Myers, John 1837-1906

MYERS, KLOPPING, CARSTENS, FIRTH, COUCH, SCHEEL, LARIMER, EGGERT

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 11/27/2011 at 20:12:16

Obeyed The Last “Taps.”

Sergt. John Myers Passed Away Last Wednesday Afternoon

Just a little after noon on Wednesday last, February 28th, our old friend and comrade, John Myers quietly and peacefully closed his eye in the “long sleep” from which to awaken with the first notes of the grand reveille on the glorious morning of the resurrection, and “when the roll is called up yonder, he’ll be there.”

We have known comrade Myers since before the Civil War, served with him in the same company and regiment, C, 22 Iowa, for three years, and can testify to his bravery and splendid record as a soldier. His death leaves but four remaining in Jasper County of the one hundred young men who left Newton in August, 1862, for Iowa City to become a part of the gallant 22nd Iowa regiment being organized then for duty “at the front.” The four are John W. Dinsmore of Prairie City, Thos. McKeever of Colfax, John Clippinger of Newton, and the local editor of the Record. The following list of battles in which the regiment took part during the great struggle will tell where some of the absent ones have gone: Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Black River Bridge, Assault on Vicksburg, Siege of Vicksburg, Jackson – all during Grant’s Mississippi campaign in 1863-Winchester, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, in Sheridan’s Shenandoah, Va. Campaign in 1864. Other of the old comrades dropped out of the ranks on the long marches, some in the hospitals, others are sleeping in the “church yard” north of town, where John Myers was laid to rest last Friday, and the remaining few are scattered – God knows where.

John Myers was born in Germany, Nov. 24, 1837, and came to American in 1857. He lived for two years in New York and came to Newton in 1860. On the 29th of August, 1861, he was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Klopping, who survives him. To them twelve children were born, two of whom died in early childhood, the remaining ten have grown to splendid manhood and womanhood, and were at home with the sorrowing mother when the father passed away. They are John F., George, Lewis, Henry, Mrs. Ella Carstens, Mrs. Lizzie Frith, Mrs. Valeria Couch, all of Newton; Mrs. Lena Scheel of Stuttgart, Arkansas; Fred Myers of Carroll; and Mrs. Anna Larimer of Marshalltown. Deceased is also survived by one sister and one brother, Mrs. John Eggert of this city and George Myers of Kellogg. John was converted and joined the Lutheran Church when a boy of 14 years in Germany and at the time of his death was a member of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of this city.

Funeral services were held at the church on Friday afternoon, attended by a large number of old friends, among them about fifty members of Garrett Post G. A. R. of which deceased was a member. The services were conducted by the pastor Rev. W. Dieffenbach assisted by rev. E. S. Brown of the Methodist Protestant Church. The pastor’s sermon was very eloquent and appropriate, his text being “There is no discharge in that war.” The choir was composed of Mesdames George W. Guthrie and Geo. Sells Davis, Misses Ella Hymes and Helen Wettstein and Messrs. Edward Lyday and William Long, with Miss Cora Long as organist-the music being beautiful. The pallbearers were members of Garrett Post – Messrs. Harry Phillips, Andes Turck, Az Dennis, A. J. Chenoweth, John Clippinger and t. M. Rodgers. While there were beautiful flowers in profusion, on the casket there was only a large silk flag. After the services a large concourse of friends accompanied the remains to the Newton Cemetery where all that was mortal of John Myers was laid to rest. ~ Newspaper unknown.

Transcriber note: Records from Newton Union Cemetery are as follows: husband of Louisa (Klopping) Myers; born 11/24/1837 - Civil War veteran Co. C 22nd IA infantry