Myerly, Mrs. John B.

MYERLY, LITTLE, HUNTER, JUDSON

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Date: 1/6/2013 at 07:56:33

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

MYERLY, Mrs. JOHN B.—Deep River Twp—pg 737-8. Section 15, P.O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Emma Little, and she was born in Carroll county, Maryland, August 15, 1820; and her husband was born in the same county, November 28, 1814. They were married in their native place March 25, 1838. Children were born to them as follows: Hester S. (born August 13, 1840), Mary A. (born April 15, 1842), David E. (born January 19, 1844), Ann Louisa (born February 22, 1846; married November 30, 1865, to James Hunter and died November 27, 1868), Rebecca S. (born October 10, 1848, married June 5, 1866, to James H. Judson, M.D.), Emma J. (born October 7, 1850), Lydia A. (born October 8, 1852; died February 28, 1853), John F. (born October 21, 1854), Franklin P. (born December 9, 1856), Noah E. (born January 21, 1859), Leavitt S. (born April 29, 1860), Martha E. (born April 12, 1862) and Hattie M. (born November 9, 1864). Mr. Myerly’s ancestors were from Germany. He worked for his father until twenty-one years of age, and after marrying emigrated to Dixon, Illinois, in 1853, where he remained until September, 1854, when he moved to Ogle county, Illinois, and settled on a farm he had previously bought, and farmed there until he purchased and moved to the present estate, in September, 1854. He died suddenly December 19, 1869, leaving the entire estate to his widow. He was a member of the Dunkard Church and highly respected and honored for his many excellent qualities. Of unyielding business integrity and kind of heart, he enjoyed the most profound esteem and unbounded confidence of all his neighbors. He left to Mrs. Myerly eighty acres of good farming land. Mrs. Myerly is an intelligent Christian lady, a kind neighbor and affectionate mother.