Ruth Cooper's Notes on the Myers Family (4)

Email from Linda Warrenburg, Nov. 14, 2008:

Col. John Mills married Sallie Robertson of South Carolina. They lived at Rutherford, NC. Their children were:
William Mills married Betsy Miller.
Govan Mills married Nancy Raglin Thomson of Spartanburg, SC.

Columbus Mills Dr. Mills married Susan Thomson of Spartanburg, SC. He began practicing medi- cine about 1840. He was a surgeon of a Virginia regiment CSA. Mrs. Mills died in the spring of 1901 in Atlanta, Ga. at the home of her niece, Mrs. Benson.
Elizabeth Ellen Mills married H. J. Dean, attorney-at-law of Spartanburg District, SC in 1834. She died in 1838 leaving one son:
John Mills Dean.
Harriet Mills married Joe Camp of Georgia. Their children were:
John Croel Camp. He lived at Rutherfordton, NC.
Louisa Camp married a Dr. Mooney of Greenville, SC.
George Mills
Rufus Mills

MILLS
Marville Mills of North Carolina married Polly Chambliss. Their children were:
John Mills married Eliza C. Graham of North Carolina. Their children were:
Mary Mills died young.
Jane Mills married a Mr. Love.
(There were two other children, names not known.)
Otis P. Mills was a captain in the Confederate Army. Capt. Mills married Susan C. Gower of Greenville, SC. After the Civil War, he amassed a large fortune in South Carolina and had an interest in a manufacturing company in Greenville, SC. Their children were:
Annie M. Mills
Jane G. Mills
Otis P. Mills, Jr.
Arthur L. Mills
Cordelis Mills
Dr. Otis Mills married a Miss Carson of NC. He and his wife were from Rutherford, NC. Their children were:
Margaret Mills married Joseph Carson of Atlanta Ga. Their children were:
Otis Mills Carson
Frank Carson
Tench Carson
Kathleen Carson
Matilda Carson
Amanda Mills married a Mr. Williams of Greenville, SC.
Mary Mills married Col. Frank Coxe of Philadelphia, Pa. and Asheville, NC. Col. Coxe died in the summer of 1903 and was buried in the family vault in Rutherford, NC. Their children were:
Otis Mills Coxe married Miss Mary Connelley of Asheville, NC in 1893. Her father was a wealthy citizen of that town. In 1899, Otis M. Coxe and Mary Connelley Coxe were di- vorced. Their child was Tench Francis Coxe born in 1894.
After the divorce, Otis M. Coxe went to live in Philadelphia and New York. The division of his late father’s mining interests in Pennsylvania gave him about two million dollars. His father also owned the Battery Park Hotel in Asheville, NC. In August 1903, Otis M. Coxe married his second wife, Miss Gertrude Jones, of Asheville, NC. She was 28 years old.
Frank Coxe
Tench Coxe married Eliza Potter of Wilmington, NC.
Daisy Coxe married a Mr. Wright of Philadelphia, Pa.
Maud Coxe
William Mills married a Miss Gafney.
Dr. Ladson Mills married a Miss Hamilton. He began his medical practice about 1840.
Penelope Eliza Mills married Paul Hamilton Young of North Carolina. Their child was:
Eliza Penelope Young, born 1843 in Flat Rock, NC. She married Baird Reed Godwin in 1867 at Water Valley, Miss. Mr. Godwin was born in 1837 in Texas.
Sophia Mills married John Caruth.
Adolphus Mills married Amanda Mills.
George Mills married Ella Boylston. His second wife was Eliza Mills.

MILLS
JONES
Elizabeth Mills married George Washington Jones of North Carolina. Their children were:
William F. Jones was born in Lenoir, NC. He was Capt. of Co. A, First Regiment CSA. He married
Sarah L. Jones, his first cousin. Their children were: Mattie Jones married Col. Willoughby Avery of NC.
Annie Jones married James Gaither Hall
Gertrude Jones married a Mr. Clinard of NC.
E. Caroline Jones married Dr. Robert Maxwell Young of SC. Their children were: George William Young, MD, a surgeon of a Virginia Regiment CSA. He married Virginia Lanier of Georgia. He died in February 1862 from fatigue and exposure while attending the wounded. He had no assistant. Their children were: Lafayette Lamar Young of Texas George Robert Young of Arkansas Sarah Caroline Young married Roland Lyn of Georgia. Their children were Roland Lyn, Jr. married Esther Lyn of Florida Col. Robert R. Young was colonel of a regiment CSA. He married Josephine Hill of Georgia. He was killed in battle. Their child was: Ida Young married J. Wortham of Texas. Their children were:
Butler Mills Wortham
Josephine Wortham
Robert C. Wortham
Mattie Wortham
Effie Wortham
Mary Wortham
Pierce Wortham Ida Wortham
Louisa Jones Young married Thomas F. Jones of Cartersville, Ga., son of Thomas Jones, the brother of George Jones who married Elizabeth Mills. Their children were:
E. Caroline Jones
Emily C. Jones
Thomas F. Jones, Jr.
Mary Jones
Louisa Young Jones
Louisa Eleanor Jones died at the age of twenty, unmarried.
George Washington Jones, Jr. died unmarried.
Erwin Patterson Jones was born in Greenville, SC. He married Georgiana Earle of SC. Their children were:
Florence Jones died young
Thomas Erwin Jones married Eliza Mills
Dr. Edmund Randolph Jones died young, unmarried
Col. Thomas Laurens Jones of Kentucky was a colonel of a North Carolina regiment CSA. He gradu- ated from Cambridge and was a member of Congress from Kentucky. He married Mary K. Taylor,
daughter of Col. James Taylor of Newport, Ky. Their children were:
James Taylor Jones married _______________. Their children were:
Thomas Laurens Jones, Jr.
Mary Jones
Katucah Jones
Elizabeth Mills Jones married Col. Brent Arnold of Mt. Auburn, Ohio. Their child was:
Brent Arnold, Jr.
Thomas Jones died young.
John Mills Jones of Greenville, SC married Eliza Thompson, daughter of Hon. Waddy T. Thompson ,
US Minister to South America. Their children were:
Emmala B. Jones
Elizabeth Mills Jones
Mary Harriet Jones of NC married Col. William Butler Thompson, son of Hon. Waddy T. Thompson,
of South Carolina. They lived in Georgia many years and then moved to White Oak, Polk County, SC. Their children were:
Dr. Waddy Thompson married Loula Butler of SC. Their child was:
Loula Thompson
Elizabeth Jones Thompson
Jones Thompson died young
Miss _______ Thompson married Sam Townes of Columbia, SC. Their children were:
Mary Townes
Allen Townes
Lois Townes

MILLS
LEWIS
Mourning Mills married Henry Graves Lewis about 1781 and they settled in Buncombe County, as it was then known, near Henderson, NC. Mr. Lewis was born in 1761, son of John Lewis and his wife, Sarah Taliaferro of Albermarle County, Va. He had a twin sister, Mrs. Francis Rhodes Twitty of Rutherford County, NC. A wife of one of his ancestors was a cousin of George Washington. Mr. Lewis was a sol- dier in the Revolutionary War; fought in the Battle of King’s Mountain and received two bullet wounds and one sword wound in the Battle of Cowpens which followed him to his grave. He died in 1815 at his home place near Henderson, NC. Their children were:
William Jones Lewis was born in 1792 in Buncombe County, NC. About 1826 he located in Baus- ville, Yancy County, NC. About 1829 he married Celia Wilson of Yancy County. He was very generous with his friends, endorsing notes for them to a large amount and had them to pay, which nearly broke him in his old age. He acted as County Clerk for the County of Yancy County for many years. He died in 1853. Their children were:
Rufus Henry Lewis, II born 1830
Louisa Mourning Lewis born 1832 and married J. B. Woodfin
Oscar Marville Lewis born 1835
Mary Eliza Lewis born in 1842
Sarah Myra Lewis married the Rev. David Hilliard, for many years a Methodist minister but he joined the Baptist Church about 1853. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. They lived for some years at
Spartanburg, SC. They both died in Asheville, NC, he in 1870 and she in 1871. Their children were:
William Lewis Hilliard Dr. Hilliard was born in 1823. He graduated in medicine after attending lectures in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1849 and 1850. He once fought a duel with a Mr. Hynes. The
difficulty grew out of a political difference. He married Margaret Love of North Carolina and
they lived in Asheville, NC. Their children were [Ruth Cooper’s note: all were extremely handsome]:
James Robert Hilliard
Dr. William David Hilliard
Sam Haygood Hilliard married Mary Justin of Hendersonville, NC
Sarah Maud Hilliard married Fred Hull
Dr. Charles Eugene Hilliard married Mary Craig of Louisville, Ky. He died about 1890.
Their son was:
Charles Eugene Hilliard, Jr.
Margaret Josephine Hilliard married Jack Campbell , of Asheville, NC. She was called the handsomest woman in Asheville and he was very wealthy. Their children were:
Emily Campbell
Hilliard Campbell
Jack Campbell, Jr.
Dr. Walter Lee Hilliard died in September 1890, unmarried.
Ida Love Hilliard married Robert Foster of Asheville, NC.
Howard Hilliard married _______________
Ann Eliza Hilliard
Sarah Maud Hilliard
Mary Jane Hilliard was born in 1828. She died in 1869.
Sophia Melinda Hilliard was born in 1826. She is said to have been very beautiful as was her Mother, Sarah Lewis. and her Grandmother Mourning Mills. She married William Brem in
1857 and lived in Spartanburg, SC. They had two children:
William Thomas Brem who died at the age of 14 years.
Mamie Louisa Brem married a Mr. Sheriden of Spartanburg, SC. Their children were:
Lynn Brem
William Brem
Hilliard Brem
James Henry Hilliard was born in 1831. He was postmaster of Asheville, NC in 1858.
Marville Franklin Lewis was born in 1796. He was a merchant at Greenville Court House, SC. His
health failed so he sold out his business and started for Cuba, dying enroute in 1833. He never
married.
Phalby Caroline Lewis was born in 1798. She married the Rev. Thomas Craven of Randolph County,
NC in 1812. They lived in Cave Springs, Floyd County, Georgia. Their children were:
Dr. Lewis McKendrick Craven born in 1822 and married Miss C. J. Wooten. They lived at Cave Springs, Ga.
Sophia Mary Craven born 1824, married Rufus Barker , a farmer in Floyd County, Ga.
John Henry Craven, born 1826, married Nancy Logan.
William Mills Craven, born 1828, married Sarah Dobbins.
Caroline Menirva Craven, born 1830, married James W. P. Ware, a planter.
Louisa Orilla Craven, born 1832, married Dr. A. M. Turner.
Thomas Augustus Craven, born 1835.
Richard Taliferro Lewis was born in 1800. He married Elizabeth Case, daughter of Capt. Thomas Case. The lived near Henderson Court House, NC. He was a merchant and a farmer, There were
no children.
Sophia Melinda Lewis was born in 1801. She married Gen. Philip Brittain of Henderson County, NC.
Gen. Brittain was a soldier of the War of 1812. He represented Baucombe County in the House in 1810, 1811, 1816, 1817, and 1818; and as Senator in 1823 and 1824. (See Wheelers History of North Carolina, page 54.) Gen. Brittain was a man of strong mind and constitution, and repre- sented his constituents in various offices. While in the Legislature, perhaps his last time, Hender- son County, NC was formed, and received it’s name at his suggestion, after old Gen. Henderson, who died a worthy citizen of the state. Gen. Brittain was an industrious enterprising and public spirited man. He died in 1848 at an advanced age. Their children were:
Philip Brittain never married.
Stanhope Brittain lived in Hendersonville, NC. He served as Captain of the Home Guards in the Civil War.
Mourning Mills Brittain married Dr. Joseph Blackstock. She died near Garden Brook, Arkansas about 1877. Their children were:
Joseph Blackstock
Sophia Blackstock
Earnest Blackstock
Attilla Delila Brittain married William Henry. She died in Henderson County, NC. Their chil- dren were:
Charlotte Henry
Pat Henry
Sophia Henry
William Henry, Jr.
James Brittain never married.
Benjamin Brittain lived at Hendersonville, NC. He was a Lieut. in the Confederate Army.
Laura H. Brittain married Goodson Carie of Henderson County, NC. Their children were:
Lula Carie
Lela Carie
Lila Carie
Emma Eugenia Brittain married Morris Allison of Boylston. There were no children.
Rebecca Brittain married Millard G. Jones and lived at Baucombe, NC.
William Gaston Brittain married Pamelia McDowell. They lived in Spartanburg, SC. Their chil- dren were:
Eugene Brittain
Sophia Brittain
Pearl Brittain
Carl Brittain
Eliza Eleanor Lewis was born in 1803. She married her cousin, Dr. Marville Mills Edney. He was the son of Asa Edney and Sarah Mills from Pasquotouk County, NC and was a descendant of Robert Edney , who married the sister of Sir Isaac Newton, philosopher of England. Dr. Marville Mills Edney was a physician, merchant and farmer. They lived at Edneyville, NC. Their children were:
Lucian Edney
Henry Edney married Harriet Rogers of South Carolina.
Rosa Ann Edney married George J. Nix. Their children were:
Martha M. Nix
James M. Nix
Amanda Nix
Sarah A. Nix
Crainvil A. Nix
Jane R. Nix
Morrrison Nix
Sophia A. Edney
Eliza T. Edney married John A. Burgess.
John C. Edney married Rosa Ann Parlin, daughter of Hiram Parlin of Henderson County, NC.
Emma R. Edney
Mourning S. Edney
Marville Edney
Lewis M. Edney
William Mills Edney
Edmund Randolph Edney
John D. Lafayette Lewis was born in 1804. He was a very generous, free-hearted man, and was very much respected and beloved by all. He was a soldier in the Seminole War in Florida. He died in 1857 at the home of Dr. Columbus Mills in Polk County, NC. He never married.
James Madison Lewis was born in Baucombe County, now called Anderson, NC in 1810. He was li- brarian and keeper of the State House at Jackson, Miss. for many years. He married Leander Per- due of Madison County, Miss. in 1847. Mrs. Lewis died in Yazoo County, Miss. and was buried in the cemetery at Vernon, Miss. In 1866, Mr. Lewis was living in Asheville, NC. Their children were:
Mary P. Lewis was born in 1849.
Bancombe Lewis was born in 1851; died 1854.
Dr. George Walton Lewis was born in 1812. He studied medicine and located in Lincoln County, Ga. where he had an extensive practice for about fifteen years. As a physician, he was eminent and skillful; as a citizen and friend, he was much esteemed for his prudence, charitableness, and lofty bearing without ostentation; and as a Christian, he was God-fearing and humble in all the walks of life. None know him but to love him. In 1837 he married Lucy H. Welborn in Columbus, Ga. He died in Lincoln County, Ga. in 1847 at the age of 35 years. Their children were:
Martha Octavia Lewis born 1840
Mary George Lewis born 1846
Rufus Henry Lewis was born in 1814. He married Nancy Goodbred, daughter of John Goodbred, Ru- therford, NC. He was a farmer. Their children were:
John Goodbred Lewis
Marville Franklin Lewis
Mary W. Lewis
Richard Taliaferro Lewis
Sophia Melinda Lewis
Rufus Henry Lewis, Jr.
NOTE: The above was copied from “Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America” by William Tyrell Lewis.
MYERS
The Myers family were of the Austrian nobility. Rudolph Myers was a Baron, a legitimate and recognized rela-tion of the Hapsburg family, the ruling family of Europe. A relative, John Myers, was a Roman Catholic Bishop. Because of the excessive taxes, the Myers family left Austria and moved to Switzerland. We do not know how long they were in Switzerland. Early in the 18th Century, two brothers, Rudolph and Conrad, left Zurich, Switzerland and emigrated to America. The name originally was “Myer”. We do not know when the “s” was added.
Conrad Myers settled on the Hudson River near the present town of Troy or Albany, NY. His sons were:
William Myers never married. He died about 1835 leaving a fine estate to the children of his brother.
Henry Myers died about 1866 at about 90 years of age. He left a family.
Rudolph Myers lived in New York state for awhile and then settled in South Carolina. He had brought with him, from Switzerland, one or two hundred of his German tenants, who rendered him service as in the old country. This feudal relation existed, gradually declining until the death of his grandson, David, in 1835. Colored slaves had replaced this feudal system on the plantation. Nothing is known of Ru- dolph’s wife. Their son was:
John Jacob Myers was born in New York in 1740. He was sent to Europe and was educated in law at the Universities of Heidelburg and Gottengen. While there, he married Catherine Von Enfinger of Saxony in 1764. She was a lady of high birth and family, was of small statue with light hair and blue eyes.
John Jacob Myers was a Judge in South Carolina in Colonial times as well as after the Revolutionary War. He was a Whig and held commissions of Lieutenant and Later of Major in the Continental Army. He served alternately with Marion and Sumtner and was with Sumtner at Fishing Creek when he was surprised and his command badly used up and scattered by Tarleton. He was the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va. His home was burned by the Tories and his plantation pillaged. He owned much land in different districts. He died March 29, 1804 at his summer home called, “Safe Gotha”, near Platte Springs, Lexington County, SC. He was buried as an old Continental soldier, with military honors, in Lexington County, SC.
Their children were:
John Myers died at the age of 25 years.
David Myers

MILLS
MYERS
Phalby Mills, daughter of Eleanor Morris and Major William Mills, was born September 24, 1782 in North Carolina. She was a woman of very vigorous mind. An old portrait of her, pained when she was quite old is owned by the family of T. C. Catchings of Vicksburg, Miss. She died July 26, 1854 at the family home, Fort Marion, and was buried in the family cemetery at the side of her husband.
David Myers was born November 28, 1768 and died March 3, 1835. Col. Myers was a small man with fine black eyes. He was very energetic, intellectual and had great political influence. He owned plantations on the Congaree and Watree Rivers. He was a Whig and represented his county for many years in the legislature, both in the senate as well as lower house. He was a Colonel of a regiment in the War of 1812. He married Phalby Mills of North Carolina, December 24, 1798. Their home, Fort Marion, was the center of great hospitality. It was located about twelve miles below Columbia, SC and was named for General Francis Marion who made his headquarters there during the Revolutionary War. Some people claim that part of the house was built prior to the Revolutionary War, others place the date about 1810. However, it was a large two story red brick Colonial structure with tall columns and had formal gardens. The bricks were made on the plantation by slave labor. Many of the most prominent men and families were lavishly entertained there, as well trained servants were plentiful. Col. Myers died March 3, 1835 and was buried in the family cemetery about two miles from Fort Marion.
Their children were:
John Jacob Myers, II b. Jan. 29, 1800 d. July 30, 1878 (Bowling Green, Florida)
Mary Ellen Myers May 29, 1802 Nov. 14, 1843
William Mills Myers Mar. 7, 1804 Aug. 7, 1869 (this is the Uncle William
Claiborne Clifton Myers Feb. 10, 1806 May 24, 1853 one page 1)
Elizabeth Myers Feb. 10, 1808
David Frank Myers Dec. 31, 1810 July 21, 1879
Sarah A. C. Myers Apr. 12, 1812 July , 1830
Caroline L. Myers
Nancy Louisa Myers Mar. 29, 1816 Dec. , 1882
Catherine Hayne Myers July 13, 1818 in infancy
Robert Clendenin Myers Sept. 9, 1820 May 25, 1871
Dr. John Jacob Myers, II was born in South Carolina January 29, 1800. He graduated in medicine at
Baltimore, Md. On June 9, 1825 he married Sarah English Peay, daughter of Col. Austin Ford Peay of Fairfield District, SC. Dr. Myers had a successful practice and was rich in inheritance from his father and his father-in-law. The family lived on plantation at Winnsboro and at Hop- kins, SC. The home at Hopkins, which was about sixteen miles from Columbia, was built by Ru- dolph Myers before the Revolutionary War. It was a large brick two story house built of brick im- ported from England. It burned about 1900. Among the many honors conferred on Dr. Myers
was his appointment as assistant surgeon of the regiment which escorted Gen. Lafayette from the North Carolina line to Columbia, SC in 1824. Their children were:
Thomas Jefferson Myers
Mary Eliza Myers
Eugenia Phalby Myers
Sarah Louise Myers
John Austin Myers (This is the one who wrote the letter on page 1)
Nicholas Peay Myers
Franklin Myers
Marion Mills Myers
William Robert Myers

MYERS
JOHN JACOB MYERS, II
Dr. John Jacob Myers was born in South Carolina, January 29, 1800. He graduated in medicine in Baltimore, Md. On June 9, 1825 , he married Sarah English Peay, daughter of Col. Austin F. Peay of SC. Dr. Myers was assistant surgeon of a regiment which escorted Gen. Lafayette from the North Carolina boundary to Columbia, SC (1824). Dr. Myers was quite rich in inheritance from his father and father- in-law and lived in Winnsboro, SC. Their children were:
Thomas Jefferson Myers b. Aug. 9, 1826 d. Apr. 21, 1907 (Bowling Green, Florida)
Mary Eliza Myers June 5, 1828 May 9, 1912
Eugenia Phalby Myers Nov. 9, 1829 June 7, 1904
Sarah Louise Myers May 10, 1831 Oct. 3, 1890
John Austin Myers Oct. 5, 1832 June , 1905
Nicolas Peay Myers Oct. 18, 1834 Oct. 20, 1840
Franklin Myers June 4, 1838 Mar. 3, 1879
Marion Mills Myers Feb. 1, 1840
William Robert Myers July 25, 1838
MARRIAGES:
Dr. Thomas Jefferson Myers, son of Dr. John Jacob Myers, II and Sarah English Peay, was born August 9, 1826 in Florida. He was married three times. He married his first wife, Carrie (Caroline) Perry of SC on October 12, 1852; she died 1854. Their child was:
Carrie Myers married John Lee of Florida. Their son was:
John Lee, Jr.
Dr. Thomas Jefferson Myers was wounded in battle of Cherobusco during the Mexican War (1848) from which he suffered the remainder of his life. He was a Major in the Civil War, in the com- mand of General Forest. He died about 1908 and was buried at Bowling Green, Florida. His grave was marked by the US Government as a Mexican War veteran.
Mary Eliza Myers, daughter of Dr. John Jacob Myers, II and Sarah English Peay, was born June 5, 1828. She married Dr. Joseph G. Jenkins of SC, on January 5, 1845. Their plantation post office was Vaughnville, SC. Dr. Jenkins died December 22, 1862 and after his death, his widow moved to Green ville, SC to live with a son, Capt. J. G. Jenkins, Jr. She died ______________. Their children were:
Nicholas Austin Jenkins b. Oct. 19, 1845
Joseph G. Jenkins, Jr. Feb. 13, 1847
Sarah English Jenkins July 27, 1848
Thomas Bracy Jenkins May 8, 1850
Eugenia Jenkins Mar. 30, 1851
John Jenkins Oct. 13, 1853 1863
English Jenkins Apr. 29, 1855
James Jenkins Sept. 26, 1856 Nov. 23, 1871
Benjamin Edward Jenkins June 30, 1858 1881
Margaret Cattrell Jenkins Aug. 25, 1860 1872
Jefferson Myers Jenkins May 4, 1862 Sept. 9, 1862

MARRIAGES:
Sarah English Jenkins married Stanmore Watson of Columbia, SC.

Eugenia Phalby Myers daughter of Dr. John Jacob Myers, II and Sarah English Peay, was born Nov- ember 9, 1829. Her first husband was Thomas Bracy whom she married on November 5, 1844. He second husband was Dr. Nicolas Alexander Talley whom she married on February 26, 1852. Dr. Talley was born in Washington, Wiles County, Ga. on October 27, 1827. He was a very dis- tinguished and greatly beloved physician of Columbia. SC. He died July 6, 1897 and was buried with elaborate ceremonies and honors. His wife died in June 1904. Their children were:
Eugenia Talley married Thomas Hassell Gibbs, grandson of Colonial Gov. Gibbs of SC.
Amy Talley married Preston Cunningham. Their child was:
Celeste Cunningham
Celeste Talley
Alexander N. Talley
Lawson Clay Talley
Sarah Louise Myers, daughter of Dr. John Jacob Myers, II and Sarah English Peay, was born May 10, 1831. She married Edward L. Patterson, son of Hon. Angus Patterson, who was US Senator from SC. They lived at Barnwell, SC. Their children were:
Nicolas A. Patterson, born in 1849, was a lawyer in Florida.
Dr. Angus Berthume Patterson, born 1851. Dr. Patterson studied medicine. He practiced in At- lanta, Ga. for awhile and later returned to SC to resume his practice. He married Miss Sophia Tillinghast. He died January, 1938. Their children were:
Edwarda Patterson married E. J. DeCosta.
Mary Patterson (adopted) married R. W. Pagett
Sophia Tillinghast Patterson, who was nicknamed “Be Bee”, died September 3, 1951.
Dr. Joseph Patterson, born 1855, was a dentist. He married _______________________ of SC.
Dr. Edward Patterson, born 1859, studied medicine. He practiced his profession Barnwell, SC and then moved to Florida in 1880. He married Miss Kate Allen of SC.
Nannie Patterson , born 1861, married a Mr. Burkett of Atlanta, Ga. in October of 1882.
Sarah English Patterson, born 1863, married William Tillinghast, an attorney-at-law of SC. Their child was:
Ivy Tillinghast married Clifton Harrison of Atlantic, Ga. in 1896
Hannah Frizelle Patterson, born 1865, married Pierce Allen, of Allendale, SC. Their children were:
(four girls)
Dr. Alfred Alrich Patterson, born 1867, was a dentist. He practiced in Atlanta, Ga. and later in Charleston, SC. He married Miss Marie Kerrison of Charleston, SC.
Isabel Coroneus Patterson was born March 30, 1872.
Dr. John Austin Myers, son of Dr. John Jacob Myers, II and Sarah English Peay, was born October
5, 1832 and died June of 1905 at the ancestral home, Fort Marion SC. He married his cousin,
Mary English Peay, daughter of Col. N. A. Peay of SC. Their children were:
William Rudolph Myers
Holmes Myers
Nicholas Myers
John Myers
Dr. Marion Mills Myers, son of Dr. John Jacob Myers, II and Sarah English Peay, was born Febru-
ary 1, 1840. He married and moved to Texas. He had a large family.
Franklin Myers, son of Dr. John Jacob Myers, II and Sarah English Peay, was born June 4, 1838 in
SC. He was educated in medicine, but the Civil War interrupted his plans. During the war, he
served as a medical officer in Louisiana where he saw so much suffering, that after the war, he
never resumed his medical practice. He married (1) Mary Alice Hubbell August 5, 1863, and lived in Orangeburg, SC. before the was. His wife died, leaving three small children who all died young. Their children were:
Pauline Myers
Franklin Myers, Jr.
Julian Myers
After the death of his first wife, Franklin Myers followed the “T & P” railroad to Texas. Her was a train conductor. On October 15., 1874, he married Mills Sonoma Beeman of Dallas, Texas. They lived in Marshall and Dallas, Texas. He died suddenly of spinal meningitis on March 31, 1879 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas, Texas. (Plot 7-33-19).
Mrs. Sonoma Beeman Myers was born December 6, 1857 in Dallas, Texas. She was the daughter of Martha Dye and William H. Beeman, pioneers. She died August 5, 1950, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery.
The children of Sonoma Beeman and Franklin Myers were:
Noma English Myers born September 17, 1876 and died November 15, 1967.
Carra Ruth Myers, born February 20, 1879 and died February 5, 1951.
MARRIAGES:
Noma English Myers married Joseph Ridgeway Gunn on February 16, 1900 at Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Gunn was a native Texan, but was working for J. I. Case as a bookkeeper. He was transferred from Memphis to Nashville and then later, back to Dallas. Mr. Gunn was very active in Masonic work and just before he died on January 19, 1932, was elected to the highest position of honor in his lodge, that of “Worshipful Master.” Daddy Gunn was a 32nd Degree Mason.
Their children were: Joseph Ridgeway Gunn, Jr. b. Nov. 20, 1900
Noma Elmer (Elma) Gunn Dec. 29, 1902
Audrey Louise Gunn July 11, 1905
Dorothy Elizabeth Gunn Sept. 6, 1907
Robert Winston Gunn Mar. 23,1910
Marion Frances Gunn Dec. 16, 1912
Harold Dale Gunn Aug. 3, 1918
MARRIAGES:
Joseph Ridgeway Gunn, Jr. graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and got a Mas- ter’s degree at the University of California, in Mechanical Engineering. He was em- ployed as an engineer by Standard Oil of California. On September 3, 1922, he married Melviné Longly. Their child was:
Joseph Ridgeway Gunn, III (Joey), born November 28, 1928 in Ross, California.
Elma Gunn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in Journalism. She married Henry Coleman Fulcher of Naples, Texas. Mr. Fulcher was a newspaper man of the Aus- tin Statesman and later managing editor of the Record-News in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Their children were:
Henry Coleman Fulcher, Jr. born December 19, 1925.
Joseph Ridgeway Gunn Fulcher born May 14, 1929.
Clay Wayland Gordon Fulcher born March 28, 1933.
Louise Gunn married John Wolcott Keebler of Williamsport, Pa. on July 12, 1927. They lived in Pa. Their children were:
Audrey Joan Keebler born April 24, 1928.
Dorothy Elizabeth (Betty) Keebler born December 21, 1929.
John Wolcott Keebler, Jr. born August 27, 1931.
Charles Irving Keebler, II born November 20, 1934
Ann Sonoma Keebler born January 26, 1937.
Elma Keebler born August 12, 1940
Elva Keebler (adopted)
Joey Keebler (adopted)
Dorothy Elizabeth Gunn married Edward Henry Scarborough on February 18, 1928. They lived in Dallas, Texas. They had one child:
Linda Louise Scarborough married Glenn Gilbert Hampton on September 2, 1960. They had two children born in Dallas, Texas:
John Gilbert Hampton born December 4, 1961. John married Joanna Patricia Law son on April 8, 1995. They live in Dallas, Texas.
Sharon Louise Hampton born December 28, 1962. Sharon married Daniel Lee Bur- ton on September 28, 1984 in Harlingen, Texas. They live in San Antonio, Texas. They have one daughter:
Alishia Lyn Burton born May 2, 1985.
On August 19, 1982, Glenn and Linda Hampton were divorced in Cameron Country, Texas. Glenn married Mrs. Marina Torres. On September 29, 1984 in Harlingen, Texas, Linda married Rev. Benjamin J. Warrenburg, who had six children by his first marriage. Ben is a Lutheran pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Their last church, before retirement, was Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in “Norse, Texas” (not listed on most maps). This is a Norwegian community about eight miles west of Clifton, Texas and in the very northern part of the Hill Country of Texas.
Robert Winston Gunn married Frieda McCutcheon on February 5, 1932. They lived in Dallas, Texas where he was in the Insurance business. Later they moved to San Francisco, Cali- fornia and lived in Mill Valley, a couple of doors down from his brother Joe. Their children were:
Freda Ruth Gunn born January 1, 1933
Robert Winston Gunn, Jr. born January 16, 1934
Wayne Gordon Gunn born July 24, 1935
Barbara Jean Gunn born September 19, 1937
Marion Gunn married Russell Lewis Brickell on January 7, 1947 in Weatherford, Texas. Russell was born November 30, 1909 in Fort Worth, Texas and died July 23, 1954 in the Sequoia National Park California. Their children were:
Russell Lewis Brickell, Jr. born December 3, 1947 in Kentfield, California.
Laura Kathleen Brickell born April 10, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas. Kathy married Rev. Wesley McCullough Moore on August 22, 1970 in Wichita Falls, Texas. They had two children:
Joanna Moore
Charles Moore
Harold Dale Gunn married Mildred Virginia Boggs on March 25, 1946. Virginia was born in August 6, 1921 in Woodstock, NY. Their children were:
Joan Elizabeth Frances Sonoma Gunn born January 19, 1947 in Dallas, Texas.
Susan Virginia Barbara Louise Gunn born May 24, 1949 in London, England.
Harold Erik Stefan Trygve Gunn born September 21, 1956 in Manchester, Conn.

Ruth Myers married Samuel Earl Cooper of Dallas, Texas on April 5, 1899. Mr. Cooper died August 1, 1905 leaving one child. Ruth Myers Cooper of Mrs. C. R. Cooper, as she was known, was cashier for a large insurance agency in Dallas, Texas for thirty-three years. (Kansas City Life Ins. Co.) She was active in East Dallas Christian Church, Business and Professional Women’s Club and Altrusa Club. Their child was:
Ruth Jeanette Cooper born August 1, 1900. Ruth graduated from Texas State College for Women (now Texas Women’s University), Denton, with BS degree. She did post- graduate work at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis and then worked for several years as a hospi- tal dietitian. Later she was in YWCA work as residence dietitian and cafeteria manager. She was director of home economics department for a large advertising agency in Dallas and New York for eleven years. She was a free lance writer of food articles and related subjects.