Individual Details
Amos Hoover Myers
(12 Jul 1832 - 4 Nov 1900)
Events
| Birth | 12 Jul 1832 | Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States |  | ||
| Census | 1850 | Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Marriage | Jan 1858 | Catharine Eve Kieffer | | ||
| Census | 1860 | Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Accomplishment | 1860 | Smithville, Wayne, Ohio, United States |  | | |
| Military | Jun 1863 | Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Census | 1870 | Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Census | 1880 | Wayne, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Death | 4 Nov 1900 | | |||
| Burial | Wooster Cemetery, Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States | | |||
| Occupation | Lumber dealer - Wayne, Ohio, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Catharine Eve Kieffer (1836 - 1894) |
| Child | Minerva E "Minnie" Myers (1858 - 1927) |
| Child | Mary V Myers (1864 - 1949) |
| Child | Joseph Augustus Homer Myers (1872 - 1949) |
| 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 | John Wenger Myers (1834 - 1908) |
| Sibling | William Penn Myers (1836 - 1904) |
| 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
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.Endnotes
1. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=myers&GSfn=amos&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=37&GScnty=2124&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=97540882&df=all&.
2. Myers Historical Sketch, 17.
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, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Amos+Hoover&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Myers&gsln_x=0&MSAV=1&msbdy=1832&msbpn__ftp=Lancaster%2c+Lancaster%2c+Pennsylvania%2c+United+States&msgdy=1858&msddy=1900&msfng=Joseph+Huber&msfns=Myers&msmng=Susanna+Horst&msmns=Wenger&msbng=Louisa&msbns=Myers&msbng1=Maria&msbns1=Myers&msbng2=Francis+Weaver&msbns2=Myers&msbng3=John+Wenger&msbns3=Myers&msbng4=William+Penn&msbns4=Myers&msbng5=Joseph+H&msbns5=Myers&msbng6=Michael+W&msbns6=Myers&msbng7=Isaac&msbns7=Myers&msbng8=Menno+Simon&msbns8=Myers&msbng9=Susan+Elizabeth&msbns9=Myers&mssng=Catharine+Eve&mssns=Kieffer&mscng=Minerva+E&mscns=Myers&mscng1=Mary+V&mscns1=Myers&mscng2=Joseph+A+H&mscns2=Myers&_83004003-n_xcl=f&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=2a1&ssrc=pt_t87681544_p38551198884&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=16024221&db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=1&ml_rpos=12.
5. Myers Historical Sketch, 17.
6. Harry M Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the descendants... (Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928), 97.
7. 1860 Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=42586409&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&rhSource=6742.
8. Myers Historical Sketch, 11.
9. US Civil War Draft Registrations Records 1863-1865, http://search.ancestry.com//cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=ConsolidatedListsofCivilWarReg&h=641573&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&rhSource=7163.
10. 1870 Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Amos+Hoover&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Myers&gsln_x=0&MSAV=1&msbdy=1832&msbpn__ftp=Lancaster%2c+Lancaster%2c+Pennsylvania%2c+United+States&msgdy=1858&msddy=1900&msfng=Joseph+Huber&msfns=Myers&msmng=Susanna+Horst&msmns=Wenger&msbng=Louisa&msbns=Myers&msbng1=Maria&msbns1=Myers&msbng2=Francis+Weaver&msbns2=Myers&msbng3=John+Wenger&msbns3=Myers&msbng4=William+Penn&msbns4=Myers&msbng5=Joseph+H&msbns5=Myers&msbng6=Michael+W&msbns6=Myers&msbng7=Isaac&msbns7=Myers&msbng8=Menno+Simon&msbns8=Myers&msbng9=Susan+Elizabeth&msbns9=Myers&mssng=Catharine+Eve&mssns=Kieffer&mscng=Minerva+E&mscns=Myers&mscng1=Mary+V&mscns1=Myers&mscng2=Joseph+A+H&mscns2=Myers&_83004003-n_xcl=f&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=2a1&ssrc=pt_t87681544_p38551198884&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=40089155&db=1870usfedcen&indiv=1&ml_rpos=8.
11. 1880 Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M83Z-8NG.
12. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=myers&GSfn=amos&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=37&GScnty=2124&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=97540882&df=all&.
13. Myers Historical Sketch, 17.
14. Harry M Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the descendants... (Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1928), 97.
15. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=myers&GSfn=amos&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=37&GScnty=2124&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=97540882&df=all&.
16. Myers Historical Sketch, 17.