Some Myers Migration History
MYERS, STOVER, GREEN
Posted By: Colleen "Green" Lopez (email) In Response To: Fairview Cemetery, Boone Co. Iowa (Doris Hudson)
Date: 10/18/2006 at 10:33:25
I wanted to give you this information that comes from the book "History of Johnson County, Iowa containg a History of the county, and it's Townships, Cities, and Villages from 1836 to 1882." It lists Mrs Mary Myers, she is one of Samuels Greens Aunts and ours. So this is the original migration pattern it's pertinant to all of us. p. 734 "Mrs. Mary Myers, one of the old settlers of this township, has twice given birth to twins. The following is a sketch of her life; Mary Green was born September 3, 1820, in Newton township, Cumberland county, Pennnsyvania, embraced religion in 1841 and united with the Disciples Church in that county. February 5, 1846, she was married to Moses Stover, and the same year they emigrated to Iowa; started from West Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and traveled by wagon, across the Blue Ridge Mountains, to Newport, then by canal and railroad to Pittsburg, and from there down the Ohio River and up the Mississippi to St Louis on the steamboat "Robert Fulton"; from St Louis up to Bloomington (now Muscatine) on the steamboat "St. Croix," and from there to Iowa City by Wagon; lived in Iowa City awhile and then setteld in "North Bend," as this settlement was then called. She bore three children to Mr. Stover; two of them a boy and a girl being twins; the boy died in infancy; the other children. Anna E. and Mary E. grew up. September 8, 1850, her husband, Moses Stover, died, and was buried int he North Bend cemetary, the third burial and in the same year she was married to Valentine Myers. In this marriage she bore six children, four sons and two daughters; one son died in infancy; and two of the Myer's children were twins, as two of the Stover had been before. In 1849 her father and mother David and Mary Green came to Iowa. David Green died, May 6, 1867 aged 71 years. Mary Green his wife, died July 5, 1872 aged 81 years." end of story.
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