Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 9 [3]
She married Joseph Myers about 1831 in Licking Co., Ohio. (source needed)
In 1832, Elizaberth was mentioned as a married child of John Peters in a Knox Co., Ohio Chancery case, Thornhill vs Peters, where her uncle, Bryant Thornhill, filed against her father's estate and her mother and siblings.
1840 census -- Burlington Twnp, Licking Co., Ohio, USA
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 5 [4]
1850 census - Washington Twnp., Licking County, Ohio, USA
Joseph Myers, age 44, male, , carpenter, born Ohio; Elizabeth Myers, age 42, female, , no occupation, born Virginia; Permelia Myers, age 18, female, , no occupation, born Ohio, attended school; Lucina Myers, age 12, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Eliza Myers, age 9, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Albert Myers, age 6, male, , born Ohio, attended school.[5]
1860 census -- Waynesfield, Auglaize Co., Ohio, USA
Joseph Meyers, age 54, male, , farmer, $325 value of personal property, born Ohio; Elizabeth Meyers, age 51, female, , no occupation, born Virginia; Lucinda Meyers, age 22, female, , no occupation, born Ohio, attended school; Eliza Meyers, age 18, female, , no occupation, born Ohio, attended school; William Meyers, age 16, male, , born Ohio, attended school.[6]
1870 census -- Waynesfield, Auglaize Co., Ohio, USA
Joseph Myres, age 64, male, white, farmer, $1200 real estate, $415 personal property, born Ohio; Elizabeth Myres, age age 62, female, white, no occupation, born Virginia[7]
She died 14 March 1878 in Wayne Twnp., Auglaize Co., Ohio. [8] She is buried in Willow Branch Cemetery in Waynesfield, Ohio.[9]
In 1913, Betsy Peters Myers was mentioned as the daughter of Lydia Phillips Peters in a public notice for the Frederick Phillips Estate. The estate administrator was trying to locate the lineal descendants of Lydia Phillips Peters - a sister of John Phillips, deceased father of Frederick Phillips.[10]
↑ "United States Census, 1840," index and images, (FamilySearch : accessed 11 Jan 2014), Joseph Myers, 1840.
↑ "United States Census, 1850," index and images, (FamilySearch : accessed 11 Jan 2014), Elizabeth Myers in household of Joseph Myers, Utica, Licking, Ohio, United States; citing dwelling 1308, family 1318, NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 703.
↑ "United States Census, 1860," index, (FamilySearch : accessed 11 Jan 2014), Elizabeth Meyres in household of Joseph Meyres, Wayne Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States; citing "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; p. , family , NARA microfilm publication ; FHL microfilm 803931.
↑ "United States Census, 1870," index and images, (FamilySearch : accessed 11 Jan 2014), Elizabeth Myers in household of Joseph Myers, Ohio, United States; citing p. , family 84, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000552671.
↑ "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F6XQ-V2J : 13 December 2014), Elizabeth Myers, 14 Mar 1878; citing Death, Wapakoneta, Duchouquet Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States, source ID p 90 n 85, County courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 963,054.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60361632/elizabeth-myers: accessed 20 October 2023), memorial page for Elizabeth Peters Myers (unknown–14 Mar 1878),Find A Grave: Memorial #60361632, citing Willow Branch Cemetery, Waynesfield, Auglaize County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Sharon (contributor 47194094).
↑ "Frederick Phillips Estate," The Newark Advocate, 9/23/1913, p. 4, col. 5; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 Oct 2013), Historic Newspapers;
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