MYERS, Tempest (1842-1926)

MYERS

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/5/2020 at 22:47:52

Tempest Myers
(March 28, 1842 - March 31, 1926)

Ida County Pioneer, Ida Grove, Iowa, Wed., Jan 21, 1925, p.1
Here’s First List of Citizens Who Are Over Eighty
Tempest Myers, one of the most picturesque personages in Ida Grove, will be 82 years old on March 26 of this year. He enlisted in the heavy artillery when he had barely reached his nineteenth birthday and from Pennsylvania, he was transferred to Fortress Monroe and was stationed there the greater part of his service and made frequent trips up and down the Atlantic coast. He has lived in Ida Grove forty years and it is his proud boast that in his garden produces the earliest corn and cabbage, the largest tomatoes and the best and most mealy spuds. As a gardener, he has few rivals and none to excel him.