Adams-Delaware County PA Archives News.....Mrs. John T. Myers on Platform of Lincoln Address ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bob Cooke Cookerl3@aol.com May 8, 2005, 11:05 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gettysburg Times May 29, 1931 County Native To Be Valley Forge Guest A small white haired Quaker mother, who sat on the same platform with President Lincoln when he made his famous Gettysburg address here 68 years ago, will be seated on the platform at Valley Forge Saturday morning when President Hoover makes his memorial day address there. The guest will be Mrs. John T. Myers, 86- year-old native of York Springs. Mrs. Myers, who now lives in Moylan with her son, Albert Cook Myers, noted Valley Forge historian, was the former Miss Sarah A. Cook who at the time the national cemetery here was dedicated by Lincoln was a teacher at Bendersville. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times May 31, 1931 Hoover Urges Nation To Be Steadfast "...As Mr. Hoover turned to depart he shook hands with Mrs. John T. Myers, 86 years old, of Moylan, Pa., who sat on the platform at Gettysburg when Lincoln delivered his famous address and who shook hands with the great emancipator following the ceremonies. Mrs. Meyers is the mother of Dr. Albert Cook Meyers [Myers], a member of the Valley Forge Park Commission and assistant curator of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chester Times August 9, 1937 MRS. J.T. MYERS, DIES AT MOYLAN; HEARD LINCOLN Mrs. John T. Myers, the Moylan woman who shook hands with President Abraham Lincoln and who was on the speakers' platform when he made his famous Gettysburg address, died at 2:15 a.m., today, at her home on Rose Valley road. She was in her ninety-fourth year, having celebrated her ninety-third birthday on July 9. The county woman was only 19 years old when President Lincoln made his history making speech at Gettysburg on that momentous day in November 1863. She was seated nearby when the President uttered the words that were destined to be written indelibly upon the pages of American history. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Additional information can be found at: http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/news/recollect.htm This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb