Edward H. Myers
MYERS, KIMES, KING, BUFFINGTON
Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 4/29/2017 at 23:55:30
The Marion Sentinel Thursday December 8, 1932
Last Rites For Edward Myers Were Monday
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Civil War Veteran Died Friday At Home Here; Had Been Ill For Five Years
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Edward H. "Commodore" Myers, 89 years old, one of Marion's oldest residents and one of the three surviving Civil War veterans here died Friday at 3:30 p.m. at the home of his grandson, Darrell King, 386 Tenth street. His death followed an illness of about a week. He had been almost bedfast for the past five years.
Funeral services were held Monday at 2 o'clock at the Yocom chapel, with Rev. W.E. Fisher, pastor of the Presbyterian church, in charge of the services. Robert Mitchell Woman's Relief corps, No. 126, attended the services in a body. Pallbearers were members of the Marion post of the American Legion: Earl Welcher, A.R. McElwain, Gilbert Gordon and H.R. Livingston. Interment was in Oak Shade cemetery.
The death of "Commodore" Myers, as he was known to his many friends, leaves only two Civil war veterans in Marion, Abraham Shockey and Erastus Smith.
Mr. Myers was born March 22, 1843, the son of Peter and Phoebe Myers, in Blair county, Pennsylvania, and came to Iowa with his parents when he was four years old, settling in northern Benton county. On Feb. 27, 1889, he was married to Elvira Kimes of Palo, at Cedar Rapids. One daughter, Mrs. Walter King, died Jan. 7, 1932, and his wife died July 31, 1911.
In 1861 Mr. Myers enlisted at St. Louis in Company B, Iowa Infantry, and was discharged in 1862 because of illness. Later in the same year he reenlisted in Company H Eighteenth Iowa Infantry, and was wounded in January 1863, being discharged April 13. Again he reenlisted, this time in the Third Iowa Cavalry, Company D, and served until Aug. 9,186[sic] when he was discharged at Atlanta, Georgia.
The old soldier loved to tell of his adventures in the war, and he had a great many friends who mourn the death of a grand old man. He went to Oregon with the gold rush in 1878, and came back to Iowa to settle down at Palo, coming to Marion in April, 1903, to follow the barber trade.
He is survived by three grandchildren, in Marion, Darrell, Ivan and Allen King, and two great-grandchildren, Carol Jane and Jack King, besides one niece, Prudence Buffington, of California.
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