James Wilkinson Myers (1802 - 1862)

Born 30 Oct 1802 in Hardin County, Kentucky

Ancestors

Husband of Thursa (Walker) Myers — married 20 Mar 1823 in Howard, Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died Oct 1862 at about age 59 in Scott, Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

James was born in 1802. He passed away in 1862.

Sources

• https://www.geni.com/people/James-Myers/6000000054683715869

• Caywood, Richard Esq. The History of Schuyler Co. Mo 1878. No publisher information available. Physical copy of the paper book in the possession of Purves-146. Full transcription is not available online at this time. A transcription follows the sources/

• Swanson and Ford. A History of Schuyler County. Trenton, Mo. The W.B. Rogers Printing Company pages 12-13. no date listed.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-schuyler-county-missouri-showing-the-early-development-and-expanding-civilization-and-resources-of-a-progressive-community-sketches-of-the-men-who-have-made-its-past-and-whose-lives-are-moulding-its-future/oclc/1013932585?referer=di&ht=edition

• John Morris Company, Printers. Adair Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri. Chicago, Il. The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1888 Pgs 224-229

https://books.google.com/books/about/History_of_Adair_Sullivan_Putnam_and_Sch.html?id=JNEyAQAAMAAJ

• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPZ-NNB : 29 July 2017), J W Myers, Howard, Missouri, United States; citing 186, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 73; FHL microfilm 14,8

• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHT5-CK3 : 15 August 2017), J W Myers, Mountain, Howard, Missouri, United States; citing p. 28, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 224; FHL microfilm 14,856.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZP-T2G : 12 April 2016), James Myers, Schuyler county, Schuyler, Missouri, United States; citing family 55, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXFF-QSY : 12 December 2017), Jas Myers, 1860.

• "Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28V-R8K : 11 February 2018), James Myers and Kissa Walker, 20 Mar 1823; citing Howard,Missouri; FHL microfilm 963,472.

• Ancestry.com. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm] Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm. Name: Thersa Walker Marriage Date: 20 Mar 1823 Marriage Place: Howard, Missouri, USA Spouse: James Myers

• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18003038/1829_sioux_battle_july/

• www.adairchs.org/history/pioneer.htm

A selection from Caywood, Richard Esq. The History of Schuyler Co. Mo 1878.:

...on the 4th of June, AD, 1812, Missouri was organized as a Territory. Wm Clark was appointed Governor. Edward Heamstead was the first delegate to Congress, on the 23d day of January, AD, 1816. Howard Coynty was formed out of the western part of St. Louis and St. Charles, and included all the County on the north side of the Missouri River, from the mouth of the Osage tothe mouth of the Kansas....This included that portion of country out of which was afterwards carved Boone, Randolph, Macon, Adair and Schuyler County. On the 19th day of July, AD, 1820, Missouri was admitted as a State, and...it's earliest settlement in the year AD, 1836, immediately following a treaty made by the General Government and the Sac and Fox Indians, even prior to this time. Bee Hunters had followed up the "Grand Divide," up to and above Schuyler County, prior to the cession of the country by the Indians, and had given to it the name of the Bee Trace, that extended as far up the divide as Chariton point, some fifty miles above the now northern boundary of Missouri, and by the terms of that treaty the Indians were authorized to make fall hunts for a certain number of years, over their old hunting grounds, which they continued to do up to the year AD,1841, as far down as what is now Adair County; and here follows an episode, the last and closing out of hostilities between the whites and Indians. James Myers, who had settled on Bear Creek, in the then Macon County, and with others in trading with the Indians in the year AD, 1835, in reference to some Ponies, and that he also had agreed to trade his wife for the wife of one of the chiefs; the ponies and squaw were duly delivered, but MRS. MYERS refused to be bartered off in that way, and this brought up trouble. MYERS refused to give up the property in his possession, and the sequence of which was that a fight occurred on what is now called Battle Creek, in the south-west corner of Schuyler County, in which there were several Indians killed, and the following named whites: JAMES MYERS' father, Wm Black, and _________ Owenly, and Wm Winn was wounded, and left on the ground; the white men retreating, they being largely overpowered, they fell back to Randolph County, at Huntsville, where they were reinforced, and returned under the command of JOHN B CLARK, SR. The Indians in the meantime had returned, and the returning force only found the charred remains of Wm Winn, who had been burned by the Indians, and this closed the last of Indian warfare in the State of Missouri.

The first Circuit Court was held in the town of Lancaster, on the 9th day of April, Ad, 1846....The first Grand Jury were composed of the following persons: Levin Tucker, James Hall, Henry Powell, William Barlow, Richard Griggs, Petter Kline, David A Roberts, Thomas Mills, John D Marney, John Bradburn, James M Arnett, Anderson Willis, Wlliam T Loudon, Henry Rhodes, Stephen Harlet, JAMES MYERS.