46                      HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

in Jasonville, from the latter place coming back to Clay City, where he
has since resided.
    On January 14, 1883, Mr. Burnham married Ellen Kilmer, who was
born in Holmes county, Ohio. She is a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth
Kilmer, of whom a brief sketch appears on another page of this volume.

    FRANK M. MYERS, prominent farmer and stock raiser in Posey town-
ship, was born in Brazil, Indiana, November 19, 1850. His father, Will-
iam Y. Myers, for many years a well-known farmer near that town,
was born in Orange county, Indiana, and was but a boy at the time of
his removal with his parents to Brazil, and about two years after his
marriage he located on a farm in Dick Johnson county, where at one
time he owned one hundred and sixty acres, having cleared and improved
the most of the tract. He finally moved to Nebraska, where he died in
1900, a life-long Democrat and a member of the Christian church. He
married in Dick Johnson township Lucy Akers, whose father, Luke
Akers, was one of the early pioneers of Clay county, coming from Vir-
ginia and locating in Dick Johnson township, where his daughter was
afterward born. He entered a farm from the government there, and
lived under a poplar tree until he had cleared a sufficient space on which
to erect his log cabin, His family numbered eleven children, all of
whom were born in that township, two sons and nine daughters. He was
a Democrat politically, and died when his daughter Lucy was young.
Three children, two sons and a daughter, were born to Mr, and Mrs.
Myers, Frank, Mary Jane and Daniel W., the last named now deceased.
    In the fall of 1870 Frank Myers was married to Harriett E. Mor-
gan, who was born and reared in Posey township, her father, Newton
Morgan, having been one of the prominent early pioneers of Clay county,
and they have had six children, Dennis O., Laura, Byron, John A., Anna
and Florence, but Dennis, Laura and John are deceased. All were born in
Posey township.
    After his marriage Mr. Myers purchased his present homestead of
eighty acres, of which he has cleared twenty acres, and his land is fertile
and well improved. He has given his political support from the age of
maturity to the Democratic party, and has been quite active in its local
ranks, lie is a member of the Knights and Ladies of Honor and of the
United Brethren church.

    JOSEPH L. WERNER.—Among the enterprising and progressive men
who are identified with the manufacturing interests of Clay City is
Joseph L. Werner, who as a harness maker is carrying on a successful
business. A native of Clay county, he was born in Harrison township
May 16, 1868, a son of Louis Werner.
    Louis Werner was born in 1831, in Bolonden, Wurtemberg, Ger-
many. At the age of sixteen years, having previously completed his early
education and worked for a while at the butcher’s trade, he emigrated to
America, being ninety days in crossing the Atlantic. Two of his brothers,
Frederick and Jacob, and one sister, Catherine, also came to this country
to live. Spending but a few days in New York City, Louis Werner con-
tinued his journey westward as far as Ohio, where he found employment
on a farm in Coshocton county. In 1853 he pushed still farther towards
the western frontier, coming to Clay county, Indiana, and locating in
Harrison township, where, on section five, he bought from the govern-