Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Myers, John B. 1843 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOHN B. MYERS.

   John B. Myers, a prosperous farmer of Monroe township, Carroll county,
Indiana, who occupies eighty acres of land, one-half mile from the Flora
corporation line, on which he was born, March 8, 1843, is the son of Samuel and
Mary (Burkett) Myers.

   Mr. Myers' parents were both born in Wayne county, Indiana. His father,
Samuel Myers, entered the home farm in pioneer times and was compelled to walk
sixty miles to Crawfordsville to the land office in order to be ahead of other
men, who also wanted to enter the land. In fact, all of the land in this
neighborhood had been entered with the exception of this eighty-acre tract which
Samuel Myers very much wanted. After entering the tract of land, he returned to
Wayne county, was married and brought his wife with him to Carroll county. They
cut a path from the crude road to the cabin and, from time to time, the acreage
of the farm was increased until it comprised, at one time, two hundred and sixty
acres. Here Samuel Myers spent the remainder of his life and died at the age of
seventy-five. His wife died in 1864.

   When John B. Myers was eighteen years old, in 1862, he enlisted in the
Twenty-fourth Indiana Battery, under Captain Sims, and served until the close of
the war in 1865. He was taken prisoner in one of the engagements near Atlanta,
Georgia, and was for some time confined in the prison at Andersonville.

   After the war Mr. Myers returned to Carroll county and, for a number of
years, worked on his father's farm. In 1882 John B. Myers was married to Mary
Eikenberry, the daughter of Isaac Eikenberry, of Monroe township. Of the
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Myers, all are living: Isaac, a resident of
Baltimore, Maryland; Roy, Ora, Reuben, Vesta and Attie, all of whom are at home;
Lettie, who is the wife of Nathan Pearson; Anna and Flossie, both of whom are
nurses at Elgin, Illinois. The latter is a graduate of the high school.

   After his marriage Mr. Myers bought eighty acres of land near the old
homestead, which he still owns.

   The Myers family are members of the Church of the Brethren at Flora. Mr.
Myers votes the Republican ticket, and is more or less prominent in the councils
of his party. He takes a worthy interest in all public enterprises and movements.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION
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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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