Individual Details
William Penn Myers
(5 Jan 1836 - 7 Apr 1904)
Events
| Birth | 5 Jan 1836 | Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States |  | ||
| Census | 1850 | Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States |  | | |
| Census-shared | 1850 | (Joseph Huber Myers) Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | | |
| Census | 1860 | Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Accomplishment | 1860 | Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | | |
| Census-shared | 1860 | (Amos Hoover Myers) Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Military Enlistment | 13 Aug 1862 | Company H 120th regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Military Service | 3 Mar 1864 | | | ||
| Military Discharge | 16 Oct 1865 | Houston, Harris, Texas, United States | | | |
| Marriage | 26 Dec 1865 | Wayne, Ohio, United States - Julia Ann Bricker | | ||
| Census | 1870 | Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Move | 1872 | Mogadore, Summit, Ohio, United States | | | |
| Census | 1880 | Suffield Township, Portage, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Occupation | 1880 | Manufacturer of stoneware (potter). Confirmed in 1880 census. - Mogadore, Summit, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Census | 1900 | Springfield Township, Summit, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Occupation | 1904 | Postmaster - Mogadore, Summit, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Death | 7 Apr 1904 | Mogadore, Summit, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Burial | Greenwood Cemetery, Mogadore, Summit, Ohio, United States | | |||
| Occupation | Teacher and farmer "in his younger days". | | |||
| Religion | of unknown religion although he is descended from Swiss Mennonites | ||||
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Families
| Spouse | Julia Ann Bricker (1842 - 1908) |
| Child | Myrtle A Myers (1866 - 1868) |
| Child | Henrietta May "Etta" Myers (1868 - 1916) |
| Child | Emma Jane Myers (1869 - 1951) |
| Child | Alice Blanche Myers (1871 - 1950) |
| Child | Lizzie M Myers (1872 - 1873) |
| Child | Pearle Gabrielle Myers (1874 - 1957) |
| Child | Sara Myers (1876 - 1956) |
| Child | John Bricker "Jack" Myers (1878 - 1942) |
| Child | Joseph Wenger Myers (1879 - 1879) |
| Child | Bertha Louise Myers (1883 - 1964) |
| Father | Joseph Huber Myers (1801 - 1878) |
| Mother | Susanna Horst Wenger (1803 - 1881) |
| Sibling | Infant Myers ( - ) |
| Sibling | Louisa Myers (1827 - 1916) |
| Sibling | Maria Myers (1829 - 1864) |
| Sibling | Francis Weaver Myers (1830 - 1912) |
| Sibling | Amos Hoover Myers (1832 - 1900) |
| Sibling | John Wenger Myers (1834 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Joseph Huber Myers Jr (1837 - 1905) |
| Sibling | Michael W Myers (1840 - 1840) |
| Sibling | Isaac Myers (1841 - 1844) |
| Sibling | Menno Simon Myers (1844 - 1901) |
| Sibling | Susan Elizabeth Myers (1846 - 1932) |
Notes
Census
Living with parents and siblingsCensus-shared
With wife and children.Accomplishment
This sketch would be incomplete were we to omit mention of the fact that these three Buckeye boys had provision to see and feel that the war as the death knell of slavery and that they could have, to them, the glorious privilege of having a hand in giving that evil it's death blow. They were students and had studied history to some effect. Their childhood home north of Smithville had for years been a station on the Underground Railway between slavery and freedom in Canada. William and Joseph with their brother Amos H. Had been engineers and conductors for many a year on the route over which, perhaps, hundreds of slaves had traveled. The writer well remembers one occasion when some who were uninformed as to these proceedings, wondered at the Myers boys driving that big old fashioned Pennsylvania covered wagon with its four horses about the country when almost every one used the handy and lighter two horse wagon. Then, too, it was though strange that they started off late in the evening and returned in the morning with an empty wagon. Those who knew were aware that they picked up their living freight at prearranged points and delivered it at some place near the north line of Medina County. These Myers boys were soldiers because they loved freedom, their country and their flag.Military Service
The three brothers enlisted in the same company, Co. H. Of the 120th regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the War of the Rebellion, serving faithfully until discharged. Wm. P. And Joseph enlisted the same day, August 13, 1862 at the respective ages of 26 and 24 years, while Menno joined his brothers when 20 years of age, enlisting February 6th, 1864. Their regiment was in the attacks upon Vicksburg in December, 1862, and during the campaign of the spring of 1863. They were good soldiers, William being credited with the capture of five prisoners on one occasion. Joseph attained the rank of 1st or Orderly Sergeant, and would undoubtedly have been a commissioned officer had not the 120th come to grief and the larger portion been captured at Snaggy Point on the Red River, LA., May 3, 1864. A number of engagements in which they had part were of considerable magnitude.At Snaggy Point, above referred to, the steam boat City Belle, which carried their command, ran into an ambush of some 2000 Rebels, with artillery which at the very beginning disabled the boat, whichwas an unarmed transport. The 120th made a determined but futile resistance, for the boat swinging to the enemy's side, left nothing to do but surrender and jump ashore as directed by the Rebels. Unfortunately Joseph and Menno were on that part of the boat which struck the shore and were obliged to jump as ordered. The jumping ashore caused the boat to recoil and move to the opposite shore where one of Co. H managed to get a line ashore and held it, when some 90 ran the gauntlet of the Rebel fire and escaped making their way to the Union lines during the following night and day. Wm. P was one of the number who escaped while the others as prisoners, made their weary march to Camp Ford at Tyler, Texas, where they were held for 13 months, being discharged long after the war was over, at Camp Chase, O., July 1865.
William, at the breaking up of the 120th, November 24, 1864, was with others, placed in Co. K, of the 114th, serving in this regiment in the battle of Ft. Blakely, near Mobile, the last battle of the war, fought April 14 1865, after Lee's surrender. He served more than his full term of 3 years, finishing as a member of the Co. F., 48th Ohio in Texas, where he acted as Orderly Sergeant to Col. DeGress, and as a secret service officer under Gen. C. C. Andrews, was frequently detailed to look up and turn over government property, close saloons, investigate the conduct of U. S. Treasury agents, and many other duties in which it was necessary to travel in disguise. He was mustered out at Houston, Tex., October 16, 1865.
Military Discharge
Company K of the 114thMove
Engaged in the manufacture of stonewareEndnotes
1. Myers Historical Sketch, 8.
2. Ohio County Death Records 1840-2001, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F66W-NPN.
3. Harry M Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the descendants... (Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928), 97.
4. United States Census for 1850.
5. United States Census for 1850.
6. 1860 Census.
7. Myers Historical Sketch, 11.
8. 1860 Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=42586409&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&rhSource=6742.
9. Myers Historical Sketch, 10.
10. Harry M Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the descendants... (Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928), 97.
11. , http://archive.org/stream/officialrosters01commgoog#page/n263/mode/1up.
12. Myers Historical Sketch, 10.
13. , http://archive.org/stream/officialrosters01commgoog#page/n263/mode/1up.
14. , http://archive.org/stream/officialrosters01commgoog#page/n263/mode/1up.
15. , http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~holder/coh/myers_williamcohpdf.pdf.
16. Myers Historical Sketch, 11.
17. , http://archive.org/stream/officialrosters01commgoog#page/n263/mode/1up.
18. Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XZNH-T4G.
19. Harry M Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the descendants... (Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928), 97.
20. 1870 Census.
21. Myers Historical Sketch, 20.
22. 1880 Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=26526654&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7602.
23. 1880 Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=26526654&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7602.
24. Harry M Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the descendants... (Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928), 97.
25. United States Census for 1900, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMXZ-R93.
26. Myers Historical Sketch, 20.
27. United States Census for 1900, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMXZ-R93.
28. Ohio County Death Records 1840-2001, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F66W-NPN.
29. Harry M Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the descendants... (Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928), 97.
30. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=333935&GRid=43476558&.
31. Myers Historical Sketch, 20.
32. Harry M Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the descendants... (Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928), 97.
33. , http://susieholder.com/companies/coh/myers_williamcohpdf.pdf.