Peter Henry
Myers
was born in 1799 in Nicholas, Kentucky.
At this time I have not been able to verify who his parents were. Below is a
map of the United States at that time, showing the election results of the 1800
election.
In
1820, William Matthew Babb
(1790-1842) and his wife Temperance
Shipman Babb (1792-1850) had a daughter and named her Temperance Babb. They were living in what is now Crawford, Indiana.
Peter
Henry Myers married, but we do not know what her name was, when or where they
were married. On February 10, 1827 they had a son named Jacob Myers in Stoddard
County, Missouri.
When
Peter was born the state of Missouri did not exist. See how the nation expanded
during the early part of his life.
Missouri
will be the home of a number of our descendants and the counties where they
lived are marked with stars below. As we saw above, Jacob was born in Stoddard
County, which is at the lower right corner of the state. Please notice where
Miller and Dallas Counties are too, because they will become the home of our
descendants very soon.
Peter
Myers had the following children with the same unknown wife after Jacob: Abraham Bosley (1831), Elizabeth (1832), Nancy (1837), Peggy J. (1839),
and Benjamin George (1841). Benjamin George Myers was born in Castor, Stoddard County, Missouri. Peter’s
wife died in 1841. In 1840 the United States looked like this.
It
was about 1841 that Mahala Caroline
Kellison, called “Mahaley” or “Haley” by her immediate family, was born in
Tennessee. She was the third child and second daughter of William and Matilda (Lawson) Kellison, who had ten children in all.
In
the year of 1842 or 1843 the Kellison family, along with some related
connecting families, moved from Tennessee to Miller County, Missouri. They settled on a farm near the county line between Miller and Maries
County, Missouri (northeast of Iberia).
In
1843 Peter Henry Myers married Temperance Babb. On
November 1, 1844 they had their first son in Castor, Stoddard County, Missouri (see map above) and named him James Henry Myers.
John W. Myers, the eldest
child of Jacob and Susan (Tankersly) Myers,
was born about 1846 in Stoddard County, Missouri. In
1847, Peter Henry and Temperance, at
Castor, Missouri (see map below - middle of Stoddard County), had a daughter and
named her Sarah Myers.
Between
1846 and 1848 Jacob Myers moved his
family to Dallas County, Missouri
where James Peter “Pete” (b. 1848), Hannah (b. 1851), and Abraham “Abe” (b. 1854) were born. At
some point in time between 1847 and
April of 1850 Peter Henry Myers moved his family to Dallas County, Missouri.
Jacob lost his wife, Susan (Tankersly) Myers, when she died
in 1854 in Dallas County, Missouri. A
few years later, Jacob married Deborah
Bly (b. 1834 in Missouri). In 1856, Jacob
and Deborah Myers had a daughter, Sarah
Paralee Myers and in 1858 they had another daughter, Rachel Myers.
In
the 1860, the William and Matilda
(Lawson) Kellison family are listed on the US Census as residents of Boone
Township in Maries County, Missouri. William appears at the bottom of the page
and his family continues on the top of the next page.
Mahala C. Kellison, on June 11,
1860, was listed at 19 years of age. Later that year or in the next year she married
a young man living in her neighborhood by the name of John L. Baxter. Family tradition tells us that John L.
Baxter was killed during the Civil War, but we do not know if he served in
the Union of Confederate army because Missouri was equally divided. John and Mahala (Kellison) Baxter had a
son, William Barnett Baxter, called
“Will” by his family on April 16, 1862.
The
United States army required all men 20 to 35 years old to register. A
registration page dated August 1863 list Jacob
Myers as a resident of Miller County, Missouri.
On
the 28th of July, 1867, in Miller County, Missouri, John W. Myers married the young widow, Mahala C. (Kellison) Baxter. In this
county they lived the first seven or eight years of their married life.
On
April 21, 1868, John W. and Mahala Myers
had a daughter Samantha Lee Myers
in Miller County, Missouri. She will be followed by Matilda Etta Jane Myers on February 5, 1870.
We will continue the story in another blog.
SOURCES:
James Edgar Myers, Jr. Family Tree records
The
Family of John W Myers – Mahala Caroline Kellison by Roy E. Gibson
I have recently uncovered information that Temperance Babb was born in 1829 in Crawford County, Missouri
ReplyDeletenot 1809 in Crawford County, Indiana.
But there doesnt seem to be any solid documentation either way.