Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Samuel Shanklin MYLES

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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SAMUEL SHANKLIN MYLES - who owns 335 acres of farming land in Falling
Spring District, Greenbrier County.  He was born June 10, 1822, in this
county, in Renick Valley, a son of John and Jane (HANNA) MYLES.  His father
was born in Ireland in 1766, and his mother in Greenbrier County in 1788,
and both died in this county in 1848, the father on the 27th of July and
the mother on the 27th of June.  Peter and Sallie (WILLIAMS) BURR, natives
of Greenbrier County, were the parents of Rebecca BURR, born near Frankford,
this county on Christmas Day, 1825.  October 10, 1850, Samuel S. MYLES and
Rebecca BURR were married, and their children are:  John Granville, born
September 27, 1851, died March 27, 1852;  Maybury Goheen, April 14, 1853,
lives in Lead City, Dakota;  Lorenzo Nixon, May 13, 1855, lives at home;
Sallie J. B., October 6, 1857, married Griffin R. CLINGMAN, December 21,
1881, and lives in this county;  Arminta, born February 6, 1860, died August
20, 1864;  Emeline Virginia, June 21, 1862, and Alice Bellfield, June 29,
1865, live at home.  Samuel S. MYLES joined the Home Guards in 1863,
Confederate service, and served for the remainder of the war.  Falling
Spring, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, is his postoffice address.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.