Jackson County KS Archives Obituaries.....MYERS, Thomas  November 9, 1922
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The Holton Recorder
Jackson County
Thursday
November 9, 1922    

Myers.
Thomas MYERS was born July 3, 1847, in Monroe county, Ohio, and moved with his
parents to Wood county, West Virginia, when four years of age where he grew up
to manhood.
He was united in marriage to Nancy HOSTUTLER February 20, 1873, and to this
union were born five children, two sons and three daughters. One son and one
daughter died in childhood.
He with his family came to Kansas in August 1880, and settled on a farm nine
miles south of Soldier where he lived until 1909 when he moved to Delia where he
spent the remainder of this earthly life.
He passed suddenly and quietly away November 1, 1922, at the ripe age of 75
years and 4 months. He was a of a family of 11 children, 10 boys and one girl.
He was converted when a young man and united with M.E. church. He afterward
united with the United Brethren church at Soldier Valley, Kan. He was a man of
integrity and activity, always doing something and always ready to lend a
helping hand to anyone in need, and he will be greatly missed by neighbors as
well as the family.
He leaves to mourn his departure, wife, one son, Samuel S. Myers, of
Circleville, Kan., two daughters, Mrs. Clara WARD and Mrs. Erma MAXEY of Enid,
Okla., 21 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren, also three brothers, Benton
Myers of Banger, Calif., and Charles Myers and Madison Myers of West Virginia,
one sister, Mrs. May BLEVENT, Bellville, W. Va.
The funeral took place from the Presbyterian church in Delia Saturday, November
4, at 10:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. J. Wykert, where a very large gathering
of friends and neighbors came to express their sympathy for the bereaved. He had
served as janitor for the schools in Delia for the last two years and the high
school and grade school each presented beautiful floral tributes and there was
quite an abundance of other contributions of flowers. 
His remains were laid to rest in the Delia cemetery. 


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