BIO: John EYER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 122.
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  JOHN EYER, Warriors Mark, Huntingdon county, Pa., son of John and 
Susan (Myers) Eyer, was born in Warriors Mark, September 26, 1833.  His 
grandfather, Christian Eyer, was a native of Lancaster county, Pa., 
where he was for many years a miller.  He married, and with his family 
came to Huntingdon county, settling in Warriors Mark township, where he 
died in February, 1846, at the age of eighty-two, his wife having 
preceded him to the grave by a few years.  They had these children:  
Jacob, died in Centre county, Pa.; Mrs. Mong, died in Clarion county, 
Pa.; Nancy, married Mr. Rider, and removed to Iowa, where she died; 
John; Elizabeth (Mrs. John Ellenberger), died in Spruce Creek, 
Huntingdon county; and Samuel, went West in the spring of 1859, and now 
resides in Colorado.  He is eighty-four years old, but hale and hearty.  
On his eighty-second birthday he was picking huckleberries on the 
mountain; thus lightly has time dealt with him.
  John Eyer was born in Lancaster county, and was ten years old when 
his parents came to Warriors Mark, and took up their residence on a 
large tract of land.  The country was in a very wild state at all time, 
and plain living was the rule everywhere.  Reared on the farm, he 
continued to be a farmer all his life.  He married Susan Myers in 
Warriors Mark, where they both died, Mr. Eyer in 1870, at the age of 
seventy years, and his wife in July, 1883, aged seventy-eight.  Mr. 
Eyer met his death very suddenly.  While driving through the streets of 
Tyrone, his horse took fright at a flying piece of paper and ran away, 
throwing him out and killing him almost instantly.  His body is buried 
in a small cemetery on the old homestead.  Their children were:  
Daniel, died March 24, 1897; Annie, widow of Henry White, resides in 
Bellefonte, Pa.; John; Jeremiah, who has served as supervisor for 
fifteen years, married, first, Jane Grazier and afterwards Frances 
Taylor; David, farmer on the old homestead, married Mary A. Dixon; 
Christian, resides on the homestead; Amanda (Mrs. Henry Myers), of 
Warriors Mark township; Mary Jane, married Rev. Joseph N. McClay, 
resides in Fayette county, Pa.
  John Eyer, Jr., attended both the subscription and the public 
schools.  He worked on the farm until he was nineteen, then worked at 
carpentering for two or three years, but afterwards resumed farming.  
He was married January 31, 1856, in Warriors Mark, to Eliza Ann Myers, 
born in Shirley township, Huntingdon county, in 1837.  She was the 
daughter of Grobel Myers, a Dunkard preacher, and Magdalena (Weidley) 
Myers.  After his marriage Mr. Eyer farmed by the month in Tyrone 
township, Blair county, for two years and then returned to Warriors 
Mark on account of the tyranny of the ironmasters, for whom he worked 
in Tyrone township.  He settled on 80 acres, where after clearing the 
land, he built a house and barn; here he resided for nine years, but on 
account of a lack of educational advantages he sold out and removed to 
Tyrone township; three years later he bought his present place of 120 
acres.  He has made great improvements on his place, among them being 
the erection of a new barn, and extensive repairs to that dwelling.  
Mrs. Eyer died April 23, 1894.  She had been a most patient, 
uncomplaining sufferer for many years, bearing without murmur the 
agonies of that terrible disease, cancer, fourteen tumors being taken 
from her body.  She was most highly esteemed by all for her unfailing 
kindness, sociability, and Christian charity.  She is buried in the 
Dunkard cemetery at Cross Roads.  They had these children:  Lewis M., a 
grocer at Tyrone, married Laura Woomer; Harry, married to Annie Bible, 
went to the state of Washington, where he now resides; Howard, a 
machinist at Tyrone, married Letitia Minnick; Laura, married Dr. 
Markle, of Tyrone, and died in the fall of 1889; Leah A., married Adam 
Frye, a druggist of Davis, Stevenson county, Ill.; Clara, married 
Calvin Garland, resides in Pittsburg, Pa.; Harriet, at home; Edgar C., 
married Edith K. Wertz, of Warriors Mark township; Wilbur C., married 
Mary J. McFarland; Gertrude M., at home; Ellis G., a pupil at Normal 
School in Huntingdon; Roxie Belle, died at the age of eighteen; and 
John Blaine, at home.
  Mr. Eyer is a staunch Republican.  He has served as supervisor and as 
school director.  He is a member of the Dunkard church and has been a 
deacon for fifteen years.