M322 John (who was then about ground on his property (RR-2-191), on forty years of age), died intestate a knoll near the center of the origi­ (Deed 21-494), leaving a widow, Chris­ nal 500-acre tract, to be used as a tina, and five sons: Samuel, John, Da­ burial ground for the descendants of vid, Christian, and Abraham, all mi­ John Moyer the Elder, with his sons nors. Christina gave M323 Christian Christian Jr. and John named as trus­ Jr., power of attorney, and he and tees . It became known as the Meyer John Sensenich were appointed guardi­ cemetery north of Bareville (Route ans over the children. A Sheriff's 23), to distinguish it from another Inquisition determined that the land Meyer cemetery, belonging to an un­ evaluation was L2,300, and could not related family, 1/4 mile south of be divided without spoiling the Bareville. whole. In Orphans' Court on 25 Janu­ ary 1801, Christian Jr., accepted the The boundary line between West land on behalf of Samuel, the eldest Earl and Upper Leacock Townships pass­ son, subject to payment to the other es a corner of the burial ground. heirs for their shares, and subject to This line follows Old Peter's Path an annual payment of L46 to their moth­ through the property. Later, Brethren er, Christina, for the remainder of Church Road was cut through our ances­ her life. tral property from north to south, bor­ dering our Meyer cemetery. The ceme­ On the following day, Samuel sold tery has since been taken over by the the tract, subject to conditions of community and is presently known as water rights and the annual payments Bareville Union Cemetery. It is well- to his mother, to MX11 John Meyer, son fenced and maintained. of John, the nephew, and his wife, Su-

65 sanna. This John, with ten sons and one daughter, was eagerly adding to

his land holdings. In 1809, he sold '•• of »09 A Co. (Deed 21-176) 99 acres, twenty perch­ frOB Joh* %., th. Cl«w es, of this land to his eldest son, Pe­ ter, and the remainder to his second son, George. J FJT- : A 7~* On 3 April 1801, Samuel, having reached the age of twenty-one, re­ leased his guardian, Christian Meyer, Jr.(1-3-723), and received L180, his share of his father's personal estate.

We know nothing more about the five sons of M322 John and Christina until 1821. The courts record that Christina died on 5 January 1819. All of her sons now live in Frankfort Town­ xJaAn Mayer *S0O acrexf f/te 0//O»*I?SMX o/lXsk SC*:srr%J~/yfc*-vfe 0/74* ship, Cumberland County, where they ^rtrnch of Con&sfb&sz- /si £&/7co^ferCo*//*ty- -+ao**a'&y yjzr/t/e of COT*ZTofrjfnr, * /• A>fy» Grmpfif signed the deed releasing the ances­ T fYarra/tf from fAc tral property (Deed 21-494). In the text of the document their surnames porf offfSO aaej 0r&/7As*'fb^fM£7si*Gfvof/*~ are consistently spelled Meyer; but tfbrrfooted'Me ¥+0*0/ of 8Ser rr/s. voas.fh&r* of oot/fM ofI?ar/i/ i/onea »rAo ftos oAAr/^o^f' a'Marrffor their signatures are spelled as fol­ /oo ocve* fro/nyeCo/7tm*m£f*fzJy*26~?0ffAes 0ff/ce SfarcAOf/ZJ* Myers, Christian Myer, Abraham Myer. f t/. Toy/or»/fo. . —r

Fig- 27. Survey map with diagram showing land descent of Moyer tract in Earl Town­ ship.

66 8

Generation III

M33 JOHN MEYER, III, ca 1722-1787 OF EARL TOWNSHIP

and M331 CHRISTIAN MEYER, HIS SON ca 1742-1794

John III, of Earl Township, son of er heirs for their shares. Christian John, the Elder, of Lancaster Town­ and his wife, Magdalena, subsequently ship, inherited the northeast 150 sold the fifty acres and the 104 acres acres of the 500-acre tract in Earl to pay the heirs (MM-2-419, SS-2-551), Township, in the Groffdale settlement, but retained John Ill's original 150 in 1748 (MM-341). At the time of his acres of the ancestral land. death in 1787, his wife, and two daugh­ ters that we know of, had died earli­ John's inventory included three er. He was survived by only one son, horses, seven head of cattle, six one daughter, and several grandchil­ sheep, three swine, a wagon, a house dren. He died intestate. M331 Christi­ clock, a table, two cupboards, a bed, an, his son, was appointed administra­ a chest, pewter, linen, earthen ves­ tor of the estate on 8 December 1787. sels. Tools and implements included His daughter, Anna, was the wife of Jo­ two hatchets, an anvil, a vise, an seph Hoffer. His deceased daughter, engine, a sledge, two croew (crow Barbara, left a widower, Henry Good, bars?), stone cutters, cow chains and and small sons, Michael and Jacob big chains, a plough and harrow, hoes, Good. John's deceased daughter, Magda­ wedges, shovels and dung forks, a lena, left a widower, Christian Jenu- cross-cut saw, leather augurs, a board ine, and daughters Magdalena and Anna saw, a grindstone and sundry tools. (Orphans' Court Records 4 June 1789, There was hay in the barn, wheat, rye 14 July 1789, 9 September 1790). and oats, Indian corn, salt and tubs, wheat and rye in the field. Also, two John III, like his brothers, pros­ brass kettles and an iron kettle, a pered and increased his land holdings cabbage cutter and casks, spinning during his lifetime. He died owning wheels, sieves and tubs, three flax three tracts of land. In addition to brakes and books, for a total of the 150 acres of ancestral land, he L105.17. The inventory was signed by owned 50 acres in Leacock by Rowland, John's brother, M32 Christian Sr. and Shallenberger et al., plus a two-acre his cousin, "MX" John, the nephew. tract in Leacock, making 52 acres in all, and another tract of 104 acres in M331 Christian Meyer, son of John Earl, by John Myer, John Wallace and III, died intestate seven years after others (SS-2-551). Orphans' Court val­ his father in 1794. Like his father, ued the three parcels of land at he was survived by only one son, M3317 L2.202.10, and determined the land John, who was then a small child. He could not be divided without spoiling also left eight daughters, five of the whole. It was awarded to the son, whom were married. Christian's wife, Christian, who would then pay the oth­ Magdalena, died shortly after signing

67 deeds of 1792 (SS-2-551 and C-3-64). by twelve "good and lawful men" viewed Christian then married Christina Dier- and appraised the three tracts of dorf (Deartorf), daughter of Abraham land. These men placed an evaluation Dierdorf of Warwick Township, who bore of j>19,200 on the three properties, him one child. and determined the land could be divi­ ded to accommodate two of Christian's M331 Christian, son of John, III, heirs without spoiling the whole. is the only male member of the family we have encountered who signed with an It was then offered, first, to the "X." All female members prior to the eldest and only son, John, through his nineteenth century signed with an "X," guardian, Daniel Witmer, who refused with the exception of Maria Lenhardy either parcel. It was next offered to Moyer, who signed with an "M." the oldest daughter, Barbara, who also refused. Then Jacob and Elizabeth At the time of M331 Christian's Heetwohl accepted the second parcel, death, his oldest daughter, Barbara, and Magdalena and Abraham Good accept­ was single. Elizabeth was married to ed the first parcel, the 150 acres of Jacob Heetwohl. Magdalena was the ancestral land (OC Writ of Partition wife of Abraham Good. Mary was the 17 September 1804). The widow, Chris­ wife of Samuel Holl, Frances (Fronica) tina, received a one third share of in­ was married to John Rank, and Susanna come from the land for the remainder was married to Frederick Deibler. of her life. Thus 150 acres of the John, Catherine and Anna were minors, land purchased originally by Hans Mey­ Anna being the only child of Christina er, Sr., in 1719, passed out of the Diertorf and heir under Abraham Dier- Meyer name. torf's will (H-150). John's guardian was Daniel Witmer, Catherine's guar­ The deaths of John III, and other dian was Joseph Wenger, a Mennonite members of his family, mark the begin­ minister, and Anna's guardian was ning of a tragic period for our Meyer Marks Grove. family in Earl. Pioneer life was al­ ways unhealthy at best. The causes of By the end of January 1792, Henry disease were unknown. Fletcher (428) Good, the widower of Christian's sis­ writes, ter (Barbara), had also died, leaving minors Henry and Abraham Good or­ [An] almost complete disregard of phans. Our ancestor, M323 Christian the laws of sanitation, especially Meyer, Jr., and Marks Grove, were ap­ drainage and disinfection, made the pointed guardians by Orphans' Court settlers an easy prey to sickness. (SS-2-551). Anna Jenuine, daughter of Life expectancy was low; infant mor­ John Ill's deceased daughter Magdale­ tality was appallingly high.... Sick­ na, was by then married to Andrew Dieg ness and death were the subject of and living in Dauphin County. conversation to a degree that would be considered morbid today.... Un- M331 Christian owned three tracts drained swamps and dense, dank wood­ of land at his death in 1794: his "man­ lands through which the sun rarely sion place" of 150 acres, another penetrated made malaria...a common place of 102 acres, and a third tract and virulent disease. No one of 42 1/2 acres. Ten years later, in thought of connecting the incidence 1804, when the only son, John, was old of malaria with the product of un- enough to speak for himself (though le­ drained swamps - the myriad of mos­ gally still a minor), Orphans' Court quitoes. Many settlers were cold ordered a Sheriff's Inquisition where­ and wet much of the time, hence rheu-

68 matisra and pneumonia were quite com­ to bring home disease. There were so mon. Small pox, yellow fever, many people with identical names, we typhoid fever and measles were the may never know the roles our men and most virulent contagious diseases. women played during the Revolution. In the absence of vaccination, small These were grim times for the family. pox was terribly destructive. The The untimely deaths continued for a first epidemic swept the state in generation. 1777.

The population shifts of the Rev­ Chapter 8 olutionary War brought increased expo­ sure to illness in Lancaster County, Works Cited where many of the sick and wounded of George Washington's army were hospital­ Fletcher, Stevenson Whitcomb. Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life 1640-1840. ized. Those who served in one capaci­ Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and ty or another were all the more likely Museum Commission, 1981.

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Generation III

M34 ABRAHAM MEYER ca 1727-ca 1773

OF LANCASTER TOWNSHIP

Abraham, youngest son of John Moyer, ceased by 5 March 1782 when Henry Krei­ the Elder, was first of the sons to der and Maudlina petitioned the court die, intestate, about 1773 (OC Records to make settlement of the land in Abra­ 18 May 1773: 111). Abraham left a wid­ ham's estate. During his lifetime, Ab­ ow, Maria, and three daughters: Magda­ raham had added five acres to the land lena, wife of Henry Kreider, Susannah, in Lancaster township, which meanwhile wife of Christian Shank, and Barbara, came partly under the jurisdiction of a minor. There were no surviving Lancaster borough. He had also pur­ sons. On 13 June 1782 (OC 339-343) chased two tracts in Manheim township Barbara, then above the age of four­ totaling 216 acres 42 perches. The teen, was granted permission to choose land was subsequently divided among her husband, George Hyde (Heite) to be the three daughters and their hus­ guardian over her estate. bands, George Heide retaining the west­ ern portion of the ancestral land. Of cash in the estate, L674.2.7, Little more than twenty years after his widow received L224.14.2 1/2, and the death of John, the Elder, our sec­ each of the daughters received ond ancestral home passed out of the L149.16.1 1/2. Myers name.

Maria, Abraham's widow, was de­

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10 Generation III

MX1 JOHN MEYER, SR.,"THE NEPHEW," of EARL and LEACOCK TOWNSHIPS

ca 1722-1789, and HIS SONS

MXll JOHN MEYER, JR., ca 1747-1823, and

MX12 CHRISTIAN MEYER OF LEACOCK ca 1749-1801

MX1 John Meyer, Sr., nephew of John, er, presumably M321 John, son of M32 the Elder, who received 100 acres of Christian, Sr. the Earl tract in 1748 (II-2-646), had four sons and four daughters. His MXl John was survived by a widow, son, MXll John, Jr., who inherited the Agatha, four sons, Christian, John, 100 acres, had ten sons and one daugh­ Samuel and David, and four daughters, ter. Many Meyer/Myers families across Barbara, Frena, Elizabeth and Magda­ the nation, therefore, trace their an­ lena. The son MX18 David had died cestry back to MX1 John Meyer, nephew three years later in 1792 when, in of John, the Elder. accordance with John's will, the heirs sold 123.5 acres of land in Earl Town­ We know of no study identifying ship to MX16 Samuel Meyer (XX-22). the parentage of John, the nephew. This was land John had purchased from Scant evidence connecting the brothers Mark and Ann Martin. of John, the Elder, has been found. We believe it would be a disservice to John's will provided L300 to be their descendants to claim either Rudy placed at Interest for three years for or Michael as the father of MX John Agatha, his widow, while she lived Meyer, before a thorough investigation with John, Samuel and David, under cer­ of the records of the two men has been tain stipulations, to go to his daugh­ made. Many land records, including ters upon her death. On 7 August the Journals and Ledgers of the Office 1797, Agatha has died and the money of the Surveyor General, are waiting and other goods and chattels are dis­ to be explored, along with the Day tributed to Christian Grove of Earl Books and records in the Lancaster Township and his wife Barbara, Mark court house. Such a study is beyond Grove of Earl Township and his wife the scope of the present work, but we Fronica, John Grove of the same place hope family historians of that line and his wife Magdalena, and Abraham will publish their findings. Reier of Leacock Township and his wife Elizabeth. All men are described as John, the nephew, prepared his yeomen (farmers) (Deed A-3-131). will on 14 January 1789. It was proved on 11 February 1789 (Y-2-474). The will leaves the clock to John The will was witnessed by M32 Chris­ and the household furniture to Aga­ tian Meyer, Sr., John's first cousin, tha. The inventory of this estate has and Abraham Graybill. Named executors not been found. were his son, MX12 Christian Meyer, Da­ vid Kemper, and his nephew, John Mey­ Fortune smiled on the family of

73 Generation III

MXl JOHN MEYER, SR., "THE NEPHEW," ca 1722-1789, of EARL and LEACOCK

Parentage Undetermined

MXl John Meyer, Sr., (LW&T Y-2-474 14 Jan 1789 wp 11 Feb 1789) w Agada (Agatha) d by 1797 (Deed A-3-131) received from M3 John Moyer of Lane twp SE 100 acres of the 500-acre tract in Groffdale, Earl twp [II-2-646 (1748)] "to John Meyer a nephew"

MXll John, Jr. ca 1747-1823, "son of the nephew," m Susanna d after 1823 (LW&T 0-49) bought ancestral land

MX111 Peter bought land from M322 tract (21-176) 1809 MX112 George bought land from M322 tract (21-166) 1809 MX113 Henry (9 Feb 1790-Sep 1869) w Leah bought ancestral 100 acres (23-4-454) (1822) sold to son David (A-9-607) in 1861 MX114 John MX115 David MX116 Samuel MX117 Jacob MX118 Christian MX119 Abraham MX110 Susanna MXlla Isaac

MX12 Christian (see text)

MX13 Barbara m Christian Grove (Groff) [XX-22 (1792)]

MX14 Fronica b 25 Aug 1759 d 23 Sep 1815 m Mark Grove 1759-1827 (Groff 60) [XX-22 (1792)]

MX15 Magdalena m John Grove [XX-22 (1792)]

MX16 Samuel purchased 123.5 acres Earl twp [XX-22 (1792)] being land MXl purchased from Mark and Susanna Martin 2 Feb 1787

MX17 Elizabeth m Abraham Reier (Royer) (Deed XX-22)

MX18 David not named heir in XX-22, moved to Manheim

74 MXll John, Jr., son of John, the neph­ ceived from his father a 200-acre farm ew, and his family of ten sons and one in Leacock (not part of the ancestral daughter, namely Peter, George. Henry, land), prior to the writing of his John, David, Samuel, Jacob, Christian, father's will (Y-2-474). We do not Abraham, Susanna, and Isaac (lw&t find this deed. Elsewhere we read 0-49). Even as the three grandsons of that the wife of this Christian was John, the Elder, on the Earl land, Magdalena Groff (1749- ). We raise were cut down in their prime, his the question whether he was also, or nephew's son and his sturdy family instead, married to Barbara Meyer, his spread out over Earl and Leacock, in­ second cousin, daughter of M32 Chris­ creasing their holdings on the ances­ tian Meyer, Sr. tral land and adjacent property. MXll John lived a long life, dying in 1823, This Barbara Meyer married a Chris­ and his wife, Susanna, survived him. tian Meyer (lw&t G-l-251). Barbara His sons, Peter and George, bought the and Christian Meyer are buried side by land inherited by M32 Christian's son, side in Bareville Union Cemetery. Ac­ John, sold by the heirs after his cording to the tombstone, she died 17 death. MX18 David moved to Manheim September 1801, age 51-5-8, and he Township. died 19 August 1801, age 52-7-7.

MXll John sold his 100-acre ances­ There is a Christian Meyer of Lea­ tral tract (23-4-454) to his son, Hen­ cock, wife Barbara, whose will ry, on 22 February 1822, the day he (H-l-668) was written on 7 September signed his will. A stone barn bearing 1801, and probated in 1804. He names Henry's name was still standing, in two sons, John and Jacob, and two good condition, in 1982. There were daughters, Mary Eckert and Elizabeth two farms side by side, 1/8 mile Miller. He bequeathed 100 acres in apart, on Meyers Road, which turns Leacock to a son, Jacob, and 40 acres into Hershey Lane. Both were owned by to his wife, Barbara. His wife was de­ families named Nolt, who said they ceased at time of probate. But the were unrelated. Henry's barn was will was signed two weeks after the beside the northern of the two homes. date of his death on the tombstone. While most of the 500-acre original The stone appears to be of more recent tract remained farmland at that time, date than the burials. Other stones much of the corner tract belonging to in this oldest section of the cemetery MXl John, the nephew, was now convert­ have been replaced. Could this stone ed to a community of small homes in be an incorrect copy of the original, the town of Bareville, off Route 23. or were there two Christian Meyers of Leacock with wives named Barbara, all Henry and his wife, Leah, were bur­ of whom died at about the same time? ied in Bareville Union Cemetery on the Meyer ancestral land. His son, David, Only descendants of John, the El­ received 78 acres of the original 100- der, were granted use of the burial acre tract in 1861 (A-9-607) . At his ground (RR-2-191). This excluded the death, the land passed to his widow, family of MX John, the nephew. The Elizabeth, in 1878 (S-13-71). Her only couple named Christian and Barba­ heirs sold the land to Aaron Nolt in ra, one of whom was descended from 1907 (S-18-32). John, the Elder, were Barbara, daugh­ ter of M32 Christian, Sr., and her hus­ The second son of MXl John, the band, Christian Meyer. We have not nephew, was named Christian. He re- proven which Christian that might be.

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11

Generation IV

M323 CHRISTIAN MEYER, JR., 1761-1802

OF EARL AND LEACOCK TOWNSHIPS

Our direct ancestor, M323 Christian developing along the road from Lancas­ Meyer, Jr., Mennonite, youngest son of ter to New Holland near the southeast M32 Christian and Mary Erisman Meyer, corner of the Meyer land, where Pe­ inherited half of the ancestral land. ter's Road entered the property. Lo­ He died, intestate, in 1802 at age for­ cated there was a fine spring, beside ty-one, two years after the death of which stood one of the first distill­ his brother, leaving Magdalena Huber eries in the county. The Bareville Meyer (1772-1838), his thirty-year-old Hotel was built by Andrew Bare on prop­ widow, with six sons and three daugh­ erty purchased from Hans Good, still ters, all under the age of thirteen. in operation as Ye Colonial Inn as of 1940, later a private dwelling at 197 In 1804, Orphans' Court appointed East Main Street, Leola (Bareville). A three guardians for the children of Your Place cafe adjoins the building. Christian, Jr., and Magdalena (OC Rec­ ords 5 Jan 1804). Christian Hurst was As early as 1800 the citizens of in charge of the first three, Mary, Bareville, led by Bare, set aside land Martin and Magdalena. Joseph Huber, for a school, and in 1802 a log school Magdalena's brother, was guardian of building was erected. Later, another the second three, Ann, Christian and private school was added (Cooper 19). Daniel, and Joseph Wenger, a Mennonite The children of Christian and Magdale­ minister, was guardian of the young­ na became part of a new generation of est, John, Joseph and Isaac. literate American men and women, prob­ ably studying to read and write both In 1805, Magdalena submitted an in English and in German. At this account for her expenses in maintain­ time, the local Meyer families stand­ ing, clothing and educating each of ardized the spelling of their name to the children (OC Records 27 March Myers, the Huber families converted 1805). No claim was made for the their name to Hoover, and the local three oldest children, now aged about Bares adopted the spelling Bear, 15, 14 and 10, suggesting that these though the town retained the original three earned their expenses. Total ex­ spelling of its name. pense for the remaining six children from December 1802 to 27 March 1805, When the Lancaster-New Holland was L136.3.4. No inventory for the Pike was under construction in 1810-12 estate has been found. as a section of the highway from Phila­ delphia to Pittsburgh, houses were At the turn of the century a new built in Bareville to accommodate the town, named Bareville for its citizen, road builders. Soon a post office was Andrew Bare (Bear), grandson of the established, and Bareville was "on the pioneer Mennonite John Henry Bare, was map," giving the Myers compound a new

77 Generation IV

M323 CHRISTIAN MEYER, JR., 1761-1802

from Huber-Hoover History, by Harry M. Hoover

M323 CHRISTIAN MEYER JR. 1761-Nov 1802 intestate of Earl and Leacock twps Mennonite m Magdalena Huber b Earl Twp 16 Sep 1772 d 1 Mar 1838 both i Bareville Union Cem (formerly Meyer Cem) [OC Jan 1804, Mar 1805, Deed WW-2-29 (1794), Deed C-5-299 (1825)]

M3231 Maria b Earl Twp 19 Mar 1790 d Smithville, OH 2 Feb 1860 m Henry Winger (Wenger) Mennonite farmer b Earl Twp 1783 d 1860 (See separate outline, Ohio)

M3232 Martin b Earl Twp 6 June 1791 d Wayne Co OH Mennonite farmer m Lane. Co PA Veronica Bear both i Paradise Union Cem Paradise Ohio No issue

M3233 Magdalena b Earl Twp 24 Oct 1792 d Wayne Co OH m Samuel Meyer Brethren, farmer (See separate outline, Ohio)

M3234 Anna b Earl Twp 26 Aug 1794 d 27 Mar 1844 m 9 Dec 1817 John Bushong b 9 Feb 1794 d 12 Jun 1869 res Bird-in-Hand, i Heller's Cem son of John Bushong d 1831 and Eve Eckman, grandson of Jean Bushong, French Huguenot ar Phila 1731 Reformed, farmer. (See separate outline, Pennsylvania)

M3235 Christian b 28 June 1796 Earl Twp d 16 Apr 1879 m Susanna Huber his second cousin b near New Holland PA 24 Mar 1800 d 31 July 1847 dau Martin Huber 1756-1810 and Elizabeth Horst b 24 Sep 1762 d 31 Mar 1853 i Bareville Union (formerly Meyer) Cem Mennonite He lived In Brownstown, conducted an extensive business as carpenter and cabinet maker, highly esteemed in the community. Fine singer. Four children died young

M3236 Daniel b Earl Twp 2 Nov 1798 d 2 Feb 1856 i Longenecker's Reformed Mennonite Cem m Barbara Metzler i Bareville Union Cem (formerly Meyer Cem) Reformed Mennonite, farmer. (See separate outline, Pennsylvania)

M3237 JOHN b Earl Twp 31 Oct 1799 d Bryan, OH 16 Oct 1877 m 1 Elizabeth Bear b 2 Apr 1802 d 21 Feb 1837 i Bareville Union (formerly Meyer) Cem dau George and Mary Eby Bear. John migrated to Ohio in 1838 m 2 'Catherine Hoover in 1841 dau of Joseph and Anna Myer Huber (See separate outline, Ohio)

M3238 Joseph b Earl Twp 16 Oct 1801 d Smithville, OH 28 Aug 1878 i Mogadore, OH m 1825 m Susanna Wenger b 19 Aug 1803 d 24 Feb 1881 dau Rev Jos Wenger and Maria Horst Mennonite, tailor, merchant, farmer, Smithville, OH (See separate outline, Ohio)

M3239 Isaac b Earl Twp d Allegheny City, PA (See separate outline, Pennsylvania)

78 address. Many of the local young men taught to exemplify the biblical were employed in building the new injunction, 'By the sweat of thy road. 1 brow thou shalt eat thy bread.' To become lazy was a cardinal sin. Martin, eldest son of Christian This was the primary reason why they and Magdalena, became 21 in 1813. He put their sons and daughters to work was given "first pick" of the land, on the farm Instead of continuing and elected to purchase it from the them in school. other heirs, ownership to take place on the death of his mother (N-6-74). No ethnic group more highly valued Twenty-five years later, in 1838, his a large family than the Germans (109). mother died. Martin paid his brothers "The Germans seldom hire men to work and sisters for their share of the upon their farms," Benjamin Rush (28) property and the deed was recorded. said in 1789. Many of the Germans were opposed to slavery and did not Meanwhile, the remaining five settle where slavery was practiced, brothers were left to find work as for it was inconsistent with their cul­ best they could. Christian became a tural patterns of family and communi­ carpenter and cabinet maker. Joseph ty. "Their wives and daughters fre­ became a tailor and merchant. Daniel quently forsake for awhile their dairy remained a farmer, probably taking and spinning wheels and join their hus­ over the ancestral land and caring for bands and brothers" (28). Fletcher his mother after Martin moved away. (p. 108) reminds us that what consti­ Isaac became a merchant. John taught tutes "woman's work" on the farm has school in his younger years and in his been subject to widely different inter­ local community was considered a fine pretation in different countries and mathematician (Myers 17). In 1825 in different centuries. He adds that (C-5-299), Martin and his wife Veron­ German women generally worked in the ica, daughter of David Bear, were liv­ fields only at harvest time and other ing in Adams County when they mort­ emergency farm operations. gaged to Henry Wenger of Leacock land from the estates of David Bear and In the fatherless home of Magdale­ Christian Meyer in anticipation of the na Meyer of Earl, the family held to­ death of the widow, Martin's mother. gether with the strong spiritual and They moved to Wayne County, Ohio in moral values of their community. 1837. Christian's premature death brought to an end the rhythm of prosperity by Children of our ancestors were ex­ which each generation had contributed pected to work as early in life as pos­ to the next, but the land provided sible, and until they reached the age abundantly, and the extended family of of twenty-one, the proceeds belonged relatives and friends were always near­ to their parents. This writer found by. For all its sorrow, their life the custom still followed, at least in was richly blessed, and each of the limited areas, in Ohio in 1982. The children grew up to be a worthy member work ethic was particularly strong a- of society. mong the Germans. Fletcher (109) writes, Following their mother's death in 1838, with cash from sale of the farm, Very early in life farm boys and the families of Maria, Magdalena, girls, not only those of German John, and Joseph, along with Martin blood but also of other groups, were and some of their Hoover relatives,

79 migrated to land in and around Smith­ mark....The largest member of the ville, Green Township, Wayne County, clan was In the seventh generation, Ohio. There a new German-speaking com­ No. 564, George Hoover, who weighed munity was begun, of many faiths in­ 535 lbs. cluding United Brethren, Amish, Luther­ an and Mennonite. They were able to The marriage of three of the Hoovers purchase excellent low-priced, heavily in the fourth generation into the forested new land of their own. Anna, Vincent Myers family produced two Christian, Daniel and Isaac remained distinct types of Hoovers in succeed­ in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. ing generations. The Myers were tall, muscular and rather lean, and The Hoover Connection their features developed in a number of Hoovers. The prevailing color of Magdalena Huber Meyer, wife of the hair is light with a ruddy com­ M323 Christian Meyer, Jr., was a de­ plexion in childhood. The hair be­ scendant of Hans (ca 1670-1750) and comes darker in youth, and in many Margaret Koch Huber, both Mennonites, instances becomes quite dark in mid­ who were born in Switzerland and died dle age, but in some instances it in Earl Twp., Lancaster County. A com­ remains light brown. Grey eyes pre­ memorative stone was placed in Groff- dominate with a sprinkling of blue dale Cemetery in their honor in 1928. and brown; few have real (sic) black Their son, Jacob, was born in Switzer­ eyes. The typical Hoover is of a land or the Palatinate of Germany, and rather quiet disposition, rather died in Martic, later Providence Twp., slow of speech, preferring to keep on 9 July 17 59. Jacob inherited the out of the limelight, intelligent, homestead in Earl, which he left to observing, persevering, fond of a his two sons by his first wife (name good joke, especially if he can get unknown), John and Martin. Martin (ca one off on another of his kin, and 1725-21 Apr 1785), a Mennonite farmer, as a rule an asset to the community and his second wife, Magdalena , in which he resides (Hoover 23).2 were the parents of M323 Magdalena Huber Meyer (Hoover 42-3,47). Magdalena's brother, Jacob Hoover, who was guardian to three of her chil­ Huber features and characteristics dren, married Anna Myer, daughter of are described as follows: Vincent and Anna Huber Myer. Jacob was a member of the United Brethren in Large hands and large feet are said Christ congregation. His home was a to belong to the Huber physical make­ stopping place for the early pioneer up. The typical Huber is broad- preachers before there were any church­ shouldered, thick-set, and of medium es In the area, including Chris New­ height, ranging from 5 ft. 8 in. to comer, Chris Grosh, and Martin Boehra. 5 ft. 10 In., weighing from 175 to Jacob's son, Daniel, migrated to Wayne 200 lbs. and upwards. In every gen­ County, Ohio, where he and his son, eration. . .one or more members of the Cyrus, established a church on their clan became very fleshy. In the own land. Jacob's youngest daughter, fourth generation, No. 22, John Hu­ Catherine, followed her brother to ber, was said to have been the lar­ Ohio, and became the second wife of gest Huber, weighing over 400 lbs. our ancestor, M3237 John Myers. ...This tendency toward becoming very fleshy was very pronounced in Jacob Hoover's son, Isaac, also de­ the sixth generation when a number serves mention. Isaac (1792-1875) was of the clan passed the 300-lb. an intelligent man with ambitions to

80 become a printer and publisher, but The land is located three miles his father's objections were so strong east of Lancaster on the north side of that he remained a farmer on the ances­ Route 23, the New Holland Pike, along tral Hoover land, against his wishes, more than half a mile of fence behind for life. Isaac stood by as his broth­ the row of houses and small businesses ers, sisters, and cousins scattered to facing the highway, between Maple Ave­ Ohio and Virginia. His wife was Maria nue on the west and some point between Myer, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Hershey Road and Farmersville Road on of Bareville, whose lineage we do not the east. The northern boundary of know. Isaac maintained a large corres­ the land is Peace Road. Brethren pondence with his scattered family, Church Road runs vertically through writing fluently on many topics such the property, roughly bisecting the as religion, politics, and matters of original tract. the day. He gathered genealogical rec­ ords of his family, thus developing Within the original boundary is the copious notes used later by his Meyers Road. It appears to be the rem­ great-nephew, Harry M. Hoover, in Hub- nant of a road which connected the er-Hoover History (Hoover 58) . three original homes, then exited diag­ onally at the southwest corner of the There is no connection between our land toward Lancaster. Two of the Hoover line and those of President Her­ present owners stated they obliterated bert Hoover, or J. Edgar Hoover of the portions of the old road in recent Federal Bureau of Investigation. years.

Our Third Ancestral Home Though several of the stone homes are very old, we were unable to find Nothing in the search for ances­ evidence that any were there prior to tors has so stirred this writer's im­ 1838. The original home of Christian, agination as the discovery of our Sr., was probably in the southwest cor­ ancestral home in Earl Township, now ner near two fine springs. This, we West Earl and Upper Leacock. Many believe, was sold to Christian, Jr., hours were spent wandering over the our ancestor, whose widow, Magdalena, land, visiting with the present owners occupied the home until her death. of the five or six farm homes. Al­ though no original buildings remain, This property in 1982 was owned by the land Is little changed since 1838 Jerry Stoltzfus, a genial Amish gentle­ when my grandfather, then five years man whose family came from Alsace. He old, moved with his father to Ohio. purchased the land from the LeFevre The rolling land, tall with green family, who had razed the old house crops, the gurgling brooks, the runs and built a modern home. When I ex­ spilling over the dam, the great stur­ plained that my family had owned the dy stone farmhouses and barns, the land long, long ago, he said with a gardens with neat rows of vegetables twinkling smile, "Oh, you're kin to bordered by brightly colored flowers, the Penns, are you?" are all captured forever in my mind. On a rise in the center of the 500 Stoltzfus told me a number of stor­ acres, visible from any spot on the ies of his ancestors, and of the land, is the one-acre burial ground on land. One family who used to live Brethren Church Road, where many of there had some very rough young men. our ancestors rest in peace. Only the One day they loaded a wagon with rock 100-acre tract of MX John, the Nephew, to be moved. When the two mules began has been converted to subdivision. to pull, instead of going forward, the

81 wagon bed tilted backward and they It was a heady experience, going were thrown high in the air. The back to my ancestral home. I am glad brothers fell to the ground with laugh­ it is in good hands. ter, leaving the mules dangling in the air.

Fig. 28. View of ancestral land of Myers family in Earl Township, showing family cemetery. o, : Chapter 11 h j£fort^l^a^~ Notes

^In 1982 we learned from Jerry Stoltzfus, present Works Cited owner of the land of Christian, Jr., that a quar­ ry In his field furnished rock for the roadbed of a section of this new road. Stoltzfus returned the quarry to field, but not before building his private road, Stoltzfus Lane, to Route 23. The Cooper, Bob. Tri-Town Homecoming Celebration, blue limestone rock is clearly visible on the Bareville-LFola-Leacock, Souvenir Program.1940. shoulders of the Stoltzfus road. Fletcher, Stevenson Whitcomb. Pennsylvania Agri culture and Country Life 1640-1840. Harris^ ^These comments are passed to the reader for what burg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum they are worth. We know, of course, that M323 Commission, 1981. Christian Meyer, Jr., was not a descendant of Vin­ cent Meyer, but from another family. Some 6f the Hoover, Harry M. The Huber-Hoover Family History. Myerses of the eighth generation, including this Scottdale: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928. writer, have fought a lifelong battle with avoir­ dupois. Perhaps we may now blame it on our Hoov­ Myers, William Scott. Myers History. Dallas, er genes, If that is any consolation. 1909.

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Generation V

DESCENDANTS OF M323 CHRISTIAN MEYER, JR., WHO REMAINED IN PENNSYLVANIA

(Anna, Daniel and Isaac)

M3234 Anna Myers 1794-1844 m John Bushong 1794-1869

M32341 Leah Bushong b near Bird-in-Hand 12 Nov 1818, d 18 Nov 1884 m Dec 1840 Joel Bair 1810-1893 son of Joel Bair and Mary Wolf of Earl Twp Reformed Mennonite farmer res four miles S of New Holland, i Zeltenreich Cem

M323411 Eva Anna Bair ra Diller Ranck, res Chester Co M323412 Israel Bair m Elizabeth Diller res New Holland M323413 John B. Bair m Carolyn C. Bair dau John and Carolyn Eckert Bair res Leacock Twp M323414 Amanda Bair m Elam E Kling res Earl Twp M323415 George W Bair m Laura Bushong dau Benjamin and Mary Zook Bushong M323416 Jason D. Bair m Kate Flickinger

M32342 Magdalene Bushong b near Bird-In-Hand 3 Aug 1820 m 1842 Peter Stauffer farmer, res near Bird-in-Hand

M323421 John B. Stauffer M323422 Amos P. Stauffer M323423 Jacob A. Stauffer

M32343 Isaac Bushong b near Bird-in-Hand 26 Feb 1822 d 12 Jan 1899 m Dec 1843 Susanna Buckwalter b 21 Aug 1819 d 6 Sep 1880 Reformed Mennonite miller Justice of the Peace res near Bird-in-Hand

M323431 George Bushong M323432 Martin Bushong M323433 Isaac Newton Bushong m Ada Land is M323434 Anna Bushong, m Long, res Lititz

M32344 Amos Bushong b near Bird-in-Hand 25 Dec 1823 d 17 Nov 1894 Emporia, KN m Fannie Landis b 20 Aug 1824 d KN 25 July 1901 i Mellinger's Cem Mennonite miller res Bird-in-Hand

M323441 Franklin Bushong m Cora Doner M323442 Viola Bushong m D.B. Shirey

83 M32345 Henry Bushong b near Bird-in-Hand 21 July 1825 d 25 June 1891 m (1) Katie Swope (2) Sullenberger res Va later Philadelphia i Heller's Cem

M323451 Daniel Bushong M323452 Justus Bushong M323453 John Bushong M323454 Henry Bushong M323455 Clara Bushong

M32346 John M. Bushong b near Bird-in-Hand 29 Mar 1824 d 24 Jan 1881 m Miss Harrington res 111 Four children.

M32347 Daniel Bushong b near Bird-in-Hand 22 Jan 1829 d 15 Nov 1856 m Sarah Hoffman who m (2) Cyrus McQuade i Heller's Cem

M323471 Laura Bushong M323472 Mary Martha Bushong b Witmer, Lane Co 3 Apr 1856 m 20 Feb 1876 Samuel Fassnacht b 1848 son of Fassnacht and Susanna Hanley Mennonite farmer res New Holland

M3234721 Annie Fassnacht 1877-1885 New Holland M3234722 Maggie Fassnacht b 25 July 1879 New Holland M3234723 Daniel B. Fassnacht b 6 Feb 1881 New Holland M3234724 Laura B. Fassnacht b 10 Apr 1884 New Holland M3234725 Cornelius R. Fassnacht b 13 Jan 1886 M3234726 Charles B. Fassnacht b 11 Aug 1898

M32348 Anna Bushong b May 1831 near Bird-in-Hand m Sebastian Gockley res Lancaster, Lane Co no issue

M32349 Dr. Israel Bushong b 26 Aug 1834 near Bird-in-Hand d 23 Mar 1892 m Florence M. Ball Reformed Mennonite physician res New Holland i Greenwood Cem Lancaster PA

M323491 Augusta M. Bushong M323492 John W. Bushong M323493 William B. Bushong M323494 Bertha B. Bushong M323495 Helen Margaret Bushong M323496 Ruth Bushong M323497 Hayes Bushong M323498 Frederick Bushong M323499 Jeanette Bushong

84 M3236 Daniel Myers 1798-1856 m Barbara Metzler

M32361 Henry Myers b West Earl Twp Lane Co 28 Dec 1826 d 21 Apr 1908 i Groffdale m Anna Oberholtzer b 28 Mar 1832 d 28 Oct 1900 Mennonite farmer res Farmersville

M32362 Anna Myers b West Earl Twp 1825 d 21 Dec 1859 bur Longenecker's Cem W Lampeter Twp m David Harnish b W Lampeter Twp 22 Nov 1820 d 18 Feb 1871 Reformed Mennonite farmer

M323621 Jeremiah Harnish, Civil War soldier died single

M32363 Marpin Myers b W Earl Twp 11 Aug 1828 d 17 Aug 1869 m Hettie Lantz b 2 Aug 1829 d 10 May 1916 dau Jacob Lantz and Hettie Weaver of Strasburg Twp Reformed Mennonite wheelright Lane PA i Longenecker's Cem

M323631 Emma Myers b Herrdale Lane Co 20 May 1854 m 5 Oct 1879 Abraham Long b 10 Jan 1852 son of Christian K Long and Anna Hiestand of Landisville, PA Reformed Mennonite fruit grower res Landisville

M3236311 Martin M Long 1881-1900 M3236312 Ida M Long M3236313 Anna M Long M3236314 Emma M Long

M323632 Martin Aldus Myers d 8 Oct 1902 m Elizabeth W Nolt d May 1924 Reformed Mennonite i Landisville Cem res Lancaster, PA

M3236321 Henry M Myers Lancaster, PA

M3239 Isaac Myers b W Earl Twp d Allegheny City, PA merchant

M32391 Anna Myers M32392 Maria Myers M32393 Milton Myers

85

.13 Generation V

DESCENDANTS OF M323 CHRISTIAN MEYER, JR., WHO MIGRATED TO OHIO

(Maria, Magdalena, John and Joseph)

M3231 Maria Myers b Earl Twp 19 Mar 1790 d Wayne Co OH 2 Feb 1844 m Henry Winger (Wenger) b Earl Twp 1783 moved to Ohio 1837 d 1860 Mennonite farmer res Smithville i Paradise Union Cem

M32311 Adam Winger, b Earl Twp 2 Nov 1816 d June 1901 m 5 Nov 1840 Mary Hoover b 25 July 1819 d 21 Sept 1881 dau Abraham Hoover and Martin, Wayne Co OH Mennonite farmer res Crawford Co IL i Oblong Cem

M323111 Maria Winger M323112 Anna Winger M323113 Sarah Winger M323114 Elizabeth Winger M323115 Henry H. Winger M323116 David M. Winger M323117 Adam Winger M323118 Harriet Winger M323119 Christian Winger 1855-1860 M323110 Jacob J. Winger M32311a Mattie C. Winger

M32312 Magdalene Winger, b Lane Co PA 1 Nov 1814 d 25 Aug 1892 m Michael Witmer b 27 June 1812 d 25 Dec 1907 res Wayne Co OH i Paradise Union Cem

M323.121 Amos W. Witmer M32 3122 Maria Witmer M323123 Susanna Witmer M323124 Henry Witmer M323125 Nancy Witmer M323126 Elam Witmer M323127 Magdalene Witmer

M32313 Sarah Winger M32314 Leah Winger M32315 Isaac Winger M32316 Daniel Winger b Lane Co 14 Nov 1817 went to OH 1837 d 27 Jan 1889 m Anna Comp b 13 Feb 1826 d 24 Mar 1908 i Paradise Union Cem

M323161 Susan Maria Winger M323162 Frank Winger M323163 Amanda Winger

M32317 Henry Winger M32318 Martin Winger M32319 Maria Winger d single. M32310 Anna Winger d single

87 M3233 Magdalena Myers b Earl Twp Lane Co 24 October 1792 d Wayne Co m Samuel Myers Earl Twp 1788 d Wayne Co 20 Dec 1864 Brethren farmer res Smithville i Paradise Union Cem

M32331 Maria Myers b Lane Co 25 Dec 1811 d 15 Jan 1884 m 29 Oct 1844 Benjamin Hemberger b 1 Feb 1817 Brethren farmer res Wayne Co OH

M323311 Mary Hemberger b Wayne Co OH 16 Nov 1848 m 14 Jan 1872 Levi Root b 21 Sept 1846 son of Henry Root and Sarah Hoover Ashville OH Brethren res Smithville, OH

M3233111 Amos B. Root b 12 June 1877 M3233112 Amanda M Root b 20 May 1880 m William Brant M3233113 Sarah A. Root b 10 Mar 1885 m Slater M3233114 John Allen Root b 20 July 1887 M3233115 Henry Earl Root b 16 Mar 1890

M323312 Magdalene (Martha ?) Hemberger b 20 Feb 1846 m Samuel Hoover b Wayne Co 15 Sep 1845 son of Daniel and Rebecca Hershey Hoover Brethren retired farmer res Waterloo IA

M3233121 E. Benjamin Hoover M3233122 John Hoover b 24 Oct d 2 July 1899

M323313 Sarah Ann Hemberger b Wayne Co OH 28 Nov 1851 m Andrew Turney b 22 May 1851 son of Hugh Turney and Anna Rewinsky of Lane Co PA Progressive Brethren res Smithville, OH

M3233131 Anna Turney b 12 June 1873 m Mr McEven res Canada M3233132 Lee Turney b 14 Oct 1874 Alliance OH M3233133 Laura Turney b 28 May 1877 m Miller Sterling OH M3233134 Melvin Turney b 8 June 1879 Smithville OH

M32332 Israel Myers, b Lane Co PA 14 May 1814 d 4 Oct 1890 Issue: three children

M32333 Amos Myers (twin) b Lane Co 19 July 1819 d 10 Dec 1883 m (1) Mary Long first three children (2) Margaret Johnson last four children b 20 Mar 1828 d 11 Mar 1917 res Wayne Co OH

M323331 Samuel Myers b Wayne Co OH m Hannah Young M3233311 Earl Myers M323332 Margaret Myers b Wayne Co 14 Oct 1849 d 15 Aug 1892 m William F Miller b 29 May 1845 d 1 May 1923 M3233321 Maud Miller M3233322 Clyde Miller

88 M323333 Mary Myers b Wayne Co m Peter Rhoads M3233331 Viola Rhoads M3233332 Merton Rhoads

M323334 Leander Myers b Wayne Co OH m Louisa White

M323335 Amos Myers b Wayne Co OH m Belle Jones M3233351 Verda M Myers M3233352 Ruth Myers

M323336 John Myers b Smithville, Wayne Co OH 22 Oct 1865 m 9 Feb 1893 Alice Eby b 7 Feb 1870 dau Joseph Eby and Magdaline Pettie Methodist janitor

M323337 Henry Myers b Wayne Co OH m Minnie Toune M3233371 Alvin Myers M3233372 Odus Myers M3233373 Chloa Myers M3233374 Homer Myers M3233375 Ada Myers

M32334 Aaron Myers (twin) b Lane Co PA 19 July 1819 d 19 Aug 1888 m Julia Reamsnyder b 9 April 1821 d 23 Apr 1889 M323341 Elizabeth Myers M323342 Susan Myers M323343 Israel Myers M323344 Isaac Myers M323345 Henry Myers

M32335 David Myers b Lane Co PA 31 May 1817 d 26 Nov 1874 M323351 Harrison Myers M323352 Caroline Myers M323353 Sarah Myers M323354 Mary Ann Myers M323355 Samuel Myers

M32336 Anna Myers

M32337 Samuel Myers

M3237 JOHN MYERS 1799-1877 m 1 Elizabeth Bear m 2 Catherine Hoover (See separate outline)

89 M3238 Joseph Myers b Earl Twp 16 Oct 1801 d 28 Aug 1878 Wayne Co OH m 1825 Susanna Wenger b 19 Aug 1803 d 24 Feb 1881 dau Rev Joseph Wenger and Maria Horst of Groffdale, Earl Twp Mennonite tailor merchant farmer moved to Wayne Co, OH in 1838 i Mogadore, OH

M32381 Louisa Myers b Lane Co PA 4 June 1827 m 1851 Jacob Mischler d 1 Dec 1900 Brethren farmer surveyor notary public res Mogadore, OH M323811 Menno Simon Mishler b Mogadore, OH 19 Feb 1852 m 13 Mar 1879 Lydia Garner farmer surveyor res Akron, OH M3238111 Dora Electa Mishler b 14 Sep 1881 M3238112 Ruth Elizabeth Mishler b 1 May 1897 M323812 Milton Bucher Mishler b Mogadore, OH 14 Apr 1853 m 12 Nov 1876 Mary E Slocum M3238121 Robert Jacob Mishler b 27 May 1878 M323813 Maria L Mishler, b Mogadore, OH 17 Aug 1854 d Feb 1908 m 18 Feb 1877 Jeremiah Wise res New Berlin, OH M3238131 Ira C Wise 1877-1877. M3238132 Elsie C Wise b 26 Jan 1879. M3238133 James G Wise b 3 Jan 1881. M3238134 William J Wise b 5 Sept 1883. M3238135 Atlee M Wise b 26 Feb 1887. M3238136 Miriam L Wise b 8 Nov 1894. M323814 Elizabeth Mischler b Mogadore, OH 13 Oct 1858 m 18 Mar 1889 Alfred W Weygandt res N Lawrence, Wayne Co. M3238141 Jay B Weygandt b 9 Mar 1880 M3238142 Paulene S Weygandt b 20 May 1891 M3238143 Carlos A Weygandt b 24 June 1892 M3238144 Louisa M Weygandt b 1 May 1894 M3238145 Otis L Weygandt b 10 Jan 1898 M3238146 Isie Lenore Weygandt b 3 Feb 1899 M323815 Frank Jacob Mishler b Mogadore, OH 8 Oct 1862 m 22 Oct 1884 Etta S Moherman manufacturer res Akron, OH M3238151 Carlos M Mischler b 17 Aug 1888

M32382 Maria Myers b Lane Co PA 5 Mar 1829 d 6 Oct 1864 m 15 Sep 1853 Samuel Shoemaker res Smithville, OH M323821 Lydia Shoemaker m 15 Aug 1883 Jacob Correll res Tacoma, WA M3238211 Edith Shoemaker M3238212 Iva Shoemaker M323822 Flora Shoemaker m Feb 1903 John Manford res Estes Park, CO M323823 Jay Shoemaker m Linda Walter res Denver, CO M3238231 Walter Shoemaker M3238231 Laura Shoemaker M323824 Rush Shoemaker 1861-1881 M323825 Amandus Shoemaker m June 1890 Jennie Walter Seattle, WA M3238251 Glen Shoemaker M3238252 Josephine Shoemaker M3238253 Robert Shoemaker M3238254 Florence Shoemaker

90 M32383 Frances Weaver Myers b Lane Co PA 4 Dec 1830 m 2 Sep 1852 Lydia Mishler manufacturer of stoneware Mogadore, OH member 72nd general assembly from Summit Co OH

M323831 Maria Louisa Myers b Mogadore, OH m 20 May 1877 Wm C Steele, M. D. Presbyterian res New Berlin, OH M3238311 May Eugenia Steele M3238312 Homer Frances Steele 1880-1881 M3238313 Grace Louisa Steele M3238314 John E Steele 1888-1889 M3238315 William Wallace Steele M323832 Evangeline Myers d in infancy M323833 William J Myers d in infancy M323834 Grace Eugina Myers

M32384 Amos Hoover Myers b Lane Co PA 12 July 1838 d 4 Nov 1900 m Jan 1858 Catherine Kieffer d 23 May 1894 lumber dealer res Smithville, OH

M323841 Minnie E Myers M323842 Mary V Myers M323843 Joseph A H Myers b Smithville, OH 28 Feb 1872 m 12 Jan 1903 Maud Williams attorney res Akron, OH M3238431 Joseph Kieffer Myers

M32385 John Wenger Myers b Lane Co PA 26 Mar 1824 d Akron, OH 18 Jan 1908 m (l)Anna Kirker of KY d 1863 res Akron, OH first child, (2)Emma J Martin of Mogadore, OH, last three children

M323851 Anna K Myers M323852 Richard Myers b 27 Oct 1868 d 31 Oct 1906 m 18 June 1893 Georgia Bowers M3238521 Gregory W Myers b 3 Feb 1897 M3238522 Garland R Myers b 17 Mar 1901

M323853 Fred W Myers b Mogadore, OH 14 Oct 1870 m 29 May 1899 Theresa Eisenbrand res Cleveland, OH M3238531 Joseph M Myers d in infancy M3238532 Maxime Myers b 6 Sep 1903 M3238533 Caroline Myers b 18 Apr 1906

M323854 Harry Eugene Myers b Mogadore, OH 29 May 1875 m 29 May 1901 Gertrude Harrington no issue

M32386 William Penn Myers b Lane Co PA 5 Jan 1836 d 7 Apr 1904 m 26 Dec 1865 Julia A Bricker of Smithville, OH d 8 Oct 1908 enlisted in US army 1861 and served to close of the war teacher postmaster manufacturer of stoneware M323861 Myrtle Myers 1868-1868 M323862 Etta May Myers b Mogadore, OH 5 June 1868 m 19 Aug 1891 Rev Henry A Dowling res Little Rock, AK M3238621 Dorothy Dowling 1892-1897 M3238622 Paul Henry Dowling b 9 Feb 1894 M3238623 John G Dowling 1896-1896

91 M323863 Emma Jane Myers b Mogadore, OH 31 Aug 1869 m Lewis E Holm res North Industry OH M3238631 Gladys Ruth Holm b 18 Oct 1887 M3238632 Ralph William Holm b 7 Feb 1890 M3238633 Harlin Holmes Holm b 20 June 1893 M3238634 Helen Marie Holm b 25 Jan 1895 M3238635 Willard Myers Holm b 27 Feb 1898 M3238636 Maurice Wenger Holm

M323864 Alice Blanche Myers M323865 Elizabeth Myers 1871-1873

M323866 Pearl G Myers b Mogadore, OH 4 Oct 1874 m 15 Oct 1902 Joseph J Alexander chemist res Akron, OH M3238661 Reginald Alexander b 15 Sep 1903 M3238662 Robert William Alexander and M3238663 Joseph Alexander (twins) b 16 Sep 1908

M323867 Sadie Belle Myers b Mogadore, OH 12 June 1876 m 22 Oct 1899 Bert G Pero lumber dealer res Chase City, VA M323868 John Bricker Myers b Mogadore OH 4 Jan 1878 m 13 Nov 1904 Charlotte E Tanski automobile dealer res Saginaw, MI M3238681 John Bricker Myers Jr. b 23 Oct 1905 M323869 Joseph W Myers 1879-1879 M323860 Bertha Louise Myers

M32387 Joseph Myers b Lane Co PA 10 July 1837 d 19 Oct 1905 m 21 June 1866 Mary J Myler res Wayne Co OH served three years in US army captured spent 13 months in confederate prison in Tyler, TX M323871 Sadie S. Myers b Wayne Co OH 27 Mar 1867 m 3 Oct 1888 Harry 0 Austin carpenter res Kansas City, MO M3238711 Harry Winthrop Austin b 26 Sep 1889 M3238712 William McKinley Austin b 5 July 1881 M3238713 Ethel Mary Austin b 27 Oct 1893 M3238714 Burton Austin b 4 Oct 1897 M3238715 Gladys Austin b 10 Dec 1899

M323872 Marie Myers b Caldwell Co MO 24 May 1870 d 1905 m 11 Mar 1902 William Carl Griffith farmer res Brooksfield, MO

M32388 Michael W Myers, d in infancy M32389 Isaac Myers, 1841-1844

M32380 Menno Simon Myers b Wayne Co OH 23 Jan 1844 d 15 June 1901 m 18 June 1867 Rosanna Kieffer res Wayne Co OH served with brother Joseph in US army three years captured spent 13 months in confederate prison in Tyler, TX M323801 Odell Myers 1869-1899 d single M323802 Pearl M Myers b 3 July 1872 m 24 Jan 1901 Anderson A Ault grocer res Barberton, OH M3238021 Honor Ault b 31 Jan 1905

92 M3238a Susan Elizabeth Myers b Paradise, Wayne Co OH 1 July 1846 m 1 Jan 1874 John Longenecker b 11 July 1848 son of Henry and Martha Westhaffer Longenecker Christian ch res Cleveland, OH

M3238al Martha A Longenecker 1874-1875 M3238a2 Frank Myers Longenecker b Mogadore, OH 10 May 1876 m 7 Sep 1904 Mary E Rounds Christian church superintendent of public schools Racine, WS No issue. M3238a3 Elizabeth Longenecker b Mogadore, OH 13 Apr 1878 m Oct 1912 Robert Rankin. Christian res Cleveland OH M3238A31John Rankin M3238a4 Lida Longenecker b 15 Oct 1879 teacher public schools Cleveland, OH M3238a5 Flora M Longenecker

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Fig'. 30. The Myers family migration from Lancaster County, PA. to Wayne County, OH. covered a distance of about 350 miles. See also the distance from Morgantown, West Virginia, to Wayne County, OH, covered by Lawrence Winkler and his son, John, in 1814. They rode one horse and walked, turnabout, driving a cow and calf. After purchasing land and preparing camp they walked back home to bring the rest of the family with them. (Map is a contemporary toll road, ca 1980).

93

PART THREE

OHIO John C. Myers

Born October 31, 1799 Died October 16, 1877

96 14

Generation V

M3237 JOHN C. MYERS, 1799-1877, FROM LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

TO WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO

John Myers (later John C. Myers) was Mary Bear by George's father, for car­ the fourth son, seventh child, of ing for him before his death in 1811 Christian Meyer, Jr., and Magdalena at age 89). This house, still stand­ Hoover Meyer, of Earl and Leacock ing in 1986, where John Myers courted Townships, Lancaster County, PA. He Elizabeth Bear, is the only existing was the direct ancestor of the family building in Lancaster County known to studied in this book. He was three have been occupied by our ancestors. years old when his father died. The nine young children attended school and worked after school to provide in­ come for the family. John, a tall, slender, scholarly young man with cur­ ly hair, became a school teacher.

The early years of the nineteenth century were filled with economic hard­ ship in the young United States. Lan­ caster lost much of its traffic to the west with the opening of roads to Har- risburg, the new state capitol, and the ferry crossing which bypassed Lan­ caster. The young men and women of the Christian Meyer, Jr., family all grew to adulthood, married, and most of them raised families, but times were hard and they relied on firm dis­ ciplines of hard work and frugality to hold their families together.

Some of the families of the Groff- dale Mennonite congregation built homes along the new Turnpike. One of these was the family of Elizabeth Bear, John's future wife. Their house, still occupied and in good condition in 1986, bears a datestone, "BUILT BY GEORGE & MARY BEAR 1812." (Jane Best, PMH 1981: 15 suggests that the house was probably built with money left to

97 Elizabeth was youngest of the sev­ in the young state of Ohio. Maria, en children of George and Mary Bear. John's oldest sister, had moved to She and John were married about 1823. Smithville, Ohio in 1837 with her hus­ They had seven children, two dying In band, Henry Winger. Their reports came Infancy. Silas was born in 1824, Mary back filled with enthusiasm. in 1825, George Bear in 1830, Christi­ an Hoover (grandfather of this writer) In 1838 the two brothers, John and in 1833, and Louise in 1836. Joseph, headed west, either by wagon or stagecoach, accompanied by Joseph's Elizabeth died the following year, wife Susanna, their seven children, at the age of 35. John buried her in John's five children, and all their be­ the Myers cemetery alongside the in­ longings. Their destination was Smith­ fant graves. Once again a generation ville, Green Township, Wayne County, of Myers children faced life with a Ohio. John was now forty years old. single parent. Silas, the oldest, was 13 years of age. Green Twp. is six miles square, di­ vided into thirty-six one-mile sec­ The following year in 1838, Magda­ tions. Smithville is located on the lena (John's mother) died, and his west side of Green Twp. in sections 17 father's estate was settled. Each of and 18. John purchased 136-1/2 acres the eight siblings received from their in the southeast quadrant of section brother, Martin, payment for their 8, Green Twp. Joseph purchased a simi­ share of the property. Pennsylvania lar tract across the road from his land was by now far too costly for brother in the northeast quadrant of them to buy with their settlement mon­ section 8. ey, but excellent land was available

Fig. 33. Jay and Lee Harvey, great-grandsons of Norman Myers, at the grave­ stone of Elizabeth Bear Myers, their gr-gr-gr-grandmother, Meyer Cemetery on the ancestral land in Earl Township, Lancaster County, PA., 1982. Photo courtesy Karen Harvey

98 The land the Myers families chose oldest brother, sold the ancestral as their future home, just north of farm in Pennsylvania to his brother Smithville, was a densely wooded wil­ Daniel, and with his wife Veronica derness, just as Lancaster County, PA left for Ohio to join his brothers and had been when their forefathers ar­ sisters in the new life. rived. But now in Smithville, after a generation of settlement, there were In 1840, Daniel Hoover, first cous­ good church affiliations (eight differ­ in of the Myers siblings, migrated ent faiths), good government, and good from West Earl Twp., PA to Green Twp., schools. The first school master in Wayne Co., OH, where he purchased the Smithville in 1818 was educated in northeast quarter of section 29, two England at Oxford University (Roth miles south of Smithville in a beauti­ 79), and there was a German school as ful valley of woods and creeks named well. There were plenty of neighbors. Paradise by newly arriving settlers. Still, life on the new frontier was harsh and demanding. Settlers lived in Paradise has never had a post of­ thick forests, slowly being cleared in­ fice, nor has it ever been a town. It to farms. The only transportation was is a rural area with postal service by horse or on foot on paths so diffi­ first from Smithville, then Orrville, cult to travel that a distance of five then Weilersville, and by the 1980s, miles out of Smithville required at back to Smithville. Paradise has no least a day. Each settler found it clearly defined boundary, but it be­ necessary to care for his own needs as gins at the corner of Daniel Hoover's far as possible, but Smithville pro­ farm, where his son Cyrus later deeded vided a variety of services to make the land for Paradise United Church of further travel unnecessary: a doctor, the Brethren and Paradise Union Ceme­ an inn, a general store, a blacksmith, tery. From there it follows north a wheelwright, a harness shop, a tan­ about a mile along Apple Creek Road, nery, a wagon maker, several brick crossing two railroad tracks. Several yards, a saw mill and a grist mill of the Myers families from Earl Twp., (Roth 24-25). Pennsylvania, are burled in Paradise Union Cemetery. The congregation, Miss Jennie Winkler, our octogenar­ founded by Daniel Hoover in 1840, ian cousin of Orrville who lived most developed a schism over the issue of of her life in Paradise, knew exactly slavery during the Civil War, but where the two Myers farms originally shortly reorganized, and by the 1980s had been located. She served as guide owns a large and beautiful rural for this writer and for the subsequent church, with spacious workrooms for family reunion in 1982. With her help, quilting and other activities. we visited the farms purchased by John and Joseph Myers. Each farm faced Hut- Daniel opened his home to the Unit­ ton Road near Five Points, north of ed Brethren congregation. In 1841 his Smithville. The cleared fields were youngest sister, Catherine, came from still farmland in the nineteen eight­ Pennsylvania to visit. She and John ies, but the spring house at 6848 Myers were married. They joined the Hutton Road appeared to be the only United Brethren in Christ Church in original improvement still standing. Paradise, which they attended faithful­ ly for more than thirty years. John After Maria, John and Joseph moved and Catherine had three children: An­ to Ohio, they were joined by another na, born in 1842, J. Wesley, born in sister, Magdalena, and her husband, 1844, and Leah, born in 1846. Samuel Myers. Finally, Martin, the

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Fig. 35. M3237 John C Myers and second wife, Catherine Hoover Myers Photo courtesy Jennie Winkler

101 Pedigree of JOHN MYERS & CATHERINE HOOVER of Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania and Green Twp., Wayne Co., Ohio

Jacob Land is Ann Witmer Hans Huber = Ma rga retha Vincent Myer = (1667-1730) (1672-1750) I Koch I I I I I Ann Land is = Chri st ian Jacob Hans Ulrich Ba rba ra Hans Myer Ba rba ra Mosser Huber Huber (1684-1753) Land I s (1690-1759) -1759) ( ? -1760)

Magdalena Musser Martin Huber Anna Huber = Vincent Myer ( ? -1796) (1725-1785) (1727-1773) I (1721-1797)

I Christian Myer = Magdalena Huber Jos. Huber = Anna Myer (1761-1802) I (1772-1838) ( 1764-1826) (1768-1853) o

John Myers (D Eliz. Bea r (1799-1877) (1802-1838)

(2) Catherine Hoover (1810-1877)

I I Silas Ma ry Geo. Chri st. Loui se Anna Wesley Leah 1821 1825 1830 1833 1836 1812 1811 1846 1874 1899 1900 1888 1861 1871 1863 1895 dkf rev 6/82

Diagram represents relations reported in Wenger, Samuel S. (ed.) The Wenger Book: A Foundation Book of American Wenqers. Pennsylvania German Heritage History, Inc., Lancaster,, Pa.: 1978; pp1072,1079-00,89-90. Sourco reports (p1072) Martin Huber was first married to Magdalena Musser (d 1796) who bore only one child, John (1750-1811). IMarti n n" page 1080 the source reports Magdalena except John. Harry M. Hoover (1928) the 2nd only that she was named Magdalena 877) was married to only Catherine Hoover After a time, they sold the farm ers as a tall, stately, dignified, and moved to town, John purchasing two scholarly gentleman, of a reserved, lots, numbers 9 and 10, in Smithville. quiet disposition. He had a good In 1858, they moved again, purchasing education for his time. Taught 5 acres on Fulton (now Rohrer) Road in school in his younger days and was Paradise (Vol 98 p 247), where they considered a fine mathematician. lived until Catherine's death in May, Was a kind, noble, and highly honor­ 1877. John died a few months later able man. His ancestors were of the while visiting his daughter, Mary, and Mennonite faith, were non-resis­ her husband, Levi Stauffer, in Bryan, tants, and were exempted from duty Ohio, on 16 October 1877, shortly be­ as soldiers in the Revolutionary fore his 78th birthday. War, but volunteered as nurses and rendered all assistance in their pow­ In accordance with John's will, er to the sick and wounded. his administrator, Levi Stauffer, sold lot 9 in Smithville (Vol 101 p 51) and Myers continued, the 5-acre tract in Paradise (Vol 98 p 247), in settlement of the estate. Af­ Katherine Hoover Myers possessed a ter payment of expenses, settlement fine voice and was noted for her was made among the children, making eq­ sweet singing. She was a lovely wo­ uitable those who had already received man. The writer as a young boy fond­ money and those who had not. The es­ ly remembers grandmother and grand­ tate was very small. Paradise was a father Myers, and the gentle influ­ heavenly home, but it offered little ence of the noble lives they lived. opportunity for prosperity. The Bear Connection Of John's eight children, Silas married and moved west to Iowa in George Eby Bear, who died in 1833, 1849, where he died in 1869. George was the father of John Myers's first and his wife moved to Indiana in wife, our ancestral grandmother, Eliz­ 1852. J. Wesley died in service to abeth. He was the son of George Bear, his country during the Civil War. 1722-1811, whose father was John Henry Louise married and moved to Seneca Bear (d 1738), immigrant son of "Old" Co., OH in 1861. Anna and her husband Henry Bare who came from Germany in migrated to Iowa in 1875. Mary and 1717 and died in Lancaster County in her husband migrated to Bryan, OH. 1731 (Best 1981: 15). Christian and Leah still lived in Wayne County at the time of John's Jane Evans Best, prolific Lancas­ death, but they eventually moved away, ter genealogist, has published several Christian to Oregon and Leah to Cali­ articles tracing the roots of this Ana­ fornia. No descendants of John Myers baptist family back to its beginnings remained permanently in Wayne County. in the community of Albis, in the par­ ish of Hausen, about nine miles south­ John and Catherine were happily west of the city of Zurich, Switzer­ married for thirty-six years and died land . The church at Hausen has rec­ only a few months apart in 1877. Of ords beginning in 1577, showing five his grandfather and step-grandmother, generations of the Hans Bar family at who lived near him for more than six­ Albis who are believed to be ancestors teen years until their deaths, William of the Bear families of Earl Twp. Scott Myers wrote (17): (Best 1986: 14-22; 1987: 21-37). Mrs. Best's persistent efforts have yielded The writer remembers grandfather My­ voluminous results.

103 Generation V

M3237 JOHN C. MYERS1 1799-1877

M3237 JOHN C. MYERS b Earl Twp PA 31 Oct 1799 d 16 Oct 1877 Bryan OH I Beav­ er Creek Cem Williams Co OH m (1) Elizabeth Bear dau George and Mary Bear of Earl Twp b 2 Apr 1802 d 21 Feb 1837 i Bareville Union Cem (formerly Meyer Cem) mother of first five children also infant son and dau. John migrated to Wayne Co OH 1838 and m (2) Catherine Hoover (1810-1877) from PA 1841 dau Joseph Huber and Anna Myer i Smithville OH mother of last three children. John was farmer teacher merchant United Brethren in Christ for last thirty years of his life.

M32371 Silas Myers b Lane Co 16 May 1824 to Wayne Co OH 1838 m 6 Dec 1849 Carolyn Grill b PA d Dysart, Black Hawk Co IA 30 Dec 1910 farmer, res Dysart, IA M323711 John Myers b OH 30 Oct 1850 farmer res Rock Rapids, IA. M323712 Samuel Myers b OH 12 Aug 1853 single res La Porte, IA.

M323713 Susan Myers b OH 12 Aug 1855 d 7 Aug 1909 m 14 Sep 1876 Peter Wilson res Dysart, IA Issue: Walter (1878-81), James b 28 Dec 1880 m 25 Feb 1908 Mary Weimer, David b 22 Feb 1883, Isabel b 19 May 1888, Clara b 7 May 1890, Mary b 21 Aug 1893, Maud b 12 Apr 1886 m 8 Apr 1908 Ray Filloon.

M323714 Mary Myers b OH 5 Nov 1858 d 19 May 1900 m 14 Mar 1875 James Conley b 12 July 1850 res Maryville, MT. Issue: Ada b 2 Jan 1876 m 19 Sep 1895 Arthur Mahoney d 20 Jan 1903 leaving three children; Shirley 1878-1880, Mamie b 6 Mar 1880, Ira b 21 Apr 1882 m Addie Edgerly, res ND, Alta b 23 May 1885 m 19 Nov 1903 William Holccmb, James R b 2 Sep 1887, Alva Clare b 11 May 1890, Myrtle P b 22 Mar 1892, Verlin W b 25 Dec 1894, Floyd B b 26 Aug 1895.

M323715 Frances Myers 1861-1863

M323716 Rebecca Myers b OH 8 Mar 1864 d 31 Mar 1899 La Porte IA m 10 Mar 1881 Henry Peterson res Mt Auburn, IA Issue: Frank b 20 Mar 1882 m Mamie Wilson res La Porte IA, Peter b 8 Apr 1884 m Amanda Hegadour res Mt. Auburn, IA, George b 15 Nov 1886 res Auburn, IA, Alice b 8 Sep 1889 m Alfred Clark res La Porte IA, Marie b 16 Aug 1892 m Arthur Stone res La Porte IA, Cora b 20 Aug 1895 res Mt. Auburn, IA, Maud b 27 Aug 1897 res Dysart, IA.

-'•John Myers used the middle initial "C" in the purchase of his farm in Green Twp., also later in the purchase of house lots in Smithville. Middle ini­ tials and middle names became popular during the nineteenth century, and were frequently adopted by students and adults who had none.

104 M323717 Alice Myers 1866-1881

M323718 Frank Myers b OH 1 July 1869 m 27 Feb 1890 Rosettie Hite farmer res Lake Park, IA Issue: Clifford b 28 Feb 1893, Winona b 21 Feb 1895, Flo b 7 Apr 1897, Beulah 1898-1906, Jessie b 15 Dec 1901, Mina b 5 June 1904, Ralph b 31 Mar 1908.

M32372 Mary Myers1 b Lane Co PA 5 Dec 1825 d Bryan, OH 28 Nov 1899 m 2 Oct 1845 Levi Stauffer who d 22 Nov 1899. Moved to Bryan, OH in 1875 and cared for her father after his wife's death.

M323721 Caroline Stauffer b 17 Aug 1846 m 29 Oct 1868 Henry Sauder b 5 Jan 1843 res Evansport, OH Issue: Emma b 7 Dec 1869 m John Carpenter 1885, Maggie b 17 Aug 1871 m Henry Herr 1923, Mary 1873-1885, William W b 9 July 1876 m Lena Gibson 1898, Lottie b 1 Mar 1879 m Wilfred Beuhar, Henry b 26 Aug 1881, Levi b 18 Dec 1883, Elmer b 10 Aug 1886.

M323722 Elizabeth Stauffer b 13 Dec 1847 m 1869 Peter W Yerdy res Bryan, OH Issue: Lydia m Ed Snavely 8 Oct 1892, Levi b Oct 1872 m Mary Shoemaker 1899, Maggie b Feb 1878 m E Shankster 1893, Lucy b Nov 1885 m Fred Long 1905.

M323723 Anna Stauffer b 7 June 1849 m 30 Mar 1871 Cyrus Young res Marshallville, OH Issue: Lydia b 30 Mar 1872 m John Metz, Wilson b 29 Apr 1873 m Younker, John b 10 Aug 1874 m Standard, Joseph b 8 Jan 1876 m Standard.

M323724 Margaret Stauffer b 11 May 1852 m 16 May 1875 Daniel Shuey res Smithville, OH.

M323725 Wilson Stauffer b Ohio 6 Feb 1855 m 12 Nov 1878 Delia Fickes res Bryan, OH Issue: Harvey Franklin b 6 Apr 1881 m 4 May 1901 May Belle Nunn, res Bryan, OH.

M323726 Lydia Stauffer b 22 Oct 1858 d 25 May 1894 m Mar 1878 Joseph Shumaker Issue: Mary m L. Yerdy 1899, Daniel m Ruby Montague 1905, Delia m W Montague 1902, Clara, Edith.

-'-The Stauffer ancestry and complete genealogical records of the family of Levi and Mary Myers Stauffer to 1978 have been published in STAUFFER- SAUDER GENEALOGY by Marjorie Ladd Holbrook (1978). Copies, as long as available, may be ordered from the author at 1650 Avondale, Ann Arbor, MI 48103.

105 M32373 GEORGE BEAR MYERS b Lancaster Co PA 9 Apr 1830 d Monroeville, IN 1 May 1900 m 10 Jan 1849 in OH Mary M Hess moved to Allen Co IN in 1852. (See separate outline, Part Four).

M32374 CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS b West Earl Twp Lancaster Co PA 8 Apr 1833 d Portland, OR 29 May 1888 i Lone Fir Cem m 6 Mar 1856 Fannie Matilda Winkler b 24 Apr 1833 d 8 Apr 1872 Wayne Co OH i Crown Hill Cem Orrville, OH Brethren farmer (See separate outline, Part Five).

M32375 Louise Myers b Lancaster Co PA 21 Oct 1836 d 5 Oct 1892 m (1) 5 Sep 1861 Jacob Super who d 13 Dec 1863 in Seneca Co OH m (2) 14 June 1877 William Davis. No issue by second marriage.

M323751 Cedelia Super b Wayne Co OH 23 Oct 1862 m 13 Mar 1883 Scott W Stinchccmb res Osnaburg, OH.

M3237511 Blanche Stinchcomb b 1 Feb 1883 m Amos Bucher M3237512 Louella Stinchcomb b 30 Dec 1885 M3237513 John W Stinchcomb b 15 Jan 1888 M3237514 Glen R Stinchcomb b 29 Aug 1889 M3237515 Earl M Stinchcomb b 18 May 1893 M3237516 Leah C Stinchcomb b 26 May 1895 M3237517 Royce W Stinchcomb b 21 Apr 1897 M3237518 Cletus H Stinchcomb b 7 Nov 1899

M323752 Ella M Super b Wayne Co OH 30 June 1864 m Nov 1888 John S. Werner res Dawson, ND.

M3237521 Fern Werner M3237522 Ruth Werner

M32376 J Wesley Myers b near Smithville, OH 12 May 1842 A highly honorable and scholarly man, he enlisted in the Union army 120th 0 V I regiment in the fall of 1862 d in service to his country 11 Mar 1863 in Jackson Hospital Memphis, TN i in a soldiers cem Memphis, TN.

M32377 Anna Myers b Smithville, Wayne Co OH 15 Mar 1844 m Smithville, OH 3 Oct 1871 David B Naftzger son of Peter Naftzger and Catherine Schrock Christian Church moved to West Liberty, IA 1875. Developed a fine farm later retired to West Liberty.

M323771 Katherine Naftzger b Albany, IL 22 Nov 1872 m 27 Dec 1899 Byron D Clark b 22 Feb 1868 son B A Clark and Sarah W Hewith minister Disciples of Christ

M3237711 Sidney Clark b 26 Dec 1901 M3237712 Lois Mildred Clark b 29 July 1903 M3237713 Lynn D Clark b 19 Mar 1905 M3237714 Miles Wayne Clark b 20 Jan 1907

106 M323772 J Wesley Naftzger M323773 C Mildred Naftzger M323774 Clayton P Naftzger M323775 Jesse B Naftzger b West Liberty, IA 29 June 1880 m 28 Sep 1907 Florence W Hale. M3237751 Jack Hale Naftzger b 26 Aug 1909 M3237752 Anna Robinneth Naftzger b 1910

M32378 Leah E Myers b Smithville, OH 7 June 1846 m Frank Willets Valley Center, CA 1 Feb 1894 d consumption 1895 Valley Center, CA taught school in English and German for many years no issue.

Chapter 14

Works Cited

Best, Jane Evans. "The Three Bears of Earl Town- Myers, William Scott. Myers History. Dallas, ship, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, And Other 1909. Early Bears." Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Lancaster: vol. IV no. 4 October, 1981, 12-27. Roth, Nancy, Joseph Irvin, et al. History of Smithville & Surrounding Area 1776-1976. Smith- . "A Bear Saga: Albis to America." ville, 1976. Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Lancaster: vol. IX no. 4, October, 1986, 14-22.

"A Bear Saga: Lancaster County and Beyond." Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Lan­ caster: vof^X no. 1 January, 1987, 21-37.

107 Fig. 37. Christian Hoover Myers 1833-1888 and Fannie Matilda Winkler Myers 1833-1872

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Generation VI

M32374 CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS 1833-1888 OF PARADISE, OHIO

Christian Hoover Myers was born in stock, principally to Allegheny City, West Earl Twp., Lancaster County, PA PA. He and Tillie had eight sons and on 8 April 1833. He was the youngest one daughter, one son dying in infan­ son of John and Elizabeth Bear Myers, cy. The boys and their sister lived a John's first wife, who died in 1837 carefree, Tom Sawyer life in the when Christian was only three years fields and woods of Paradise, with old. The next year, in 1838, the aunts, uncles and cousins scattered family migrated to Green Township, over the countryside; but, their happi­ Wayne County, Ohio, where Christian ness would end suddenly in 1872. and his brothers helped clear the forest to create a farm home. Tillie's parents were extremely devout Methodists, having held ser­ Christian married Fannie Matilda vices in their home for two genera­ "Tillie" Winkler in 1856. Both were tions. By the end of the Civil War, aged 22. Tillie was the oldest of however, the community had shifted eleven daughters, with three older from a primarily English population to brothers. Her father, John Winkler, a German-speaking neighborhood and the was a prosperous farmer who lived in a nearest Methodist church was in Orr­ big farm home on Paradise Road in Para­ ville, three miles east of Paradise. dise, Green Township, Wayne County. The Winkler girls were bilingual, with a German grandfather and a half-German In 1860, Christian bought a small mother, so they sometimes attended, triangle of land (Wayne Co 3-84), thir­ and some eventually joined, the nearby teen acres, in Paradise (Section 21, Paradise Church of the Brethren, whose Green Township), at the convergence of services were in the German language. Canal-Fulton (later Rohrer) Road and After her marriage, Tillie joined this Egypt Road, a short distance from the church, where her husband was a mem­ Winkler homestead. Later he sold all ber. but five acres. He built a charming, 1 sturdy little frame home , with a liv­ The greatest and most ambitious e- ing room, bedroom and kitchen down­ vent in the entire history of Paradise stairs and a loft above. Apple Creek occurred on 21 May 1872, when the ran through the property, with a fine Church of the Brethren held its Annual spring behind the house. He also built Conference at the Cyrus (son of Dan­ a barn, and planted an orchard of iel) Hoover farm. An estimated 7,000 fruit and nut trees, and a garden. people attended from eastern and west­ ern states, and were provided free As a young man, Christian worked board and lodging, three meals a day, as a cooper and tailor, but profits for a week. The train made a special were small. He then began to ship stop to drop off and pick up passen-

109 gers. A tabernacle was built, 200 older boys, John, Lester and Will, feet long by 80 feet wide, with an were placed on farms where they worked auditorium at one end and a dining during the summer and after school in room at the other. One can well ima­ winter for room and board and small gine the joy of reunions as loved ones wages. (It was customary in the commu­ arrived from distant points for this nity for all earnings to be paid to once-in-a-lifetime gathering, but the the father until children reached the staggering logistics of the accommoda­ age of twenty-one). tions assumed by the little country church defy Imagination. Surely the So it was that the family of barns, fields, gardens and orchards of Christian Myers was torn apart, even the members of the little country as Paradise celebrated its finest church were depleted for months ahead hour. For this writer's father, in preparation of so tremendous a eleven-year-old William Scott, it crowd. Butchering took place daily at marked the abrupt end of a happy, care­ the Hoover farm (Rennecker 116). Ev­ free childhood. He was uprooted from ery room, basement and attic of every Paradise and placed elsewhere on a house was filled with sleeping guests. farm, away from family and friends. All of Paradise and the surrounding He had never regarded his family as area joined hands to make this magnifi­ poor, surrounded as they were by many cent Conference a success, even fash­ blessings. Now that his father was ioning tiny clay vases for souvenirs. unable to keep the family together, in This was the event of a lifetime, when his loneliness Will determined to friends and relatives visited for the break out of that poverty as soon as first, and probably last, time since he was able. He was impatient to their migration. begin.

On 15 April 1872, five weeks be­ Sarah Winkler Rutt, Matilda's next fore the great Conference, Fannie Ma­ younger sister, was a widow whose hus­ tilda Myers died following birth of band, Abraham Rutt, died in service to her ninth child. She was thirty-nine his country during the Civil War, leav­ years old. ing her with a son, Abraham. Sarah's father built a small house on the Wink­ One can only believe she worked ler farm where Sarah and her son re­ too hard, preparing for the Confer­ sided. Sarah brought Christian's lit­ ence, carrying provisions to the tle six-year-old daughter, Alice, into church. Only now, more than a hundred her home. years later as this writer, her grand­ daughter, gathered information, did Education was a primary concern knowledge of the proximity of the two among the settlers of Wayne County. events come to light. Green Township by 1836 had nine school districts in the 36-square-mile area. Matilda was survived by her hus­ It was said that if a man could read, band, seven sons and one daughter. write and cipher to the single rule of She was buried in the large Winkler three^ in the Western Calculator, he plot at Crown Hill Cemetery in Orr­ was considered a scholar of the high­ ville. est order (Smithville 80). Smithville had a high school, Smithville Academy, Christian and Matilda's many sis­ in 1865, with a broad curriculum under ters and brothers quickly brought the the direction of Professor Eberle, who infant, Norman, and the younger chil­ held a B. A. degree. Christian was dren into their neighboring homes. The eager for John, his eldest son, to at-

110 Fig. 38. Top, new home of Paradise Church of the Brethren, corner of Apple Creek and Rohrer Roads, Paradise. Bottom, left, photo of home of Christian and Matilda Winkler Myers, taken by W. S. Myers in 1919. Bottom, right, same home, photo by Tuleta Ulbrich, 1981.

Ill tend. He engaged a housekeeper and Sarah and Abraham Rutt. rented a house outside of Smithville, bringing the family back together. Christian died suddenly in 1888, John attended the Academy the year of of typhoid fever, at fifty-five years 1876-77. When Alice was fourteen years of age. He was buried in Lone Fir Cem­ old, she kept house for her father and etery, Portland, and was survived by the younger children, working very Alice, his daughter, and seven sons, hard for a young girl (Myers 82). John, Lester, William, Lawrence, Charles, Harvey and Norman. By now, there was a flood of migra­ tion westward. Christian remained at All of the children eventually mar­ home until all of his family had moved ried. Alice and Charles had no chil­ west except Lester, Harvey and Alice, dren. Harvey had one son, Amandas who no longer needed his care. His (later changed to Mandas), who never brother Silas had long since moved to married. John, Lester, William, Law­ Iowa and later died. His brother rence and Norman raised families whose George lived in Indiana. His half- descendants scattered over many states brother, Wesley, died as a soldier in and by 1986 numbered more than three the Civil War. His parents were dead. hundred, including spouses.

In 1885, Christian purchased a It seems remarkable that in 1986, railroad ticket for the end of the more than 150 years after Christian line, Portland, Oregon, farther west was born, ten of his grandchildren, by than any of his sons had ever gone. four of his sons, were still living, He stopped on his way west to visit ranging in age from 58 to 94. George, and his sons, including Will, who was in Pleasantville, Iowa. In All of the descendants of Christi­ Portland, he found a modest livelihood an and Matilda are included In this in the fish and poultry business. The book in Part Five, HITHER AND YON. next year, Alice joined him, and also Chapter 15

Notes

Christian's house and barn, bearing the address 8546 Rohrer Road, were still occupied and in good condition when visited in 1982. An oil well on the property was pumping at that time. ••&. Jb.wt^t . 2Nonemaker (117) states,

The rule of three is a principle of mathematics that says that in a pair of equivalent ratios, the fourth term can be found if any three terms are known, by cross multiplying and dividing. For example, if three cows need two acres of Works Cited grass, what will six cows need? Answer: six times two divided by three equals four. This is the rule of three direct. The rule of three Myers, William Scott. Myers History. Dallas, inverse allows the solving of similar problems 1909. where the numerator is unknown. For example, if my two cows survive on three acres of land, Nonemaker, Keith A. "News and Notes." Mennonite then how many cows can I sustain if I increase Family History. Vol. V No. 3. Elverson, my acreage to nine acres? Answer: nine times July, 1986. two divided by three equals six. These were ob­ viously useful rules around a farm. However, Rennecker, Anita. "Weilersville." History of they became obsolete when the techniques and Smithville and Surrounding Area 1776-1976. terminology of algebra were established. Smithville, 1976.

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WINKLER HISTORY

From Winkler's History by William Scott Myers Privately published. Dallas, 1909

and Hester Taggart's Journal Unpublished, 1873

Lorenzo (Lawrence) Winkler, grandfath­ ready at all times to give a reason er of Fannie Matilda "Tillie" Winkler for the hope that was in her. who married M32374 Christian Hoover Myers, was born on 15 January 1771 in At an unknown time, Fannie's par­ a village near the Rhine River in Ger­ ents, the senior Paynes, migrated to many. As a young man he emigrated to Green Township, Wayne County, Ohio, America, settling in New Jersey. where they spent the remaining years of their lives. Taggart reports they In 1795, Lawrence married Fannie were buried on their farm which after Payne, who was born in New Jersey on their deaths was purchased by a Mr. 18 November 1775. Of Fannie's parents, Crouse. Their remains were later re­ we know from Hester Taggart's Journal moved to Crown Hill Cemetery in Orr­ that Fannie's mother, whose name Tag­ ville, where Taggart remembers seeing gart did not know, was converted to their stone as a child. The cemetery Christ at the age of fifteen when with had no record of this in 1982. her parents she attended a camp meet­ ing conducted by the great preacher, Shortly after Lawrence and Fannie Rev. George Whitefield (1714-1770), Payne Winkler were married, they migra­ who was sent from England to the ted from New Jersey to Burke County, American colonies by John Wesley. North Carolina. This location was not Some five hundred people were convert­ a happy one. They were opposed to ed to Christ at this meeting. Taggart slavery, and in 1806 decided to join tells of the influence of this event: relatives in Steubenville, Ohio. On their way to this location, illness She was...so soundly converted that forced them to stop in Virginia (later she dedicated herself both Soul and West Virginia) near Morgantown, where Body to the service of her Master. they remained until 1814. By this She carried her religion into her ev­ time, they were the parents of seven eryday life and when she was married children. The oldest son, John, later to Grandfather Payne they set up an became the father of Fannie Matilda altar in their home and as the chil­ Winkler, who married M32374 Christian dren came to bless their home each Hoover Myers. one was dedicated to God and His ser­ vice and raised in fear of the In 1814, Lawrence and his son John Lord. Grandmother Winklet (Fannie set out to find a new home in Ohio. Payne) was one of those children, Leaving the family behind, they took and like her Mother was converted one horse to carry provisions and ride young and was one of the old-fash­ turn about, and drove a cow and calf. ioned Methodists of the Wesley type, They crossed the Ohio River at Steuben-

113 —John Winkler, the oldest resident of Green township, died on.Saturday. He was one of the pioneers of Wayne county, having first settled here in 1814, when there was nothing but wilderness. His hands assisted in transfering the lru'tless lands into the fruitful fields that show themselves in all their beauty this May-day, that he is placed back in the mother earth that gave him life, strength and health. There is nothing mori: b-Miitilul than to think of the honorable life that this fine old gentle­ man ii.is p :-ned. In business, in public life, in church matters in the social sphere, he has always beer, active, until age dimmed his vision and time left its mark. His children and grand children can point with pride to his years ol usefulness as a citizen. John Winkler came from Burke County, North Carolina, where he was born April 22nd, 1799.. He came with his father, Lawrence Winkler, to Green township, in the spring of 1814, to pre­ pare the way lor • the balance of the family, who came in the tall. In 1820 he nta:r-ied Miss Dora Wade, who died July 17th, 1820, leaving one child. November 22nd. 1827 he married Miss Margaret Willford. Mr. Winkler was elected one of the Trustees of Green township, with Joseph Willlord (who yet survives him) in 1823 and served in that capacity for a perio 1 of twenty- three years, a longer time than any other person, and has voted in the township for the last sixty-six years- Mr. Winkler was a meniher of the Methodist Episcopal Church of • Orr­ ville, the funeral services took place Monday, Rev. F. S. Wolfe pastor, of­ ficiating. His age was 87 years.

JOHN WINKLER

1799 - 1886

Father of Fannie Matilda Winkler Myers

Mother of F. Matilda Winkler

MARGARET (WILFORD) WINKLER Born Dec. 22. 1M* Died June 4, 1876

114 ville and located their relatives, but with the most terrible weather either were disappointed with land opportuni­ of them had ever seen. The woods ties there. One of their relatives, seemed to be ablaze with fire. With Jacob Brakefield (Taggart calls him the camp open at one end they had very Uncle Jacob; he may have been Law­ little protection. When the rains rence's brother-in-law) had recently ceased after seven days, they were settled deep in the wilderness farther thankful to God for their survival. north. Lawrence decided to investi­ gate. After a day's rest they set out After three months, the site was (see map, Fig. 30, p. 93). prepared, and they returned to Virgin­ ia, where Lawrence disposed of his The country beyond Canton, newly property. On 1 October 1814, the fam­ opened for settlement, was almost un­ ily set out by wagon for the new broken wilderness. It was with great home. Their journey was very slow and difficulty that they found their way. tedious with many delays and inconveni­ At last they arrived, safe but foot­ ences. It was often necessary to cut sore and weary, at the cabin of Jacob a road for the wagon. In what they Brakefield. supposed would be their last day on the road, the sky became cloudy, night There were but two log cabins in set in early, and they were forced to the 36-square-mile area of Green Town­ halt and make camp. Next morning they ship when Lawrence and John arrived. discovered they were less than 200 Uncle Jacob spoke glowingly of opportu­ feet from home! nities in this great primeval forest, and Lawrence agreed. After a few days' On the third day after their arri­ rest, with Brakefield as a guide, they val, John was sent to invite any men set out to choose from an almost unlim­ he could find to assist them in rais­ ited selection of land. Lawrence se­ ing the cabin. Several families had lected half of Section 22, Green Twp, moved into the area by now, and seven two miles east of the Brakefield cabin men cheerfully responded to the call. and three miles west of the future By dark on the following day, the 18' town of Orrville. He then returned x 20' cabin was raised and under, its quickly to Canton to pay for and re­ roof. Just as they finished, a party ceive absolute title to the land. of land hunters arrived, seeking lodg­ ing for the night. Lawrence cut a They set about immediately to door in the cabin, built a fire, and build a camp to shelter them from the lodged them until morning. weather and wild animals, and also to erect pens for their horse, cow and Taggart wrote in her journal, calf. The calf remained In a pen so the cow would not stray during the There were Indian wigwams about day. They cleared a small place and one-half mile from their camp but planted some corn and potatoes, get­ the Indians had left them a short ting the seed from Uncle Jacob. Then time before and gone to a town of they staked off four acres for clear­ their own near Jeromeville. They ing, making logs for a cabin. Father often called at the camp and were and son endured many hardships and peaceable and friendly. very hard work. They did not see a white man for weeks at a time. Indi­ Bear and wolves were in abundance, ans were numerous. They were friend­ and would kill all the hogs, young ly, but the wild animals were not. cattle and colts and sheep they During June, a great storm came up could catch. It took considerable

115 time to guard their stock by day, Yard, Wooster, Ohio. and at night they protected them in heavy rail pens, but with all their The nine children of Lawrence and care and watching, many were Fannie Winkler all grew up to marry killed. The fox was a troublesome and raise children of their own except pest and would kill their geese and Mary, who died in her eighteenth chickens; they would have to pen year. All of the sons were successful them up at night in a little house farmers who acquired a competency for made purposely for them. The wild­ their old age and lived long lives. cats were a great nuisance. They would come near the cabin at night Children of "W" Lawrence and Fannie and fight. They would get very sav­ Payne Winkler age sometimes and their hideous cries were terrible. Squirrels did Wl Rebecca b 11 Mar 179 7 Burke Co N much damage to the growing crops. Carolina d 1887 Wild game such as deer, turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, pheasants and W2 JOHN b 22 Apr 1799 Burke Co N Car­ ducks were plentiful. If the wild olina d 22 May 1886 Green Twp game did not destroy much, the pio­ Wayne Co (separate outline) neer had great satisfaction in hunt­ ing and supplying his family with W3 George b 6 May 1801 Burke Co N meat, especially venison, for wild Carolina d 28 July 1877 Chester deer were plentiful. Twp Wayne Co (separate outline)

Taggart continues, W4 James b Feb 1804 Burke Co N Car­ olina d 1846 The next year after they located here they heard that Rev. Samuel W5 Lydia b 8 Sep 1806 (West) Virginia Willford, a local Methodist preach­ d 1878 er, had settled on a farm about four miles southeast of them. They imme­ W6 Mary b (West) Virginia 11 Dec 1809 diately invited him to make their d 14 Dec 1826 Green Twp Wayne Co home a preaching place, which he ac­ cepted. As the Circuits were large W7 Eady b 18 Apr 1812 (West) Virginia when the country was new, the Trav­ d 1896 Indiana eling Minister could only fill the appointment once in four weeks. Rev. W8 Jacob b Green Twp Wayne Co 6 Mar Willford did the same, so that every 1815 d Sep 1890 Chester Twp Wayne two weeks they had a church serv­ Co ice. This was continued for many years. Thus their children were led W9 Enoch b Chester Twp Wayne Co 8 into a knowledge of Christ and into June 1819 their beloved Christendom. Their son, John, was converted at the age W2 JOHN WINKLER 1799-1886 of 19, and soon after was made a Class Leader. This was really the be­ John worked for his father on the ginning of his long and useful life. farm as early in life as he was able until he was 21 years old. On 11 Jan­ Lawrence died 4 March 1848, age uary 1820, he married Dorcas Wade, who 78. Fannie died 20 June 1859, age 83. was born 16 January 1802 and died 3 Ap­ They passed away at home and are bur­ ril 1825. Her relatives were located ied in the Wayne Presbyterian Church around Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Two

116 sons were born, the youngest dying in While yet young, lacking one month infancy. of being seventeen years old, she and father were married. On 22 November 1827, John married Margaret Willford, who was born in On Sunday, 23 November 1873, Hes­ Green County, Pennsylvania, on 22 Dec ter wrote in her Journal, 1810 and died in Green Twp. Wayne Co Ohio 6 June 1877. They had two sons Forty-six years yesterday Father and and eleven daughters. Mother were united in marriage by the Rev. James C. Taylor at Grand­ Margaret was the daughter of Will­ father Willford's. They tell us iam Willford, brother of the Rev. Sam­ that a goodly number of friends and uel Willford. William was born on 11 neighbors were present to witness March 1775, of English parents who emi­ the ceremony and all went merry as a grated to America prior to the Revolu­ marriage bell. As buggies were too tionary War. In June 1798, he married great luxuries in those times, rid­ Sarah Rich, a native of Pennsylvania ing horseback was the only conveni­ of German descent, who was born in ent way of going. Nineteen couples 1779. In 1815, they emigrated to Ohio. on horseback escorted them next day The trip was slow and laborious, for to Grandfather Winkler's where a they had to cut down timber most of grand and enjoyable infair was held. the way from Canton. They settled in Baughman Twp., where Willford pur­ Soon after John's second marriage, chased 160 acres of land. Hester Tag­ he purchased 200 acres of land adjoin­ gart 's Journal describes her mother's ing his father's farm to the south. early life, Here he and his wife toiled until they had one of the best improved farms in She had five brothers and four sis­ the county. The first house he built ters. Three sisters and two broth­ on this farm was a log cabin. Later, ers are still living (1873). Her he built a large log house. In 1845, oldest sister, Katie, was murdered 3 he built a very large, substantial, July 1839....The others were all hap­ two-story frame house with a basement. pily married and settled in homes of their own. This was the family home when Mother had none of the advantages of John's daughter, Fannie Matilda, mar­ an education that we now enjoy. The ried Christian Hoover Myers. The school teachers were paid by sub­ house was still occupied at 2612 Para­ scription; each scholar had to pay dise Road in 1982 when visited during two dollars a quarter, that is, the Myers reunion. The house and part three months. There were but few of the farm passed to John's son Will­ schools in the township. Consequent­ iam, then to William's two sons, John ly, some of the scholars were re­ and Amandas. Next, it belonged to quired to go several miles to attend John's two daughters, May and Jennie, school. As Grandfather had a large who sold the property and moved to Orr­ family to keep, was right in the ville in 1934. Jennie Winkler, a life­ woods and in debt for his land, each long resident of Paradise until that one as they grew up was put to work, time, served as guide during the 1982 the boys chopping and clearing, and reunion. the girls to spinning and clearing brush. Mother says her schooling in In the book Winkler's History all did not amount to three months. (17), Myers writes,

117 Grandfather Winkler was a man of lim­ Children of W2 John and Dorcas Wade ited education, but gifted with a Winkler wonderful memory, brain and will pow­ er. He was a man of large, fine W21 James Wesley 1822-1900 m Elizabeth physique, with the purest of princip­ Johnson (separate outline) les, a faithful Methodist and a splendid citizen. He was Township W22 John F 1824-1825 Trustee for about twenty-five years in succession and was guardian and CHILDREN OF JOHN AND MARGARET trustee for various persons and es­ WILLFORD WINKLER tates. His counsel was sought by rich and poor alike on account of W23 William 17 Mar 1829-21 June 1923 m his good judgment and honorable deal­ Mary Ann Myers (separate outline) ings... (He) enjoyed excellent health during his long life, and died from W24 Lorenzo B 20 Mar 1831-18 Aug 1902 old age about thirty minutes after m Katherine Myers (sister of Mary taking sick. Ann, above)(separate outline)

John died 22 May 1886. His wife, W25 F MATILDA 1833-1872 m CHRISTIAN too, lived a beautiful and useful HOOVER MYERS (See Myers outline) life. She died 4 June 1876. Both were cared for at home for many years by W26 Sarah A 11 May 1835-1 April 1911 several daughters including Hester, m Abraham Rutt (separate outline) whose writings, recorded while at home with her parents, provided information W27 Margaret 1837-1862 m Reuben for Myers History, Winkler's History, Johnson (separate outline) and the present volume. John and Margaret Winkler are buried in Crown W28 Louise 11 Jan 1840-31 July 1917 m Hill Cemetery, Orrville. William Bissell (separate outline)

In 1908, as she prepared the rec­ W29 Hester 19 Mar 1842-19 Apr 1936 m ords to send to her nephew for Wink- (1) Amos Funk (2) James Taggart no ler's History, Hester Taggart discov­ issue ered a strange coincidence, for which there was no prearrangement, in the W20 Elizabeth 1844-1880 m Hezekiah life of John Winkler: Steele (separate outline)

He was born on the 22nd of the month. W2a Neoma 1846- m David S Byers (separate outline) His second wife was born on the 22nd of the month. W2b Elmina (twin) 17 May 1849-22 Jan 1888 (separate outline) His second marriage took place on the 22nd of the month. W2c Lucina (twin) 17 May 1849-31 Jan 1929 m N. W. Spear (separate He died on the 22nd of the month. outline)

His personal property was sold on the W2d Melissa 25 Sep 1851-8 June 1934 m 22nd of the month. C. A. Spitler (separate outline)

His farm was sold on the 22nd of the W2e Olinda 1855-1861 month.

118 WINKLER GENERATION II

W2 JOHN WINKLER 1799-1886 OF PARADISE, GREEN TOWNSHIP WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO

W21 James Wesley Winkler fa Green Twp Wayne Co OH 30 W2131 Clarence Elton Winkler b 28 Feb 1887 d May 1822 d same Twp 7 Sep 1900 James and his 21 Feb 1978 served in US Army emp wife and children cleared and developed one of Pennsylvania RR 32 yfs to retirement the finest farms in Wayne Co then began farming near Smithville m Elizabeth Johnson 2 Apr 1846 b 15 Jan 1827 d 29 Aug 1915 W2132 Henry Merle Winkler b 1 Feb 1890 moved to Akron OH emp Firestone Rubber d W211 Minerva E Winkler b 13 Jan 1847 d Lane Co there 11 Mar 1931 KS 5 May 1891 i Dighton KS attended Smithville Academy teacher Wooster OH W21321 Cleona Mae Winkler b 18 Jan 1917 moved to Lane Co KS spring of 1888 m William E Scott m Samuel B Walters 1 Oct 1866 d 30 Apr 1935 W2133 Christian Walter "Christy" Winkler b 12 Apr 1892 served US Army, farmer, W2111 Wesley P Walters b Orrville OH 27 Feb carpenter, emp Wooster Rubber Co re­ 1871 d age 9 tired. Christy k Ruth reside in West View Manor, a nursing home north of W2112 Clementine M Walters b 28 Jul 1872 d Wooster (in 1986). 29 Mar 1945 ml Lizzie Weigley d 10 Aug 1935 (all HI Jacob J Simon 26 Nov 1891 the couple chldrn) moved to Pilot Grove MO m2 Ruth Gauweiler

W2113 Charles B Walters b 4 Jul 1879 d 1982 W21331 Gladys Marie Winkler b Aug 192! d age 103 i Crown Hill Cem Orrville OH Sep 1925 m Sadie J Forrer 25 Dec 1902 d 1 Sep 1963 the couple moved to Pittsburgh W21332 Lucille Irene Winkler b 8 Feb 1926 PA m Ross Pennick

W21131 Ariel Walters b 29 Dec 1903 res Sun W21333 Ross Wilbur Winkler b 19 Dec 1929 City Center FL Wilbur is the last male descendant m Donald McMullen of W2 John Winkler in Wayne County. One by one, the others have all W21132 Leah Walters b 29 Nov 1906 pased away or moved to CA Si other- western states. He k his wife have W212 John C Winkler b 16 Jan 1849 d 13 Nov assisted in a number of ways during 1924 attended Smithville Academy moved to the Myers reunion k subsequent vis­ IA 1870 teacher, clerk. Moved with Jennie its. Wilbur & LaVerne live Si work to Orrville OH where he bought horses for in Wooster. Winkler Horse Co. In 1908 became a grocer m LaVerne McClellan 14 Nov 1959 in Elyria OH ml Jennie Thrasher Pleasantville IA 31 W213331 Kathleen Irene Winkler b 30 Dec May 1874 d 1 Jan i9i2 1960 after college graduation ra2 Myrtle Fritz 1914 d Aug 1932 Kathleen began teaching school in Wooster in 1985 W213 William F Winkler b 19 Apr 1851 d 30 Dec 1936 educated at Center School, Green Twp W2134 Mary Elizabeth Winkler b 28 Jan 1897 Wayne Co OH bought his grandfather John­ (Ed. Note: Miss Elizabeth lives in the son's farm in 1890 later moving to Milton large farmhouse on Akron Rd northeast Twp Orrville OH of Smithville. She is a bright, tiny, m Mary Conrad 25 Jan 1835 d 10 Aug 192B active lady, who grows a large garden of flowers almost as tall as she.

119 W2I4 Levi C Winkler b 29 Dec 1853 d 20 Dec W215 Wesley J Winkler b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 1893 attended Saithvile Academy taught 13 Feb 1357 d St Petersburg FL 8 May 1950 school until his death had poor health at age 93 i Crown Hill Cem Orrville OH. from childhood yet was always jolly and Wesley J was a lover and expert judge of cheerful was a friend of children and a horses, even as a child, and developed devoted father his horse business, the Winkler Horse Co, m Molly (Mary) Snavely 3 Jul 1883 d 11 into one of the largest in the US. He Mar 1926 personally bought thousands of fine hor­ ses in the West, and shipped them to Orr­ W2141 Maude E Winkler b 11 Apr 1885 d 6 Mar ville OH, where his weekly auctions were 1900 teacher Orrville OH attended by major buyers from NY, Boston m Edward Dumont and other large cities. Wayne Co thrived as farmers fattened draft horses for the W2142 Bessie A Winkler b 4 Sep 1887 eastern market. He furnished hundreds of ml Charlie Koth 6 Dec 1908 they lived horses for war service during WWI, Orr­ ville became famous, but with the advent in Orrville OH of the automobile, the horse business de­ m2 Harry Fuimer d clined. Wesley and his wife retired to W2143 John Ralph Winkler b 11 Aug 1889 d 17 FL, leaving behind a beautiful home which is still an Orrville showpiece, Jul 1959 engr Ft Wayne IN m Emma Krabill of Lewisville OH 27 Sep 1888 d 4 Mar 1922 W2144 Anna Winkler b 14 Jan 1891 d 11 Mar 1922 attended school Ft Wayne IN n ? Kerkla d 11 Mar 1922

Winkler Horse Company, one of the greatest horse markets in the country in the 1900's. selling 1,500 to 2,500 horses annually.

120 W2151 Edith May Winkler b 27 Oct 1889 W232 Melinda Winkler b 16 Aug 1855 d 18 Jan m ? Rennecker 1930 ml Levi Rover 2 Nov 1879 d 23 Apr 1896 W2152 Frederick Nelson Winkler b 6 Sep 1891 (all chldrn) m2 John Blackwood 10 Apr 1904 d 22 Feb W2153 Beulah Elizabeth Winkler b 11 Apr 1893 1927 horse trader d 3 Jan 1947 m ? Koch W2321 Pearl Royer b 6 May 1880 d 16 Sep 1949 (Apple Creek Cem Wayne Co OH; W2154 Nellie Alice Winkler b 31 Jul 1895 m Charles H Leiner farmer d 25 Nov 1954 W2155 Robert J Winkler b 6 May 1899 d 7 Jul 1903 W2322 Dessie Royer b 4 Mar 1882 m Sidney Spiker 22 Feb 1899 farmer W216 Sarah J Winkler b 19 Oct 1861 d 15 Nov 1918 Sarah was a bright scholar at Center W23221 Ralph Spiker b 31 Oct 1902 School, and received many beautiful books as awards for her good grades, W23222 Harry Edison Spiker b 23 Nov 1906 d m Henry A Deneke of Orrville OH 9 Oct 7 Feb 1926 1883 d 6 May 1940 an engr in Pittsburgh PA W23223 Ada May Spiker b 10 Apr 1908 m Frank Whaler 9 Jun 1909 W2161 Hazel Emily Deneke b 8 Jul 1892 d 1966 W2323 William Royer b 27 Sep 1883 W2162 Irene Elizabeth Deneke b 15 Oct 1897 m Elmer W Hoffman res 98 Muirfield Rd W2324 Ada Royer b 17 Jul 1885 Los Angeles CA W233 John D Winkler b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 8 W217 Mary Emily Winkler b Green Twp Wayne Co Sep 1860 d 9 Feb 1931 (Crown Hill Cem OH 17 Jan 1864 d 25 Feb 1953 Orrville OH) Of John, my father has this m Jacob Walter 14 Jun 1930 d Orrville OH to say in his book, Hinkler's History: 15 Mar 1942 "Being about my age, he was my favorite W21S Walter E Winkler b 5 Feb 1868 d 1961 Wal­ cousin and 'pal' from my birth until 11 ter worked for many years with the Wink­ years old, when I left the neighborhood. ler Horse Co, then became engaged in that As I meditate on those days gone by, I business for himself in Galesburg IL recall many pranks and experiences we en­ m Anna Paul joyed or suffered together. He was a kind, big-hearted boy, and is still the W2181 Paul Winkler same, only grown older."

W22 John F Winkler b 29 Mar 1824 d 7 Jul 1825 John purchased the ancestral homestead with the house built in 1845. His two W23 William Winkler b 17 Mar 1829 d 21 Jun 1923 daughters, who remained single, lived on William took over his father's farm, where he in the house until they sold it in 1934 lived for more than 80 years. Like his father, to buy a house in Orrville. The old fami­ he was a man of good judgment who commanded the ly home, though constructed entirely of respect of those who knew him. wood, is still occupied in 1984, though m Mary Ann Myers 27 Jan 1853 b 2 Jan 1835 d 14 much in need of repair, Dec 1903 m Minnie Mary Bush 12 Feb 1891 d 120 Orr St Orrville OH 14 Feb 1963 W231 Amandas Winkler b 5 Mar 1854 d 2 Jun 1921 lived on the old John Winkler homestead, W2331 May Winkler b 17 May 1895 d 30 Apr a quiet, modest, industrious farmer 1982 May preserved the records of Hes­ m Sarah Walters 21 Dec 1884 d 14 Mar 1941 ter Taggart and recorded vital statis­ tics in her copy of tiinkler's History. W23H Delburt Winkler b 11 May 1890 d 3 Nov 1935 121 pated in the battle of Thompson's Hill, the capture of Jackson and Raymond MI and many oth­ er engagements. His regiment was almost anni­ hilated at Snaggy Point, on Red River, by a large body of the enemy concealed behind a le­ vee. Lorenzo and the few other survirors were consolidated with the 114th OH. At his death, he was given a military funeral, and was buried at Paradise Union Church Wayne Co OH. (Ed. Note: Will Myers's earliest memory was of standing on the side porch of his home in Para­ dise, watching a mock battle put on by the re­ turned soldiers for the benefit of those at home.i m Kathenne Myers 6 Feb 1851 b 14 Aug 1832 d 26 Sep 1900 sister of Mary Ann Myers who was wife of W23

W241 Mary Matilda Winkler b 5 Sep 1851 d 1 Jan 1897 m Scott D Walter 11 Oct 1873 d 20 Dec

W2411 Harry W Walter d 24 Feb 1947 resided on the home place near #9 School Green Fig. 42. W2332 Jennie Winkler, guide to Twp Wayne Co OH the 1981 Myers-Winkler Reunion in Ohio. W2412 Melvin S Walter d St Cloud FL 10 May She k her sister, Jennie, lived to­ 1952 (Paradise Union Church Yard Wayne gether in Orrville after sailing the Co OH! resided on the home place near John Winkler home in Paradise, until #9 School Green Twp Wayne Co OH May entered a nursing home several m ? Hoffman 15 Oct 1940 years before her death. W2413 Howard H Walter b 3 Jan 1878 d 28 Sep W2332 Jennie Winkler b 15 Oct 1899 (Ed. 1942 resided on the home place near #9 Note: Miss Jennie maintained ties with School Green Twp Wayne Co OH Mandas Myers, our family genealogist until this writer took over. She is a W242 Amanda Winkler b 23 Oct 1854 d Whiting IN delightful lady whose long memory 1 Jun 1936 forms a bridge to the past in the lit­ m Norton Phillips 6 Mar 1872 b Three Riv­ tle community of Paradise. She served ers MI 20 Jan 1351 res 4460 Oakenwald, as guide at the family reunion of Chicago IL 1982, pointing out landmarks and an­ swering questions about the early days W2421 Infant bkd 18 Jan 1876 in Wayne County. She is presently in a nursing home in Wooster, still as at­ W2422 Luedna Phillips b Joliet IL 8 Jan 1878 tractive, bright, vivacious and cheer­ ml William Rought 26 Mar 1896 b Eng­ ful as always.) land 26 Apr 1872 address Whiting, IN W24 Lorenzo B Winkler b 20 Mar 1831 d 18 Aug 1902 si2 Isaac H Bott d 20 Jul 1957 enlisted Grand Army of the Republic 120th OH Vol Infantry 18 Aug 1862 honorably discharged W243 David Winkler b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 28 at end of War Between the States 16 Oct 1865 Feb 1856 d 21 Dec 1934 res Chicago participated in siege and fall of Vicksburg, streetcar motorman k conductor. Seriously the capture of Ft Hindman, his regiment being injured in a streetcar collision, leaving first to scale the fort parapets. He partici­ him somewhat lame. Jovial disposition, m Emily Townsend Jul 1886 d 26 Jan 1942

122 W2431 Lawrence A Winkler b 2 Jul 1896 d Jun W26 Sarah A Winkler b 11 May 1835 d Portland OR 1 1912 Apr 1911 was a widow living with her son on the ancestral Winkler property in Paradise, when W244 Martha Katherine Winkler b Green Twp her sister, Fannie Matilda died, leaving 8 Wayne Co OH 19 Jul 1859 d Chicago IL 25 small children. Sarah took Alice, Matilda's on­ Mar 1908 ly daughter, and eventually she, her son and m Thomas McGraw d 22 Feb 1905 Alice followed Alice's father to Portland OR. m Abraham Rutt 19 Aug 1858 b 29 Feb 1332 d Ash­ W2441 Lulu McGraw b 20 Dec 1881 d 9 Feb 1930 land Co OH of disease contracted during the m Clyde Baird d 13 May 1912 Civil War.

W24411 Fay Baird d 22 Jul 1957 W261 Abraham L Rutt b 8 Oct 1859 res Portland m Carl Franks of Wooster OH OR Abraham & m2 Kittie were killed in an automobile accident in May 1929 W244111 Infant Franks d 1 Jun i930 ml Mary March 12 Feb 1830 d 20 Jun 1887 (all chldrn) W2442 Thomas McGraw b 31 Oct 1885 d west of m2 Kittie Shoup Portland OR 18 Aug 1388 Chicago IL by gunshot W2611 Floyd C Rutt b 4 Oct 1882 W2443 John McGraw b Oct 22 1887 W2612 May Rutt b 19 Aug 1884 W2444 Kittie McGraw b 7 Jan 1889 n James 0'Bryan d Sep or Nov 1935 W2613 John Rutt b 24 Sep 1886 d 30 Jun 1887

W2445 Ruby McGraw b 3 Jul 1891 W27 Margaret Ann Winkler b Wayne Co OH 27 Oct 1837 d 30 Jul 1862 W2446 Dermont McGraw b 17 Jan 1905 m John Reuben Johnson 18 Mar 1858 b Stark Co OH 7 Aug 1333 d Wayne Co OH 18 Nov 1908 W245 Clara Emma Winkler b 5 Dec 1867 d 12 Feb 1913 W271 William Calvin Johnson b 11 Dec 1858 ml Howard Oshler ml Emma Tillison Aug 1885 (chid W271!) m2 ? Morrison d 1907 res Akron OH m2 Eliza 0'hail 1892

W25 FANNIE MATILDA WINKLER b Paradise Wayne Co 24 W2711 Florence Johnson b 24 May 1836 Apr 1833 d there 18 Apr 1872 with the birth of her 9th child (Crown Hill Cem Orrville OH) On W272 Effie Alice Johnson b Wayne Co OH 13 Oct 21 May of that year, the little church she at­ 1860 d near Huron OH 18 Feb 1933 tended after her marriage, Paradise Church of ml Albert M Summers Wayne Co OH 19 May the Brethren, was host at the annual conference 1881 b Wayne Co OH May 1853 d Creston on the then Cyrus Hoover farm. It was estimated OH 1904 (all chldrn! that 7,000 people attended the conference for m2 Henry Raudbauch 28 Jan 1907 res Cres­ which the small congregation provided free ton OH lodging and 3 meals a day for 5 days. The rail­ road stopped trains near the farm to load and W2721 Giada Summers b 14 Feb 1885 d 30 Jan unload the passengers. The logistics of this 1905 undertaking would challenge all but the largest of present-day caterers. The enormous strain W2722 Lucia Summers b 4 Apr 1887 res Elyria placed on the small membership of this church OH must have been beyond comprehension, and may m Frank Klady have contributed to the death of the mother of the Myers family. W27221 Marian Klady b 19 Dec 1906 res With her passing, the children were placed in Florence OH d Dec 1930 homes of relatives scattered around Wayne Co, m ? Showalter working for their room and board. She was much beloved by her family. W2723 Vernon Dewey Summers b Madisonburg OH m CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS 6 Mar 1856 b Lancaster 19 Mar 1898 d Florence OH 26 Mar 1974 Co PA 8 Apr 1833 (See flyers History) m Doris Edith Daniels Erie Co OH 20 123 Jul 1922 b Erie Co OH 13 Feb 1902 d time, a good writer and lecturer. Norwalk OH 15 Mar 1955 W284 Frank C Bissell b Wayne Co OH 30 May 1866 W27231 Florence Alice Summers b Ceylon OH d Orrville 7 Sep 1914 remained single 8 Oct 1922 m John Lander Huron OH 8 Jun 1941 b W2S5 Margaret S Bissell b Wayne Co OH 18 Dec Erie Co OH 26 Sep 1920 1868 res with husband Marietta OH they retired to NY and Orlando FL W272311 Brian Lynn Lander b Elyria OH 3 m Fred M Speilman 18 Dec 1893 d 1936 Dec 1954 m Ann Louise Leavell Elyria OH 3 W2351 Emma H Speilman b 9 Jan 1895 Sep 1983 b Anderson IN 20 Dec 1955 W2852 Fred W Speilman b 17 Jun 1901

W28 Louise E Winkler b 11 Jan 1840 d 31 Jul 1917 W29 Hester E Winkler b Green Twp Wayne Co 19 Mar m William Bissell 10 May 1860 b Bedford Co PA 1842 d Elyria OH 19 Apr 1936 age 94, the last 17 May 1838 d 31 Dec 1925 arrived Wayne Co of a family of 15 children. Hester remained 1847 carpenter contractor Si builder in Orr­ single at home helping care for the younger ville Wayne Co OH children, and in later years her aged parents, until her marriage in 1383. She was a woman of W281 Viola M Bissell b Green Twp Wayne Co 6 high intelligence, robust health, and genial Mar 1861 d 26 Jan 1940 disposition; a dutiful daughter, loving sister, m Henry W Porter 3 Mar 1881 faithful friend, noble wife and true Christian- She became the Winkler family genealogist, ga­ W2811 Ethel Ursula Porter b Wayne Co OH 29 thering information first from her parents, as Jan 1882 d 18 Nov 1947 they dictated it, and later from the extended m ? Blair d Oct 1930 family, furnishing her nephew, W S Myers, the background information for Hinkler's History. W2812 William W Porter b Wayne Co OH 31 Aug In 1906, she organized and made arrangements 1883 d 14 Nov 1905 for a reunion of the Winkler family, attended by more than 100 participants, W2813 Laura Porter b Wayne Co OH 21 Jun 1885 ml Amos Funk 3 Oct 1883 a prosperous farmer and d 8 Jun 1916 highly respected citizen of Ashland Co OH m Elmer Buckwalter d 12 Jan 1962 This happy marriage was terminated by the death of Amos Funk 1 Sep 1884. W2814 John B Porter b Wayne Co OH 4 Aug 1889 m2 James Taggert 4 Nov 1891 and located in Orr­ ville OH, where he died 5 May 1897. W2S15 D Welker Porter b Wayne Co OH 1 Mar 1900 W20 Elizabeth M Winkler b 11 May 1844 d 12 Jul 1880 W2816 Nellie May Porter b Wayne Co OH 12 Jun m Hezekiah Steele 2 Jul 1863 b 22 Oct 1841 res 1902 Seville OH ml Mearl Bailey d 28 Mar 1945 m2 ? Gill W201 Perry L Steele b 13 Mar 1864 m Hattie Walters b 5 Oct 1893 res Gallon W2S2 Willis C Bissell b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 17 Sep 1862 carpenter contractor Canton OH d 21 Mar 1943 W202 Jennie Bell Steele b 12 Oct 1867 ml ? 25 Nov 1893 d 25 Dec 1905 m Harvey McKee 18 Aug 1387 d 12 May 1889 m2 Anna Wagner Canton 0H7 Oct 1915 d 4 May 1945 W203 John E Steele b 22 Feb 1869 m Mary High res Creston OH W283 John W Bissell b Wayne Co 3 Sep 1864 d 22 Mar 1910 remained single at home with his W204 Will Hezekiah Steele b 2 May 1871 d Wayne Co 4 Apr 1904 parents. Although nearly blind all his life, John developed a marked literary a- W205 Elizabeth C Steele b 25 Jan 1874 res bility. He was well educated for his Wadsworth OH

124 Fig. 43. Hester Winkler Taggart, family Fig. 44. Hester Taggart with first historian. husband, Amos Funk.

ml Charles Long 8 Mar 1898 d Feb 1920 W2a Neoma Winkler b 21 Nov 1846 Of his aunt Neoma, (ail chldrn) W S Myers, in Hiskler's History, says, "I can m2 ? Price res Kenmore OH only say that I do not believe a purer, kinder or better woman ever lived." W2051 Forest Long m David S Byers 30 Dec 1869 d 5 Nov 1889

W2052 OnleC?) Long W2al Lennie Elnora Byers b 16 Jun 1870 d 1922 m Eduard Gigandet (cerebral hemorrhage) lived in West Salem OH had 3 sons W20521 William E Gigandet d 6 Jul 1940 age in Frank Miller 17 W2a2 John W Byers b 21 Oct 1871 d 15 Oct 1882 W20522 Marie May Gigandet W2a3 William Melvin Byers b 20 Mar 1873 lived W2053 Ellen Long d 28 Jan 1924 on farm 1 1/2 mi northwest of Lodi OH m ? m ? (chid W2a31) div she m2 at Massillon OH W2054 Robert Long W2a31 John Byers lived at 18 W 10th St Ash­ W206 Maggie E Steele b Wayne Co OH 19 Sep 1877 land OH in 1925 m Bruce Mackey 15 Dec 1898 res Gallon OH m Ina ?

W2061 Myrtle Blanche Mackey b 29 Jul 1900 W2a311 (dau! d 27 Sep 1923 (heart trouble)

W2062 Ester Lucille Mackey b 26 Jun 1905 W2a312 (son) b 1923

125 W2b Elmina L Winkler (twin) b 17 May 1849 d 22 Jan 1888 In UiTtkler's History, Myers writes of Aunt Elmina's almost saintly life, strong in her de­ votion to her parents, kind in her treatment of her poor little nephews, including himself, and charitable and considerate toward all. At the death of her father in 1886, she purchased a property near the old homestead, where she lived with her son until her death.

W2bl John W Winkler b Wayne Co OH 22 Jun 1368 d 16 Jun 1942 age 74 At the age of 14, he began to make his living, working for farmers during the summer, and attending public school in the winter. In the spring of 1891, he rented a farm, worked hard, managed carefully, and in 1897 pur­ chased an 80-acre farm near Wooster. By perseverance and frugality, he paid for the farm and improvements, including a good home. He reared a lovely family, was a highly esteemed citizen, and like a ma­ jority of the Winklers, was a lover and owner of good horses, m Rebecca Hurst 10 Dec 1891 d 21 Nov 1951

W2bll Floyd Winkler b 9 Jun 1893 d 22 Oct Fig. 45. Naomi Winkler Byers 1900

W2bl2 Ester Elmina Winkler b 12 Jul 1896 d W2a4 Frank Leroy Byers b 27 Oct 1874 never 31 Oct 1398 married remained in West Salem helping care for his aged and invalid mother W2bl3 Emerson R Winkler b 22 May 1898 d 10 Apr 1904 W2a5 Clyde Elmer Byers b 15 Mar 1876 d 24 May 1888 W2bi4 Morris H Winkler b 10 Jun 1899

W2a6 Infant b 9 Oct 1878 d 31 Oct 1878 W2bl41 Norman Winkler d W2a7 Carrie Margaret Byers b 16 May 1880 m ? m ? W2bl411 (son) W2a71 Hazel ? d 1923 of Bright's disease at about age 25 W2bl412 (son)

W2a8 Jasa Carl Byers b 2 Sep 1884 d 5 Mar 1885 W2b142 Lorna Winkler m ? Jeffries W2a9 Icie Myrtle Byers b Congress Twp Wayne Co OH 5 Jan 1886 d 31 Mar 1921 of burns from W2bl421 (several chldrn) a kitchen accident i Burbank Wayne Co OH m '' W2bl43 John Winkler

W2a91 (son) only child W2bl431 (several chldrn!

W2a0 Frederick Earl b 14 Jan 1888 d 11 Sep W2bl44 David Winkler

W2bl45 Marvin Winkler

126 W2bl451 (dau) W2bl911 Tiffany Kandan

W2bl5 Miriam Pearl Winkler b 30Jun 1902 W2bl912 Ryan Kandan Mother of a fine family, Miriam has been a resident of Horn's Nursing W2bl92 Janice Winkler Home, Wooster, confined to a wheel­ m Dwight Schar chair, for a number of years. She has a happy disposition St is wall-liked W2bl921 Tracy Schar among the residents Si staff. She at­ tended the reunion of 1982. W2bl922 Douglas Schar m Isaac Lawton 18 Aug 1938 d Jun 1960 W2bl923 Sara Schar W2fal51 Miriam Maloa Lawton m William Palmer W2c Lucina Winkler (twin) b 17 May 1849 d 31 Jan 1929 W2bl511 Dawn Marie Palmer m N William Spear 19 Jan 1871 b Westmoreland Co PA 18 Jul 1851 d 13 Feb 1926 res Weilersville W2bl512 Peggy Ann Palmer Wayne Co OH

W2bl513 Annette Kay Palmer W2cl Sadie Alice Spear b 25 Dec 1871 d 9 Apr 1949 W2bl52 Rebecca Jane Lawton m Jacob Spitler 20 Oct 1891 The Stuils operate a farm north of Wooster. They participated in the W2c2 Tamzen Dell Spear b 26 Mar 1874 d 10 May 1982 reunion, 1931 m Emerson Stull m David Speicher 3 Sep 1B92 d 20 Dec 1939

W2bl521 Andrea Rae Stull W2c21 Frank Speicher d 1976 as Mary Becker d 1971 W2bl522 Johanna Kay Stull W2c211 Stanley Speicher d 1977/78 W2bl53 Isaac Lawton ordained minister m Anna ? W2c212 Maxine Speicher

W2bl531 Timothy Duane Lawton m ? Musser res Marshaville OH

W2bl532 Teresa Diane Lawton W2c213 Bob Speicher res St Clairesville OH

W2bl6 Alma Winkler b 10 Mar 1904 d 16 Mar W2c214 Gene Speicher res Doylestown OH 1922 m Walter Radabaugh W2c22 Elmer Speicher res Wadsworth OH

W2bl7 Ruth Winkler b 21 Mar 1905 d 30 May W2c221 Wayne Speicher res Cleveland OH 1908 W2c3 Jay Omer Spear b 19 Jun 1875 m Mamie Carl 27 Jul 1896 W2bl8 Jay Winkler b 3 Oct 1908 6 Feb 1914 d 6 Feb 1914 W2c4 H Elmer Spear b 28 Mar 1877 d 15 May 1964 l Elmgrove Cem St Mary's OH W2bi9 Paul Winkler b 13 Nov 1912 ml Minnie Switzer 8 Feb 1898 div ml Lillian Schrock 8 Aug 1937 d 9 Jun m2 Nellie Folker b 12 Oct 1896 d 10 Feb 1961 (all chldrn) 1965 (all Chldrn) dau Edward k Estella in2 ? Howe Folker Nellie had a brother who died in infancy. Her father worked for W2bl91 Susan Shah Winkler the railroad and died from a railroad m ? Kandan accident when she was about age 3. Es- tolla m2 Frank Pryor

127 W2c41 Elmer N Spear fa 30 Nov 1914 W2c417 Jeanette Marie Spear b 30 May 1959 Both are retired k enjoying traveling. grad OH Northern U Ada OH regis­ Attended reunion in 19B2. Res 1690 tered pharmacist Ridge Hill Lane, Lima, OH. m Mary Katherine Miller b St Mary's OH W2c5 Bertha Elmina Spear b 17 Oct 1878 25 Dec 1917 dau Carl F k Alma Bueh- jJH Kertz 23 May 1896 ler Miller W2c6 Melvin Orren Spear b 1 Oct 1880 d 4 July W2c411 Nancy Harriet Spear b 12 Sep 1936 1948 m Owen Rinderle b 11 Nov ? d 10 Oct m Martha Dockerty 2 Feb 1903 1930 W2c7 Maybell Fay Spear b Wayne Co OH 9 Apr W2c411i Michael Rinderle b 11 Jul 1959 1884 m Denise ? m Charles E Parker 17 Mar 1902 res Canton OH W2c4112 Mark Rinderle b 27 Jun 1960

W2c4113 Marcia Rinderle b 6 Jul 1961 m Jeffrey Rosenbeck

W2c4114 Milissa Rinderle b 2 Apr 1968

W2c4115 Matt Rinderle b 15 Nov 1969

W2c412 Mary Patricia Spear b 1 Mar 1939 m Sidney P Smith

W2c4121 Pete Smith b 29 Mar 1969

W2c4122 Patti Smith b 3 Oct 1970

W2c4123 Preston Smith b 29 Jul 1973

W2c413 Elmer Carl Spear b 26 Jul 1943 at­ tended IN Inst Tech Ft Wayne IN grad Toledo U Toledo OH has air freight business Tampa FL

W2c414 Cheryl Jean Spear b 6 Dec 1944 m Donald Carnes d

W2c4141 Marna Carnes b 21 Dec 1970

W2c415 Thomas William Spear b 9 Sep 1949 Fig. 46. C. A. and Melissa ml Anne Heil div Winkler Spitler DI2 Diane Brager

W2c4l6 Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Spear b 28 Feb 1953 W2d Melissa C Winkler b 25 Sep 1851 d 8 Jun 1934 HI William Springmeier After attending Eberle Academy at Smithville QH, she taught school for some time. In Kink­ W2c4161 Amy Springmeier b 21 Dec 1977 ier's History, the author describes having at­ tended school taught by his aunt Melissa, and W2c4162 Kim Springmeier b 23 Jul 1980 remembers her as a kind, patient teacher, loved by her students. W2c4163 Kristine Springmeier b 19 Feb m C A Spitler 11 Nov 1879 b 9 Jan 1859 d 11 Jan 1983 1934 farmer in Franklin Twp Wayne Co OH m Christopher Agnew

128 W2dl Elgie Elnora Spitler b 29 Aug 1881 d 19 W2d14 Ralph A Miller res Wooster OH Aug 1961 m Everett Bert Miller 23 Dec 1903 d 27 W2d2 Icie M Spitler b 16 May 1885 d 31 May Jun 1943 1944 m John E McConnell 20 Jun 1906 d 4 Jan W2dll Louise Eveline Miller b 19 Apr 1905 1931 m Forest Jewell res West Salem OH W2d21 John E McConnell Jr d 10 Nov 1946 W2dl2 Edna Miller m Ernest Franks res Apple Creek OH W2d22 Ruth McConnell

W2dl3 Jay C Miller res Apple Creek OH W2e Olinda Alice Winkler b 28 Jul 1855 d 26 Jun m Helen ? 1861

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Fig. 47. Home of the John Winkler family, Paradise, Ohio. Built in 1845. Photo 1981.

129 WINKLER GENERATION II

W3 GEORGE WINKLER 1801-1886 OF CHESTER TOWNSHIP WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO

Ed Note: All in-format ion on the George Winkler -family was provided by Dorothy B Winkle r, 1809 D Ave, Sterling IL.

W3 George Winkler b near Morgantown Burke Co NC 6 May m Non M Murphy 1801 d Chester Twp Wayne Co OH 28 Jul 1886 farmer, 50-odd acres in the homestead near Wooster OH W31141 Alta Murphy res Pekin IL m ? m Mary Ann

W31 Robert Lawrence Winkler b Wayne Co OH 15 Mar W3115 Cecil Martin (dau) b Prophetstown IL 1832 d 5 Feb 1905 i Fairfield Cem near New 1897 d Prophetstown IL 1972 i with Bedford IL moved to Bureau Co IL in 1850's, husband Riverside Cem Prophetstown IL farmed rented land for 12 years, later bought m Harry Clementz b 1895 d 1979 120 acres ml Harriet Spake (chldrn 1-7) 2 Sep 1855 div b W312 Thomas Zebron Winkler b 26 Mar 1858 d near Dayton OH 22 Apr 1332 d 8 Mar 1919 l Bureau Co IL 21 Dec 1873 Riverside Cem Prophetstown IL dau Catherine Cook k James Spake W313 John Thamer Winkler b Bureau Co IL 1 ec m2 Francis (chid 8) 1862 d Prophetstown IL 28 Apr 1937 m Hannah Noon 25 Dec 1895 b Warwickshire W311 Elsie Jane Winkler b Bureau Co IL 15 Feb Eng 14 Mar 1874 d Sterling IL 13 Mar 1856 d Prophetstown IL 16 Jun 1933 1950 they bought a farm and lived there ml Orrin Martin until 1931, retired and moved to town. m2 William Devenney Both l in Leon Cem. Hannah was the dau of Charles k Martha Hughes Noon W3111 Henry Martin (never married) W3131 Myrtle Winkler b 7 Jul 1896 d 7 Aug W3112 Estella Martin 1962 l Riverside Cem Prophetstown IL ml Arthur Nelson farmer req surgical nurse no chldrn m2 Frank Gleim b 1893 d Dixon IL 1978 m Vernon F Washburne 18 Jan 1936 b l Chapel Hill Cem Prophetstown IL 21 Dec 1899. After Mvrtle's d, Vernon m Cora Wolf k W31121 Viola Nelson they res Sterling IL

W31122 Ervin Nelson W3132 Martha Winkler b New Bedford IL 13 Dec 1897 W31123 Hazel Nelson m Howard H Matthews 20 Feb 1918 d heart attack 25 May 1964 l Leon Cem W31124 Eunice Nelson res Dixon IL south of Prophetstown IL farmer m Douglas Walters W31321 Georqe Matthews D 24 Sep 1920 res W31125 Phyllis Nelson Iowa City !A George k Wilma emp Umv Hosp Iowa City W3113 Frank Martin b Prophetstown IL 26 Sep m Wilma Branding 28 Sep 1957 b 17 1888 d Prophetstown IL 19 Sep 1956 Jan 1928 emp Umv Hosp Iowa City m Debbie W313211 Lois Matthews b 31 May 1958 res W3114 Lelia Martin b Prophetstown IL 1892 d Iowa City IA grad U of Buouque Pekin IL 18 Sep 1967 emp secy Umv Hosp Iowa City

130 W313212 Beth Matthews b Sterling IL 20 who m Paul Kohs 31 May 1986 Nov 1960 res Wichita KS grad U both grad IL St U at Normal res of Dubuque emp secy Westchester IL Theresa emp secy in David Butler Dubuque IA 4 Sep Container Corp Paul emp EDS Corp 1982 b 3 Oct 1957 grad U of Countryside IL) Dubuque emp State of KS Dept (chldrn 2S-3) beautician of Health St Environment W313231 David L Matthews b 7 May 1953 W313213 Jane Matthews b Sterling IL 17 res Prophetstown IL emp Farmers Jan 1966 stu U of Dubuque (IA) Natl Bank m Cathy Marquis Winter 28 Mar W31322 Glenn William Matthews b 27 Sep 1981 schoolteacher 1923 res Dixon IL d of cancer 4 May 1986 i Leon Cem W3132311 Gregory David Matthews b 13 m Elizabeth "Betty" Forney 7 Dec Apr 1985 1944 b Rock Island Co IL 9 Jun 1921 W313232 Debra Matthews b 3 Apr 1963 secy res Glen Ellyn IL W313221 Glenn William Matthews Jr b 30 Jun 1950 data processing dir for W313233 Dawn Matthews b 1 Apr 1965 secy town of Normal IL res Dallas TX m Marrie Jo Von Gilder 24 Aug 1973 b 24 Feb 1950 social svc W3133 Harold "Dick" Winkler b 29 Oct 1901 d dir of nursing home Normal IL 25 Mar 1963 i Riverside Cem Mausoleum Sterling IL W3132211 Emilie Ruth Matthews b 21 Jun m Viola Spath 5 Jan 1928 b 5 Sep 1397 1974 she lives on farm east of Tampico IL they had no chldrn but made a home W3132212 Benjamin Aaron Matthews b 25 for"Victor White II b 29 Mar 1937 Mar 1976 Victor married Judy Seidel 16 Dec 1961 Victor S; Judy had a dau Renee W3132213 Andrew Scott Matthews b 14 Michele. Victor div, married Judy Nov 1977 Smith, had 2 sons Victor III k Jeffrey W313222 Danny Howard Matthews b 26 Dec 1954 mail carrier Vancouver WA W3134 Ralph "Ted" Winkler b Whiteside Co IL m June Kersteter WA 10 May 1980 near Tampico 12 Mar 1903 d on farm s b 26 Aug 1960 of Prophetstown IL 27 Oct 1972 l Leon Cem Whiteside Co IL owned farm W3132221 Rachel Matthews b 1 Dec 1981 m Hazel Lane 11 Feb 1925 b Savanna IL 29 Sep 1904 res Prophetstown IL W3132222 Samuel James Matthews b 1 Jun 1984 W31341 Carol Winkler b 7 Feb 1928 (twin) retd special ed teacher Prophets­ W313223 Jean Matthews b Sterling IL 9 town IL Oct 1959 lives k works at radio station in Dixon IL W31342 Gladys Winkler b 7 Feb 1928 (twin) licensed practical nurse Prophets­ W31323 Ralph Matthews b 2 Apr 1926 farms town IL his own land k is Pioneer Seed W31343 Harriet Winkler b 13 Nov 1929 res salesman Waterloo IA registered nurse ml Doris Sandrock 6 Dec 1950 d 27 m William M "Bill" Brown 9 Jun 1957 Apr 1957 (chid 1) emp John Deere m2 Arlene Plautz Quirk 3 Jun 1965 (had dau Theresa b 14 Jan 1957

131 W313431 Cheryl Brown b 17 Aug 1958 res W31352 Gary Winkler b i6 Jun 1944 res Bloomington MN registered nurse Tallahassee FL Minneapolis Hosp m Mary Margaret Willson 19 Apr 1969 m Mark A Patterson 10 Jul 1981 b Waterloo IA 15 Aug 1956 barber W313521 Jason Willson Winkler b 14 Aug St cosmetologist 1979

W3134311 Erica Christine Patterson b W3136 Dorothy B Winkler b near Prophetstown, 16 Jul 1986 Whiteside Co IL 19 Mar 1911 never mar­ ried grad Northern IL Teachers Coll W313432 William M "Billie" Brown b 14 Dekalb IL Sc U MI Ann Arbor MI was ru­ Oct 1960 res Ponca City OK mgr ral elementary k junior high school convenience food mkt teacher k librarian for 37 yrs. m Margaret Rider 15 Aug 1981 div Has shared a home since 1 Sep 1939 with a teacher k high school librarian W313433 Douglas Brown b 7 May 1965 grad friend, Vella M Fadden, who never mar­ Hawkeye Tech Waterloo IA emp ried. mechanic Sears near Minneapolis W314 Minnie Winkler b Bureau Co IL 29 Aug 1865 W31344 Ralph Leon Winkler b 11 Jul 1931 d d Prophetstown IL 2 Nov 1941 14 Jul 1931 i Leon Cem m Heman S Bollen 4 Sep 1888 b 20 Apr i849 24 Feb 1914 Prophetstown Cem W3135 Ray Winkler b 28 Nov 1907 Ray bought his father's farm, later taken over by W3141 Sadie Bollen b Prophetstown IL their older son, Donald, when Ray ml Walter Eicke (chid 1) retired m2 Brault m Viola Brown 11 Feb 1931 b 1 Apr 1910 W31411 (dau! W31351 Donald Winkler b Sterling IL 4 Oct 1934 W3142 Earl Bollen b Prophetstown IL 1892 d m Sandra Henson 1 May 1957 Prophetstown 1948 never married i Prophetstown Cem W313511 Catherine Winkler b 16 Oct 1957 m Thomas Mohr 22 Oct 1976 b 23 W3143 Hazel Bollen b Prophetstown 1895 d 28 Aug 1955 plumber Feb 1968 l Prophetstown Cem m Claude Frary b 1877 d 1952 i Proph­ W3135U1 Chad Mohr b 28 Sept 1979 etstown Cem

W3135112 Kelly Mohr b 21 Oct 1982 W315 Denis Charles "Todd" Winkler b Bureau Co IL 26 Jan 1869 d Ohio IL 31 Oct 1932 l W313512 Brenda Winkler b 19 Jun I960 lab Ohio IL Cem tech Mendota Hosp Mendota IL m Bertha Amelia Schmaus b 14 Sep 1874 d m Robert Smith 12 Jul 1980 div Ohio IL 1962 l Ohio IL Cem

W3135121 Lindsay Smith b 18 Nov 1982 W3151 Grace Winkler b Ohio IL 27 Mar 1901 ml Darwin T Etheridge b i0 Aug 1901 d W313513 Brian Winkler b 1 Feb 1962 emp Mar 1943 (all chldrn) Rochelle Meat Packing Co Ro- m2 Thomas Wood Reynolds d 2 Jul 1974 chelle IL m and div W31511 Stanley Etheridge b 27 May 1921

W313514 Craig Winkler b 27 Dec 1966 grad W31512 Gaylord Etheridge b 28 Feb 1923 Lincoln Tech Des Moines IA me­ chanic W31513 Beverly Etheridge b 1 May 1926

W313515 Roy Winkler b 14 Aug 1971 W31514 Rosemary Etheridqe

132 W3173 Gladys Swan b New Bedford IL 13 Sep W31515 Betty Etheridge b 26 Aug 1929 1902 d 9 Jun 1923 New Bedford i Greenville-Fairfield Cem W31516 Marjorie Etheridge b 12 Feb 1931 m Earl Beachler 15 Dec 1920 W3152 Robert F Winkler b Ohio IL 17 Aug 1912 d W31731 Lawrence Beachler b 9 Jun 1923 Greenville TN 3 Jun 1973 i Green Lawn Memory Gardens, Greenville TN W3174 Etheyl Swan b New Bedbord IL 29 Sep ml Hazel Smith b 1 Oct 1917 d 15 Jan 1904 res Walnut IL retd teacher 1943 (chid 1! m Seriel Serie b 28 Feb 1901 res Wal­ m2 Flora Kinsee Pinkston b Genoa IL 10 nut Nursing Home Walnut IL no issue Oct 1922 (had 2 chldrn, Tony b 16 Aug 1946 Si Hazel b 12 Jan 1949, by her W3175 Kenneth Swan b New Bedford IL 1 Mar 1st m, and then had Robert's 2nd 1907 d Clinton IA May 1983 i Green­ child. After Robert's death, Flora ville-Fairfield Cem New Bedford IL remarried her 1st husband, Pinkston, res Greenville TN) W3176 Glen Swan b New Bedford IL 17 Sep 1909 d Mesa AZ 19 Mar 1922 i Mesa AZ W31521 Gloria Jean Winkler b 15 Jan 1943 m Ann Balsic d Si i Mesa AZ no issue W31522 Robert Charles Winkler b 31 May 1952 W31B Joseph Winkler b 14 Apr 1895 W316 Infant Son b Bureau Co IL 5 Oct 1872 d 10 Oct 1872 W32 Elizabeth Winkler b 1834 m Esby Smith W317 Harriet Nevada "Hattie" Winkler b MO 23 Oct 1874 d Bennett Nursing Home Kewanee W33 Joseph Winkler b 1837 IL 25 Jun 1954 I Greenville-Fairfield Cem New Bedford IL W34 Mary Winkler b 1839 m Oscar F Swan 22 Feb 1897 b 22 Dec 1872 d 19 Oct 1961 l same Cem W35 George Winkler b 1843

W3171 Edna Swan b New Bedford IL 15 Feb 1893 d 7 Jul 1946 i Greenville-Fairfield Cem New Bedford IL oi Dewey Sauser

(431711 Roger Sauser

W31712 Janice Sauser

W3172 Earl Swan b New Bedford IL 20 Oct 1899 m Irene Oberg, Princeton IL 25 Dec 1926 b Molina IL 24 Jul 1905 d Arvada CO 15 Oct 1972 i Crownhill

W31721 Donald Swan b 19 Jan 1928 m Brenda Warren

W31722 Richard Swan b 23 Apr 1936 res CO IB Cletus Miller Rauswell

133

PART FOUR

INDIANA George Bear Myers 1830-1900 "

Mary Magdalena Hess Myers 1830-1894

Photos courtesy Dean Froehlich

136 17

Generation VI

M32373 GEORGE BEAR MYERS 1830-1900 OF ALLEN COUNTY, INDIANA

The devotion of their children and had married Harriet Smith on 27 August grandchildren to the memory of George 1846 (John Hess estate settlement Bear and Mary Hess Myers is unique in records, Aug/Sep 1842, Heirs sale of the history of the family. Family re­ John Hess land in Wayne Co., 1850). unions in their honor were begun in Monroeville, Indiana, shortly after In 1852, when George and Mary were their deaths, and have been held an­ twenty-one years of age with two babies, nually with few exceptions throughout Eliza Ann and John Henry, they migrated the twentieth century. These gather­ to Allen County, Indiana to build their ings were sometimes attended by des­ own pioneer home in the wilderness. cendants of the Christian H. Myers fam­ County records indicate 80 acres pur­ ily, who made stops in Monroeville as chased by a George Myer in 1851 (Deed they traveled back and forth to Ohio K-619), and 80 acres in 1853 (Deed from their westward migrations. N-110). John Henry's autobiography (Chapter 18), describes his memories of The second son and third child of the log cabin in the forest. His father John and Elizabeth Bear Myers, George hunted animals for a living for several Bear Myers, was born in West Earl Town­ years before establishing a farm. ship, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on 9 August 1830. His mother died be­ George and Mary had learned from fore he was seven years old. The fol­ their own childhood the tasks of pioneer lowing year, in 1838, when George was living. They reared a happy family de­ eight, the motherless family migrated spite extreme hardship and deprivation. to what was then called the Far West, George, never a strong man, was often in near Smithville, Ohio. His father was poor health, but he possessed a valiant no longer young. The older children, spirit and great spiritual strength. He Silas and Mary, probably carried a and Mary were members of the Pleasanton heavy load of work to establish the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a pioneer home, while little George, fine singer, and was also a community Christian and Louise helped as best horse doctor who loved fine horses. His they could. nephew wrote (MYERS HISTORY 21):

George married Mary Magdalena Hess He and his good wife were highly re­ of Wooster, Ohio, on 10 January 1849, spected citizens and well liked by all when both were eighteen years old. who knew them. They taught and prac­ Mary's father, John Hess, had died. ticed good principles, lived a Chris­ Her older sister, Catherine, had mar­ tian life, and left a fond remembrance ried William A. Calvert on 2 January and good influence with their family, 1838, and her older brother, Jacob, friends and neighbors. It was the

137 Fig. 49. Map of Allen County showing two land purchases of George Myer: (A), 80 acres, the west half of the southwest quarter of Section two in Township twenty-nine range fourteen east, dated 27 April 1851 Deed referenced K-619, and (B), 80 acres, the west half of the southwest quarter of Section Thirteen in Township twenty-nine north of range fourteen east, dated 23 February 1853, Deed referenced N-110.

138 practice and delight of his life to dren had issue. drive 'Old Mollie,' his blooded fam­ ily mare, from place to place, look­ Mary Myers died on their farm near ing after and helping the sick, gath­ Monroeville in Jackson Township, Allen ering up the young folks, organizing County, Indiana, on 27 January 1894. and teaching Sunday school and sing­ George died on 1 May 1900. Both are ing classes. He was appreciated and interred in Stephenson Cemetery, Mon­ held in high esteem by all who knew roeville. him. Most, but not all, of the descend­ George and Mary had ten children, ants of George Bear and Mary Hess My­ of whom one died in infancy. Surviv­ ers have been brought forward in this ing were five daughters, Eliza Ann, book to 1986 through the efforts of Nancy Ellen, Mary Cedelia, Emma S., several members of their family. We and Valeria Victoria; and four sons, believe that only one grandchild of John Henry, Orlando Dawson, Harlan George and Mary Myers, Ray Myers, son Grant and George W. Six of the chil­ of Orlando, is still living in 1986.

Fig. 50. Children of George and Mary Myers, left to right: Eliza Ann (Myers) Aurand, John Henry Myers, Nancy Ellen (Myers) Monesmith, Orlando Dawson Myers, Mary Cedelia (Myers) Clear, Harlen Grant Myers, Emma Sabina (Myers) Thompson, George W. Myers. Photo courtesy Ray and Melvin Myers.

139 Photo courtesy Dean Froehlich

Fig. 51. The 6th reunion, on 3 August 1912, of descendants of George Bear Myers (1830-1900) and Mary M. Hess (1830-1894), at the house they began to build in 1872, 2 miles north of Monroeville, Allen Co, Indiana. Their eldest son, John Henry Myers, completed it after their deaths.

79 80 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 81 82 83/84 85 86 87 88 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 4B 49 50/51 52 53 36 39 40 41 42 43 44 45/46 47 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 11 12 13 14 15 16 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

59 "I" Ceorge Myers 1870-1943 88 B3 Charles Myers 1884-1956 1 86 "A" Ellia Ann Myers (Mrs. Daniel Aurand)1849-1923 5R 'D" Orlando Myers 1857-1934 Leslie Myers 1889-1959 85 B2 Orren Ogdcn Myers 1882-1965 57 Dl Edna L Ray (Mrs. Harry C Clear) 1881-1957 84 (Infant) E26 Mary E Clear (Mrs. Fred Luckfelt) 1912-1982 53 El A? Ceorge Aurand 1884-1967 83 E2 Ada Clear (Mrs. Robert Henry) 1879-1963 52 48 „r.. Nancy Ellen Myers (Mrs. Henry Monesmith) 1855-1915 80 (In picture) Mary Hess Myers 1830-1894 42 B2 Cora Sweeney .(Mrs. Orren 0 Myers) 1884-1954 79 (In picture) George B Myers 1830-1900 38 "D" Matilda Trlley (Mrs. Orlando Myers) 1869-1955 71 E8 George Clear 1893-1969 33 "8" Harriet Bolenbaugh (Mrs. John H Myers) 1858-1939 69 Ea Beatrice Clear (Mrs. Win DeVoe) 1897-1979 33 B6 Cloe Myers (Mrs. Joseph A Giant) 1893-1985 68 E6 Marie Clear (Mrs. Frank Nipper) 1889-1966 30 B3 Ruah Sargen (Mrs. Charles Earl Myers) 1886-1971 66 "F" Emma S Myers (Mrs. W E Thompson) 1861-1935 20 B8 Ralph Myers 1899-1962 65 B4 Harlan Myers 1889-1958 18 B5 Victoria Myers (Mrs. Fred Harries) 1889-1978 64 "E" Mary Cedelia Myers (Mrs. Robert B Clear) 1859-1942 15 Cll Marie Stalrhlme 63 "B" John Henry Myers 1851-1940 14 D3 Ray Myers 1905- 62 El Harry C Clear 1878-1942 60 "I" Clara Keller Mrs. George Myers) 1873-1967 1-40 CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF M32373 GEORGE BEAR MYERS 1830-1900

M32373-A Eliza Ann Myers b Wayne Co OH 16 Nov 1849 d 18 June 1923 m (1) Demas Wherry 3 Dec 1871 (child 1) m (2) Daniel Aurand (Aurnd) 15 July 1883 (child 2) d 4 Jan 1908 (See separate outline)

Al Mary Alice Wherry b Allen Co IN 8 Mar 1873 m Edward Ball 31 Dec 1892 b near Monroeville,IN 8 Oct 1870 A2 George Aurand b Allen Co IN 15 May 1884 m Elba Taylor 9 Sep 1906 d 1967

M32373-B John Henry Myers b Wayne Co OH 18 May 1851 d 1940 i IOOF Cem m Hattie Bolenbauch (Bolenbaugh) 14 Nov 1878 b 1858 d 1939. All children b Allen Co IN (See separate outline)

Bl Lewis Berton Myers b 5 Dec 1880 m Llllie Freeman 25 Dec 1904 B2 Orren Ogden Myers b 8 Dec 1882 d 1965 m Cora Elizabeth Sweeney B3 Charles Earl Myers b 3 Oct 1884 d 1956 B4 Harlan Loyd Myers (twin) b 16 Nov 1889 d 1958 B5 Victoria Belle Myers (twin) b 16 Nov 1889 d 1978 m Fred Harries B6 Cloe lone Myers (twin) b 6 Nov 1893 d 1985 m Joseph Alfred Giant B7 Cleo Irene Myers (twin) b 6 Nov 1893 d 27 Oct 1898 B8 Ralph Huron Myers b 30 Mar 1899

M32373-L Lewis Alonzo Myers b 15 Aug 1853 d 22 Sep 1855

M32373-C Nancy Ellen Myers b 14 Apr 1855 d 16 May 1915 m Henry Monesmith 16 Nov 1880 b 31 Aug 1837 d 19 Oct 1888 (See separate outline)

CI Lilly May Monesmith b 21 Apr 1875 C2 Dessa Pearl Monesmith b 14 Jan 1882 m Amos Guisinger C3 George Washington Monesmith b 22 Aug 1885 C4 Harry Benton Monesmith b 17 Oct 1887

M32373-D Orlando Dawson Myers b 12 Oct 1857 d 30 Oct 1934 m Tilly Triley 18 Nov 1888 (See separate outline)

Dl Leslie Harrison Myers b 17 July 1889 d Aug 1959 m Pearl Knavel D2 Mabel Myers b 2 Aug 1898 d 4 Dec 1898 D3 Ray Theron Myers b 28 Nov 1905 m Florence Fleming

M32373-E Mary Cedelia Myers b 1 Aug 1859 d Detroit MI 11 Aug 1942 i Albion Cem Albion Twp Noble Co IN m Robert B. Clear 13 May 1877 b 6 Feb 1851 Eel River Twp Allen Co IN d Duke's Bridge, Elkhart Twp Noble Co IN 13 Mar 1916 son of Henry and Margaret Dolan Clear (See separate outline)

El Harry Clinton Clear b Benton Ridge Hancock Co OH 28 Jan 1878 d 22 Feb 1942 m 14 Sep 1904 Edna Lenore Ray E2 Ada Lois Clear b Eel River Twp Allen Co IN 19 Aug 1879 d 15 Feb 1963 m Robert Henry 20 July 1898

141 E3 Ada Hadassle "Dessie" Clear b Churubusco, Whitley Co IN 18 June 1881 d 18 Mar 1970 ml 2 Oct 1901 Harvey Hite m2 John Garberson E4 Valorous Lloyd Clear b Churubusco, Whitley Co IN 1883 d 17 Aug 1958 m 26 Dec 1905 Hattie Cockley E5 Anna Beryl Clear b Churubusco, Whitley Co IN 2 July 1886 d 25 Aug 1963 ml 21 Nov 1906 Latta Zollinger (father of Harry Latta Zollinger b 18 June 1907) d 1 Apr 1907 m2 Merton Talbert E6 Georgia Marie Clear b Churubusco, Whitley Co IN 3 Feb 1889 d 8 Feb 1966 ml 21 Apr 1910 Frank Nipper d 1936 m2 Anthony Ternes E7 Mary Okla Clear b Churubusco, Whitley Co IN 22 Apr 1891 d 24 Apr 1973 ml 31 Oct 1912 Irvin Burnett m2 Harmon Frees E8 George Henry Clear b Churubusco, Whitley Co IN 2 Oct 1893 d 30 June 19 69 m Helen Widmer E9 Oscar Frank Clear b Churubusco, Whitley Co IN d 9 Apr 1896 E0 B. Clear (twin) b 17 Mar 1897 d 17 Mar 1897 Avilla, Noble Co IN Ea Rhuea Beatrice Clear (twin) b 17 Mar 1897 Avilla, Noble Co IN d 22 May 1979 m 1921 William M. DeVoe Eb Edward Dentzel Clear b Avilla, Noble Co IN 15 June 1899 d 2 Oct 1956 m Irene Helzer Ec Ray Myers Clear b Avilla, Noble Co IN 18 July 1901 d 7 June 1943 m Norma Wirt Ed Robert Carver Clear b Albion, Noble Co IN 5 Feb 1904 d 19 Feb 1959 m Caroline Spurlock

M32373 F Emma Sabina Myers b Allen Co IN 7 Aug 1861 d 1935 m 15 Aug 1880 W E Thompson res Magi11, OH

Fl Maggie Lois Thompson b 14 May 1881 d 14 April 1903 F2 Grade Maud Thompson b 27 Sep 1883 F3 Goldle B Thompson b 27 Nov 1885

M32373-G Harlan Grant Myers b Allen Co IN 10 July 1864 d 1935 res Pittsburg, KN. no issue

M32373-H Valeria Victoria Myers b Allen Co IN 3 Dec 1866 d 28 July 1885 no issue

M32373-I George Webster Myers b Allen Co IN 29 Apr 1870 m 18 Feb 1903 Clara lone Keller res Portland, OR no issue

142 l1o°

Generation VII

M32373-A ELIZA ANN MYERS WHERRY AURAND 1849-1923

Eliza Ann, first child of George and A12 George Loyd Ball b 28 Jan Mary Myers, was born in Wayne County, 1895 m Helen Coldwell 29 Ohio on 16 November 1849, and as a ba­ Aug 1928 by migrated with her parents to Allen A13 Effie May Ball (twin) b 29 County, Indiana, where she remained Jan 1897- ? throughout her life. She died on 18 A14 Ethel May Ball (twin) b 29 June 19 23. Jan 1897 d 16 Mar 1897 A15 Infant b and d 11 Mar 1899 Eliza Ann married Demas Wherry in A16 Blanche Irene Ball b 14 Oct 1871 and had one daughter, Mary Alice 1900 m (1) James Applegate Wherry. After the death of Demas Wher­ 23 Apr 1920 m (2) James M. ry, Eliza Ann married Daniel Aurand in Roscoe (both sons) 1883. They had one son, George Aur­ E161 Wayne Roscoe and, who remained single. E162 James M. Roscoe, Jr. A17 Infant b 29 Apr 1903 d 1 Al Mary Alice Wherry married Ed­ May 1903 ward Ball 31 Dec 1892, who was born 8 A18 Ross Edwin Ball b 11 Dec October 1870. They had the following 1905 m Margaret Kitchen children: July 1930 A19 Helen Victoria Ball b 20 All Carl L. Ball b 29 Apr 1893 Jan 1908 m Theo McMann 9 m Gleta Shlck Sep 1929 Dec 1928

U3 19

MY LIFE'S HISTORY

by

John Henry Myers

Note: A copy of the following printed autobiography of John Henry Myers was presented to Dorothy Adams by his daughter, Cloe Myers Giant, in 1982.

My father and mother camo to this country in 1852 from I'enn- 'sylvania. I was I year old at this tfmo. We settled in the woods near Maple Town. With Iho help of a couple of neighbors, my ('aid­ er hiiill. a round lop bonne, which wan covered uilh spilt olabbaards. Tin- floor was made of puncheons and I lie fire-place of split lath and clay. My mother had to hang quills up at iho doorway end the window. The wolves could lie heard howling around the cabin at nights. Father hunted coon and fox for a living in the winter for several years. Finally we moved on a rented farm and I being the oldest of a family of eight children, I asked father to let mo work out that sum­ mer, lie said, "I guess you can." "Where are you going?" I said, "I was going towards Now Haven." 1 inquired along the Ridge Road for a job. A man told me that Greon wants a man, but not to work there, as he was a man killer. 1 told this man "That I would try him if 1 got. the job." I got. there just, at noon. 1 met a man, whom I asked. "If he was Mr. Green" and he replied. "That it was." I asked him, "If he want­ ed to hire a man for the summer," and he said, "He did, but thai be wanted a big man, as he bad a big harvest to take off that, summer." Ho ask me, "If I could drive Oxen." "1 never have, but I think \ can." Hc> done his sod plowing with Oxen. I asked Mr. Green, what he was paying. lie said, "$15.00 a month, for a man of your size." He said, "He had hired a man this morning, but didn't Know whether he would have him on the morrow or not." I thought that didn't sound very good. 1 told him, "f could do as much as some of the big men," and he said, "Yes, (hoy al) talk that way." He wanted a man for six months, 1 told him, "I would work for $1(i.o() a month, If we could get along without, trouble." He told me "To work till Saturday night." J didn't like to do it, but I told him. "That I would." He gave me his Oxen to haul manure the rest of the week, till Sat­ urday night at dark. When we ate supper. I ask him "If ho wanted me any longer, for I had to go homo, as I didn't have any clothes there and not many at home." 1 told him, "That if he would say $ 1(5.00 I would be back, but if be didn't, ho needn't look for me." He told me, "To come back Sunday night, so I would be there Mon­ day morning early." I knew what, that meant. Tho old alarm goes off at 4 o'clock and get out and get your horses fed and other chores done till breakfast, is ready. Then work till 12 o'clock noon, eat your dinner and hitch tip the teams right after. Wo didn't lay around and rest, for an hour or two after dinner like we do now days. We didn't have the tools to work with that we have nowdays. We made the hay with a mower, one horse hay rako and pitch-forks and cut tho wheat with a self-rake. I got along fine with the old man. until he went mo across the

H4 canal, to his farm to plow corn with one horse, one awful hot morn­ ing. I plowed till X o'clock and my horse was sweating awful hard, and so 1 had to let her rest. I plowed a few more rounds and she wouldn't sweat, but was panting very hard from the heat. I stopped again to let her cool off and so I got up on a fence to get a little air myself, as it was very sultry up against the woods. I had eat there about five minutes, when I looked up and saw the old man coming. 1 thought it would look cowardly to start to work now, so I waited till he came up. lie said, "What are you doing on the fence?" "I can't pay a man for that." I said, "This mare got. hot and couldn't stand it." llo said, "That she wasn't and that she could stand as much as I could." I asked him,"If be meant, what, he said" and he said, "Yes, he did." I made a couple of rounds and my old shoes hurt my feet so, that I threw them in the fence corner and went bare­ foot till the whistle blewr for noon. I got the mare home, but that was all she ever done. 1 put her corn in her trough and went to dinner. When I went to the bam she was laying down. I went to the house and asked Mr. Greon, "If he had another horse for me for the: afternoon." He asked me. "What is wrong?" I told him "I had ruined his horse for life and that I was good for another.one for the afternoon, if he wanted them worked that way." He said, "Ho didn't want his horses hurt" and I told him. "Tlie horse wouldn't of been, if he had talked with reason," but I couldn't make him be­ lieve anything. He sent me to town to gel. the veterinary, as there wasn't any telephones or antes. The Doc said, "He couldn't do any­ thing" and so the mare died in a couple of days. 1 got along fine with him and when iho six months was up, I came home with $75.00. I gave my falher $50.00 of it to pay a doctor bill and got a suit of common clothes out of the $2500. I had $21.00 for running exponces in six months, so you set; f didnt go as much as boys do now. This was in the year (51) and I was IS years old. I stayed at home until I was 15 1 years old and then wanted to worK out, but lather thought be could not spare me that summer. He asked mo to stay till after harvest and he would give me his sorrel mare. I agreed. During harvest the mare died and so that was all I got. 1 told father 1 was going to work for myself. Ho asked me what I Intended to do and I told him I was going to see If I could buy 40 acres of woods. I had written the man a couple of weeks before and he said lie would sell the 120 acres by me paying $000.00 down. So 1 ROI HI Hohorts to take one 10 and Terry linker to fake another 10 acres and I bought the other 4 0 and so now I had to look out for the $200.00 cash, the balance was to have been paid in year­ ly payments. I went to Mr. .John Wilson thai bad the contract for rutting wood for the Pennsylvania Railroad. This was before they had started to burn coal. I told him I had come to ask a favor of him. Wanting to know what; I wanted, 1 ask him if I could borrow $200.00 of him for awhile. He ask me who I had for security and I said, all the security I had was my good word to pay him. He ask how I was going to pay it and I fold him by working out and that he would have the money when It was due. He ask me when 1 wanted tho money and I told him, not for a lew days, for 1 hud to write to my party to come here first. Ho wanted to know if 1 could not work for him, that ho would give me $20.00 a month for hauling wood,

145 with a mule on the wooden railroad. I took the job. He told me to come over next Monday morning and go to work. I didnt haul but a few days, when he placed me in tho woods with the log haulers to cut roads through. He done all his hauling with four yoke of oxen. I worked at this for a few days when. Wilson came out ono morning and informed me that Emmet Whitney, ono of his haulers, was sick with a fever and would like for me to take his place. He said that I would got his wages, which was $40 a month. I drovo OT- on, then ror two months. So you see by saving my wages, it was not long until I had paid my debt of $200 and I went homo, where my folks had started to cut timbers for n house. We built a small frame building at first then built on a log kitchen, then built a log barn. I got out a petition to open a road to Monroeville and bought tho r'ghts to cut it out past my place. My brothers and I cut 100 cord of blocks that winter with the calculation of making a payment of a $100.00 in the spring on my place. It was an open winter and the roads being to bad we didn't get to do any hauling. So I dropped work on the place and went and ask Mr. Jake Dague if he could lend me $100.00 in a couple of weeks and let me work it out. He said, "Ho would give me $20.00 a month to drive team and haul wood for the grist-mill." I worked out the debt and was home a while when Mart Argo's tenant, who couldn't drive ono of his teams that balked, asked him "If he knew where he could get a good man to handlo horses." Mart told him that John Myers was, if he could get him. He told his tenant to have me come over, that he wanted to see me. He asked me if I could break a spoiled team. I told him that I believed I could, but that it would take some time to do it. He told me he would givo me $20.00 a month that summer. I hired to him and broke his team, but continued to work for him two years at tho same wages. During this time be built his brick house and moved into it then. He ran for tho Auditor's Office The day before the eloction, he said, "John, I suppose you will vote for me, won't you." I told him that I would. He said, "That if he didn't get the office, he would be a broke man." I asked him what ho was going to do about what ho owed mo then. He said, "He would give me the best team he had." He got the office Ho sug­ gested that I got married and lie would sell me his furniture just as it. Was in the house, as he didn't want to move any of It to Fort Wayne. I told him I couldn't do it at $20.00 n month. He said, "He would give me $.'50.00 and part of my living from the place." That was the last thing that I bad thought of doing. Ho told mo that I would'nt havo far to go. I told him I would hit him know in a few days. Hattlo Rolenbnucher had been working at tho Argo homo for a while. I thought that I would make a proposal as to what I was intending to do and it wasn't long till she accepted. Wo got married on Nov. 14th, 187 8 and we stayed there about 4 years and took care of two hords of fine Jersoy and Durham Cattle and some fine horses and about 300 acres of land. After leaving tho Argo farm I bought 4 0 acres close to tho Lincoln Highway and tho Pleasant Grove church, with a log house and a small stable on It. 12 acres of this land was cleared, while the rest was woods. We moved into the log house and lived in it for about 3 years, or until I got a chance to buy a little frame house on an adjoining fourty. I moved it over and

146 built a kitchen to it and this made a fairly good house. I had to go in debt very deep to get teams and tools to work with, and my wife was of ill health, most of the time and then, besides this I got my leg broken, while working in the woods. I thought sometimes there warn't any start for me, but I always hd'eved that when there was a will, there was a way. I got a job hauling gravel in the fall that came to almost $400.00 for the 4 years. I also worked on the switch which they built to Mapletown and made quite a little then;. I would cut cord wood in the winter to get money to buy tile to do ditching in the spring before it was dry enough to piow. I had a hard time to pay for that 40 acres, but I finally succeeded. I lived on this place until my Father and Mother passed away, then the home place, which I had sold them at cost, to live on the rest of their day.-i, was put up for sale and I bought, it and moved onto it at once. This was my first start and it will be my last. The place was in bad shape, I built a kitchen and a big room to the house and gave it a general repairing. 1 removed the log barn and built a 3(5x4N frame barn. I also built, n granary, hog house, chicken house and a cellar and did practically all the carponter work myself, excepting on the barn and I hired a man to help with that. I did this repair work while the boys did most of the farming, and by this way I raved a lot. I did a lot. of fencing and ditching and got the place in good shape, then I sold my 40 acre's by the Lincoln Highway for $5,000.00 and bought the 40 acres joining me on the east and paid $(5,000.00, for that, and it was in bad shape. I ditcned and reived tWs farm and repaired the house. I helped to build tho Methodist church at Townley and was a President of tho Hoard and Secretary and Treasurer for three or four years after the dedication. I kept my membership there until the church was des­ troyed by a tornado in 1!)2(). Then 1 took my membership to the M. E. Church, at Monroeville. In the meantime I had lost some money in tho Farmers Elevator at Townley and a Creamery at Monroeville, when it was sold, pulling through this. I had got my farm and build­ ings Into good Ehnpo. Then the tornado and some bail debts struck me in 1020. Did not have; any tornado insurance and not much cash to settle the bail debts, but hope it will come out all right yet. The storm blew down two barns, my orchard, woods, fences and damaged my house considerable, bul yet was thankful that none of us wore hurt. I wrofo part of this life history about twenty years ago, but It was destroyed and ro 1 thought I would give It up and not think of It any more, but tho other nig..., it came to my mind as plain as if It all had happened but recently. So to relieve my mind. 1 set to work to write this, which Is not any too easy for one of my schooling. I will be 77 years old next May and have written this without the aid of glasses. Have good teeth and am in fairly good health, for one of my age. Havo reared a inmily o. eight children, 5 boys and 3 girls. Of theso thore were 2 pairs of twins. One boy and girl have passed away and one boy, who through an accident, which afflicted his mind, is at IMchmond, Ind., Jnstituto, receiving treatments. The rest are married and have good respectable homos. Now I am going to remain on my farm of 90 acres, raising Red Hogs and liston to tho Radio in tho evenings. JOHN II. MYERS, Monroovillo, Indiana.

H7 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN HENRY MYERS 1851-1940

B JOHN HENRY MYERS 1851-1940 i IOOF Cem Monroeville IN 612131 LAURA AMANDA MYERS b 27 Jan 1984 m Harriet Bolenbaugh 14 Nov 1878 d 1939 B1214 SUE ANN MYERS b 30 Mar i960 Bl LEWIS BERTON MYERS b 5 Bee 1880 d Oct 1912 in David Christopher Babiasz 28 Sep 1985 Hi Li Hie May Freeman 25 Dec 1904 b 5 Feb 1884 d 6 Feb 1965 B12141 DAVID CHRISTOPHER MYERS b 20 Sep 1975 Bll RULEN LLOYD MYERS b 19 Sep 1905 (R Katherine Ella Willing 24 Apr 1947 b 25 Apr B1215 MICHAEL ALLEN MYERS fa 31 Jan 1963 1921 B1216 KATHIE LYNN MYERS b 14 Feb 1965 Bill PATRICK RULEN MYERS b 18 Mar 1950 m Christine Helen Berezek 26 Nov 1971 b 12 B1217 TINA MARIE MYERS b 30 Dec 1967 Jan 1954 div May 1981 81218 TAMMIE FAYE MYERS b 3 Oct 1973 Bllll SCOTT PATRICK MYERS b 9 Feb 1972 B1219 SHAWN CHRISTOPHER MYERS b 13 Jul 1976 Bll12 KELLY LYNN MYERS b 24 July 1978 B122 DUANE LEE ROY MYERS b 2 Oct 1935 B112 FREDERICK BRUCE MYERS b 7 Sep 1951 ml Anita Patricia Surge 24 Jun 1954 div Jun 1959 (child 1) B12 ERMIN HOWARD MYERS SR b 1 May 1909 m2 Carol "Susie" Nordquist 17 Aug 1962 b in Martha Pearl Coniey 10 nov 1928 b 27 Mar 1911 24 Jan i942 (chldrn 2 through 4) B121 ERMIN HOWARD MYERS JR b 28 Apr 1930 d 6 Jun 1983 B1221 SANDRA JEAN MYERS b 6 Jun 1956 m Dolores Joyce VanderVoort 26 Dec 1953 b 24 Jul 1936 B1222 BRENT LOREN MYERS b 7 Apr 1966

B1211 MARTHA ELIZABETH MYERS b 16 Dec 1954 B1223 KENT LEI6H MYERS b 19 Aug 1969 fl) Kirk Douglas Sevener 17 Dec 1976 b 23 Jul 1957 B1224 JILL ANNETTE MYERS b 23 Feb 1971

B12111 CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL SEVENER b 30 Mar B123 DANIEL ALLEN MYERS b 4 Feb 1945 1934 B13 LOIS MARIAM MYERS b 18 Nov 1912 d 20 Aug 1982 B12112 CODY ROBERT SEVENER b 19 Apr 1985

B1212 ERMIN HOWARD MYERS III b 14 Feb 1956 (J Kathy Jane Fisher 12 Jan 1979 b 16 May 1956

B12121 MELISSA LYNN MYERS b 29 Jun 1981

B12122 CRYSTAL MARIE MYERS b 10 Jun 1982

B12123 CARMEN MICHELLE MYERS b 10 Nov i985

B1213 JOHN PATRICK MYERS b 19 Mar 1958 m Julie Ann Bena+ield 25 Jul 1983 b 21 Nov 1963

148 82 ORREN OGDEN MYERS b 8 Dec 1382 d 19 Mar 1965 B223 BRENT ALLEN MYERS b 7 Nov 1955 m Cora Elizabeth Sweeney 7 Dec 19i2 b 10 Oct 1884 d 1954 m Laurie Bubb 11 Nov 1978 b 20 Feb 1957

B21 SRETA ELIZABETH MYERS b 30 Mar 1914 B2231 JESSICA LYNN MYERS b 5 Sep 1979 m Ilvin Howell Sheets 3 Feb i936 b 6 Jan 1909 d 26 Apr 1965 B2232 JACOB DANIEL MYERS b 10 Nov 1983

B211 VANCE EDWARD SHEETS b 8 Mar 1937 B23 ALVIN WAYNE MYERS b 28 Jun 1923 si Joan Werner 3 Oct 1958 b 23 May 1936 m Juamta May Gustin 25 Feb 1945 b 25'Mar 1926 B231 STANLEY WAYNE MYERS b 25 Sep 1945 B212 ARDETH COLEEN SHEETS b 27 Dec 1938 m Sandra Marquart Doctor ml Re>; Otto Mansfield 14 Sep 1956 b 9 Sep 1932 div 8 Sep 19&5 (chid 82121) B232 MONICA DARLENE MYERS b 2 May 1947 iTi2 Edgar Cleveland Edwards 16 Dec 1967 b 15 Nov 1927 (chldrn B2122-3) m Allen Jaeger 17 May 1969 b 14 Apr 1940

B2121 RICKY ALAN MANSFIELD b 31 Mar 1957 B2321 KENNETH ALAN JEA6ER b 27 Jan 1971 m Nancy Butcher Saggars 23 Jan 1982 b Jan 1948 B2322 BRIAN JOSEPH JEASER b 19 Jan 1974

B2122 BETH ANN EDWARDS b 17 Aug 1969 82323 DEBRA LYNN JEASER b 4 May 1977 B233 PAUL RAYMOND MYERS b 9 Sep 1950 B2123 LINDA DIANE EDWARDS b 18 Apr 1974 ml Tonja Marie Pickford 9 Dec 1972 b 24 Aug 1954 div 1979 (chldrn B2331-2) B213 CAROL BARBARA SHEETS b 1 Apr 1942 m2 Valisa Shull 29 Aug 1983 (chid B2333) is Louis Edward Thomas 17 Mar 1962 b 14 Jan B2331 JESSICA JOAN MYERS b 11 Jun 1973 1939 B2332 DONALD WAYNE MYERS b 1 Feb 1978 B2131 MICHAEL BRIAN THOMAS b 22 Mar 1963 B2333 PAMELA MYERS b 2 Sep 1983 B2132 MICHELE RENEE THOMAS b 17 Jan 1966 B234 HAROLD JOSEPH MYERS b 1 July 1952 B214 DAVID EUSENE SHEETS b 22 Jan 1946 m Sonya Sue Teeple 13 May 1972 b 29 Jun m Patricia Ann Baker 31 Jul 1971 b 12 Sep 1953 div 1951 B2341 JOSEPH AARON MYERS b 27 Apr 1975 B2141 MELANIE ANN SHEETS b 29 Dec 1978 82342 ANTHONY LYNN MYERS b 30 May 1979 B2142 BRITTANY LEAH SHEETS b 23 Oct 1981 B235 MARSHA RAE MYERS b 5 Jul 1954 B215 MARILYN JO ANN SHEETS b 28 Nov 1950 m Denis Michael Dawson 2 Sep 1972 b 12 Aug 1949 B22 MELVIN WESLEY MYERS b 22 Nov 1916 62351 KRISTA ROSE DAWSON b 4 Feb 1973 m Wiida Irene Baker 5 Jan 1943 b 21 Apr 1920 B2352 REBECCA LYNN DAWSON b 18 Sep 1975 B221 BEVERLY ANN MYERS b 25 Oct 1946 B2353 MICHAEL ANDREW DAWSON b 1 Jul 1977 B222 BRUCE EDWIN MYERS b 10 Nov 1951 m Patsy Jo Wiehe 3 Jun 1972 b 3 Aug 1953 B236 PAMELA ROSE MYERS b 24 Dec 1956 d 2 Jun 1971 B2221 JASON ANDREW MYERS b 10 Oct 1973

B2222 MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER MYERS 29 Jun 1976

149 B3 CHARLES EARL MYERS b 3 Oct 1834 d Ft Wayne IN 3 Feb 1956 m Ruah Idalia Sargen 12 Jan i910 b Hardin Co OH 27 Apr 1886 d Ft Wayne IN 7 Apr 1971 dau Benjamin Alfred Sargen

B31 LOWELL L MYERS (twin) b Ft Wayne IN 25 Dec 1913 m Kathlene L Megenity Marion IN 10 May 1941 b Sreencastle IN 28 Jun 1913 dau Ernest B k Brace Morris Megenity

B311 MARILYN KAY MYERS b Ft Wayne IN 6 Jul 1944 fli James Douglas Wright New Haven Meth Ch New Haven IN 25 Jun 1966 b Ft Wayne IN 26 Sep 1943 son Herbert k Helen "Toad" Wright

B3111 DOUGLAS JAMES WRIGHT b 30 Dec 1966

B3112 JULIA ANN WRIGHT b 23 Nov 1968

B3113 INFANT SON bkd Ft Wayne IN 10 Mar 1971 Fig. 52. Victoria Belle (Myers) Harries B32 LOLA RUTHEDA MYERS (twin) b Ft Wayne IN 25 Dec 1889-1978 and Cloe lone (Myers) Giant 1913 1883-1985 Photo courtesy Mandas Myers m Olney Adkinson 16 Aug 1941 b Hanre de Graes MD 6 Jan 1916 son 6ernard David k Mary Edna Ad­ B6 CLOE IONE MYERS (twin) b 6 Nov 1893 d 17 Oct 1985 of kinson a heart attack at age 91 after an illness of only 1 1/2 days and her first hospitalization ever 6321 RALPH OLNEY ADKINSON b Ft Wayne IN 20 Oct m Joseph Alfred Giant 22 Oct 1912 b 18 Dec 1892 d 22 1944 May 1963 m Janice Bower Ft Wayne IN 16 Jul 1966 b Ft Wayne IN 10 Oct 1945 dau Ray k Jean B6i CARLTON MANF0RD GIANT b 21 Sep 1914 BA St Fran­ Cardone Dower cis Col B3211 TY JUSTIN ADKINSON b 21 May 1968 m Charlotte Louise Smith 25 May 1940 b 24 Oct 1917 dau Charles John k Louisa Mary Gfell B3212 SHANE JOEL ADKINSON b Ft Wayne IN 25 Smith May 1970 B611 NANCY LOU GIANT b 5 Jan 1942 B3213 DANIELLE JOY ADKINSON b Ft Wayne IN 24 ml Kent Beeler (chid 1) div 1969 Oct 1976 m2 James A Canull 18 Jul 1971 b 31 Aug 1944 (chldrn 2-4) div 1982 B4 HARLAN LOYD MYERS (twin) b 16 Nov 1889 d i958 B6111 LARA LEIGH BEELER b 14 Jun 1969 B5 VICTORIA BELLE MYERS (twin) b 16 Nov 1889 d 25 Mar 1978 B6112 LISA SUZANNE CANULL b 14 May 1973 m Fred Harries b 1891 d 1965 B6113 KELLY MARIE CANULL b 17 Jun 1974

B6114 JAMES JEFFREY CANULL b 11 Mar 1976

B612 JACQUELINE ANN GIANT b 14 Jun 1944 BA Bali St U MA Bowling Green U m Dennis Mann 5 Jun 1971 b 10 Jun 1945

B6121 COURTNEY LEE MANN (A) b 10 Dec 1976

150 66122 MEGAN LEE MANN b 20 Nov 1979 B6222 CHRISTOPHER JOHN GIANT b 19 Aug 1983

B6i3 JEANNINE KAY GIANT b 15 Jun 1948 PRN 6623 RITA M GIANT b 20 Apr 1955 m Thomas Hobart Dunmire 7 Jun 1969 b 29 fli Paul T Brueggeman 25 Aug 1978 b 10 Sep May 1947 1955

B6131 CARMEN RACHELLE DUNMIRE b 13 Nov 1969 B6231 WENDY ANN BRUEG8EMAN b 10 Oct 1979

B6132 CHRISTOPHER ALLEN DUNMIRE b 4 Dec 1973 B6232 BRIAN PAUL BRUE6GEMAN b 30 Mar 1981

B614 STANLEY CHARLES GIANT b 7 Jun 1951 MA Engr 86233 ADAM DAVID BRUEG6EMAN b 17 Jul 1984 Purdue U 8624 MARY C GIANT b 9 Dec 1957 m Sheryl S Davis i8 Aug 1973 b i9 Dec 1951 MA Nursing Purdue U div 1985 B625 ROSE M GIANT b 23 Mar 1959 m David A Oberley 1 Oct 1983 b i6 Mar 1958 B6141 BENJAMIN CHARLES GIANT b 7 Jul 1981 B63 MAY8ELLE MARIE GIANT b 15 Jan 1918 B6142 NICHOLAS ADAM GIANT b 17 Aug 1983 fli Tom D Wilkinson 26 Jun 1948 b 14 Nov 1913 d 7 Aug 1984 B615 GREGORY ALLEN GIANT b 2 Dec 1954 MA Pharm Purdue U B631 PAMELA WILKINSON b 27 Apr 1949 m Kimberley S Zody 5 Aug 1978 b 20 Feb 1958 Hi Carl05 Overmyer 21 Oct 1973 b 5 Jul 1947

B6151 BLAKE KENDRICK GIANT b 5 Feb 1935 66311 KENNETH OVERMYER b 3 Jan 1976

B616 BETH MARIE GIANT b 25 Jan 1957 legal secy 66312 TODD OVERMYER b 27 Apr 1978 m Paul Francis Kline 23 Apr 1977 b 10 Jun 1954 66313 MELISSA OVERMYER b 9 Feb 1980

B6161 ANTHONY MICHAEL KLINE b 5 May 1979 6632 TOM WILKINSON JR b 24 Jun 1950

B6162 DANIELLE MARIE KLINE b 21 Mar 1982 6633 TERRY WILKINSON b 21 Dec 1951

B617 MICHELLE SUE GIANT b 27 Sep 1959 Vincennes B634 DE80RAH WILKINSON b 17 Feb 1954 U legal secy m John David Thomas 3 Apr 1981 b 2 Dec in Rick Moore 12 Jun 1976 b 16 Feb 1954 1958 86341 KADIE ANN MOORE b 1 May 1978 B6171 ERIC DAVID THOMAS b 20 Dec 1982 B6342 JEFFERY ALLEN MOORE b 3 May 1980 B6172 CHELSIE SUE THOMAS b 28 May 1985 B6343 TYLER MOORE b 6 Jan 1982 862 RANDOLPH H GIANT b 13 Jan 1916 «i Pauline A Sorg 25 Nov 1948 b 23 Jul 1916 B635 CHRISTINA WILKINSON b 25 Sep 1955

8621 DONALD J GIANT b 17 Jan 1950 B636 JULIE ANN WILKINSON b 31 Jan 1958 fli Lynn E Sitko 6 Oct 1979 b 5 Oct 1951 B64 JOSEPH JOHN JACOB GIANT b 2 Nov 1926 d Aug 28 1952 no issue 66211 JOSEPH RANDOLPH GIANT b 23 Nov 1982 B65 MARY MARCELLA GIANT b 26 May 1922 m Thomas H Sorg 19 Feb 1944 b 23 Jul 1920 son B6212 EMILY KATHRYN GIANT b 30 Dec 1985 Joseph Meinrod k Anna Francis Freedman Sorg

8622 JOHN R GIANT b 26 Oct 1951 6651 MONA LOU SORG b 6 Oct 1945 m Mark Derheimer b 20 Nov 1945 m Laurie A Ludden 8 Aug 1975 b 22 Jun 1951 B6221 LINDSEY ANN GIANT b 22 May 1930

151 66511 TONIA L DERHEIMER b 5 Aug 1967 B6553 DANIELLE SORG b 14 Mar 1984

B6512 PAUL DANIEL DERHEIMER b 15 Mar 1969 8656 THOMAS JOSEPH SORG b 23 Feb 1955 m Laurie Jean Lake b 23 Jul 1957 B6513 KEVIN DOUGLAS DERHEIMER b 11 Jun 1970 B6561 JOSHUA SORG b 26 Dec 19S3 66514 MATTHEW ALLEN DERHEIMER b 31 Aug 1973 6657 MARY CATHERINE SORG b20 Aug 1956 B6515 JENNA NOEL DERHEIMER b 24 Dec 1974 m James Warren Freiburger b 12 Aug 1949 66516 NICHOLAS JOSEPH DERHEIMER b 22 Feb 1978 B6571 ANDREA DIANNE FREIBURGER b 4 Apr 1980 B6517 ERIC THOMAS DERHEIMER b 6 Sep 1980 B6572 ADRIENNE FREIBURGER b Aug 1983 B652 SUZANNE MARIE SORG b 3 Mar 1947 B658 ANTHONY ALOYSIUS SORG b 10 Mar 1958 si Jerry Wayne Hudson b 7 Nov 1947 m Leigh bidden 26 Mar 2983 b 22 Jun 1959 8652i TAMMY MARIE HUDSON b 12 Nov 1968 6659 TIMOTHY LEE SORG b 9 Jun i960 86522 KELLY DAWN HUDSON b 17 Mar 1970 B650 TERRENCE JOSEPH SORG b 4 Nov 1961 B6523 JAYME WAYNE HUDSON b 6 Apr 1971 B65a THEODORE JOSEPH SORG b 3 Jan 1963 B6524 JASON THOMAS HUDSON b 26 Sep 1974 B66 JAMES LOUIS GIANT b 31 Mar 1931 B653 COLEEN ROSE SORG b 12 Feb 1948 m Beverly A Schoeph 13 Nov 1954 b 22 Mar 1933 m James L Rogers b 22 Dec 1943 B661 KAREN LOU GIANT b 17 Aug 1955 fli Stephen Thomas Leffers 30 Apr 1977 b 15 B6531 SHEILA ROSE ROGERS b 31 Jan 1971 Apr 1955

66532 RENE MARIE ROGERS b 26 Apr 1973 B6611 RYAN STEPHEN LEFFERS b 27 Aug 1981

B6533 RODNEY LEE ROGERS b 12 NOV i976 B6612 BRANDON JAMES LEFFERS b 15 May 1984 6662 KATHY SUE GIANT b 18 Apr 1957 B6534 RYAN JAMES ROGERS b 12 Mar 1978 fli Dale Joseph Frieburger 16 May 1981 b 28 Feb 1956 66535 THOMAS WILBUR ROGERS b 25 Jul 1979

66536 NATHANIEL JOSEPH ROGERS b 17 Apr 66621 8RETT JOSEPH FREI8UR6ER b 19 Oct 1983 1931 B663 KELLIE MARIE GIANT b 7 Jan 1959 B654 JEAN ELLEN SORG b 15 Feb 1952 6664 KIRK JAMES GIANT b 23 Sep i960 fli Michael Edward Hunter b 24 Feb 1949 8665 KENT JEROME GIANT b 19 Sep 1964 B6541 SCOTT THOMAS HUNTER b 14 Dec 1972 B7 CLEO IRENE MYERS (twin) b 6 Nov 1893 d age 5 of mem­ B6542 HEIDI ELLEN HUNTER b 15 Apr 1974 branous croup

B6543 HOLLIE MICHELLE HUNTER b 7 Sep 1978 B8 RALPH HURON MYERS b 30 Mar 1899 d 31 Oct 1962 m Martha Miriam Meese d 8 May 1985 B655 CYNTHIA JANE SORG b 18 Jan 1954 m Allan Eugene Sorg b 1 Oct 1954 B81 KATHRYN PHYLLIS MYERS B6551 BRANDON ALAN SORG b 3 Feb 1973 fli Harold 0 Stephenson

B6552 BRYAN VINCENT SORG b 21 Aug 1979 6811 JACK LYNN STEPHENSON m Linda Sue Koehlinper

152 682 JEAN ELAINE MYERS 8852 JULI MYERS m Robert Justice m Steve Dietrich 6821 SANDRA JEAN JUSTICE m Gordon Brown B8521 ASHLEY DIETRICH

B8211 DEBORAH BROWN B853 JEFFREY MYERS 6854 HARRIET MYERS B8212 STEPHEN BROWN m Edwin Beucler

B822 JOHN JUSTICE 68541 MARK BEUCLER m Wiima Elmore fli Marsha Rosswurm B85411 NATHAN MARK BEUCLER B8221 CHRISTY -JUSTICE

B8222 NICOLE JUSTICE 68542 GAIL ANN 6EUCLER

B823 JEFFREY JUSTICE B855 MAX EUGENE MYERS m Linda McGill ni Shirley Spieth

68231 JOSHUA JUSTICE B8551 JESSE MYERS m Brenda Baker B8232 RACHEL JUSTICE B85511 RYAN MYERS B8233 JESSICA JUSTICE B85512 JACOB MYERS B83 JOHN ROBERT MYERS d age 22 mos of pneumonia 1925 88552 KAREN MYERS B84 RALPH J MYERS fli Irene Kay Andress 88553 RICHARD MYERS At Pamela Case Tabitka 6841 NANETTE MYERS 885531 KASH MYERS B842 KIMBERLY MYERS m Gregory Smith B85532 TY MYERS

68421 NICOLE SMITH B8554 JED DICK MYERS d 1 Oct 1978

68422 JAY SMITH 6856 KAY Y MYERS

B843 MELISSA MYERS m William J Weddie m Scott Kipfer B8561 SCOTT WEDDLE B8431 ANDREW KIPFER B8562 KURT WEDDLE B844 TIMOTHY JAY MYERS B8563 AMY WEDDLE m Bill Smith B845 MELINDA MYERS m Kurt Bleke B85631 JASON SMITH

B85 JOSEPH W MYERS d 1972 685632 LUCAL SMITH m Cleva Weaver 885633 COLE SMITH B85I KENT MYERS B8564 ERICA WEDDLE B8511 SOMMER MYERS B8565 WENDY WEDDLE

153 20

Generation VII

M32373-C NANCY ELLEN MYERS MONESMITH 1855-1915

DESCENDANTS OF NANCY ELLEN MYERS MONESMITH 1855-1915

C NANCY ELLEN MYERS MONESMITH b 14 Apr 1855 d 16 May 1915 C26 MAURICE MYRON GUISINGER b 10 May 1908 Second dau of George B k Mary Myers m Henry Monesmith 16 Nov 1880 b 31 Aug 1837 d 19 Oct 1888 C27 HARLEN GUISINGER b 1912

CI LILLY MAY MONESMITH b 21 Apr 1875 C28 RALPH DANANT GUISINGER b 24 May 1914 m Arthur Stairhime C3 GEORGE WASHINGTON MONESMITH b 22 Aug 1885 Cil MARIE STAIRHIME m Marie McKeeman 30 Dec 1914

C2 DESSA PEARL MONESMITH b 14 Jan 1882 C31 KENNETH MONESMITH b ca 1916 or 1917 m Amos Guisinger 27 May 1896 b 9 Jan 1871 C32 ELEANOR LOUISE MONESMITH b 25 Oct 1919 C21 WILBUR JAMES GUISINGER b 14 Apr 1897 d 31 Aug 1898 C33 GEORGE WASHINGTON MONESMITH JR b 23 Oct 193

C22 BERTHA DELL GUISINGER b 24 Sep 1398 C4 HARRY 8ENT0N (6EN) MONESMITH b 17 Oct 1837 m Anna Gertrude Senons 7 Jun 1911 b 3 May 1893 C23 MARION ELLSWORTH GUISINGER b 19 Aug 1900 C41 HAZEL 600DRUN MONESMITH b 12 Mar 1913 C24 LILLIE MARIE GUISINGER b 22 May 1903 fli Lloyd Black 29 Dec 1934

C25 FLOYD JOSEPH GUISINGER b 2 Jun 1906

154 21

Generation VII

M32373-D ORLANDO DAWSON MYERS 1857-1934

Orlando, third son of George and Mary wife, Matilda, had two sons, Leslie Myers, like his ancestors and broth- and Ray. A daughter died in infancy, ers, followed farming, settling in De- Ray, who lives in Decatur with Flor- catur, IN. He was industrious, re- ence, his wife, is the last surviving spected and successful. He and his grandchild of George and Mary Myers.

DESCENDANTS OF ORLANDO DAWSON MYERS 1857-1934

D ORLANDO DAWSON MYERS b 12 Oct 1857 d 30 Oct 1934 D3 RAY THER0N MYERS b 28 Nov 1905 Third son of George 8 k Mary Myers m Florence Fleming 3 Aug 1929 fa 16 Aug 1908 at Matilda Triley 18 Nov 1888 b 13 Jun 1869 d 23 Feb 1955 D31 DOYLE LEVERNE MYERS b 19 Jul 1931 el5ctronic Dl LESLIE HARRISON MYERS b 17 Jul 1889 d Aug 1959 enqr for Mapnavox res Ft *ayne IN m Pearl Knavel 3 Oct 1912 b 24 Jul 1892 d Feb 1956

Dll CHLOE VERNETTA MYERS b 14 Oct 1913 d 1948 D311 ROGER D MYERS b 17 Feb 1954 m Donald H Shoner 27 Nov 1930 d 6 May 1981 D312 SUE ANN HYERS b 2 Aug 1956 Dili D0L0RIS SHONER D32 ERVIN RAV MYERS b 23 Nov 1937 D112 BONNIE SHONER m Diana Hovis i4 Feb 1984 b 18 Jul 1949

D12 DOROTHY IRETA MYERS b 8 Nov 1915 one step-dau D321 AMANDA ANN MYERS (A) b 7 Sep 1979 Patsy Cottorn a Hubert Cottom 7 Aug 1946

D13 HELEN MARGUERITE MYERS b 27 Nov 1917

m Ernin H Stewart 15 Aug 1940 d 24 Apr 1981

D131 GLENN ERNAN STEWART b 14 Jul 1943

D132 DOROTHY JEAN STEWART b 16 Sep 1945

D133 NEDRA COLLEEN STEWART b 3 May 1951

D14 GLENN LESLIE MYERS b 16 Jan 1920 two stepchldra, Robert Conn b 23 Jul 1939 & Joyslyn Conn b 5 Sep 1943 plus chldrn listed below m Vera Conn 5 Apr 1947

D141 GARY MYERS b 9 Jan 1950

D142 DEBORAH MYERS b 26 Dec 1953 D3 Ray Theron and D2 MA8EL MYERS b 2 Aug 1898 d 4 Dec 1898 Florence Fleming Myers 155 22

Generation VII

M32373-E MARY CEDELIA MYERS CLEAR

1859-1942

Mary Cedelia Myers Clear Photo courtesy Dean Froehlich

Dean Kenneth Froehlich, mentor and col­ log cabin, with quilts hung for door league of the author over a period of and window shutters, she conducted many years in the preparation of this herself with an easy, natural digni­ book, wrote of Mary Cedelia Clear as ty that seemed inconsistent with the follows: crudeness of the physical environ­ ment into which she was born. One Mary (Mrs. Robert Clear) Myers is can only surmise that her parents, the only great-grandparent of whom I siblings, relatives and neighbors have memories. I was a little over transmitted to her a graciousness 11 years old when she died in Aug­ and refinement of manner that trans­ ust, 1942 and for several of the pre­ cended the roughness of their fron­ ceding summers was in her company ma­ tier living conditions. In the sim­ ny times, since she vacationed at plest and most bucolic of circum­ her youngest daughter's cottage next stances, she was gracious without to one in which I spent summers with the slightest suggestion of pre­ my maternal grandparents, one of tense. whom was her eldest son. There we became familiar sights to one anoth­ Robert Clear (1877-1916) owned and er. operated a sawmill. A number of their children moved to Detroit to become as­ She was an exceptional person: she sociated with the automobile business. bore 14 children and reared the 12 Many of the descendants of Mary and who survived infancy to adulthood, Robert Clear have become distinguished several during the early years of members of society in a variety of pro­ her 26 year widowhood. Born in a fessional activities.

156 Photo courtesy Dean Froehlich

The Family of Mary Cedelia Myers (1859-1942) and Robert B Clear (1851- 1916) at their residence it Avilla, Noble Co. Indiana in 1900.

157 DESCENDANTS OF MARY CEDELIA MYERS CLEAR 1859-1942

E MARY CEDELIA MYERS CLEAR 1859-1942 E1H31 ANNEMARIE LUNDELL b Iron Mt MI 4 Aug m Robert B Clear Monroeville IN 3 May 1877 b Eel River 1982 Twp Allen Co IN 6 Feb 1351 d Duke's Bridge Elkhart Twp E11132 ELIZABETH SUE LUNDELL b Iron Mt MI 3 Noble Co IN 13 Mar 1916 (Albion Cem) son Henry k Marga­ Mar 1986 ret DoIan Clear E1114 JOHN CHARLES VENTURINO b Detroit MI 31 El HARRY CLINTON CLEAR b Benton, Paulding Co OH 29 Jan May 1960 1378 d Detroit MI 25 Jan 1942 m Janis Lynn Ponshock b Lincoln NE 12 m Edna Lenore Ray 14 Sep 1904 b Albion Noble Co IN 1 Jan 1963 May 1881 d Detroit MI 22 Feb 1957 (White Chapel Cem Troy MI) dau David William k Sarah Bailey Ray Eill4i JESSE MARIE VENTURINO b Wurtsmith AF8 Oscoda MI 6 Feb 1983 El) CLINTON BAILEY CLEAR b Albion Noble Co IN 27 Feb 1907 d Detroit MI 4 Oct 1969 (White Chapel Cem E11142 JEREMY MICHAEL VENTURINO (twin) b Troy MI) Iraki ion AS (AFB) Crete Greece 4 Oct ml Reba Dickinson 22 Jun 1933 d 13 Mar 1950 1984 (Chid Eill) m2 Julie Rzepa Pula 24 Nov 1953 El 1143 JENNIFER LYNN VENTURINO (twin) b Iraki ion AS (AFB) Crete Greece 4 Oct El 11 EDNA MAE CLEAR b Detroit MI 1 May 1934 1984 m Donald Gene Venturino b Detroit MI 14 E12 LOIS VIRGINIA CLEAR b Albion Noble Co IN 23 May April 1929 1909 d Grosse Pte MI 22 Aug 1979 (White Chapel Cem Troy MI) Ellll LORIE ANN VENTURINO b Detroit MI 3 Jul in Earl Frederick Froehlich Toledo OH 30 Sep 1930 1954 b Detroit MI 13 Jun 1909 d Grosse Pte MI 22 m Barry Richard Holmes b Tucson AZ 21 Aug 1983 son Frederick August k Seima Wilhel- Aug 1953 mina Plepp Froehlich Elllll BARRY RICHARD HOLMES JR b Southfield E121 DEAN KENNETH FROEHLICH b Detroit MI 12 May MI 17 Sep 1984 1931 El112 DONNA GAIL VENTURINO b Detroit MI 1 Sep E122 J MARILYN FROEHLICH b Detroit MI 3 Dec 1955 1941 m James Bernard Holmes b Toronto Canada m Paul V Whitmore MD 22 May 1964 18 Jul 1948 E1221 TRACIE LYNNE WHITMORE b Washington El 1121 DAWN MICHELE HOLMES b Tucson AZ 7 DC 21 Aug 1966 Oct 1976 E1222 KIMBERLY ANNE WHITMORE b Washington E1H22 SHAUNA MARIE HOLMES b Tucson AZ 7 DC 23 Oct 1969 Oct 1979 E13 VALOROUS BERNARD CLEAR b Kendallviile IN 31 Jan E11123 JAMIE RAE HOLMES b Tucson AZ 1 May 1915 AB Anderson Col 1941 Postgrad U Nacionai 1982 (same birth day k mo as grand­ Mayor de San Marcos Lima Peru 1942-44 PhD U Chgo mother Eill k gr-gr-grandmother ED Ordained to ministry Ch of God Anderson IN 1941 Who's Who in Religion 1975-76 Author "Common Ell 124 SCOTT JAMES HOLMES b Tucson AZ 10 Cagebirds in America," "Making Money with May 1984 Birds," 1981, jt. ed. "Marriage and the Family Through Science Fiction," 1976, k many other ac­ El 113 CHERYL MARIE VENTURINO b Detroit MI 23 tivities Oct 1956 m Evelyn Rachel Clark 24 Dec 1942 d Mex City Mex m John Charles Lundeil b Cloguet MN 6 25 Dec 1981 dau Charles H k Elpha Clark Apr 1953

158 E131 VAL SCOTT CLEAR b Indianapolis IN 7 Nov E223 BARBARA JEAN LUCKFELT b Detroit MI d age 4 1947 yrs (Oakview Cem Royal Oak MI) m Linda St John Fridrich 8 May 1982 E224 LOIS WILLENE LUCKFELT i 6ernard C Teasdale Detroit MI E132 TODD RAY CLEAR b Anderson IN 15 Mar 1949 Faculty, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Rut­ E225 MARY ANN LUCKFELT b Detroit MI gers U,, Newark NJ. Co-author, "Control­ m Matthew Frank Detroit MI ling the Offenders in the Community: Re­ forming the Community Supervision Func­ E226 WILLIAM LUCKFELT JR tion" (1982), k "The Impact of Sentencing m Linda Ferris Reform: From Indeterminate to Determinate Sentencing" (1983) E227 SANDRA LUCKFELT M William Stenson m Donna Richardson 28 Feb 1969 E23 CATHERINE HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co IN 14 E1321 DYLAN CLEAR (son) b Anderson IN 25 Aug Jun 1906 d 30 Aug 1907 (Cem Avilla Noble Co IN) 1969 E24 ROBERT C HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co IN 15 Sep E1322 MONICA CLEAR b Anderson IN 9 Jan 1971 1908 fli Molhe Luckfelt 1 Nov 1929 d 25 Jun 1959 E133 BRUCE CLARK CLEAR b Anderson IN 9 Jun 1950 m Linda Payton 16 Aug 1969 E241 ROBERT J LUCKFELT b 21 Sep 1930 m Sadie Lewis Inkster MI E1331 CAMERON CLEAR b Anderson IN 20 Mar 1975 E25 KEITH HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co IN 18 Jun E2 ADA LOIS CLEAR b Eel River Twp Allen Co IN 19 Aug 1910 d 29 Sep 1962 (Forest Lawn Cem Detroit MI) 1879 d 15 Feb 1963 (Avilla Cem Noble Co IN) fli Emma Wennen 17 Apr 1933 d 22 Oct 1976 m Robert Henry 20 Jul 1898 E251 JACQUELIN HENRY E21 RUAH B HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co IN 22 tar m ? Habmer Detroit MI 1901 m Bernard Wert Stroh IN 1919 d 20 Sep 1972 E26 MARY ELIZABETH HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co IN (White Chapel Cem Troy Ml) 22 Mar 1912 Hi Fred Luckfelt Detroit MI 20 Feb 1937 d 7 Jan E2il HELEN OCTA WERT b Kendallville IN 5 Jan 1967 (Lakeview Can Royal Oak MI) 1920 m Samuel Nimlin Detroit MI 10 Oct 1942 E27 VANCE HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co IN 17 Apr 1914 E2111 SUZAN DALLAS NIMLIN b 10 Mar 1945 ml Mary Marshall Detroit MI div (chid E27D m2 Norma Pentz Portland OR (chldrn E272-E274) E2112 HEATHER GALE NIMLIN b 20 Apr 1956 £271 MICHALE HENRY b 30 Jun 1935 E212 NADA WILLENE WERT b Stroh IN 18 Oct 1927 m Victor 6 Gashell Detroit MI 2 Sep 1950 E272 VAN0RA ELAINE HENRY b 20 Jan 1955

E22 MARTHA JOSEPHINE HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co E273 VELERIA HENRY (twin) 23 Jan 1956 IN 16 Apr 1904 d 3 Jul 1977 (Lakeview Cem Royal Oak MI) E274 VIVIAN LEA HENRY (twin) 23 Jan 1956 ml John C Dury div (chldrn E221 Sr E222) ni2 William Luck-felt b Germany American Citizen d E28 DALE HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co IN 5 Oct 1916 16 Feb 1940 (Lakeview Cem Royal Oak MI) a) Martha Ann Dowd 3 Jan 1947 (chldrn E223-E226) E29 JAMES L HENRY b Kendallville Noble Co IN 31 May E221 ROBERT C DURY b Kendallville IN 1921 ml Eileen Emsley ii Jun 1943 div (chid E29ii E222 JUANITA MAE DURY b Kendallville IN ni2 Rhea Simkins Detroit MI

159 Corp in Washington DC, Bankok Thailand, Harris- E291 RAY JAMES HENRY b 14 Feb 1944 burg PA k Lansing MI 1962-1976. Owner The Vil­ lage Pub k VP Carlside Vista Prop Mgmt Group, E3 ADDIE HADDESSIE "DESSIE" CLEAR b Churubusco Whitley Carlsbad CA 1978-1985. Who's Who in America I960 Co IN 18 Jun 1881 d Denver CO 18 Mar 1970 ml Jean E Thompson (first 2 chldrn) ml Harvey Hite 2 Oct 1901 (chldrn E31 k E32) m2 Alice Jane Creasey 11 Nov 1946 (3rd k 4th ni2 John Garberson (chid E33) chldrn)

E31 MARY ORETA HITE b Denver CO 9 Jan 1903 d i2 May E441 JEAN VALERIE CLEAR b 5 May 1938 1967 (Cem Denver CO) m Haroid Lau

E32 ROBERT HENRY HITE b Lancaster OH 9 May 1905 d 18 E44I1 CURTIS LAU b 8 Oct 1966 Aug 1968 (Cem Denver CO) E4412 JENNIFER LAU b 15 Jun 1968 E33 JOHN R GARBERSON LtCol San Antonio TX E442 JOHN WILLIAM CLEAR JR b 17 Dec 1941 E331 JOHN MARSHALL GARBERSON fli ?

E332 CHARLES AVERY GARBERSON E4421 WARREN CLEAR b 11 Sep 1962

E4 VALOROUS LLOYD CLEAR b Churubusco Whitley Co IN 19 E4422 RUSSELL CLEAR b 27 Jui 1965 Oct 1883 d N Webster- IN (cem Albion IN) i7 Aug 1958 Methodist Minister Lt Infantry WWI 32nd Degree Mason E443 R08ERT BRIAN CLEAR b 5 Jan 1948 both Scottish k York rites Am Legion Lions Kiwanis Rotary k Exchange Clubs member bd of trustees Method­ E444 BRADLEY VAL0RUS CLEAR b 2 Aug 1952 d 23 Mar ist Hospitals of Ft Wayne k Indianapolis pres bd of 1981 (Oakwood Cem Warsaw IN) trustees Bashor Childrens Home in IN secy Chamber of Com Jensen Beach FL E5 ANNA BERYL CLEAR b Churubusco Whitley Co IN 2 Jul m Hattie Cockley Albion Noble Co IN 28 Dec 1906 d 1886 d 25 Aug 1963 (Albion IN Cem.i Warren IN Sep 1968 (cem Albion IN) ml Latta Zollinger 21 Nov 1906 d 1 Apr 1907 (Wolf Lake Cem Noble Twp IN) (chid E51) farmer Noble Twp E41 ZOLA CLEAR b Albion Noble Co IN 12 Sep 1907 d Allen Co IN Stuart FL 10 Feb 1967 Who's Who of Am Women 1961 m2 Merton Talbert d (Cem Albion IN) (chid E52) ?! 1963 reed Woman of Achievement Award from Sor- m3 Earl Smith Detroit MI res St Clair Shores MI optimist Club 1963 attended Detroit Teachers Col k OH U distinguished career in newspaper k PR E51 HARRY ZOLLINGER b 18 Jun 1907 d 1 May 1964 work (German Evangelical Lutheran Cem Detroit MI) m Gordon Falk Swarthout 1944 d Jensen Beach FL m Dorothea Schmidt of Grosse Pte Woods MI 15 Jun 1955 (Arlington Cem Wash DC) 1935

E42 RALPH CLEAR b Albion Noble Co IN 9 Feb 1908 d in E52 EDWARD TAL8ERT childhood (Cem Albion IN) m Jane Pentz

E43 CHARLES VAL CLEAR b Albion Noble Co IN 3 Nov E521 GARY TALBERT (twin) b Detroit 3 Mar 1949 1910 d 10 Oct 1967 listed 4th Ed World Biography Dir Am Art Museum Dir Art Lg of Wash 1933 Dir OR E522 BARRY TALBERT (twin) b Detroit 3 Mar 1949 Art Ctrs 1938 Dir Art Hack ley Schl Terrytown NY 1942 Dir Akron Art Inst after 1945 Who's Who in E6 GEORGIA MARIE CLEAR b Churubusco Whitley Co IN 3 Feb Art Who's Who in Midwest Who's Who in Ed k Mal­ 1889 d Wayne Co MI 8 Feb 1965 (Mount Olivet Cem De­ let's Index of Artists troit MI) m div no chldrn ml Frank Nipper 21 Apr 1910 d Detroit MI Apr 1936 (Forest Lawn Cem Detroit) (all chldrn) E44 JOHN WILLIAM CLEAR b Goshen IN 30 Oct 1913 BCS si2 Anthony Ternes Benj Franklin U Washington DC 1940. Fed Govt 1934-1962 retiring as Dir Emergency Planning, E61 MERVIN NIPPER b Ft Wayne IN 26 Feb 1911 res Gay- Off Sec Defense. Mgmt Consultant research firms lord MI incl Stanford Research Inst k Planning Research m Edith

160 E611 ROBERT NIPPER m Charles G Waldeck

E612 SUZAN NIPPER E721 DIAN WALDECK ml Gerald Frahm div (chid E7211) m2 George Radloff of St Clair Shores MI E62 WANDA NIPPER b Ft Wayne IN 4 Mar 1914 m Paul Roe Detroit MI E7211 SCOTT BRADLEY FRAHN b 4 Jun 1962 E621 BAR8ARA LUTZ NIPPER E7212 MICHELLE RADLOFF b 1 Jan 1964 E63 GENE ELLEN NIPPER b Ft Wayne IN 25 Feb 1917 m Henry Follmer Detroit MI E7213 TIMOTHY MICHAEL RADLOFF b 2 Mar 1965

E631 SANDRA JEAN FOLLMER b 17 Nov 1940 E7214 TERRY RICHARD RADLOFF b 3 Feb 1968 m ? Knoblauch E7215 CHARLES BRADLEY RADLOFF b 29 Sep 1969 E632 JUDITH ANN FOLLMER b 13 Apr 1942 m ? Cole E7216 CHRISTOPHER GEORGE RADLOFF b 16 May 1972 E633 SHARON MARY FOLLMER b 31 Jan i947 m ? Sutter E8 GEORGE HENRY CLEAR b Churubusco Whitley Co IN 2 Oct 1893 d 30 Jun 1969 (Evergreen Cem Detroit MI) E64 MARY ALICE NIPPER b Detroit MI 6 Jul 1921 d 7 m Helen Widmer Aug 1970 m Edward Rusch d (Cem Delaware OH) E81 DOROTHY MAY CLEAR b Garrett DeKaib Co IN 2 Feb 1915 E641 EDWARD J RUSCH m Ralph Look Detroit MI 18 Jan 1936

E642 LINDA RUSCH E811 RICHARD DENNIS LOOK b Detroit MI 22 May 1942 E643 PATRICIA RUSCH in Betty Lynn Renne Decatur IL 27 Jul 1946

E7 MARY OKLA CLEAR b Churubusco Whitley Co IN 22 Apr E8111 RICHARD LOOK b Ann Arbor MI 26 Nov 1967 1891 d Grosse Pte Woods MI 24 Apr 1973 (Roseland Pk d same day Cem Detroit MI) ml Irvin Durnett 31 Oct 1912 (both chldrn) E8112 ROHN RENE LOOK b Ann Arbor MI 10 Dec m2 Harmon Frees 1968

E71 JACK 5URNETT b Ft Wayne IN 13 Mar 1915 E8113 JON RICHARD LOOK b Tawas City MI 18 Jul ml Margaret 8erry (chldrn E711-E714) 1972 m2 Eleanor Matthews (chid E715) E812 GLORIA ANN LOOK b 23 Jun 1947 E711 JACK BURNETT ml Don Dixon 1964 (both chldrn) m2 James William Betts 31 Aug 1976 E712 SALLY BURNETT E8121 MARIE DIXON b 18 Jul 1965 E713 NANCY BURNETT E8122 JEFF DIXON b Pontiac MI 12 Oct 1967 E714 RICHARD BURNETT E82 JAMES ALFRED CLEAR b 1 Dec 1916 d 24 Oct 1917 (i Detroit MI) E715 PAMELA BURNETT b Detroit MI res Rosevilie MI m Dominic Monastiere Detroit E83 ROBERT WIDMER CLEAR b 21 Aug 1920 d 13 Dec 1975 m Patricia Fairfield E7151 8RADLEY MONASTIERE (A) E831 R06ERT MICHAEL CLEAR b 16 Sep 19_ E72 THAIS BURNETT b Detroit MI d 15 Sep 1965 (White Chapel Cem Troy MI) E832 RANDY LEE CLEAR b 30 Sep 1948 161 m Pat Paluszek Detroit MI 13 Jan i960 n William M DeVoe b 28 Sep 1896 d 2 Sep 1971 (White Chapel Cem Troy MI) E8321 JEFFREY ALLAN CLEAR b Detroit MI 27 Nov 1968 Eal RUTH A DeVOE b Detroit MI 4 Jul 1922 engr degree U of MN BS OH State U Retired from teaching math ES33 RICKEY SCOTT CLEAR b 12 Sep 1952 at Grosse Pte South HS Detroit MI m Sherry ? Walled Lake MI 13 Dec 1974 m Donald W Bentzen 25 Jun 1949 b Neenah WI 1 Jun 1921 6S U of Wl engr for Grow Group E834 ROBERT MICHAEL CLEAR b 16 Sep 1945 m Linda Diann Sutterfield 24 Dec 1965 Eall BECKY JO BENTZEN b Detroit MI 5 Oct 1951 res Bloomfield Hills MI E8341 MARK ANDREW CLEAR b Pontiac MI 10 Sep 1969 Eal2 WILLIAM F BENTZEN b 8 Sep 1954 Northern MI U E8342 MELISSA ANN CLEAR' b Pontiac MI 7 Jul 1971 Eb EDWARD DENZEL CLEAR b Avilla Noble Co IN 15 Jun 1899 d Grosse Pte Woods MI 2 Oct 1956 (Albion IN Cem) E84 JOYCE ELAINE CLEAR b Detroit MI 4 Feb 1927 m Irene Helzer m George Gosney 17 Jul 1947 Ebl TAYLDR JESSE CLEAR b Denver CO 19 Oct 1937 BBA E841 GREGORY GLENN GOSNEY b 16 Aug 1948 Tulane U 1965 grad study LSU k Harvard completed m Wendy Lee Reimer 1 Apr 1966 1972 Foreign Svc Brazil 1970-74 career counselor k exam officer for Foreign Svc Officer candi­ E8411 TODD SCOTT GOSNEY b 8 Jan 1967 dates 1975-77 Labor Attache Tunisia 1979 Human Rights Officer Middle East Currently (1983) Re­ E8412 LEAH MICHELLE GOSNEY b 13 Nov 1972 gional Ad visor for Dept of Labor for North Af­ rica, the Middle East k South Asia speaks Arabic E842 SUZAN JILL GOSNEY Portuguese k French author several publications 1978-81 listed in Dept of State Biographic Re­ m Gary L Ream 2 Jun 1973 gister 30 Jun 1973 m Dorothy Rossignol E3421 DANIEL GLENN REAM b 8 Jun 1975 Ebll TAYLOR JESSE CLEAR II b Oct 1964 E8422 RENEE LYNN REAM b 26 Apr 1977 Ebi2 REBECCA CLEAR b Mar 1972 E843 CINDY JO GOSNEY m Michael Ernest Stapula 26 Mar 1976 Ec RAY MYERS CLEAR b Avilla Noble Co IN 18 Jul 1901 d E8431 DAVID JOSEPH STAPULA Detroit MI 7 Jun 1943 (White Chapel Cem Troy MI) m Norma Wert 19 Jun 1926 Mrs Clear res Howell MI E85 RICHARD GLENN CLEAR b Detroit MI 15 Jun 1921 res Union Lake MI Eel DEE CEDELIA CLEAR b Detroit MI 4 Dec 1924 ml Dorothy Barnes div (chid E851) m Thomas E Patterson of Detroit MI 11 Sep 1954 m2 Sally Smith Ecil RONALD WILLIAM PATTERSON b Leominster MA 2 E851 JEFF CLEAR (A) Feb 1958

E9 OSCAR FRANK CLEAR b Churubusco Whitley Co IN 16 Sep Ecl2 RAY NORMAN PATTERSON b Howell MI 5 Feb 1895 d 9 Apr 1896 (Cem Avilla IN) 1963

EO B CLEAR (twin) b Avilla Noble Co IN 17 Mar 1897 d 20 Ec2 CALVE ROBERTA CLEAR b Detroit MI 11 Feb 1927 Har 1897 m Rodney Libby Detroit MI 31 Aug 1945

Ea RUAH BEATRICE CLEAR (twin) b Avilla Noble Co IN 17 Ec21 DANA RAY LIBBY b Brighton MI 10 Aug 1947 Mar 1897 d Grosse Pte Woods MI 22 May 1979 (White si Rosa Trevino Pontiac MI 22 Dec 1966 Chapel Cem Troy MI!

162 Ec211 DEREK LIBBY b Pontiac MI 24 Jul 1968

Ec212 DARYL LIBBY b Howell MI 8 Jun 1969

Ec22 HERMAN LIBBY (A) b 26 Jun 1953 m Karen McCallum Detroit MI 25 May 1974

Ec221 KRISTEN CALVE LIBBY b Detroit 30 Jul 1975

Ec222 MICHAEL LIBBY b 1 Aug 1976

Ed ROBERT CARVER CLEAR b Albion Noble Co IN 15 Feb 1904 d Grosse Pte Woods MI 19 Feb 1957 (Albion IN Cem) no issue m Caroline Spurlock Denver CO

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PART FIVE

HITHER AND YON 23

CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF M32374 CHRISTIAN HOOVER MYERS

(Seventh and Eighth Generations)

M32374-J John Delno Myers b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 3 Jan 1857 d Powell, WY 28 Feb 1920 m Effie Wheeler in Persia, Harrison Co IA 28 Apr 1887 d Monroe, IA 3 Nov 1892 both i Monroe, IA.

Jl Gertrude Edith Myers Keables b 1 Mar 1888 d Visalia, CA 20 Oct 1966 m Robert Johnson Thew.

J2 Vera Elizabeth Myers Braden b 10 Mar 1890 d Hastings,NB 11 Mar 1980 m Rev Leslie Franklin Sweetland 2 June 1913.

M32374-L Lester Lee Myers b 16 Dec 1858 Green Twp Wayne Co OH d Powell, WY 12 May 1947 m Elizabeth Snavely Orrville, OH b 1 May 1859 d Pleasantville, IA 5 Feb 1906.

LI Elsie May Myers b Pleasantville, IA 7 May 1888 d Los Angeles, CA 26 Nov 1933 m Roy Strunk.

L2 Ray G. Myers b Knoxville, Marion Co IA 11 Sep 1890 d Cody, WY 13 Jan 1977 m (1) Nydja Armagost d Lacella, IA 23 Sep 1915 (first two children) m(2) Ruth Hazen.

L3 Albert J. "Bert" Myers (twin) b Pleasantville, IA 28 Apr 1892 d Tacoma, WA 21 May 1985 m Martha Ellen Dagley 7 Mar 1932 b Petrolia, TX 18 May 1909 d auto accident Lubbock, TX July 1944.

L4 Bertha Myers (twin) b Pleasantville, IA 28 Apr 1892 res nursing home Tacoma, WA m Edward Hurd d 21 Oct 1970 no issue.

L5 Anna L Myers b Pleasantville, IA 18 Nov 1894 res rest home San Gabriel, CA m Oscar Kemock Butte MT 28 Nov 1917 b 14 Feb 1887 d Los Angeles, CA 3 Sep 1950 no issue.

L6 Alta Helen Myers b Pleasantville, IA 30 Sep 1897 d Littleton, CO 1 Oct 1984 m Edgar Austin Swallow d Powell, WY Apr 1948.

L7 Edna Pearl Myers b Pleasantville, IA 14 Sep 1899 d Powell, WY 29 Mar 1913.

L8 Jessie Vera Myers b Pleasantville, IA 6 Oct 1901 res Buffalo, WY m Harry Hubbard b Pierre, SD 22 Aug 1899 d Buffalo, WY 11 Apr 1986.

166 M32374-W William Scott Myers b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 27 Dec 1960 d Dallas, TX 14 Sep 1934 i Forest Park Lawndale Cem Houston, TX m (1) 13 Jan 1886 Eldora E Spalti (child 1) b Pleasantville, IA 22 Apr 1866 d 5 Feb 1916 i Crown Hill Cem Pleasantville, IA m (20 Helen Cullie Scott (children 2-5) Los Angeles, CA 3 Oct 1917 b Vevay, IN 27 Jan 1888 d Houston, TX 1 Feb 1973 i Forest Park Lawndale Cem.

Wl Jay Spalti Myers b Pleasantville, IA 7 Nov 1887 d Denver, CO 29 Aug 1915 i Crown Hill Cem Pleasantville, IA.

W2 Dorothy Scott Myers b Houston, TX 17 Oct 1918 res Houston, TX m (1) 17 June 1944 Meridian, MS Robert Allen Knowlton (all children) b Grand Rapids, MI 9 June 1914 d Houston, TX 22 Mar 19 69 i Forest Park Westheimer Houston, TX m (2) 1974 Lloyd Acker Adams 1917-1981 div 1976.

W3 Ruth Scott Myers b Houston, TX 29 Jan 1920 d 13 Oct 1983 Houston, TX i Forest Park Lawndale Cem.

W4 Jay Scott Myers b Houston, TX 22 Mar 1921 m San Francisco, CA Mildred Luclle White b Carrizo Springs, TX 8 June 1919.

W5 William Scott Myers Jr. b Houston, TX 6 Apr 1928 m Van Buren, Ark 7 Sep 1948 Virginia Green b West Plains, MO 3 Oct 1930.

M32374- Infant Son b 17 Aug 1862

M32374-LG Lawrence Grant Myers b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 14 Nov 1863 d Portland, OR 15 Dec 1936 m Pleasantville, IA 9 Oct 1892 Minnie May Spalti b 18 Dec 1874 Pleasantville, IA d Portland, OR 8 Sep 1943 i Columbia Cem.

LG1 Infant b Pleasantville, IA 8 July 1893

LG2 Edith Flo Myers b Pleasantville, IA 26 Dec 1894 d Jan 1895

LG3 Bessie Elizabeth Myers b Pleasantville, IA 17 Jan 1897 res Billings, MT m H Reed Harrell d 27 May 1947 i Park Hill Cem Vancouver, WA.

LG4 George Avery Myers b Pleasantville, IA 2 Jan 1899 d 31 Jan 1958 i Riverview Abbey Portland, OR no issue.

LG5 Dessie Arva Myers b Kalispell, Flathead Co MT 3 July 1901 d 8 Aug 1968 m Michael "Misha" Kretenko d 15 July 1954 i East Lawn Memorial Park Sacramento, CA no issue.

LG6 William Spalti Myers b Eureka, MT 25 Sep 1904 d 22 Jul 1953 i Riverview Abbey Portland, OR no issue.

167 LG7 Alice Eddith Myers b Clackamas, OR 27 Feb 1908 m (1) John Hauke (both children) d 1941 m (2) Joseph Westhusin 20 Feb 1958 b 21 Feb 1915 res Portland, OR.

LG8 Helen May Myers b Clackamas, OR 20 May 1915 d 19 Feb 1961 i Riverview Mausoleum Portland, OR.

M32374-A Alice Melissa Myers b Green Twp. Wayne Co. OH 12 Feb 1866 d Portland, OR 1950 m 9 Apr 1896 Henry Wolf both i Lone Fir Cem no issue.

M32374-C Charles Levi Myers b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 17 Jan 1868 d Seaside, OR 1941 m Cora ? . no issue.

M32374-H Harvey Winkler Myers b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 26 Jan 1870 d 1 Dec 1940 i Powell, WY m Bessie Turnbull 14 Jan 1897 Pleasantville,IA div.

Hi Amandas (Mandas) Winkler Myers b 1 Aug 1901 Auckland, New Zealand d 27 July 1982 Cleveland, OH cremation Evergreen Cem Seattle, WA no issue.

M32374-N Norman Wesley Myers b Green Twp Wayne Co OH 15 Apr 1872 d 13 May 1945 Houston, TX m Holliday, IL 29 Dec 1895 Myra Estella Backensto b Stonington, IL 8 May 1877 d 4 Oct 1969 Houston, TX both i Forest Park Lawndale Houston.

Nl Lawrence Backensto Myers b Stonington, IL 9 Oct 1898 d El Campo, TX 23 Sep 1949 i Oakville Cem Oakville, TX m 20 Feb 1926 Carra Louise "Nuggie" Wimmer res Houston, TX.

N2 Wesley Guy Myers b Beecher City, IL 15 Feb 1901 d Dickinson, TX 9 May 1953 i Forest Park Lawndale Houston m 15 Feb 1925 Kosse, Limestone Co TX Ella Lee Brooks res Dickinson, TX.

N3 Norma Ardath Myers b Cowden, IL 25 Jan 1905 m 1 Nov 1969 Charles Scott Standard d 12 July 1977 i Veterans Cem Houston, TX res Houston, TX no issue.

N4 William Taft Myers b Holliday, KS 28 Feb 1909 d Houston, TX 25 Nov 1959 i Haven of Memories Cem Van Zandt Co m Mable Maureen Gllley b Malone, Hill Co TX 22 Oct 1913 res Van, TX.

N5 Christian Morland Winkler Myers b Cometa, Dimmit Co TX 23 Dec 1911 m 26 July 1933 Great Falls, MT Doris Geraldine Smith b Green City, M0 21 Oct 1916 res Freer, TX.

N6 J Donald Myers b Cometa, Dimmit Co TX 9 Aug 1915 d Houston, TX 3 Apr 1978 i Forest Park East m 9 Nov 1935 Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX Evelyn Estes b Wills Point, Van Zandt Co 11 Aug 1918 res Houston, TX.

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Generation VII

M32374-J JOHN DELNO MYERS 1857-1920

Fig. 56. John Delno and Effie Wheeler Myers

Of John Delno Myers, oldest son of lived." John's entire life was one of Christian and Matilda Myers, his broth­ self-sacrifice on behalf of his loved er, William, wrote, "He lived a sad ones. and lonely life...I believe no more honest or good-intentioned man ever John was fifteen years old in 1872 169 when his mother died. His father Edith, was born. In 1889 John and his placed him out from home to work, giv­ family, along with his brother, Law­ ing his father his wages until he was rence, moved to Pleasantville, Iowa, 23 years of age, two years beyond the where John managed a large farm. His obligatory time. During part of that brothers Lester, Will and Harvey were period his father provided a home and also in and around Pleasantville at housekeeper for the younger children this time. Here, in March of the fol­ near Smithville so John could attend lowing year, Effie gave birth to their Smithville Academy. second daughter, Vera Elizabeth.

In 1880, John emigrated to West The following year, in 1891, John Liberty, Iowa, where his uncle, Dave purchased the city dray in Monroe, Io­ Naftzger, resided. John's younger wa, in hopes of improving the family brothers, Will and Lawrence, had pre­ finances. A year later he became bag­ viously begun their western migration gage master in Monroe for the Chicago, at West Liberty. There, for five Rock Island and Pacific Railway. But years, John worked on a farm, taking Effie's health declined, and in Novem­ care of shorthorn blooded cattle. ber, 1892, she died. John, heartbro­ ken, promised Effie on her deathbed In 1885, John and his younger that he would never marry again. Al­ brother, Lawrence, went to Lane Coun­ though he lived on for 28 years, he ty, Kansas, where land was available remained faithful to his vow. at low cost. Each entered a claim for 160 acres. They built sod houses and John knew only too well the disad­ cleared and planted the land. In Ap­ vantages faced by his sister and broth­ ril 1887 John returned to Iowa to mar­ ers in a motherless home. He wanted ry his sweetheart, Effie Wheeler, and much more than that for own two little take her home to Kansas. Kansas was girls. With great care he selected then In the midst of a severe drought. good, Christian homes for Gertrude and His crops failed, and his funds were Vera and allowed them to be adopted. exhausted. John abandoned his claim He remained in touch and devoted to in October, 1887 and took a job as them all his life, as they were to foreman on a ranch in Ness County, Kan­ him. sas, where their daughter, Gertrude

Fig. 57. "Just a Wyoming Holdup." Trick photo of himself by John D. Myers on post card mailed to daughters and other relatives. Note one is bearded, the other clean shaven. 170 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN DELNO MYERS 1857-1920

Jl 6ERTRUDE EDITH MYERS KEABLES b 1 Mar 1888 d Visalia CA 20 Oct 1966 Cremated Visalia CA Christian Sci m Robert Johnson Thew b MN 12 Jun 1885 d Bakersfield CA 18 Nov 1958 son Richard Henry k Katherme John- son Thew Cremated (Grandview Mem Pk 6akcrsfield CA; owner Valley Mfg Co mach

Jll VERA ELIZABETH THEW b Portland OR 8 Oct 1909 d Salinas CA 1978 Beautician lived many years in Alaska k Hawaii inci Pearl Harbor Day

J12 FRANCES MARIE THEW b 1910 d 1974 m Arthur Horsley

J121 ARTHUR ROBERT HORSLEY b 1934 m Nancy Asey

J1211 KENNETH ROBERT HORSLEY b 1956

J1212 LISA HORSLEY b 1962

J1213 JULIE HORSLEY b 1963

J122 NEIL UDELL HORSLEY b Klamath Fails OF: 1936 2 yrs US Marine Corps 6A Cal St Fresno electrical constr Protestant m Beverly Jean Moore b Upland CA 6 Sep 1937 MA Cal St Fresno speech therapist k special ed teacher Protestant

J1221 DONALD NEIL HORSLEY b 1958 branch mgr Ctrl Cal Electronics m Kelly Simmons nurses aide Donald k Kelly enjoy scuba diving

J1222 GREG STUART HORSLEY b i960 salesman Consol Elec Distr likes hunting k fish­ ing m kimberly Coventry

J12221 MATTHEW HORSLEY b 1982

J1223 STEVEN JOHN HORSLEY b 1962 senior Cal St Fresno Ind Technology Fig. 58. Gertrude Edith Myers Keables.

J123 DAVID RODNEY HORSLEY b 1943 m Karen Goldman

J1231 BRIAN ARTHUR1 HORSLEY b 1966

171 Fig. 59. Robert Henry Thew Family: Above I to r, Lavonne, Bob Jr., Karen, Bob, Sr. Below, Glenna Marie, Margaret, Steven.

J13 ROBERT HENRY THEW b Montague PA 1912 d Visalia J14 JOHN CHARLES THEW b 1915 d 1968 CA 4 Oct 1983 amateur landscape photographer m Elsie Hallert Christian Sci HI Margaret LaVonne Dyer Oakland CA 1 Feb 1935 b J141 SUSAN JUNE THEW b 1942 5 Aug 1915 Fullerton CA dau Paul Searles k ml Howard Padgett (chid J14H) Edna Mae Thomas Dyer m2 Gordon Dunn (chldrn J1412-3)

J131 EDNA LAVONNE THEW b Oakland CA 17 Jun 1938 J1411 JON PADGETT DUNN b 1959 bus col emp FHA 25 yrs traveler US k Cana­ ill Susan da J14111 BRIAN DUNN b 1980 (twin) J132 ROBERT HENRY THEW JR b Oakland CA 23 Feb 1948 career USAF srvd in Thailand k Ger J14H2 BYRON DUNN b 1980 (twin) ski diving instr Christian Sci m Karen Crissey J1412 SEAN DUNN b 1970

J1321 GLENNA MARIE THEW b PAFB Portsmouth J1413 CHRISTY DUNN b 1972 NH 9 May 1978 J142 CHARLES RICHARD THEW b 1945 J1322 STEVEN ALLEN THEW b LAF8 Glendale m Elaine AZ 14 Jan 1981

172 J2 VERA ELIZABETH MYERS BRADEN b Pleasantville IA 10 Mar 1890 d Hastings NE 11 Mar 1980 (Parkview Cem Hastings NE) BA Bellevue Col NE author children's books Pres­ byterian n Rev Leslie Franklin Sweetland 2 Jun 1913 b Loup City NE 14 Aug 1888 d Hastings NE 24 Feb 1982 (Parkview Cera Hastings NE) BA Bellevue Col NE 6D McComick Seminary Omaha NE DD Hastings Col Hast­ ings NE Presbyterian Minister Pastorates: Rigby ID Lexington NE Sheridan WY Grand Island NE Assoc Pas­ tor Wichita KS Exec Secy Synod of KS Minister Visi­ tation Hastings NE Asst Secy New Life Movement Chi­ cago IL hobbies garden golf mountain fishing son Stephen N k Lucinda Florida Goodwin Sweetland

J21 LUCILE ELIZA6ETH SWEETLAND b Omaha NE 1 Apr 1914 BA Col of Emporia KS MA McCormick Seninary Chicago nomemaker hobbies golf opera PEO Presby­ terian ml James White Hutchison (all chldrn) Grand Is­ land NE 21 Oct 1939 b Wakeeney KS 15 Dec 1915 d Hays KS 1 May 1975 (cem Wakeeney KS) BA Col Fig. 60. The Rev. Leslie and Vera Braden of Emporia 1937 insurance Presbyterian son Sweetland. Curtis McKee k Celia Irene White Hutchison m2 Roland Morland Beetham Fanwood NJ 8 Apr 1978 b Jersey City NJ 31 Dec 1918 Rutgers U Fan- wood Council k Mayor 1962-1972 Captain 102nd Cav WWII wounded France Aug 1944 Silver Star Purple Heart warehousing k trucking retired 1983 hobbies flying horseback riding golf travel Presbyterian son Roland M k Dessie Crocheron 6eetham

J2H CURTIS G1LM0R HUTCHISON b Grand Island NE 19 May 1946 BA Hastings Col insurance tenor The Classic Collection inti 1st place winners 1982 barbershop competion m Cynthia S Urbauer b Hastings NE 9 Feb 1949 dau Lee k Mae Walker Urbauer

J2111 6RADLEY CURTIS HUTCHISON b Hastings NE 5 Jul 1974

J2112 STEPHANIE GRACE HUTCHISON b Aurora CO 20 Nov 1977

J2113 ANDREW JAMES HUTCHISON b Denver CO 22 Aug 1980 Fig. 61. Lucile Sweetland Beetham and sons Curtis (I) and Craig (r) Hutchison. J212 CRAIG WHITE HUTCHISON b Summit NJ 30 Nov 1950 BA Susquehanna U Sehngsgrove PA re­ gistered investment advisor

173 J22 STEPHEN MYERS SWEETLAND b Rigby ID 6 Jan 1916 d St Paul MN 7 May 1958 n Estelle Reichow 28 Dec 1940 b St Paul MN 12 Nov 1917 dtr Fredrick k Lauretta Reichow

J221 STEVEN LESLIE SWEETLAND b ST PAUL MN 17 Dec 1942 m Carol Anker St Paul MN 19 Dec 1964

J2211 STEPHEN LESLIE SWEETLAND JR b St Paul MN 17 Mar 1968

J2212 SCOTT ALLYN SWEETLAND b St Paul MN 17 Dec 1970

J222 LYNN ESTELLE SWEETLAND b Grand Island NE 11 Apr 1944 emp VA Data Processing, art. music, reading m Loughrey div

J223 GALE HOLLY SWEETLAND b St Paul MN 18 Dec 1950 m Sidney McWilIiams Sydney Aus 7 Nov 1977

J224 HEATHER LEIGH SWEETLAND b St Paul MN 11 Fig. 62. Lynn Loughrey. Oct 1952 BST Mankato State U 1974 JD William Mitchell Col of Law 1982 attorney Enjoys backpacking cr country skiing ice skating cycling reading rugmaking m Steven Coz 14 Apr 1984 b St Paul MN 13 Jul 1951 son Frank k Julia Coz

174 25

Generation VII

M32374-L LESTER LEE MYERS 1858-1947

Lester Lee, second son of Christian Elizabeth Snavely Myers died in and Matilda Myers, remained in Wayne Pleasantville in 1906 at the age of County, Ohio, working as a farm hand forty-six, leaving Lester with eight until he was twenty-three years old children between the ages of five and and all of his family except Harvey, eighteen. including his father, had moved to the west. Through the years, Iowa land had increased in value, making it impos­ In 1886, Lester married Elizabeth sible for Lester, with his large fam­ Snavely, daughter of a prominent farm­ ily, to own his own farm. In 1908, he er and horse dealer who owned a large, purchased 80 acres of land in the Sho­ beautiful brick home in Orrville. Eliz­ shone irrigation project in Powell, in abeth's mother was a Hershey. Both the the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming, newly Snaveley (formerly Schnabele) and Her­ opened for sale by the government. He shey families were of Swiss Mennonite disposed of his personal property at descent. Lester was the only son of public sale, loaded the farm equipment Christian Myers to marry a local girl. and mules on the train, and the entire family moved with him to homestead in He and his bride soon migrated by Wyoming. train to Pleasantville, Iowa, accompa­ nied by her uncle, Sam Snavely. Les­ Lester's brothers John and Harvey ter purchased the town dray and opera­ joined him the following year, each ted it for several years before sell­ buying 40 acres. In 1919 Norman, the ing it to move to a leased farm. Ex­ youngest brother, moved to Powell and cept for this brief interval at haul­ leased land from Lester. Since Les­ ing, Lester remained a farmer through­ ter's children were by then out of the out his life. He and Elizabeth were nest, away at school or married, Les­ the parents of eight healthy, beauti­ ter built a small house for himself ful children, two sons and six daugh­ and gave Norman and Myra the big house ters, including one set of twins. One for their large family. Sam Snavely, daughter, Edna, died at age fourteen. Elizabeth's brother, also lived in Pow­ Another, Elsie, died at the age of ell. forty-five. All of the others lived past the age of eighty-five. Bertha, Lester died in 1947, the last sur­ Anna and Jessie Vera are still going viving brother. His sister, Alice, was strong in their eighties and nineties still living in Portland, Oregon. A in 1987, surpassing their father, who Methodist, Lester was given a Masonic lived to be eighty-eight. burial. At the time of his death his son, Ray, and his daughter, Alta Helen

175 Swallow, resided in Powell with their Lancaster Co PA. One of his descend­ families. His son, Albert, had re­ ants founded Hershey Chocolate Co. turned to Powell from Texas to help his father on the farm. Jessie Vera 5. The Rev. Andrew Hirshey b Appen- Hubbard lived in Buffalo, Wyoming. An­ zell, Switzerland 1702 d Hempfield na Kemock lived in Los Angeles, as did Twp. Lancaster Co PA 1792 m Mary Elsie's daughter, Bertina. Bertha Hurd Sennabley. lived in Yakima, Washington. 6. Jacob Hershey (deacon) b Hempfield Lester was highly regarded as a Twp. Lancaster Co PA 1742 d 11 Apr good neighbor and conscientious citi­ 1825 m Anna Newcomer b 25 Jul 1752 d 8 zen, one of the earliest pioneers of Jan 1832. the Big Horn Basin. 7. John Hershey b 21 May 1772 d 23 The Snavely Descent Nov 1850 m Anna Horst b 3 Oct 1778 d From Hershey Family History 23 Nov 1850 (See Horst Descent). and Typescript by Daisy May Snavely 8. Magdalena Hershey b 5 Aug 1804 d 1. The Rev. John Shnavely b 1 Jan 14 July 1857 m Joseph Shnavely (See 1763 Schaefferstown, PA., d Lebanon Co Snavely Descent) PA. 11 Oct 1842. His father may have been John Shnavely who owned 200 acres The Horst Descent near Schaefferstown on 11 Mar 1753. From The Wenger Book The Rev. Shnavely m Elizabeth Long, b 17 Oct 1763 d Lebanon Co 14 Jun 1841 1. and Barbara Horst (Horsch) dau Christian Long and Esther Neff. b 1681 d after 1771. Immigrated from (Snavely: 5) Switzerland with husband and three children. Husband died en route. 2. Joseph Shnavely b Lebanon Co PA 3 Arrived Philadelphia 11 Sep 1731 ship Feb 1801 m Magdalena Hershey (see Her­ Britannia settled Lebanon Co PA. shey Descent) . 2. Joseph Horst 1723-1804 m Mary 3. Joseph Shnavely b 24 Jul 1830 d 2 Groff dau Samuel and Christina Groff. Mar 19 07 m Sarah Martin b 30 Apr 1838 d 3 Jul 1874. 3. John Horst 1750-1813 m Ann Strick- ler 1755-1832 dau Henry Strickler 4. Elizabeth Snavely b Orrville, OH 1 May 1859 d Pleasantville, IA 5 Feb 4. Anna Horst b 3 Oct 1778 d 28 Aug 1906 m Lester Lee Myers 5 Feb 1886. 1861 m John Hershey (See Hershey De­ scent) . The Hershey Descent From Hershey Family History Works Cited

1. Jacob "Jog" Hersche b Appenzell, Switzerland, ca 1535. Hershey, Henry. Hershey Family History Scottdale: 2. Conrad Hersche m Grethe Lamere Mennonite Publishing House, 1929. Appenzell, Switzerland, 1621. Snavely, Daisy Mae. Family History of Joseph, Samuel, Jacob and Amos Snavely Late of Wayne 3. Franziest Hersche m Appenzell 1662 County, Ohio. Cleveland Heights: Typescript, Engel Darig. 22 pp., 1966. Wenger, Samuel S., Ed. The Wenger Book: A Founda­ 4. Andrew (or Hans) Hersche m Anna tion Book of American Wengers. Lancaster: Penn- Geunder Appenzell, Switzerland 1696 d sylvania German Heritage History Inc., 1978. 176 Fig. 63. Lester and Elizabeth Myers.

Fig. 64. Residence of Joseph and Sarah Snavely, Orrville, OH.

Fig. 65. Five of the eight children of Lester and Elizabeth Myers: (rear) Alta, Ray, Anna, Elsie, (front) twins Albert and Bertha. 177 DESCENDANTS OF LESTER LEE MYERS 1858-1947

Li ELSIE MAY MYERS b Pleasantville IA 7 May 1888 d L2111 DAWN ELAINE MUNOZ b Los Angeles CA 4 Los Angeles CA 26 Nov 1933 (Rosedale Cem) Mar 1956 BA emp oil co Long Beach CA m Roy Strunk Protestant

Lll BESSIE BERTINA MYERS b Powell WY 21 May 1911 L2112 DIANN CAROL MUNOZ b Los Angeles CA 5 sales clerk homemaker Jan 1958 BS Loma Linda U occupational m Earl Roderick Guyer Los Angeles CA 21 May 1932 therapist enjoys cooking sewing travel b Jonesboro AR 26 Jun 1903 d San Gabriel CA i2 Protestant Oct 1983 (Rose Hills Mem Pk Whittier CA) IB Edward Ardessi at Santa Anita Church butcher Fellowship Lodge #290 F&AM son John Arcadia CA 27 Apr 1985 Lewis k Laura Bell Falk Guyer L2113 DOUGLAS PAUL MUNOZ b Pasadena CA 20 Aug LIU WAYNE LE GUYER b Los Angeles CA 25 Sep 196i) col student enjoys mountain climb­ 1934 3 yrs US Navy metalsmith enjoys fish­ ing back packing cr country skiing Pro­ ing k bowling Protestant testant m Jo Ann Distarce b Los Angeles CA 29 Sep 1934 dau Tony Distarce div L212 LUELLA RAE LARMER b Powell WY 27 Dec 1935 gr high schl homemaker enjoys collecting Lilll MONA LEE GUYER b Los Angeles CA 29 Oct sewing private flying Latter Day Saints 1953 honors high schl grad schl bd secy At Kennard Durfee Wilcock b Cowley WY 22 The Dalles OR enjoys bowling boating Feb 1934 son Thara k Ethel Durfee Wil­ water skiing Catholic cock

Lll12 ROBERT WAYNE GUYER b Los Angeles CA 3 L2121 LINDA SUE WILCOCK b Cody WY 27 Mar 1955 Jul 1955 bldg trades Milwaukie OR en­ gr high schl homemaker enjoys ceram­ joys fishing hunting water skiing Cath­ ics crewel work Latter Day Saints olic m Kenneth Barney 5 Sep 1975 b Safford AZ 17 Sep 1949 son Orris k Florence L2 RAY G MYERS b Knoxville Marion County IA ii Sep 1890 Williams Barney d Cody WY 13 Jan 1977 (Crown Hill Cem Powell WY) truck driver Powell WY L212H CANDACE LOUISE BARNEY b Cody WY 17 ml Nydia Armagost (chldrn L21 k L22) 21 Jan 1912 b Jun 1976 Butler County NE 15 Jul 1893 d Lacelle IA 23 Sep 1915 (Maple Hill Cem Osceola IA) dau Alfred Arm­ L21212 JUSTIN RAY BARNEY b Cody WY 6 Jun strong k Sophronia Ann Vawter Armagost 1978 m2 Ruth Hazen (chldrn L23-L27) L21213 HEATHER MICHELE BARNEY b Mesa AZ 5 L21 NYNA ANN MYERS b Springdale AR 11 Sep 1912 home- Mar 1982 maker enjoys outdoor activities and travel Meth­ odist L21214 CRYSTAL NICOLE BARNEY b 27 Dec 1983 m Sidney Larmer Powell WY 4 Apr 32 b Margo IA 6 Feb 1906 d 13 Feb 1986 Sid was a 40-yr member L2122 KENNARD SIDNEY WILCOCK b Powell WY 1 of United Brotherhood of Carpenters k Joiners Aug 1956 gr high schl supt Price Water of America, Local 1281 of Anchorage AK. He Ut enjoys reading camping hiking gar­ worked in AK k the Aleutian Is., driving the dening Latter Day Saints Alcan Hwy twice a year for 15 yrs until his m LaFawn Smith St Johns AZ 17 Dec 1953 retirement in 1975. Son James W k Nellie Dor- dau Theodore k Inez Mackay Smith man Larmer L21221 JASON KENNARD WILCOCK b Lakeside AZ L211 NELLIE ELLEN LARMER b Powell WY 19 Sep 9 Sep 1979 1933 BA paralegal enjoys sewing piano travel Protestant L21222 JOSEPH SMITH WILCOCK b Price UT 14 m Andrew Munoz Phoenix AZ 26 Apr 1954 b Jan 1981 Platteviile CO 31 Jan 1933 son Joseph k Jenny Martinez Munoz 178 L21223 JESSE WILLIAM WILCOCK b Price UT 16 L2413 HEIDI JEAN CASEY b Portland OR 13 Apr Sep 1982 1976

L21224 JEREN WILCOCK: b Price UT 26 Oct 1983 L242 EUGENE RAY HOFFMAN b Roundup MT 28 Apr d 21 Feb 1984 sudden infant death 1950 meat cutter syndrome (Pine Dale AZ Cem) m Yvonne Walker b CO 12 Nov 1956 div

L21225 JACOB THEODORA WILCOCK b Price UT 1 L2421 KEVIN EUGENE HOFFMAN b Powell WY 4 Jul Apr 1985 1975

L2123 SHERRI LOU WILCOCK b Mesa AZ 3 Sep 1962 L243 LILA BERTINA HOFFMAN gr high schl homemaker enjoys fishing m Paul Bailey Latter Day Saints fli Stanley Joseph Finch Eager AZ 7 Feb L244 HAROLD HENRY LOYD HOFFMAN b Red Lodge MT 1981 b Mesa AZ 6 May 1959 son Stanley 10 Jan 1953 mgr k Josephine Hunt Finch m Valeria A Hunley Anchorage AK 18 Feb 1977 b San Bernardino CA 1956 dau L21231 MELISA BROOKS FINCH b Springerville Charles L IV k Donna A Hunley AZ 22 Sep 1981 L2441 ELISSA ANN HOFFMAN b Anchorage AK 24 L21232 JOSEPH CLINT FINCH b Springerville Sep 1977 AZ 17 Mar 1983 L2442 CHRISTOPHER BRADLEY HOFFMAN b Anchorage L21233 CHRISSY NICOLE FINCH b Springerville AK 13 Nov 1981 AZ 5 Sep 1986

L2124 ELAINE LAMAR WILCOCK b Mesa AZ 17 Sep 1968

L22 ROY MYERS b New Bloomfield MO 22 Dec 19i3 d Auto Accident Cody WY 19 Mar 1950 (Maple Hill Cem Os­ ceola IA) Volunteered US Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor, was in every sea battle in So Pa­ cific during WW II. Was on small destroyer, USS Laffee, that went down giving a Japanese battle­ ship all she had in a violent battle in Solomon Islands. Roy and a few other survivors spent 12 hours floating in the ocean before being picked up. He was injured in that battle. He came home as a Chief Petty Officer with the Purple Heart and other medals. Heavy equip opr. Meth­ odist

L23 RALPH RAY MYERS (infant) Powell WY 1928

L24 RAMONA FAY MYERS b Powell WY 1929 m Harold Abner Hoffman

L241 SONIA RUTH MYERS b 1948 m James Casey div Sonia kept Myers name

L2411 TONYA MARIE MYERS b Billings MT 15 May 1970

L2412 AMANDA FAY MYERS b Columbus MT 4 Aug Fig^ 66< Family of Harold Hoffman, (clockwise) 1972 Harold, Elissa, Christopher, Valeria.

179 L245 ROYCE GLEN HOFFMAN m Luella

L2451 RYAN GLEN HOFFMAN b Nov 1984

L246 STEVEN LEON HOFFMAN b Billings MT 19 Jun 1956 meat cutter Born-again Christian m Loraine Powers Joliet MT 22 Oct 1976 b Columbus MT 19 Aug 1959 dau Bernard Charles k Ethel Evangeline Foust Powers

L2461 GARRETT BRANDON HOFFMAN b Billings MT 1977

L2462 ALISON MCKENZIE HOFFMAN b Columbus MT 1979

L247 MARCEY ROWENA HOFFMAN b 1957 d in infancy at 19 days of age Fig. 67. Loyd and Jeanine Myers with children Bob, Brenda, Kenny, Jeanette and Renee. L25 LOYD LEROY MYERS b Powell WY 3 Feb i931 4 yrs US Air Force, 3 in Japan. Has worked as roughneck k tool pusher in MT WY ND, then in 1975 with fa­ mily 2 yrs in Managua where he worked in geo- thermal energy for Nicaraguan govt. Since 1977 L254 JEANETTE MYERS b Powell WY 6 Apr 1963 won has worked in US, Bahrain k Australia. He is a honors in basketball k track in Nicaragua very guiet, honest, hardworking man who enjoys grad Spl Ed Eastern MT Col 1987 athletic keeping his yard and home in good repair and scholarship captain volleyball team which being with his grandchildren. Latter Day Saints placed 6th nationals Baltimore MD 1983 m Jeanine Averett in Lovell WY 3 Jun 1954 b Latter Day Saints Lovell WY 23 Oct 1935 dau Lomand Lamar Averett b Lovell WY 10 Oct 1916 k Zelpha Asay Averett L255 RENEE MYERS b Powell WY 3 Dec 1965 home- b Lovell WY 1 Dec 1917 m 13 Nov 1934 maker enjoyed travel spoke fluent Spanish in Nicaragua Panama Costa Rica Guatamala k L251 ROBERT LOYD MYERS b Powell WY 25 May 1956 Mexico grad Universal Col of Cosmetology Bach Engr 1979 U WY Sr Engr AMOCO Intl in i987 has doll collection Latter Day Saints Colombia Scotland Nicaragua k Netherlands. m Daniel Dean Dillon Powell WY 10 Jun 1982 Latter Day Saints b Powell WY 4 Oct i960 son Lester k The­ resa Mascura Dillon L252 BRENDA ELAINE MYERS b Baker MT iti Jul 1959 BS Eleni Ed BYU Latter Day Saints L2551 TONYA NICHOLE DILLON b Powell WY 24 Sep m Murray Mock Idaho Falls ID 16 Dec 1978 1982 b Savannah GA 25 Nov 1958 Latter Day Saints son Lyn Rogers k Eileen Cleland L26 GLEN 6 MYERS b Powell WY 25 Jan 1933 heavy equip Mock opr traveled to Japan St Korea enjoys hunting fishing gun collecting football. Had an adopted L2521 ERIN LYN MOCK b Provo UT 20 Oct 1980 son, Tyle, in addition to the children below m Edna Sell Reno NV 4 Mar 1960 b Cody WY il Jun L2522 ASHLEY DAWN MOCK b Oklahoma City OK 26 1938 dau Leonard P k Osie L Avery Sell Oct 1982 L261 SANDI MARIE MYERS b Cody WY 1961 he vale­ L2523 CASEY LAMAR MOCK b 6 Feb 1985 dictorian Soc of Distinguished Am HS Stu­ dents 1980 Paul Stock Scholarship Award L253 KENNETH RAY MYERS b Powell WY 11 Oct 1961 with NW Com Col Singers to Philippines k honors student grad mech engr BYU 1987 Phi China 1983 member Governors Youth Council Theta Kappa enjoys Spanish k chess 1984 1979 Who's Who Among Am HS Students 1978- Mission Mex City North Latter Day Saints 79 senior NWCC MD Bryman Med Schl Aug 1984 Latter Day Saints 180 L262 SHARON KAY MYERS b Redding CA 1962 of Meeteetse WY was killed on Thanksgiving Day, 27 Nov 1986, in a one-vehicle acci­ dent near Ten Sleep WY when driver missed a curve and hit a concrete culvert. Felony charges were filed against the driver, who received minor injuries. Miss Myers, age 24, an education major at U Wyoming, was student teaching at Worland. She was a member of the Newman Catholic Center and "little sister" of Farmhouse Fraternity. Services were at LDS church i Meeteetse Cem

L263 STACY DAWN MYERS b Cody WY 1967 4 yrs HS honor student k cheerleader Fig. 68. Twins "Bert" and Bertha on their L27 BETTY BERTINA MYERS b Powell WY 15 Aug 1934 PBX ninetieth birthday, 1982. opr Tahlequah OK enjoys grandchildren k annual trip back to WY. Methodist m Robert Lee Workman Jr Billings MT 19 Jan 1953 L3 ALBERT J "BERT" MYERS (twin) b Pleasantville IA 28 b Stillwell OK 13 Aug 1931 son Robert Lee Sr k Apr 1892 d Tacoma WA 21 May 1985 i Tacoma WA. WWI Nannie E Collins Workman div veteran US Army. Went to Texas with his cousin, Law­ rence Myers (Ml). Employed by Texaco in the oil L271 CHARLES LEE WORKMAN b Cody WY 3 Sep 1953 fields. After the deaths of his wife and Lawrence, hs honors State Forester of FFA Star Far­ Bert and his family returned to Wyoming to farm his mer FFA Bach Degree Mgt k Mktg owner Work­ father's homestead. Before his death, while still man Dept Store Tahlequah OK hobby: raising hale and hearty in his 90's, Bert resided with his birds of all types pheasants turkeys quail twin sister Bertha, and four of his daughters in the guineas chickens (fighting k tame) unusual Seattle-Tacoma WA area. Wanda, the fifth daughter, experience: delivered 2nd daughter en is in Powell WY. route to hospital in pickup truck without m Martha Ellen Dagley 7 Mar 1932 b Petrolia TX 18 May stopping. Methodist 1909 d auto accident Lubbock TX Jul 1944 dau John k m Geneva Ann Collins 30 Mar 1972 b 8 Feb Margaret Hutchinson Dagley 1956 L31 HELEN JENENNE MYERS b Olney TX 13 Dec 1932 emp L2711 JEANNIE MARIE WORKMAN b 27 Jul 1976 Telephone Co m Jerry G Keller 12 Jul 1952 b Chicago IL 20 Sep L2712 LATOSHA MICHELL WORKMAN b 12 Sep 1981 1929 son William k Hyla Keller div

L2713 ANGELA ANN WORKMAN b Talequah OK 15 May L311 KENNETH SAIL KELLER b Hamilton AFB Marin 1983 County CA 16 May 1953

L272 ROBBIE LYNN WORKMAN b Tahlequah OK' 6 Apr L32 WANDA MYERS b Olney TX 13 Nov 1934 enjoys fish­ 1958 teacher's aide Methodist ing camping k homemaking Latter Day Saints in David Alan Casey Tahlequah OK 14 Apr m Sigurd Kvia Billings MT 21 Aug 1953 b Lovell 1978 b Okmulgee OK 1 Sep 1953 son Ro­ WY 19 Nov 1933 "Sig's" Norwegian genealogy bert Dean k Carolyn Sue Lowrence Casey dates to the 16th century

L2721 SANDI LYNN CASEY b Tahlequah Ok: 25 Dec L321 KAREN RAE KVIA b Lovell WY 17 Oct 1954 1979 Attended NW Com Col Powell WY Won an inti bicycle trip through KY with girls from L2722 ROBERT ALAN CASEY b Tulsa OK 25 Jun all over the world. Enjoys hiking, fish­ 1981 ing, camping, sewing. Latter Day Saints

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Fig. 69. (a) Wanda Kvia (b) Karen Kvia Dietrich (c) Michael Kvia (d) Patricia Kvia de Haan.

m Jerry L Dietrich Powell WY i3 Sep 1977 L323 PATRICIA ANN KVIA b Poweil w'v 12 Nov 1959 b Hayes KS 3 Jan 1952 son Vern k Julia student NWCC homemaker enjoys fishing Dietrich camping Latter Day Samts m Rudolph de Haan Powell WY 28 Sep 1979 b L3211 AMY JO DIETRICH b Denver CO 25 flay 1975 Haarlemmermeer Netherlands 4 Jan 19ol son JeiP Paulus k Janna J Rol de haan L3212 JOSLYN SI6RID DIETRICH b Cody WY 17 Jan 1981 L3231 CHRISTINA DE HAAN b 1980

L322 MICHAEL JOE KVIA b Cody WY 20 Jan 1957 ma­ L3232 RUDOLPH PAUL DE HAAN b 1982 chine snop foreman private pilot enjoys fishing hunting camping boating k flying i-3233 JESSICA RAE DE HAAN b Powell WY 6 Jan Latter Day Saints 1985 m Debra Isle Lovell WY 6 Aug 1977 b Lov­ ell WY 25 Oct 1958 dau Charles N k Avis L33 VERA MYERS b Sinton TX 28 Oct 1936 'vera, single, Kailem Isle lives in a residential center in Tacoma WA, where her father visits her every day. L3221 MICHAEL SIGURD KVIA b Powell W'Y 14 Jan 1962 L34 PATSY LOU MYERS b Olney TX 3 Nov 1938 homemaker m Dannie W Little real estate broker L3222 MARCIE SI6RID KVIA D Poweil WY 4 Auq 1935 L341 LENORE ADELE LITTLE b I960

1& L342 LARISSA JANE LTTTLE b 1961 • Paul M Hepker

L3421 SARAH JOYCE HEPKER b 4 Nov 1983

L343 MORGAN WESTON LITTLE b 1963

L35 MARTHA JO MYERS b Dec 1941 ml Lenard Manuel Tachera m2 Sellers

L351 CHERYL ANN TACHERA b Sacramento CA 21 Aug 1961 d

L352 ALAN RAE TACHERA b Sacramento CA 27 Sep 1964

L353 DENISE RENAY TACHERA b Sacramento CA 5 Jun 1966

L354 JASON LYNN TACHERA b 12 Nov 1971

L4 BERTHA MYERS (twin) b Pleasantville IA 28 Apr 1892 Now living in a nursing home in Tacoma WA. Catholic m Edward Hurd switchman Great Northern Pac RR d Taco­ Fig. 70. Alta and Edgar Swallow ma WA 21 Oct 1970 (Calvary Cem Tacoma WA)

L5 ANNA L MYERS b Pleasantville IA 18 Nov 1894 now in a Writing" in 1957. Was chairman of American Civ­ rest home in San Gabriel CA near her niece, Bertina il Liberties Union in 1952. Member Colorado Au­ Guyer (Lll) thors League (pres 1958-59). Member Denver m Oscar Kemock Butte MT 28 Nov 1917 b Pueblo CO 14 Westerners k Western Writers of America, Feb 1887 d Los Angeles CA 3 Sep 1950 (Sawtell Vet­ m Mae Elder dau Ralph k Izabell Elder erans Cem Los Angeles) US Army WWI France 348th Machine Gun Battalion L611 IDA KAREN SWALLOW b Gunnison CO 4 Jan 1943 BA Soc Lewis k Clark Col 1965 MA Sp Ed L6 ALTA HELEN MYERS b Pleasantville IA 30 Sep 1897 d Lewis ?< Clark 1970 American Friends Ser­ Littleton CO 1 Oct 1984 (Crown Hill Cem Powell WY) vice Comm Pittsburgh PA 1958 Mexico 1959 Homemaker who had "the best husband in all the study abroad England 1963 Yugoslavia 1964 world." Member Chapter EX of PEO, White Shrine #13 k Early Childhood Ed, Ed Coordinator Wood- of First Presbyterian Ch Ft Collins CO. Alta's life burn Children Center Woodburn OR 1977-84 was filled with kindness to all members of her fami­ artist in ceramics 1972-75 dress designer ly. She participated in family reunions, and had 1976 Uses name Karen Swallow-Hagen since words of encouragement for all. marriage m Edgar Austin Swallow d Powell WY Apr 1948 (Crown m Edwin Jon Hagen 19 Sep 1978 b Butte MT Hill Com Denver CO) farmer banker politician 19 May 1937

L61 EDGAR: ALAN SWALLOW b Powell WY 11 Feb 1915 d L6111 NILE LANGHORN SWALLOW-HAGEN b 19 Sep heart attack 24 Nov 1966 BA U WY 1937 Masters k 1980 Doctorate LSU 1939 k 1941 US Army 1943-45 Crea­ tive Writing Fellowship Rockefeller Foundation L62 VIRGINIA JUNE SWALLOW b Poweli WY 1917 d 1946 1947 Assoc Prof Eng U Denver Creative Writing m Virgil Robinson Program Chief to 1954 Dir U Denver Press 1947-53 Publisher, writer, editor, author. Became full L621 HELEN VERA ROBINSON b 1939 After the death time publisher 1954 as Alan Swallow, Publisher of her mother Helen was raised by her Sage Books Big Mountain Press k Swallow Paper­ grandparents. Now living with her chil­ backs. Largest Publisher of new poets in Ameri­ dren in San Diego CA. ca. Wrote column for Denver Post on "Reading k m Paul 3it:man div

183 L6211 MARK EDWARDS SITZMAN b 1960 US Marines in Sandra

• L62111 ELIZABETH SITZMAN

L6212 GRACE SUZANNE SITZMAN b 1970

L63 VERA GRACE SWALLOW b Powell WY 1919 BS MS Col St U Asst Prof Home Economics Col St U Protes­ tant ml Ansel Emerson Walters (all chldrn) b Garland WY Sep 1917 son Ansel Emerson k Mary Goodman Walters div «)2 B C "Bo" Cowel

L631 ANSEL EDGAR WALTERS (twin) b Powell WY 1941 BS Col St U Owner Pet Ranch Pet Shops Protestant m Shirley Picke Ft Collins CO 1966 b Ada MN

L6311 ANSEL ALAN WALTERS b Denver CO 1972 Fig. 71. Ray Myers, Alta Swallow, Jessie Hubbard, "Bert" Myers L632 ANNETTE EVONNE WALTERS (twin) b Powell WY 18 Sep 1941 BS Col St U Kapppa Alpha Theta PEQ homemaker phys ed teacher enjoys jog­ ging hiking gardening Presbyterian Hi Larry Barton Butterfieid DVM Ft Collins CO 17 Aug 1963 b Des Moines IA 15 Oct 1939 son Elwyn Temple k Carolyn McCully Butterfieid

L6321 CAL SHELLEY BUTTERFIELD b Bisbee AZ 4 Nov 1964 engr student Ft Lewis Coi Presbyterian

L6322 CARRE BUTTERFIELD b Santa Fe NM 7 Oct 1966 Liberal Arts student Cottey Col Presbyterian

L6323 TODD ELWYN BUTTERFIELD b New Orleans LA 13 Sep 1969 HS honor student k athlete Presbyterian

L633 BILL LESTER WALTERS b Billings MT 1945 grad KS U 1969 architect developer Denver serves in Denver on boards of AMC Cancer Research Ctr, Boys Clubs, Natl Jewish Hos­ pital, Art Museum, Children's Hosp Fndn, and C of C ml Mary Lou Paulsen (chid) div ffl2 Jacqueline Anne Brown 15 Nov 1986 dau M/M Charles Eugene Brown of Germantown TN Jacque grad w/honors U Tenn worked in coml insurance before marriage, co- chairman 1987 Winter Park Ski Carnival Fig. 72. Bill, Jacqueline and Michael L6331 MICHAEL WALTERS b 1981 (A) Walters. 184 L7 EDNA MYERS b Pleasantville IA 14 Sep 1899 d Powell WY (Crown Hill Cem Powell WY)

L8 JESSIE VERA MYERS b Pleasantville IA 6 Oct 1901 re­ gistered nurse retd Protestant m Harry Hubbard b Pierre 3D 22 Aug 1899 d 11 Apr 1986 son Thomas Leslie k Priscilla Cavett Hubbard. Harry was manager of the Buffalo office of Pacific Power k Light for 32 yrs.

L81 THOMAS LESTER HUBBARD b Casper WY 22 Jun 1929 d 30 Aug 1976 gun accident fl; Shirley Farnsworth who m2 Paul Beddoes

LSli MICHAEL LEE HUBBARD b Greybuli WY 15 Jan 1955 attorney m Cheryl Bang b Riverton WY 8 Feb 1955 dau Lyie Clair k Margaret Agnes Towne Bang

L8111 SHANNA MICHELLE HUBBARD b Laramie WY 19 Jul 1978

L8112 KRISTOPHER THOMAS HUBBARD b Laramie WY 14 Feb 1980

LSI 13 KYLE PATRICK HUBBARD b Cheyenne WY 30

.8114 HALEY MAh HUBBARD b Cheyenne WY 7 Jun 1985 Fig. 73. Thomas Lester Hubbard Mar 1980 car accident

185 William Scott Myers 1860-1934

Helen Cullie Scott Myers Culbertson 1888-1973

186 26

Generation VII

M32374-W WILLIAM SCOTT MYERS 1860-1934

Will, third son of Christian Hoover My­ in Wayne County. The poverty of his ers, recalled his boyhood in Paradise, circumstances became more unbearable Ohio, with lifelong fond memories. "We as years passed and within him grew a were poor, but I never knew it," he determination to escape to build a bet­ would say. With John Winkler, his ter life somewhere. The west was op­ first cousin and best friend, Will ened. Since 1852, the Pittsburgh, Ft. lived a Tom Sawyer-Huck Finn life, Wayne and Chicago trains sped daily roaming barefoot in the summertime in through Paradise, whistling haunting the woods, creeks and fields of Para­ reminders of life beyond the horizon dise and playing hookey from school in on the western frontier. the winter, wearing out two pairs of shoes to one pair for each of his Will's father's sister and her hus­ brothers, according to his father; band, Uncle Dave Naftzger, bought a fishing, hunting rabbits, playing farm in Iowa. Will, then aged seven­ pranks, teasing the teacher and being teen, was obligated to work for his spanked for it, breaking a cow to father until his twenty-first birthday ride, gathering wild berries and nuts, but he could not wait. He asked his drinking "the best water in the world" father for permission to help Uncle from the ice-cold, bubbling springs in Dave clear his land. His father re­ every section of the township. Scat­ fused. Will asked his Aunt Leah, a tered over the rolling hills of Green school teacher in Green Township, to Township were the white farmhouses of intervene. Leah secured the job with two sets of grandparents and numerous the Naftzgers and offered to lend him aunts and uncles whose kitchens were $10.00 for the trip. His brother, always open to welcome a hungry boy John, contributed an equal amount. with an appetite for freshly baked With this, Will confronted his father, bread, cold milk, and fruit pies still who relented, gave him a Bible, 50 warm from the oven. cents and his blessing. On March 13, 1878, seventeen-year-old Will was Life changed abruptly when his first of the brothers to leave home. mother died. Will, at the age of elev­ en, was placed away from Paradise to After a year with Uncle Dave, Will live and work on other farms, attend­ followed the harvests from Iowa to Min­ ing school through the winter and turn­ nesota, then rode to Kansas by covered ing his wages over to his father. He wagon with a friend who wanted to buy neglected school. He grieved for his land. Next, with $150.00 saved, he mother and the loss of his home. He visited all of his first cousins in could see no future ahead for himself Iowa, Indiana and Ohio before return-

187 ing home to Wayne County for the win­ taking, pianos, organs, sewing ma­ ter. He had been away for two years. chines, harness and saddlery, dry goods, clothing, etc. Will enrolled in school, bought books and supplies, but quit after one Will sold out in 1894 to open a week. He explained in his autobiogra­ new store in a larger town, Indianola, phy, "I discovered there was too much in a new bank building. He had now In­ Indian in me to content myself in creased his net worth to $5,000. He school any longer. I helped my father brought in a partner, Ed Olive. In dress and ship poultry and did consid­ 1899, they sold this store, and Will erable visiting during the winter." and Eldora had $11,000 in assets. Will and his family, along with Mrs. Olive In the spring, Will returned to and a number of people from Indianola, Iowa. He spent the next five years took a holiday trip through the west­ experimenting with a variety of occu­ ern states, visiting Denver, Salt Lake pations: operating a cigar stand, bar­ City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Port­ tering, teaching boxing, operating a land, Seattle, Yellowstone Park and shooting gallery, canvassing door to various other places. While his part­ door, telegraphy, and carpentry, a ner closed out the business of the trade he followed for four summers. store, Will was scouting for a new lo­ cation for his next venture. He selec­ In 1885, at age twenty-four, he ted Dallas, Texas. purchased the dray in Pleasantville, Iowa. His father visited him on the In 1899, Will Myers and Ed Olive way to Portland, Oregon, where Chris­ purchased a mattress and spring facto­ tian died of typhoid fever three years ry In Dallas. They formed a public later. corporation, Olive & Myers Mfg. Co., sold stock, built buildings, and ex­ In Pleasantville, Will had met El- panded to become manufacturers and dora E. Spalti, daughter of Joachim jobbers of a complete line of house­ Spalti, a well-to-do Swiss immigrant, hold and office furniture. Will's whom he wished to marry. He saved ear­ business dealings in Iowa had earned nestly toward a goal of $400. They for him an excellent reputation for were married in January, 1886. Will honesty, hard work and fair play. hired a driver for the dray and moved Most of the stock in his company was to a stock farm belonging to his fath­ purchased by Iowa friends and rela­ er-in-law, first operating it in part­ tives. He was named executor of sev­ nership, then renting the farm by the eral estates, Including that of his month. In 1887 a son, Jay Spalti My­ father-in-law. In 1904, Will organ­ ers, was born. ized a sister company, Myers-Spalti Mfg. Co., in Houston. Horace Spalti, In 1891, Will and Eldora held a Eldora's younger brother, moved to Dal­ public sale, selling off all belong­ las and became an officer of the Dal­ ings Including good cattle, horses and las company. He played a significant hogs, and discovered they were worth role in selling stock for the Houston $3000. They rented a small house in factory. Both companies were very Pleasantville owned by Eldora's fath­ successful and paid good dividends to er. Will paid her father's way round their investors. trip to Chicago to assist him in pur­ chasing a supply of goods for The Rack­ In 1906, Will, Eldora and Jay et Store, which he opened in December, sailed for Europe. More than a much- 1891. The store sold furniture, under­ needed vacation, they wished to con-

188 suit Dr. Gunn, a famed London eye doc­ ny years and was now an Invalid. Jay tor, in hopes he might improve Eldo- assisted his father in the mining com­ ra's vision. She had suffered from ag­ pany, traveling by train turnabout to gravated astigmatism all her life. Her sell the patented machine. Jay was an father had taken her to many special­ excellent salesman, but there were ists as a young woman, but Eldora problems with the machine and the com­ could not read or work with small ob­ pany did not turn a profit. In Au­ jects for more than a minute or two at gust, 1915, Jay returned from a long a time. In London, Dr. Gunn prescribed road trip. He joined three friends for glasses which, after a few weeks use, an afternoon fishing outing and picnic enabled her to read several columns in on a lake outside of Denver. After a newspaper for the first time in her lunch, while checking the fishing life. lines, Jay's was standing in the boat when it suddenly tipped. He lost his balance, fell into the icy water, and They visited the Spalti home in Netstal, Switzerland, where Eldora's drowned. Eldora, inconsolable in her father was born. Will had long regret­ grief, grew steadily weaker. Will ted that his own parents' genealogy took her to Mayo Brothers Clinic in had never been recorded. He now deter­ Rochester, Minnesota, where the doc­ mined to gather and publish data of tors offered no hope. She contracted the Myers and Winkler lines through a severe cold while at the clinic, and his first cousins. The task was com­ died on 5 February 1916. pleted in 1909, and Will presented cop­ ies of the two books to each family no Will's world had come to an end. more distant than first cousins. He buried his loved ones in Pleasant­ ville. He had lost, in his own words, Will's only child, Jay Spalti My­ "two of the noblest characters I ever ers, entered Phillips Exeter Academy knew." His health deteriorated and he in Exeter, New Hampshire, after comple­ developed diabetes. His grief and lone­ ting high school in Dallas in 1904. liness were all-consuming, exacerbated He next attended Harvard University in by an improper diet while dining in ho­ Boston, graduating in 1910, and gradu­ tels and clubs. Ignoring his business, ated from Harvard Law School in 1914, he traveled to Dallas, Oregon and Cali­ at the age of 25. fornia to be among his friends and fam­ ily, fruitlessly seeking consolation. While the Houston and Dallas compa­ Hugh Barr Evans, an old friend in Los nies prospered, Will made other invest­ Angeles, liquidated Will's Denver com­ ments. The first was a machine shop pany and settled his affairs. and foundry in Dallas, the second was a mining machine company in Colorado, While in a Los Angeles business of­ whose patented machine was made by the fice early in 1917, Will was assigned Dallas foundry. In the negotiations a young secretary, Helen Cullie Scott, for these companies he also acquired a to take dictation. The tall, slender, tract of ranchland in south Texas. His compassionate young woman became his youngest brother, Norman, had moved to wife on 3 October 1917. Cullie's par­ Dallas in 1909. From there he took his ents, John C. and Fanny Northcott family to farm on Will's south Texas Scott, migrated with two baby daugh­ (Dimmit County) land. ters from Vevay, Indiana to pioneer in the Simi Valley of Ventura County, Cal­ Will and Eldora moved to Denver in ifornia, in 1890, where they grew wal­ 1912, where Jay joined them in 1914. nuts, apricots and citrus. Cullie Eldora had been in poor health for ma­ completed high school in Ventura and

189 business college in Los Angeles. sightseeing in every state but the two Dakotas. As the family grew, a four- Will and Cullie settled in Hous­ wheeled trailer with roof and slatted ton, traveling to Texas in a new motor sides was added for a trip to Winni­ home Will had designed and outfitted, peg, Manitoba, Canada, where Cullie's one of the first in the nation. There sister resided. The Cadillac company were no roads along some of the route, sometimes advertised arrivals In ad­ and few signs. They drove along fen­ vance, since the home was built on a ces, through pastures, opening and Cadillac ambulance chassis. Will also closing gates as they passed through used it for hunting and fishing trips private land. with his friends.

A year later a daughter, Dorothy, Will had just expanded the Houston was born. Another daughter, Ruth, was company with construction of a new born on 29 January 1920, and a son, chair factory and mill when the depres­ Jay Scott Myers, was born on 22 March sion of 1929 brought the national econ­ 1922. Their fourth child, William omy to a halt. During a period when Scott Myers, Jr., was born on 6 April many businesses failed, the factories 1928, the last grandchild of Christian survived the depression by vigilant Myers, born forty years after the management, heavy layoffs, wage cuts, first, Jay Spalti Myers. and greatly reduced dividends, two years with no dividends at all. Cullie and Will were a happy, devo­ ted couple for many years until Will's Will took no salary. He was a gen­ death in 1934. Cullie never adjusted erous man who suffered deeply for the to the hot Texas summers in the years misery around him, and sometimes took before air conditioning, but she loved a personal interest in helping a desti­ her home and her family and went about tute stranger find a way to earn a liv­ singing as she cooked, sewed, and ing, usually by door-to-door sales. cared for her husband and children. When he found a widow with small chil­ Will resumed management of the Houston dren living in a tent near his home, factory. He built a three-story, mar­ he and Cullie rented a small house for ble stucco home surrounded by a large her, purchased quilting frames, and playground, two-story playhouse and helped her launch a small quilt-making pool, where the children of Houston business. came to play. Boy Scout meetings and spelling bees were sometimes held; for The last years of his life were several years, a nursery school had limited by poor health, with heart free use of the facilities; and for a trouble and diabetes, but Cullie's time a local orphanage regularly sent good care added measurably to his com­ busloads of children for afternoon fort and happiness. They lived quiet­ play followed by supper on the roof ly. Will had acquired a large library garden. Twice monthly, covered dish over the years, from which he read ev­ office parties were held in the play­ ery evening until bedtime. He died in house for office workers of the compa­ a hotel in Dallas, on a business trip, ny and their families. Known as Myers on 14 September 1934. "Even steel Park, the grounds were a memorial to wears out," he said, shortly before he the son who had drowned. died.

Early in their marriage, Will and Twenty years after Will's death, Cullie crisscrossed the country in the the Dallas and Houston factories, un­ motor home, visiting relatives and der the management of Horace Spalti,

190 on the banks of Buffalo Bayou at Run­ nels and Lottman streets, was remod­ eled by federal grant in the 1980s. It was air-conditioned and converted into a Mexican market known as El Mercado del Sol. In Dallas, the large brick buildings remain at 2220 Young St.

The family home at McGowen and St. Emanuel streets in Houston was demol­ ished years ago when the inner city be­ came an area of high crime. The lot borders a chasm of triple freeways. W, S. Myers Residence, Houston, TX ***** Jr., merged into one, Olive-Myers-Spal- ti, and built a large new single-story In the 1930s, my mother, Cullie, plant in Athens, Texas. Shortly, con­ brought home from a trip to California trolling interest in the combined com­ a pot of four-leaf clovers which she pany was purchased by an entrepreneur, planted inside the sidewalk at the cor­ Curtis Mathes, who changed the company ner of the front yard. The last time name to his own and converted from fur­ I visited the old empty lot, now over­ niture to television sets. The Dallas grown with weeds, I walked to the cor­ and Houston plants were sold as ware­ ner, bent down and found the patch of houses . clovers still clinging bravely to the land, almost the only remnant of a The massive four-story brick buil­ place that used to be. I picked a dings Will built years ago are still four-leaf clover and walked back to my standing in 1986. The Houston plant, car, clutching it in my hand.

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W WILLIAM SCOTT MYERS 1860-1934 ml Eldora E Spalti (Chid WD b Pleasantville IA 13 Jan 1866 d 5 Feb 1916 (Crown Hill Cem Pleasantville IA) dau Joachim (imm Netstal Switz 1845) k Susan A Litch­ field Spalti u>2 Helen Cullie Scott (Chldrn W2-W5) b Vevay IN 27 Jan 1888 d Houston TX 1 Feb 1973 (Forest Pk Lawndale Cem Houston TX) grad HS Ventura CA k business college Los Angeles CA dau John Culbertson Freemont Scott k Fannie Northcott Scott m2 Clyde Culbertson who d 1965

Wl JAY SPALTI MYERS b 7 Nov 1887 d by drowning 29 Aug 1915 (Crown Hill Cem Pleasantville IA) grad Phillips Exeter 1906 Harvard 1910 Harvard Law Schl 1914

W2 DOROTHY SCOTT MYERS b 17 Oct 1918 Houston TX BS in Ed U So Cal teacher writer pioneer in learning disabili­ ties Myers genealogist Methodist ml Robert Allen Knowlton (all chldrn) b Grand Rapids MI 9 Jun 1914 d Houston TX 22 Mar 1969 (Forest Pk West Cem Houston TX) USAAF 1942-46 Engr Dept Tenneco son of Benjamin Leo k Edith Allen Knowl­ ton m2 Lloyd Acker Adams 1917-1981 div 1976

W21 LAURA ELEANOR KNOWLTON b Houston TX 25 Jan 1946 grad U TX Austin teacher newspaper editor author Bitait County hesquite Roots Vol I Episco­ palian ml Chauncey Claiborne Ulbrich (child W211) son Chauncey k Mildred Freeman Ulbrich m2 Joe Wiley Tidwell II (child W212) b 8 Oct 1931 son of Joe Wiley k Grace Tidwell

W211 LAURA TULETA ULBRICH b Houston, TX 20 Nov 1969 Episcopalian

W212 JOE WILEY TIDWELL III b Carrizo Springs TX 8 Jan 1976

W22 ROBERT ALLEN KNOWLTON JR b Oak Park IL 10 Dec 1947 U Houston radio k TV newsman writer produ­ cer media consultant in Houston since 1968

W23 JOHN SCOTT KNOWLTON b 8 May 1953 Houston TX d 17 April 1964 Houston TX (Forest Pk Lawndale Cem Houston TX) Methodist

(a) Dorothy and Robert A. Knowlton, Sr. (b) Laura Knowlton Tidwell (c) Robert A. Knowlton, Jr. (d) Tuleta Ulbrich (e) Joe Wiley Tidwell III 193 W3 RUTH SCOTT MYERS b 29 Jan 1920 d 13 Oct 1983 Houston TX (Forest Pk Lawndale Can Houston TX) Our Lady Of The Lake Coll San Antonio TX owner Ruth's Baby Shop Houston 1946-1959 member k active volunteer Roman Catholic Church

W4 JAY SCOTT MYERS b Houston TX 22 Mar 1921 SB Harvard 1942 LtSG US Navy 1942-46 Myers-Spalti Mfg Co Houston 1946-52 moved to Carrizo Springs TX rancher tax k business consultant County Judge Dimmit County 1955-58 active local k state civic affairs board mem­ ber Curtis Mathes Co 1956-82 Episcopalian m Mildred Lucile White b Carrizo Springs TX 8 Jun 1919 Grad Incarnate Word Schl of Nursing Admr Dim­ mit County Mem Hosp Ret dau Benjamin Clinton k Ma­ bel Elizabeth Stone White Episcopalian

W41 BEVERLY WHITE MYERS b San Diego CA 20 Jul 1944 BA Agnes Scott teacher Sari Antonio ISD Episcopa­ lian m Jack Pickett III b 30 Apr 1943 BS Occidental 1963 MD Neurology Yale 1967 Fellowship Mayo 1972 son Jackson Elbridge Pickett MD k Mary Ruth Brittain MD div 1983

W411 PATRICK MYERS PICKETT b 3 Sept 1*79 Fig. 78. (a) Ruth Scott Myers 1920-1983 W42 BARBARA SCOTT MYERS b Houston TX 9 Apr 1948 BSW Pan Am U BID Intl Inst Interior Design owner Plantation Catering San Antonio TX Episcopalian m John Michael Cullum div

W43 JAY SCOTT MYERS JR b Houston TX 8 Mar 1950 grad U Vermont MS Schl of Intl Mgmt (Thundcrbird) AZ world traveler real estate k insurance Austin TX Episcopalian

W44 MARILYN LUCILE MYERS b Houston Tx 6 Jan 1953 d 12 Dec 1970 auto accident (Mt Hope Cem Carrizo Springs TX) Episcopalian

Fig. 78. (b) Jay Scott and Lucile Myers, Sr.

194 W5 WILLIAM SCOTT MYERS JR b Houston TX 6 Apr 1928 US Merchant Marine Medal 1944 BBA U Houston 1949 US Army 1952-54 LLB So Tx Col of Law 1957 attorney & busi­ nessman Houston k San Antonio TX computer buff m Virginia Green b West Plains MO 3 Oct 1930 dau Harry Greathouse k Lucille Morrison Green

W51 EMILY VIRGINIA MYERS b Muskogee OK 28 Jul 1953 Special Ed Dept NEISD San Antonio TX 1972-81 m Earl Elliott Hood III b San Antonio TX 19 Dec 1946 Vice Prcs E E Hood Construction Co (TX) son of Earl E Jr k Bertha White Hood. Earl III has 2 sons, Andy k Randy Hood, by his previous marriage. Earl's ancestors settled in Gonzales TX in the 1830's, when Texas was part of Mexi­ co. His gr-gr-grandfather, James George, k his gr-gr-gr-uncle, William Dearduff, were Texas heroes who, along with James Bowie, William B. Travis, k Davy Crockett, were among the 180 volunteers at the Alamo who gave their lives in the struggle for Texas Independence in 1836. They refused to surrender to General Santa Anna's Mexican army of 4,000 soldiers. The siege lasted 12 days before the invaders stormed a breach in the wall and all the de­ fenders were slain. By reliable estimate, the Mexican army lost between 1,000 and 1,600 men. The Battle of the Alamo dislocated Santa An­ Fig. 79. (a) William Scott Myers, Jr. na's campaign and gave General Sam Houston time to perfect his plans for the defense of Texas, leading to victory and Texas indepen­ dence at the Battle of San Jacinto. James George, then 34, was survived by five children including a daughter, Martha, from whom Earl Hood is descended.

W52 WILLIAM SCOTT MYERS III b Houston TX 27 June 1955 BBA (Marketing Admin! U TX Austin 1984 marketing consultant Austin k San Antonio TX m Sylvia Cervantes dau Andrew k Eva Duarte div

W521 ZEBUL0N SCOTT MYERS b Caspar WY 4 Oct 1978

W53 CLIFFORD STEVENSON MYERS b Houston TX 27 Aug 1958 BBA (Gen Bus) Southwestern U 1982 real es­ tate appraiser San Antonio TX Fig. 79 (b) Emily Myers Hood

195 GREEN, WILSON, MORRISON, and CHAPIN

See M32374-W5 William Scott MYERS Jr & Virginia Green MYERS

GREEN MORRISON

5 LEWIS GREEN b NC ca 1795 d aft 1860 Went to Jackson Co 8 PATRICK MORRISON b Scotland d Wilson County TN 1833 AL from TN ca 1825, left for Wayne Co MO ca 1842; had at m Ann Foster d Wilson TN 1838 least one brother, William m Nancy ? ca 1816 b ca 1800 d probably Wayne Co or Green 7 JAMES MORRISON d Hawkins County TN 1842 Co MO bet 20 Apr 1845 k 9 Nov 1850 m Mary (Molly) Barnard b Hawkins County TN d bef 1842

4 WILLIAM G GREEN b Jackson Co AL 1 Jan 1829 d Fulton Co 6 JOHN MORRISON b Washington County TN 1785 d Roane County AR 9 Aug 1869 i on Jeff Morrison farm Bakersfield M0 TN 1864 m Rosana DeShazo (1) 25 Sep 1856 b TN Oct 1839 d 24 Jul m Mary (Molly) Deatherage 1793-1875 Roane County TN dau 1895 i Bakersfield M0 dau Thomas DeShazo b Person Co Abner k Elizabeth Deatherage NC ca 1810 k Mary DeShazo 5 WILLIAM DEATHRID6E MORRISON 1826-1887 Roane County TN 3 JAMES ROBERT GREEN b Webster Co 24 May 1858 d West m Debrah Holmes Yates b TN 1825 d AL? 1864? dau John Plains M0 15 Mar 1927 l Moody M0 Yates b KY 1784 d Roane County TN 1875 k Lydia Regis­ m Flara Ann Wilson, Mountain Home, Baxter Co AR b Dekalb ter Holmes Yates b DE 1785 d Green County TN County AL 28 Apr 1867 d West Plains M0 11 Dec 1937 i Moody M0 dau William Hunter Wilson b SC 1841 d (Athens 4 GIDEON PILLAR MORRISON 1849-1924 Roane County TN Cem AR) 1885 k Martha J Driskill Wilson 1842-1870 AL ffl Martha Jane Edgmon 1852-1940 Roane dau James J & Lil­ lian Guffee Edgmon 2 HARRY GREATHOUSE "JACK" GREEN b Fulton County AR 8 Apr 1905 d Checotah OK 16 Jun 1982 i Howell Co Cem West 3 CHARLES GIDEON MORRISON b Howell County MO 1885 d West Plains M0 Plains MO 1982 m Martha Lucille Morrison 28 Nov 1929 b Howell County M0 m Theresa Chapin Howell County MO 1886-1938 (see CHAPIN) 25 Jan 1911 res West Plains, Howell County M0 (see MORRISON) 2 MARTHA LUCILLE MORRISON b Howell County MO 1911 m Harry Greathouse "Jack" Green (see GREEN) 1 VIRGINIA GREEN b West Plains M0 3 Oct 1930 in William Scott Myers Jr (see MYERS W5) 1 VIRGINIA GREEN b West Plains MO 1930 m William Scott Myers Jr (see MYERS W5) WILSON CHAPIN 6 JOSHUA WILSON m Belle Hunter 14 ROGER CHAPYN b Totnes Devonshire England 1540 m N/A wife d after 9 Sep 1590 5 WILLIAM WILSON b SC 1817 d 1885 m Sina Galloway b SC 1822 d 1912 (Violet Hill Cem) 13 JOHN CHAPIN b Totnes Devonshire England 1566 I Paignton Devonshire England 1600 4 WILLIAM HUNTER WILSON b SC 1841 d robbed * murdered Bax­ m Phillipe Easton ter County AR 1893 a Martha J Driscoll 1842-1870 AL 12 SAMUEL CHAPIN (DEACON) b Paignton Devonshire England 1598 d Springfield MA 1675 3 FLORA ANN WILSON b DeKalb County AL 1867 d West Plains m Cicely Penney or Penny b Paignton Devonshire England MO 1937 1601 d Springfield MA 1682/3 dau Henry k Jane Penney m James Robert Green (see GREEN) li JOSIAH CHAPIN b Berry Pomeroy Devonshire England 1637 d 2 HARRY GREATHOUSE "JACK" GREEN (see GREEN) Mendon MA 1726 m Martha Lucille Morrison (see MORRISON) m Mary King b Weymouth MA 1639 d Braintree MA 1676 dau John k Dorothy King 1 VIRGINIA GREEN (see MYERS W5> m William Scott Myers Jr (see MYERS W5! 10 SETH CHAPIN (CAPTAIN) b Braintree MA 1668 d Mendon MA

196 1746 m2 Bethiah Thurston b Mad-field MA 1671/2 d Mendon MA 1744 dau John (Deacon) k Mary Wood Thurston

9 JOHN CHAPIN (DEACON) 1698-1770 Mendon MA ml Dorcas ? 1694-1767 Mendon MA

8 JAPHET CHAPIN b Mendon MA 1726 d Monterey MA 1797 m Patience Hayward b Mendon MA 1728 d Monterey MA 1816 dau Jonathan k Lydia Albee Hayward

7 PAUL CHAPIN (CAPTAIN) b New Marlboro MA 1760 d Overton County TN 1847/8 m2 Mary Stillman? b NY? 1762/4

6 PAUL STILLMAN CHAPIN b NC 1799 d Overton County TN 1841/3 ml Sarah Harrison b NC 1801 d Springfield MO 1864 dau Elias Harrison b NC d Overton TN 1869 k Martha Moors Harrison d Overton TN 1850 and granddau James Harri­ son d KY k Winnie Harrison d Overton TN age 110, and granddau Charles k Martha Hedgepeth Moore both d NC

5 JOHN ARNETTE CHAPIN b Sangamon County IL 1829 d El Paso TX 1915 in Sarah B Kyle b Clay County TN 1827 d Howell County MO 1867 dau Hugh Henry k Catherine Marion Mc­ Lean Kyle both d Clay County TN

4 JOHN ORLANDO CHAPIN b Howell County MO 1357 d Oakland CA 1944 m Martha Almeda Gibson b Ironton MO 1866 d Tucson AZ 1944 dau Levi Gibson

3 THERESA CHAPIN 1886-1938 Howell County MO m Charles Gideon Morrison (see MORRISON)

2 MARTHA LUCILLE MORRISON (see MORRISON) m Harry Greathouse "Jack" Green (see GREEN)

1 VIRGINIA GREEN (see MYERS W5) m William Scott Myers Jr (see MYERS W5i

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Generation VII

M32374LG LAWRENCE GRANT MYERS 1863-1936

Lawrence, fifth son of Christian and Matilda Myers, lost his mother at the age of eight. He was placed with the Cyrus Young family for three years, then put to work on the farm of Jacob Kraus. Like his brother Will, he was lonely and unhappy. A year after Will set out for Iowa, Lawrence followed, in 1879, though he was only sixteen years old. He worked on an Iowa farm for two years, then went to Wichita, Kansas, where he worked on a large ranch and became foreman.

In 1885, Lawrence, now aged twenty- one, was joined by his older brother, Lawrence Grant Myers John. The two men homesteaded 160 a- cres each for three years in Lane Coun­ ty, Kansas, but drought forced them to The unhappiness of the marriage of abandon their claims. In 1889, Law­ Lawrence and Minnie in their endless rence returned to Pleasantville, Iowa, struggle to survive on the raw fron­ where in 1892 he married Minnie May tier, left its scars on the children. Spalti. They farmed near Pleasant­ Of eight children born to the mar­ ville until 1899, when Lawrence took riage, two died in infancy. Four re­ up a claim in Flathead Co., Montana, mained single. Eddith married and had 100 miles from a railroad. Lawrence two children who died young. Her sec­ proved up his claim but again he suf­ ond marriage, to Joe Westhusin, is a fered the loss of his crops and left long and happy one. Bess married, and Montana almost a physical wreck. He had one daughter, Marian, who married went to Portland, Oregon, in 1906, and had two children. Marian's first where with the aid of his sister, Al­ husband died in an airplane crash. ice, and her husband, Henry Wolf, he Twenty years later, to the day, their purchased 160 acres in Clackamas son, an architect, was murdered in a (Sunnyside), Oregon. mountain cabin in Colorado. Her daugh­ ter, Sharon, is married, lives in Colo­ Lawrence continued to have health rado and has one son and one daughter. problems. His marriage ended in bit­ The tiny four-generation family, terness and he was estranged from his though scattered in three states, is children. He died in 1936 at age 73. closeknit, cheerful and devoted.

198 DESCENDANTS OF LAWRENCE GRANT MYERS 1863-1936

LA LAWRENCE GRANT MYERS 1863-1936 m Minnie May Spalti b Pleasantville IA 18 Dec 1874 d Portland OR 8 Sep 1943 (Riverview Mausoleum Portland OR) dau Fridolin k Dora Spalti

LAI INFANT b Pleasantville IA 8 Jul 1893

LA2 EDITH FLO MYERS b Pleasantville IA 26 Dec 1894 d 1 Jan 1895

LA3 BESSIE ELIZABETH MYERS b Pleasantville IA 17 Jan 1897 m H REED HARRELL d 27 May 1947 (Park Hill Cem Van­ couver WA)

LA31 MARIAN LOUISE HARRELL b Vancouver WA 23 Jun 1916 grad bus col secy ret ml Roger Maxwell Wilson (both chldrn.) b Ottu- ma IA 25 Aug 1914 d plane crash Billings MT 8 Jun 1958 (Riverview Abbey Portland OR) son Chester k Grace Whitcomb Wilson m2 Virgil Cook: d Jul 1984

LA311 DONALD HARRELL WILSON b Seattle WA 24 Dec 1943 d CO 8 Jun 1982 architect k artist (Riverview AbDey Portland OR) Fig. 81. Four generations: Bess Harrell, LA312 SHARON LOUISE WILSON b Seattle WA 7 Apr Marian Cook, Sharon and Traci Link 1946 decorator ml James Armstrong ichld LA3121) ui2 Walter Link i.chid LA3122) b 16 Aug 1953 LA6 WILLIAM SPALTI MYERS b Eureka MT 25 Sep 1904 d 22 son Walter k Mary Link Jul 1953 (Riverview Mausoleum Portland OR)

LA3121 CHAD ALLEN ARMSTRONG b Billings MT 19 LA7 ALICE EDDITH MYERS b Ciakamas OR 27 Feb 1908 real­ Jun 1966 tor Portland OR ml John Hauke (both chldrn) d 1941 LA3122 TRACI RENE LINK b Denver CO 8 Apr 1976 m2 Joseph Westhusin 20 Feb i95S b 21 Feb 1915 real­ tor Portland OR LA4 GEORGE AVERY MYERS b Pleasantville IA 2 Jan 1899 d 31 Jan 1958 (Riverview Abbey Portland OR) LA71 INFANT SON d LAS DESSIE ARVA MYERS b Kahspell Flathead County MT 3 LA72 CLEOLA JEAN HAUKE d 1948 Jul 1901 d 8 Aug 196b (Riverview Abbey Portland OR) m Michael "Misha" Kretenko d 15 Jul 1954 (East Lawn LAS HELEN MAV MYERS b Ciakamas OR 20 May 1915 d 19 Fed Mem Pk Sacramento CA) 1961 (Riverview Mausoleum Portland OR)

199 Alice and Henry Wolf

Residence of Alice and Henry Wolf, Portland.

200 28

Generation VII

M32374-A ALICE MELISSA MYERS WOLF 1866-1950

Alice was six years old when she and In 1896, Alice married Henry C. her six brothers lost their mother in Wolf, a well-to-do merchant of coal 1872. She was cared for by her moth­ and wood. He and Alice lived in a er's oldest sister, Sarah Rutt, a wid­ pretty little cottage at 1436 Winona ow whose husband died during the Civil Street in the suburb of Wood Lawn in War in service of the Union army. Sar­ Portland. The writer viewed this prop­ ah and her son lived in a little house erty in 1982 and found it in good con­ on the John Winkler farm. dition, much as it looked in an early photograph, situated alone on a triang­ About four years later, Christian ular block bordered by three streets, tried to bring the younger children to­ overlooking a tree-lined park. gether, with help from Alice and Aunt Sarah. Later he moved to Smithville In 1899, Harvey and Bessie lived and hired a housekeeper in order for in Portland for a year. In 1906, Al­ John to attend the Smithville Academy. ice, Henry and Charlie were joined by By the time Alice was fourteen, about Lawrence and Minnie Myers and their 1880, she was in charge of the house, large family. Life for Alice was eas­ working very hard for a young girl, do­ ier, and more pleasant, than it had ing all the washing, cleaning, baking ever been before. She and Henry made and cooking. several trips to Powell and a trip to Texas to visit her brothers and their In 1885, Christian Myers migrated families. to Portland, Oregon. The next year, Alice, Aunt Sarah and her son followed Henry Wolf died in March, 1937. him to Portland. Alice kept house for Alice was active in church work for her father until his death, of typhoid many years before her death. She out­ fever, in 1888. After his death, she lived all of her brothers, dying on 12 remained in Portland with Aunt Sarah March 1950 at the age of eighty-four. and other relatives. In 1889, her She and Henry are buried in Lone Fir brother Charles moved to Portland and Cemetery, Portland. boarded with her.

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Generation VII

M32374-C CHARLES LEVI MYERS 1868-1941

Charles was taken after his mother's death in 1872 by his father's sister Mary and her husband, Levi Stauffer. In 1884, at the age of 16, he went to Pleasantville, Iowa, and the following year began riding the cattle range in western Nebraska, Wyoming and Colora­ do. His brother wrote (Myers History: 84):

For three years, he saw some of the wild West, but in spite of this wild life he never forgot his breeding and raising, and remained a gentle­ man.

Charles went to Portland, Oregon, in 1889, where he remained, except for a few years spent in Chicago. He opera­ ted a cigar and tobacco shop for a time, but for most of his life was a conductor and motorman for the street car company. He remained single for many years before marrying Cora of Seaside, Oregon, a widow with rent- al properties Charles helped manage. He died of heart failure at the age of Charles Myers, left, Alice Wolf, 73 in 1941, and was buried in Lone Fir William Qpalti Myers (son of Law­ Cemetery, Portland. rence), ri-ght, Cora Myers.

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Generation VII

M32374-H HARVEY WINKLER MYERS 1870-1940

AND HI MANDAS WILLIAM MYERS, HIS SON, 1901-1982

At the age of two, following his moth­ cres of irrigated land. He purchased er's death, Harvey was taken by his a barber shop and pool hall and re­ uncle and aunt, William and Mary Ann mained permanently in Powell. His Winkler, and remained with them in Par­ marriage dissolved in 1922. adise, Green Township, Ohio, until he was eighteen. He went to Pleasant­ Harvey was a fastidious, health- ville, Iowa, in 1888. There he learned conscious, energetic man who walked the barber's trade, which he followed two or three miles daily. He made a for the remainder of his life. While number of trips back and forth to the operating a shop in Des Moines he met Rio Grande valley of Texas and enjoyed and married Bessie Turnbull, daughter fishing in Yellowstone Park, living in of a prosperous immigrant farmer from his trailer home for several weeks at New Zealand. Shortly after the mar­ a time. He had just left home to spend riage, her parents returned to New Zea­ the winter in Texas when he fell a- land. sleep or was stricken while at the wheel of his automobile. The car hit a Harvey and Bessie moved to Port­ bridge railing, and Harvey died from land, Oregon in 1899 and a year later resulting injuries in Casper, Wyoming sailed for New Zealand, with a stopov­ on 2 December 1940, a few weeks short er in Australia. They lived in Wai- of his seventieth birthday. mate, New Zealand, four years, where their only child, a son, Amandas Wink­ Harvey was good-natured and accom­ ler (later changed to Mandas William) modating. He had many friends and re­ was born on 1 August 1901. In Febru­ tained close ties with his brothers ary, 1904, Harvey and his son departed and sister and their families. for the United States. They stopped for twelve days in the Fiji Islands. Hi Mandas William Myers He developed a fever and was removed from the ship in Honolulu and placed After attending high school in Pow­ in a hospital. On his recovery he de­ ell, Mandas chose Detroit for his perm­ cided to settle in Hawaii, purchased a anent home. He worked in the parts de­ barber shop and remained for five partment of an automobile company un­ years. til the depression of 1929, when he lost his job, depleted his savings, In 1909, when two of his brothers and after much hardship, found menial moved to Powell, Wyoming, Harvey and employment as an orderly at a tubercu­ his family joined them, buying 40 a- losis sanatorium. Here he contracted

203 Harvey Winkler Myers 1870-1940

Bessie Turnbull Myers

Mandas William Myers 1901-1982

20L the illness and spent long years at played a vital role in locating the the hospital as patient. He fought scattered Myers and Winkler relatives for Improved standards at the sanator­ for this book, serving as a bridge be­ ium, and eventually won a litigated tween the 1909 books and the contempo­ settlement and permanent disability rary family. Despite failing health, pension from the City of Detroit. He he attended reunions in Indiana, Colo­ lived frugally and over the years ac­ rado and Ohio. cumulated a sizable estate. He was a life member of Zion Lodge #1, F & AM, It was on his return from the Ohio the oldest Masonic lodge west of the reunion that Mandas was stricken in Allegheny mountains. He enjoyed clas­ Cleveland, and subsequently died there sical literature and light opera, and on 27 July 1982. A number of first memorized long passages from each. cousins were named beneficiaries of his estate. In gratitude for Mandas's During his long convalescence, Man­ service and generosity to the extended das obtained his father's copies of families of his mother and father, a Myers History and Winkler's History. Masonic service was held in Seattle, Over the years he developed a wide ac- Washington, where he was placed near quaintance among his many cousins his mother, according to his request. through letters, phone calls and per­ The service was attended by fourteen sonal visits, and maintained a card cousins from Canada, Washington and file of genealogical records. He later Texas.

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Generation VII

M32374-N NORMAN WESLEY MYERS 1872-1945

Norman Wesley was born as Paradise pre­ children migrated to Chicago, Norman pared for the greatest moment in its followed. Later he located in Holli­ history. On 21 May 1872, the little day, in central Illinois, where he mar­ country church, Paradise Church of the ried Myra Backensto on 29 December Brethren, would host the Annual Confer­ 1895. ence of the Brethren. Members from sev­ eral states and Canada, about 7,000 For thirteen years, Norman and My­ people, would be fed three meals a day ra farmed in Illinois. Four children and lodged for a week, free of charge. were born: Lawrence Backensto, Wesley More than a year in the planning, now Guy, Norma Ardath and William Taft. in the final weeks the membership In 1909, he moved his family by mule- strained and struggled to gather food drawn covered wagon to Dallas, where and supplies to the Cyrus Hoover farm his brother Will resided. where the massive meetings would be held. Will had acquired a tract of grass­ land in southwest Texas near Mexico in The Myers and Winkler families, ac­ Dimmit County, where land values were tive members of the church, must have booming. Promoters advertised the made many trips to the meetinghouse area, known as the Winter Garden dis­ with provisions for the big event. Fan­ trict, where running creeks and arte­ nie Matilda Myers, heavy with child, sian wells promised abundant water, with nine mouths to feed and no one to where wild game was plentiful, and veg­ help with woman's work in her own lit­ etables and citrus were commercially tle house, gave birth to Norman on 15 grown. Norman and Myra moved to this April, five weeks before the great land in 1910, remaining until 1916. meeting. The burden of childbirth was Their daughter, Norma, recorded her too great. Matilda lay gravely ill, memories of those years (Standard: and three days after Norman was born, 251-2). Two sons, Chris Morlan and J she died. Donald, were born in the house Norman built on the land near Cometa, between Fannie's brother Lorenzo (Law­ Carrizo Springs and the Rio Grande Riv­ rence) Winkler and his wife Katherine er. One of Norman's grandsons has the took the infant Norman into their mounted head of the 13-point buck deer home, next door to Christian and Ma­ Norman shot on the day Chris was born, tilda. Lawrence was a veteran of many and the rifle used to shoot him. campaigns of the Civil War (see page 122). He gave Norman a good home with South Texans had never seen any­ his own son and four daughters until thing like Norman's large, Misssouri- he was grown. When several of their type mules. They used burros, little

206 mm

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Fig. 85. Norman and Myra Backensto Myers

207 donkeys, and. much smaller mules. Nor­ After six years in Dimmit County, man built a windmill to pump water in­ in July 1916, following two years of to a large holding tank raised on a drought, Norman and Myra decided to platform above the ground. There was move on. They loaded their family and nearly always enough water for the belongings and set out to buy a farm house, the live stock tank, the garden in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, traveling and the watermelon patch. A young wom­ in two covered wagons, each drawn by an from Mexico worked for Myra. She two mules, Norman driving one and Law­ spoke no English, so Norma developed rence the other, the children taking sign language to explain what her moth­ turns riding two ponies or riding In er wanted done. When Norman took My­ the wagons. Norman built a canvas ra's surplus butter to Crystal City to sling under the wagon for the hound sell or trade for groceries, the gro­ dog, Jerry, to ride in when he grew cer was suspicious of the unbelievably tired of running alongside. The trip sweet, golden butter Myra made with took six weeks. milk from Norman's Jersey cows. Once he was convinced it had no coloring in The family lived in Arkansas, then it, he bought all Norman had to sell. Iowa, and from there joined the other Myra made hominy from corn grown on Myers brothers in Powell, Wyoming, the land, and she made lye soap for near Yellowstone Park. The young the family wash. Every other day, she first cousins enjoyed being together made six or eight loaves of bread. and developed fast friendships, but in the early 1920s they began returning The nearest neighbor was two or to Texas for lucrative jobs in the oil three miles away. Except for occasion­ fields. Norman's son, Lawrence, and al picnics, there were no organized so­ Lester's son, Bert, worked together cial activities available to them, on­ for The Texas Company (Texaco). Norman ly visits between neighbors. Law­ and his sons Guy, Bill, Chris and Don, rence, Guy and Norma rode horseback to worked for Humble Oil Company (Exxon). school in Cometa. A doctor came to the Norma entered nurses training in house to attend the delivery of babies Houston. For a number of years, Myra and a neighbor woman remained until lived in Houston with Norma while the immediate need was over. Norman and Bill lived and worked in Van, near Dallas. As the young men No one anticipated the fragility married they lived in various places of the water supply or the damage be­ in Texas, but remained in close touch ing done by overpopulating the land. with Norma and their parents, and During the years leading up to World occasionally visited Will and his War I, as land promoters brought in family in Houston. retirees and small farmers and estab­ lished towns in the area, the water Norman retired from Humble Oil Com­ table slowly went down. There were pany in April 1945. A month later, in drought years, and people began to Houston with Myra, Norma and Don, he move away. By the nineteen twenties suffered a heart attack and died in irrigation became too expensive for May 1945. He was a good, honest, hard­ small farmers to be able to support working man who did his best to build their families. The land boom ended as a good life for his family. farms gave way to ranchland, cattle herds became the primary source of Work Cited income, and only ranchers of vast Stimt'ar.1, Norm* Myers, "Norman Wesley and Myra acreage could succeed in the arid Bm-kcnsto Myers." Dimmit County Mesquite Roots, land. Volum^ ! , hy Laura Knowlton Ttd«ell~ C;irrl zo Springs: by the author, 1984.

208 r^f-

Fig. 86. Norman Myers Sons and Daughter: Top row: Don, Sr., Chris and Bill. Bottom raw: Norma. Guy, Sr., Lawrence DESCENDANTS OF NORMAN WESLEY MYERS 1872-1945

N NORMAN WESLEY MYERS 1B72-1945 • Myra Estella Backensto b Stonington IL 8 May 1877 d Houston TX 4 Oct 1969 (Forest Pk Lawndale Can Houston TX) dau Benjamin Morlan & Sena Shell Backensto

Nl LAWRENCE BACKENSTO MYERS b Stonington IL ? Oct 1898 d Nlll ROBERT RAY POWERS b Three Rivers TX 22 El Canpo TX 23 Sep 1949 (Oakville Cem Oakville TX) Aug 1951 grad high school eap The Chil­ drilling rig suprntndnt Texas Oil Co loved all sports dren's Collection enjoys collecting an­ Baptist deacon tiques n Carra Louise Wimmer b Oakville Live Oak County TX dau Edward Oscar k Vada Zelma Waller Wimmer N112 PATRICIA LOUISE POWERS b Houston TX 26 Dec 1952 grad high school e*p Becker's Nil VADA ESTELLE MYERS b Houston TX 22 Feb 1930 grad Jlry enjoys playing guitar k piano paint­ high school enjoys sewing playing organ col­ ing k softball lecting recipes k cooking fli James Aubrey Powers b Mineral Bee County TX 7 N113 LAURA MAURINE POWERS b Houston TX 14 Dec Apr 1928 son Sibet Simeon k Vonnie Evelyn Cox 1957 BS Biol k Phys Ed teacher many ath­ Powers letic awards at Houston Baptist U

Fig. 87. James Powers Family: Robert, Jim, Laura, Vada and Pat Powers, Louise "Nuggie" (Mrs. Lawrence) Myers

210 N2 WESLEY 6UY MYERS b Beecher City IL 15 Feb 1901 d Dickinson TX (Forest Pk Lawndale Cem Houston TX) 30 yr emp HumblelExxon) member Masonic Lodge Ordained Deacon Secy k Treas First Baptist Church Dickinson TX m Ella Lee Brooks b Boldthwaite TX 3 Feb 1903 grad U Houston Schl Nursing RN various hospitals 20 yrs Baptist dau James Henry k Sarah Lavenie Winfrey Brooks

N21 WESLEY GENE MYERS b Corsicana TX 16 Dec 1930 BBA San Houston State U VP British Petrol Co enjoys boating hunting carpentry Baptist m Jeanne Josephine Olivia Hall b Baltimore MD 14 Aug 1931 BS Ed Sam Houston State U 1952 8 yrs teacher Houston 8 yrs Dir Friendswood Af­ ter School Program Who's Who in Am Col k Umv 1952 Baptist dau Mora Sylvester k Josephine Cookman Oawthrope Hall

N211 WESLEY BUY MYERS II b Houston TX 15 Feb 1954 HS Natl Honor Soc all state football 1971 sr U Houston emp HMS oil movements scheduler enjoys boating fishing clarinet Fig. 88. The Gene Myers family. Top row: m Bay Lynn Wojtek b Pasadena TX 4 Sep David, Guy, Mike. Second row: Wendy, Gay 1957 Baptist dau Doyle Eugene k Martha Lynn, Karen. Third row: Jeanne, Gene. Bot­ Eldorene White Wojtek tom row: Adam, Matthew, Mike Jr., Jessica.

N2111 WESLEY ADAM MYERS b Houston TX 31 Mar 1980 N22 NORMA FAYE MYERS b Conroe TX 5 May 1933 ml Kenneth Wayne Colley (chid N221) b 1 Jun 1929 N2112 MATTHEW GUY MYERS b Houston TX 8 Feb son Thomas Virgil k Isa May Murdock Col ley 1982 m2 Edward Owen Smith 20 Oct 1967 b Ft Worth TX Jun 1927 son Edward Newton k Maude Odessa N212 MICHAEL SENE MYERS b Houston TX 11 May White Smith 1955 grad journeyman pipefitter enjoys boating fishing guitar Christian N221 KENNETH BRENT C0LLEY b El Paso TX 8 May fii Karen Marie Richie b Houston TX 10 Oct 1955 loves animals surfing k art 1956 Christian dau Richard Joseph Jr k Lura Mae Perron Richie N23 DALE DALM0N MYERS b Houston TX 30 Apr 1935 grad high school college welding instructor Monsanto N2121 JESSICA LYNN MYERS b Houston TX 10 Jan Chem Co 2i yrs enjoys family reunions racing 1976 cars k boats Christian m Suzanne Christine Isome b Taylorville Chris­ N2122 MICHAEL GENE MYERS JR b Houston TX 9 tian County IL 24 Sep 1938 dau Albert Mc­ Nov 1980 Laughlin Jr k Helena Harrison Isome

N213 DAVID BLAKE MYERS b Houston TX 17 Aug N231 TERRY ANNE MYERS b LaMargue TX 6 Dec 1956 i960 gr TX A&M U 1985 Natl Choir Award d 1 Jun 1960 1979 enjoys singing water skiing Baptist N232 CHRISTOPHER ALBERT MYERS b LaMarque TX 15 N214 WENDY J0ELLA MYERS b Plainfield NJ 28 Oct Aug 1959 grad high school carpenter en­ 1965 Mu Alpha Theta math fraternity Natl joys family mountain camping Christian Honor Soc Wranglerette drill team first yr mi Robin Bates (chid) student TX AM U plays oboe piano Baptist m2 Monica Renoux of NH in Midland TX

211 N2321 CHRISTOPHER RYAN MYERS N4 WILLIAM TAFT MYERS b Holliday KS 28 Feb 1909 d Hous­ ton 25 Nov 1959 (Haven of Memories Cem Canton Van N233 MYRA JANE MYERS b LaMargue TX 29 Jul 2961 Zandt County TX) grad Massey Bus Col Houston TX 28 BBA Acctg TX AM U 1983 CPA 1985 emp TX yrs emp Humble Oil Co Van ISD Schl Bd member 1950-59 A&M U enjoys music Christian pres 1953-59 member Colfax Lodge 904 Church of Christ m James Caradec 19 May 1985 grad mech eng m Mable Maureen Gilley b Malone Hill County TX 22 Oct TX AM U 1913 co-owner Tot's Flower Shop Van TX dau Shelia k Ophia Letha Si Hey Church of Christ N234 KAREN LEIGH MYERS b LaMargue TX 2 Sep 1962 grad high school secy/receptionist Essex N41 DIAN MYERS b Tyler Smith CountyTX 29 Sep 1941 Oil loves music Christian Van HS 1960 cheerleader Who's Who Art co-owner Tot's Flower Shop Van TX Church of Christ N235 AMY SUZANNE MYERS b LaMargue TX 3 Sep 1965 m David Gene Shelton 23 Dec 1961 b Grand Saline high school honor student cheerleader secy Van Zandt County TX 16 Jun 1942 Assembly of sr class gymnast Christian God son Floyd Eugene k Rosalee Kilburn Shelton

N24 BROOKS MYERS b Houston TX 21 Oct 1941 BS Biol N411 DANA DIAN SHELTON b Tyler TX 31 Oct 1963 Sam Houston State U 1964 research scientist at majorette Van HS 1982 Who's Who Among Am UT MD Anderson Hosp Tumor Inst TX Med Ctr HS cheerleader UIL state qualifier Assoc Houston author 14 papers published in scientific Diploma Cum Laude Tyler Jr Col 1984. Grad literature enjoys bird hunting auto mechanics Stephen F Austin SU Assembly of God boating Friends Church Friendswood TX m Janice Marie Emmite b Galveston TX 21 Oct 1942 N412 WILLIAM DARIN SHELTON b Tyler Smith County attended TX Womens U homemaker secy Gen Tel Co TX 17 Nov 1968 k in med ed sales in home interiors/cosmetics enjoys gardening interior decor Friends Church Friendswood TX dau Salvatore Joseph k Olga Rose Micheletti Eramite

N241 CLAYTON PAUL MYERS b Galveston TX 7 Dec 1964 grad Friendswood HS 1983 driller foundation pier drilling firm enjoys hunting fishing 4whl driving auto mechan­ ics boating Friends Church Friendswood TX

N242 CHRISTY ELIZABETH MYERS b Houston TX i5 May 1969 honor student Friendswood HS en­ joys drill team swimming dancing k other activities Friends Church Friendswood TX

NORMA ARDATH MYERS b Cowden IL 25 Jan 1905 BS Pub Hlth Nursing Peabody Col Nashville TN RN Pub Hlth Nursing Pres Dist 9 TX Grad Nurses Assn Secy/Treas State Org for Pub Hlth Nursing enjoys cooking learned at early age in kitchen with mother cooking for all her brothers specialty; hot rolls jams k jellies Norma is much beloved by her large family of nieces k nephews sisters-in-law k lone surviving brother Chris m Charles Scott Standard 1 Nov 1969 d 12 July 1977 (Veterans Cem Houston TX) BS Elec Engr Borgia Tech Fig. 89. Norma Myers (Mrs. Scott) Standard Methodist

212 Doris Myers Moroleen Davis Chris Myers

N5 CHRISTIAN MORLAND WINKLER MYERS b Cometa Dimmit Coun­ ty TX 23 Dec 1911 retd Exxon USA 43 yrs svc hobby gem k mineral colecting k jewelry making Baptist m Doris Geraldine Smith Great Falls MT 26 Jul 1933 (returned to church where married on 50th anniver­ sary) b Green City MO 21 Oct 1916 Baptist dau Ira Jackson St Emma Elizabeth Fear Smith

N51 MOROLEEN ETHEL MYERS b Tyler Smith County TX 22 Dec 1934 grad Van TX HS k Draughns Bus Col Dal­ las TX emp in oilfield dealing with and report­ ing to all state k some federal regulatory agen­ cies affecting oil it gas industry active in 4H program local through state enjoys most handwork St crafts esp crochet k needlepoint Baptist m Arthur Lamar Davis b Van Zandt County TX 27 Sep 1934 son Walter Hampton & Leia Mae Davis div

N511 STEVEN LAMAR DAVIS b Dallas TX 3 Dec 1957 grad Freer HS k Del Mar Tech Diesel Mech Advanced Dean's list Corpus Christi TX Cummins Diesel Schl Houston TX heavy equip mech k opr enjoys horses k working cattle Baptist m Kathyrn Elaine Tumlinson Freer TX 4 Aug 1984 b Port Lavaca TX 6 Jul 1966 enjoys horses dau John E ?< Kathyrn Guenther Cleere Tumlinson

N5111 KELLY ANN DAVIS b Freer TX 5 Jul 1985

N5112 KIMBERLY KAY DAVIS b 17 Aug 1986 Steven Lamar and Kathryn Tumlinson Davis

213 N512 CHRIS HAMPTON DAVIS b Garland TX 4 Sep 1959 grad Freer HS US Marine Corps CH46 helicopter mech k crew chief Sgt hon disch 1984 machinist Baptist m Linda Susan Barron Freer TX 2 Nov 1978 b McAllen TX 1 Jan 1962 grad HS Irvine CA

N5121 JOHN CHRISTOPHER DAVIS b Long Beach CA 17 Oct 1981

N513 CHERYL DARLEEN DAVIS b Freer TX 19 Jan 1961 grad Freer HS twirler Who's Who in Music Bee County Col gen business enjoys music dancing horses It cake decorating Baptist m Steven Vick Pease Freer TX 4 Nov 1978 b Freer TX 3 Jan 1954 grad Freer HS at­ tended various schls/seminars oilfield gauger/mech enjoys horses ranching k re­ building cars son Jeff Vick k Helen Jean Margaret Mediin Pease John Christopher, Linda and Chris Davis

N5131 TORI NICOLE PEASE b Alice TX 18 May 1980

N514 ANNETTE YVONNE DAVIS b Laredo TX 9 Jun 1971 Baptist

Tori Nicole and Cheryl Myers Pease Annette Yvonne Davis 214 N6 J DONALD MYERS SR b Cometa Dimmit County TX 9 Aug 1915 d Houston TX 3 Apr 1978 (Forest Pk East Cem Houston TX) fid supt Humble Oil k Ref Co medical re­ tirement after 27 yrs member Dickinson Masonic Lodge Scottish Rite Arabia Temple Shrine enjoyed all sports k travel member So Houston Baptist Church m Evelyn Estes b Wills Point Van Zandt County TX 11 Aug 1918 dau Charles Connor k Jewell Smith Estes

Mil J DONALD MYERS JR b Paris TX 15 Jul 1939 attend­ ed Rice U ?t Sam Houston State member Mount Bel- view Baptist Church ml Beverly Wright (chid N611) m2 Jimi Kay Schwartzkopf (chldrn 2&3) b Dallas TX 20 Nov 1950 dau Louis John k Mary Theo Provenzano Schwartzkopf

N611 RONALD WAYNE MYERS b Houston TX 22 Jun 1962

N612 KELLY DAWN MYERS b Houston TX 22 Feb 1981

N613 J DONALD MYERS III b 15 Jul 1986 N62 KAREN MYERS b Houston TX 25 Oct 1944 Natl Honor Soc attended U of Houston mgr sales adm Contl Airlines enjoys sports k travel member So Mam Baptist Church Houston ml Charles Richard Harvey b Shamrock TX son Richard M k Martha Ziegler Harvey div m2 Peter D Weiner Houston TX 5 Mar 1986 was on faculty TX AM U k consultant Exxon 25 yrs owns consulting firm, Weiner Intl, Houston N621 JAY RICHARD HARVEY b Houston TX 30 Oct 1969 Who's Who Among American High School Students 1985-6 Natl Merit Scholar Finalist 1987 Presidential Scholarship TX AM Honors Program Pre-Med

N622 LEE ALLEN HARVEY b Houston TX 14 Hay 1971 sports, guitar

(a) Evelyn and Don Myers, Sr. (b) Don Myers Jr., family, (a) Karen and. Pete Weiner, (d) Lee and Jay Harvey 215 wte

1979 Myers Fami-ly Reunion, Carrizo Springs, Texas Photo by Joe Tidwell, Jr. taken at home of Jay Myers CHRISTIAN H MYERS FAMILY REUNION

CARRIZO SPRINGS, TEXAS November, 1979

1. N621 Jay Harvey 2. N62 Karen Myers Harvey 3. W2 Lloyd Adams, Sr. 4. L63 Vera Swallow (Mrs. "Bo") Cowell 5. L6 Alta Myers (Mrs. Edgar) Swallow 6. L63 Burdett "Bo" Cowel 7. N5 Doris (Mrs. Chris) Myers 8. N51 Moroleen Myers Davis 9. N5 Chris Myers 10. N24 Brooks Myers 11. N24 Janice (Mrs. Brooks) Myers 12. N3 Norma Myers Standard 13. N21 Jeanne (Mrs. Gene) Myers 14. Nil Jim Powers 15. Nil Vada Myers (Mrs. Jim) Powers 16. N212 Mike Myers 17. W5 Wm. Scott Myers 18. N6 Jewell Estes (Mother of Evelyn Myers) 19. N2 Ella (Mrs. Guy) Myers 20. W4 Jay Scott Myers, Sr. 21. N211 Gay Lynn (Mrs. W. Guy) Myers 22. N513 Vick Pease 23. N211 Guy Myers 24. W2 Dorothy MK (Mrs. Lloyd) Adams 25. N61 Jimi (Mrs. Don, Jr.) Myers 26. N23 Dale Myers 27. N6 Evelyn (Mrs. Don) Myers, Sr. 28. W43 Jay Scott Myers, Jr. 29. N61 Richard Kitchens (Stepson of Don Myers, Jr.) 30. N511 Steve Davis 31. N511 Debbie (Mrs. Steve) Davis 32. W53 Clifford Myers 33. N622 Lee Harvey 34. N214 Wendy Myers 35. N213 David Myers 36. N21 Gene Myers 37. N234 Karen Myers 38. N2121 Jessica Myers 39. N212 Karen (Mrs. Mike) Myers 40. N513 Cheryl Davis (Mrs. Vick) Pease 41. N241 Clay Myers 42. N233 Myra Jane Myers 43. N235 Amy Myers 44. N24 2 Christy Myers 45. W5 Virginia (Mrs. Wm. Scott) Myers, II.

Those attending the reunion but not included in photograph: Nil Robert Powers, N514 Annette Davis, N61 Don Myers, Jr., W4 Lucile (Mrs. Jay, Sr.) Myers, W21 Laura (Mrs. Joe, II) Tidwell, W21 Joe Tidwell, II, W211 Tuleta Ulbrich, W212 Joe Wiley Tidwell III.

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30 31 34 35 37 4Q „ 29 33 38 44

217 MYERS REUNION 1981 ESTES PARK, COLORADO

TOP,^ Generation VIII: top row, Evelyn, Doris, Chris, Dorothy, Mandas, Jay. Bottom row, Alta, Norma, Lucile, Ella

CENTER, Generation IX: Karen, Moroleen, Gene, Jeanne, Wanda, Vera, Bo, Sigmund

BOTTOM, Generations X and XI: top row, Tori, Vic, Cheryl, Wendy, a friend, David. Bottom row, Jay, Annette, Lee, Tuleta

218 1988 MYERS DIRECTORY

LIVING DESCENDANTS AND SPOUSES OF JOHN, LESTER, WILLIAM, LAWRENCE, AND NORMAN, MYERS

W2 ADAMS Dorothy M K, 10819 Briar Forest Dr, Houston TX 77042 713/977-8770 L2112 ARDESSI Edward (DiAnn), 3929 Delta, Rosemead CA 91770 • 818/288-0327 LA3121 ARMSTRONG Chad, c/o LA312

L243 BAILEY Paul (Lila), Gen Del, Wickenburg AZ 85358 602/684-7064 L21211 BARNEY Candace, c/o L2121 L21214 Crystal, c/o L2121 L21213 Heather, c/o L2121 L21212 Justin, c/o L2121 L2121 Kenneth (Linda), 1109 Deakin five #5, Moscow ID 83843 208/883-3013 J21 BEETHAM Roland (Lucile), 1750 Cooper Rd, Scotch Plains NJ 07076 201/889-4668 L6321 BUTTERFIELD Cal, c/o L632 L6322 Carre, c/o L632 L632 Larry (Ann), 3107 Meadowlark, Ft Collins CO 80526 303/223-7860 L6323 Todd, c/o L632

L233 CARADEC, James (Myra Jane), 4045 Treadway #2307, Beaumont TX 77706 L272 CASEY David (Robin), 214 Losser St, Tahlequah OK 74464 918/456-4155 L2413 Heidi, c/o L241 L2722 Robert, c/o L272 L2721 Sandi Lynn, c/o L272 N221 COLLEY Kenneth, c/o N22 LA31 COOK Marian, 2402 Custer, Billings MT 59102 406/656-4054 L63 C0WEL "Bo" iVera), 4710 Hogan, Ft Collins CO 80525 303/223-6543

N514 DAVIS Annette, c/o N5 N512 Chris (Linda), 512 College St, Alice TX 78332 N5121 John Christopher, c/o N512 N5111 Kelly Ann, c/o N511 N5112 Kimberly Kay, c/o N511 N51 Moroleen, c/o N5 N511 Steve (Kathy), P 0 Box 324, Encinal TX 78019 L3231 DeHAAN Christina, c/o L323 L3233 Jessica Rae de Haan, c/o L323 L3232 Rudolph Paul, c/o L323 L323 Rudy (Patricia), 1103 Lane 8, Rt 1, Powell WY 82435 307/754-3567 L3211 DIETRICH Amy Jo, c/o L321 L321 Jerry (Karen), 822 Jonathan Rd, Powell WY 82435 307/754-3578 L3212 Joslyn, c/o L321 L255 DILLON Daniel Dean (Renee), 51 Queens R V, Powell WY 82435 307/754-5474 L2551 Tonya Nichole, c/o L255 J14111 DUNN Brian, c/o J141 J14112 Byron, c/o J141 J1413 Christy, c/o J141 J141 Gordon (Susan), Address Unknown J1411 Jon ( ), c/o J141 J1412 Sean, c/o J141

L21232 FINCH Clint, c/o L2123 L21233 Chrissy Nicole, c/o L2123 L21231 Melisa, c/o L2123 L2123 Stanley (Sherri Lou), Box 1195, Eagar AZ 85925 602/333-4046

Lll GUYER Bertina, 6148 N Avon, San Gabriel CA 91775 818/286-3598 Lllll Mona Lee, 944 Irvine West, The Dalles OR 97058 503/296-4523

219 11112 GUYER Robert, 14412 SE Arista Or Milwaukie OR' 97222 503/653-6482 Llll Wayne (Jo Ann), 1506 W 228th, Torrance CA 90501 213/326-3930

LA3 HARRELL Bess, c/o LA31 N621 HARVEY Jay, c/o N62 N622 Lee, c/o N62 L3*2 HEPKER Paul (Larissa) 182* S 80th St, Mesa AZ 85208 L3421 Sarah Joyce, c/o L342 L2462 HOFFMAN Alison, c/o L246 L2442 Christopher, c/o L244 L2441 Ehssa Ann, c/o L244 L242 Eugene (Annette), 521 72nd St W, Billings MT 59106 406/652-1881 L2461 Garratt, c/o L246 L24 Harold (Ramona), 224 N 31st St, Billings MT 59101 L244 Harold (Valeria), 6329 E 8th Ave, Anchorage AK 99504 907/333-7730 L2421 Kevin, c/o L242 L245 Royce (Luella), PO Box 2168, Wickenburg AZ 85358 L2541 Ryan Glen, c/o L245 L246 Steven (Loraine), Box 2303, Coldstrip MT 59323 W51 HOOD Earl (Emily), 312 Sterling Browning. San Antonio TX 78232-1220 ..512/494-0918 J121 HORSLEY Bob (Nancy), 14857 High Valley Rd, Poway CA 92064 714/748-6614 J1231 Brian, c/o J123 J123 David (Ginnyl, Kooskia ID 83539 208/926-0944 J1221 Donald (Rally), 1005 Jimson, Bakersfield CA J1222 Greg (Kim), 2409 Carlita Rd, Bakersfield CA 93704 J1213 Julie, c/o J121 J1211 Kenneth (Frances), Address Unknown J1212 Lisa, c/o J121 J12221 Matthew, c/o J1222 J122 Neil (Beverly), 2927 E San Gabriel, Fresno CA 93725 209/229-1712 J1223 Steven, c/o J122 LSI 14 HUBBARD Haley Mae. c/o L811 L8 Jessie Vera, 267 N Carnngton, Buffalo WY 82834 307/684-2287 L8112 Kristopher Thomas, c/o LS11 L8113 Kyle Patrick, c/o L811 L811 Mike (Cheryl), 6916 Bonneville PI, Cheyenne WY 82001 307/638-0013 LSI 11 Shanna Michelle, c/o L811 LSI Shirley, 544 Brodie, Lander WY 82520 L4 HURD Bertha, 610 S Yakima, Tacoma WA 98405 206/272-1733 J2113 HUTCHISON Andrew, c/o J211 J2111 Bradley, c/o J211 J212 Craig, 104 Hemlock Dr, Pomp ton Lakes NJ 07442 201/382-2695 J211 Curtis (Cynthia), 21630 East Gsddes Place, Aurora CO 80016 J2112 Stephanie, c/o J211

L3i KELLER Helen, 1502 N James, Tacoma WA 98406 206/752-1432 L311 Kenneth, 1003 5 Pugst Sound, Tacoma WA 98405 L5 KEMOCK Anna, 8035 E Hi 11 Dr, Rosemead CA 91770 213/573-4058 W22 KNOWLTON Bob 5605 St Moritz, Bellaire TX 77401 713/667-0117 L3222 KVIA Marcie Sigrid, c/o L322 L322 Michael (Debra), Box 32, Byron WY 82435 307/548-7873 L3221 Michael Sigurd, c/o L322 L32 Sigurd (Wanda), 365 S Hamilton, Powell WY 82435 307/754-3687

L21 LARMER Nyna, 432 E 8th, Powell WY 82435 307/754-2801 LA3122 LINK Traci, c/o LA312 LA312 Walter (Sharon), 5082 Tucson Way, Denver CO 80239 303/371-1847 L34 LITTLE Dan (Pat), 1236 151st SE, Ballevue WA 98004 206/746-7127 L341 Lenore, c/o L34 L343 Morgan, c/o L34

220 J222 LOUGHREY Lynn, 5/6 2282 Commonwealth, St. Paul MN 55108 612/644-2940

J223 McWILLlAMS Sid (Gale), Flat 9 #4 Rose Crescent, Mosman, N S Wales, Australia 2088 L2522 MOCK Ashley Dawn, c/o L252 L2523 Casey LaMar, c/o L252 L2521 Erin Lynn, c/o L252 L252 Murray (Brenda), 6416 W Wilshire Blvd, Oklahoma City OK 73132 405/728-3076 L211 MUNOZ Andrew (Ellen), 360 N Lima, Sierra Madre CA 91024 213/355-6271 L2111 Dawn, c/o L211 L2U3 Douglas, c/o L211 N2111 MYERS Adam, c/o N211 L2412 Amanda, c/o L241 N235 Amy, c/o N23 W42 Barbara, 526 Nottingham, San Antonio TX 78209 N24 Brooks (Janice), 401 Stadium, Friendswood TX 77546 713/482-3198 N5 Chris (Doris), Box 326, Freer TX 76357 512/394-7885 N232 Chris (Monica), 2312 Karh, Las Vegas NV 89102 N2321 Christopher Ryan, c/o N232 N242 Christy, c/o N24 N241 Clay, c/o N24 W53 Cliff, 312 Sterling Browning, San Antonio TX 78232-1220 512/494-0918 N23 Dale (Suzanne), Rt 7 Box 72, Alvin TX 77511 713/331-5610 N213 David, c/o N21 Ntl Don (Jim), 13717 Nightingale, Houston TX 77050 713/458-0391 N2 Ella, 4312 42nd St, Dickinson TX 77539 713/337-3256 N6 Evelyn, 11322 Haren, Houston TX 77072 713/498-8325 N21 Gene (Jeanne), 205 W Heritage, Friendswood TX 77546 713/482-3552 L26 Glen (Edna), Box 341, Meeteetse WY 82433 307/666-2601 N211 Guy (Gay Lynn), 2911 Spring Creek Lane, Pearland TX 77581 713/485-7586 W4 Jay (Lucy), Box 385, Carrizo Springs TX 78834 512/876-2212 N613 J Donald III, c/o N61 L254 Jcanctte, c/o L25 N2121 Jessica, c/o N212 W43 J Scott, 9102 Wildndge Dr, Austin TX 78759 512/346-3171 N234 Karen, c/o N23 N612 Kelly Dawn, c/o N61 L253 Kenneth, c/o L25 L25 Loyd (Jeanine) 444 E 8th, Powell WY 82435 307/754-9329 N212 Mike (Karen), 304 Ballmar Ln, Friendswood TX 77546 713/482-1094 N2122 Mike Jr, c/o N212 N4 Maureen, Box 666, Van TX 75790 214/963-7536 N2112 Matthew Guy, c/o N211 Nl "Njggie," 2626 Gramcrcy, Houston TX 77030 713/667-3419 L251 Robert L, c/o L25 N611 Ronnie, c/o N61 L2 Ruth, Box 298, Powsll WY 82435 L261 Sandi Marie, 2220 East 4500 So. #3, Salt Lake City UT 84117 L24.1 Soma, P0 Box 21852, Billings MT 59104-1852 406/252-5745 L263 Stacy, c/o L26 L2411 Tonya Marie, c/o L241 Tyle, c/o L26 L33 Vera, c/o L31 N214 Wendy, c/o N21 W5 William (Virginia), 3110 Mayfair, San Antonio TX 78217-3931 512/653-4684 W52 W Scott III, 905-B Milford Way, Austin TX 78745 512/441-0411 W521 Zeb, c/o W52

N5131 PEASE Ton Nicole, c/o N513 N513 Cheryl, 607 Fillmore V2, Victoria TX 512/576-1351 W41 PICKETT Beverly, 511 Stockton, San Antonio TX 78216 512/342-5624

221 H411 PICKETT Patrick, c/o W41 Nil POWERS Jin (Vada), 11810 Meadowdale, Stafford TX 77477 713/498-8129 N113 POWERS Laura, c/o Nil N112 Patricia "Pat", 1000 Wellington, Houston TX 77076

L35 SELLERS (Martha Jo), 8161 Palisades Dr 1175, Stockton CA 95210 N411 SHELTON Dana, c/o N41 N412 Darin, c/o N41 N41 David (Dian), Box 666, Van TX 75790 214/963-7536 L62U1 SITZMAN Elizabeth, c/o L621 L621 Helen, 2551 Worden St #25, San Diego CA 92110 619/226-4916 L6211 Mark (Sandra), 607 Alpert Ct Apt B, Ft Collins CO 80525 L6212 Suzanne, c/o L621 N22 SMITH Ed (Norma Fay), 4905 Bluewater, Dickinson TX 77539 713/337-2381 N3 STANDARD Norma, 403 Gale, Houston TX 77009 713/695-6753 L61 SWALLOW Mae, 2679 S York, Denver CO 80210 303/722-4304 L611 SWALLOW-HAGEN Karen (Edwin), 2364 S East Division, Portland OR 97202 503/231-0822 L6111 Nile, c/o L611 J22 SWEETLAND Estelle, 2282 Commonwealth, St Paul MN 55108 612/644-2940 J224 Haather (Steven Coz) 2127 Sussex Avenue, Duluth MN 55803 218/724-6408 J2212 Scott A, c/o J221 J2211 Stephen Jr, c/o J221 J221 Stephen Sr (Carol), 214 Mary Knoll, Stillwater MN 55082 612/439-1160

L352 TACHERA Alan, c/o L35 L353 Denise, c/o L35 L354 Jason, c/o L35 J132 THEW Bob Jr (Karen), 5709A Lalomai Rd, Glendale AZ 85307 602/935-5852 J142 Charles (Elaine), 5770 East Kings Canyon Rd, Fresno CA 93727 J1321 Glenna Marie, c/o J132 J131 LaVonne. c/o J13 J13 Margaret, 3219 Stapp Dr, Visalia CA 93277 209/733-4856 J1322 Steven A, c/o J132 W21 TIDWELL Joe (Laura), Box 203, Carrizo Springs Tx 78834 512/876-9505 W212 Joe Wiley, c/o W21

W211 ULBRICH Tuleta, c/o W21

L631 WALTERS Ansel (Shirley), 7000 W Radcliff, Littleton CO 80123 303/973-0361 L6311 Ansel Alan c/o L631 L633 Bill (Jacgue), 2552 E Alameda 13, Denver CO 80209 L6331 Mike, c/o L633 N62 WEINER Pete (Karen Harvey), 11322 Hazen, Houston TX 77072 713/498-8825 LA7 WESTHUSIN Joseph (Eddith), 4706 NE Mallory, Portland OR 97211 503/284-5567 L2124 WILCOCK Blaine, c/o L212 L21225 Jacob, c/o L2122 L21221 Jason, c/o L2122 L21223 Jessie, c/o L2122 L21222 Joseph, c/o L2122 L2122 Kennard (LaFawn), RFD 3 Box 6, Price UT 84501 801/637-1488 L212 Kennard (Luella), P.O. Drawer 1929, Show Low AZ 85901 602/537-2119 L2713 WORKMAN Angela Ann, c/o L271 L271 Chuck (Geneva), Loop Rt, Tahlequah OK 74464 918/456-4708 L2711 Jeanie Marie, c/o L271 L2712 Latosha Michelle, c/o L271 L27 Robert (Betty), 415 W Allen Rd, Tahlequah OK 74464 918/456-8504

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