Ruth Cooper's Notes on the Myers Family (1)

The following is an email that I received from Linda Warrenburg on Nov. 14, 2008.

The rest of the things I’ll send on these 2 families are just copies of information Ruth Cooper had written down so she could figure out what she knew about a family & what she had to find out about them. I just typed everything that she had, thinking that somewhere down the line it might come in handy.
Linda


George Welborn Myers (Dick), being deaf, was educated at the Texas State School for the Deaf at Austin , Texas. He married Miss Maxine Cochran of Denver, Colo., also deaf, on July 3, 1937. They lived in Ennis, Texas where Dick was employed as a linotype opera- tor. Their child was:
Bertie Suzanne Myers born Mar. 18, 1940.
Mary Frances Myers, being deaf, was also educated at the Texas State School for the Deaf at Austin, Texas. She was quite talented in art and pained in water colors as well as in oils. She was a good lip reader and taught at the Deaf School in Austin, She was married.
Robert D. Myers, attended the University of Texas. He was quite a golfer and about 1936, while on his summer vacation, he made a “hole in one” on the Golf Links at Mexia - thus gaining much attention in the sports world. On November 23, 1938, he married Mrs. Maxine Clark Sturges of McAllen. She had one son, Jimmie. They lived at McAllen, Texas where Robert was in the Tobacco business.
Mary Mims Myers married Rev. Samuel Anthony Caldwell, a Presbyterian Minister. Their chil- dren were:
Kate Mims Caldwell
Samuel A. Caldwell, Jr.
Mary Eleanor Caldwell
Marguerite Lucy Caldwell
David Rudolph Myers, Jr. (Rudolph) married Miss Julia Agnes Tarleton. He died about 1930. There were no children.
Rebecca Augustine Myers, daughter of Col. C. C. Myers and his first wife, Rebecca Augustine, was born March 10, 1843 at the plantation home, “Millwood” near Montgomery, Ala. In 1861, she married John Grange Ashe, who later became a Captain in the Confederate Army. They lived at Piedmont Springs. Capt. Ashe was killed during the Civil War. Their children were.
William S. Ashe born July 1863.
John Grange Ashe, Jr. born Oct. 27, 1865.
MARRIAGES:
Willie Ashe married Miss Lizzie Montgomery. He died in August 1905. Their children were:
William S. Ashe, Jr.
Alfred Ashe
Algenon Ashe
Grange Ashe married Miss Irene Harris. He was killed in a railroad accident, August 25, 1901. Their children were:
Lilla Ashe
Elizabeth Ashe
Sam Ashe
Florence Ashe
Rebecca Augustine Myers’ second husband was Edward Robertson Neal, a native of Portland, Maine who emigrated to Texas before the Civil War. During the war, he joined the Confederate Army and was a blockade runner in the Gulf of Mexico. He died January 30, 1884 and was buried at Cotton Gin, Texas. She died at Ennis, Texas on February 11, 1910. Their children were:
Edward Wadsworth Neal born July 1869 and died Oct. 11, 1896
Claiborn Myers Neal Feb. 2, 1871
Mary Alden (Mamie) Neal Feb. 1, 1873
Frederick Wilmer Neal Aug. 20, 1875
Harrry Mexia Neal Oct. 8, 1877 and died Dec. 4, 1900.
Isabelle Robertson (Belle) Neal Aug. 9, 1880 and died Jan. 8, 1958.
Eva Hutchins Neal Jan. 23, 1883
MARRIAGES:
Edward W. Neal (Ed) was killed in a railroad accident October 11, 1896. He never married.
Harry Neal was killed in a railroad accident, December 4, 1900. He never married.
Claiborn M. Neal (Claib) married his cousin, Miss Florence Myers, daughter of David Watson Myers (Dave). They lived in Dallas and in Ennis, Texas. He died August 11, 1942. There were no children.
Mamie Neal married William Jack Loader. She died June 26, 1899. Their children were:
Reba Loader born Aug. 11, 1892
Mary Jack Loader Mar. 11, 1896
MARRIAGES:
Reba Loader married Ephriam Forrest King. They lived at Marfa, Texas. Their children were:
Mary Jack King
Ephriam Forrest King, Jr.
Parks Neal King
MARRIAGES:
Mary Jack King married Henry Clay Tompkins Puckett of San Antonio, Texas.
Parks Neal King married Dorothy Perkins of Sweetwater, Texas.
Fred Neal married Miss Jane Agnes Loader (Janie). She was the niece of Wm. Jack Loader. They lived in Ennis Texas. He died October 13, 1952. Their children were:
Catherine Baker Neal born October 1, 1909
Rebecca Augustine Neal October 2, 1913
MARRIAGES:
Rebecca Neal married Wilbur McKinney. Their children were:
Charles Neal McKinney born November 1938
Isabelle Robinson Neal (Belle) married Henry M. Levy. They lived in Oklahoma. Belle died January 8, 1958 and was buried in Oklahoma. Their children were:
Grange Ashe Levy
Kate Isabelle Levy
Edward Neal Levy
Eva Hutchins Neal married her first cousin, Walter M. Myers. They lived in Ennis, Texas. There were no children.
Sallie Jennings Myers, daughter of Col. C. C. Myers and his second wife, Georgiana O’Bannon, was educated in New York. Her first husband was Major Junius J. Pierce of the Confederate Army, a relative of President Franklin Pierce. Their children were:
Junius J. Pierce, Jr. - a Lieut. in the Spanish-American War.
Walter Hubbell Pierce
Pauline Clifton Pierce married Isaac Harvey Vincent. Their son was:
Farley Vincent
Sallie J. Myers’ second husband was Ernest L. Alley. Their son was:
Ernest L. Alley, Jr.
Mary Katherine Myers, daughter of Col. C. C. Myers and his second wife, Georgiana O’Bannon, was educated in New York. She married Hubbell Pierce, brother of Major J. J. Pierce, her brother-in- law. Their children were:
Junius J. Pierce, II married Miss Caroline Jones. Their children were:
William Hubbell Pierce
Junius J Pierce, III
Georgiana O’Bannon Pierce
Pamela Watt Pierce
Laurens W. Pierce
MYERS

ROBERT CLENDENIN MYERS
Robert Clendenin Myers was the last child of Col. David Myers and his wife, Phalby Mills. He was born Sep- tember 10, 1820 at the ancestral home, “Ft. Marion” near Columbia, SC. He was named for his brother-in-law, Hon. Robert Clendenin, husband of Mary Ellen Myers whose son had died. He moved to Alabama and bought a plantation near Montgomery. His first wife was Miss Chloe Watson, of SC. Their children were:
Mary Ann Myers
David Watson Myers (Dave)
Robert Allen Myers died young
Col. Robert C. Myers’ second wife was Miss Mary Harrison. She was the daughter of John Harrison and his wife, Lucy Reeves. John Harrison was the son of Reuben Harrison of SC who was a relative of Presi- dent Wm. Henry Harrison. She was born November 25, 1831.
Col. Myers and his wife, Mary Harrison lived for a while in Montgomery, Ala. In 1857, they moved to a plantation near Delhi, Madison Parish, La. Then in 1863, they moved to Mt. Lebanon, La. while making arrangements to refugee to Texas. In the fall of 1863, the family and their Negroes were moved via Shreveport to Robertson County, Texas near what is not the town of Sutton. From there they moved to Millican, Brazos County where Col. Myers died May 25, 1871. Mrs. Myers died De- cember 20, 1873 at Millican, Texas. Their children were:
Nancy Allen Myers
Lucy Reeves Myers
John Harrison Myers
Joseph Allen Myers
Robert Clendenin Myers, Jr. (Bob)
Bessie Myers

MARRIAGES:
Mary Ann Myers was the daughter of Col. Robert C. Myers and his first wife, Chloe Watson. She married Col. John Fraser Cameron of Memphis, Tenn. Their children were:
Allen Myers Cameron
Kate Fraser Cameron died young
John Fraser Cameron, Jr.
Chloe Ann Watson Cameron
Mary Belle Cameron
Nancy Louise Cameron
MARRIAGES:
Chloe Ann Watson Cameron married Oscar A. Knox, a mining engineer.

Mary Belle Cameron married the Rt. Rev. Charles R. Beckwith, Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Nancy Louise Cameron married Dr. Julian R. Beckwith, of Petersburg, Va. , a nephew of Bishop
Beckwith.
Dave Myers married Miss Hallie Woodlief. They lived for awhile in Millican, Texas and then in Dal- las. He died in 1908 in Dallas. Their children were:
Chloe Watson Myers born Jan. 6, 1892
Matt Myers
Florence Myers Dec. 26,
MARRIAGES:
Chloe Watson Myers married Ed Hawkins of Greenville, Texas. She died April 9, 1913. Their children were:
David Hawkins born Apr. 26, 1891 and died Apr. 18, 1900.
Allene Hawkins Mar. 10, 1896
Chloe Hawkins Nov. 12, 1903 and died Oct. 9, 1932.
Matt Myers died in July 1921. He never married.
Florence Myers married her cousin, Claiborn M. Neal. They lived in Dallas and at Ennis, Texas. There were no children.
Nancy Allen Myers was the daughter of Col. Robert C. Myers and his second wife, Mary Harrison. She married Benjamin F. Boldridge. They had one son:
William Clendenin Boldridge born March 22, 1872.
Nancy’s second husband was a Mr. Newby. They had one daughter:
Nita Newby
MARRIAGES:
William C. Boldridge was born in Millican, Brazos County, Texas. After the death of his Mother, he was kept by a second cousin, Mrs. Rebecca Neal of Ennis, Texas for awhile and then was adopted by a Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Robertson of Houston, Texas. He took the name of his foster parents, “Robertson”. They educated him for the ministry at Sewanee, Tenn., the University of New York and in Europe. He was a Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, Tenn. On February 1, 1899, he married Miss Laura Lea, daughter of Overton Lea and his wife, Ella Cooks of Nashville, Tenn. She was a sister of Luke Lea, the US Senator from Tenn. Their children were:
Eva Robertson born Sept. 6, 1900
Ella Lea Robertson Oct. 11, 1901
Arthur Clendenin Robertson May 13, 1905
Laura Lea Robertson 1909
Nita Newby married a Mr. Norvelle.
Lucy Reeves Myers married a Mr. McLemore.
John Harrison Myers ?
Joseph Allen Myers was born in Montgomery, Ala., April 13, 1855. The family moved to a plantation in Louisiana when he was about two years of age, and then about the beginning of the Civil War, they moved to Texas. He was reared near Millican, Texas. At the death of the Father in 1871, he moved to Hearne, Texas and became butcher-boy on the Houston and Texas Central Railroad. Later, he moved to Bryan and worked in a grocery store. He was postmaster of Bryan, Texas dur- ing the Republic administrations of President Arthur Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt and two year during the Wilson administration. He was also a merchant - books and stationary, and later hardware. He built the first fire-proof building in Bryan and installed the first electric elevator in the town. On October 5, 1875, he married Miss Laura Erwin of Bryan, Texas. They had four children. At her death, he married her sister, Mrs. Emma Erwin Bone, who lived only a short time. Then on June 7, 1896, he married his third wife, Miss Lillie Stillwell, a school teacher. She was born June 11, 1861 near Keechi, Leon County, Texas and was reared in Bryan. They had two sons. She died about 1928. J. Allen Myers died about 1931. The children were:
Frank Adams Myers born Apr. 29, 1882
Alice Erwin Myers Aug. 16, 1884
Robert Rudolph Myers Oct. 8, 1888
William Hudson Myers Aug. 20, 1890
Joseph Allen Myers, Jr. May 21, 1898
Charles Stillwell Myers Dec. 6, 1899
MARRIAGES:
Frank Myers married Miss Nita Cook of Waco, Texas on Mary 25, 1905. Their daughter was:
Lollie Louise Myers born March 29, 1909. She married __________; divorced.
Alice Myers married Edwin Jackson Kyle, dean of Texas A & M College on December 21, 1904. Dean Kyle was a cousin o f Hon A. S. Burleson, Postmaster General during the Wilson administration. Their daughter was:
Lillie Elizabeth Kyle (Lillie Bess) born June 16, 1907. She married T. H. Baker, Jr. Their children were:
T. H. Baker, III
Barbara Alice Baker
Rudolph Myers married Miss Mae Nicol of Bryan, Texas . There were no children.
Hudson Myers married Miss Lessie Mawhinney of Bryan, Texas on July 10. 1910. There were no children.
Allen Myers, son of J. Allen Myers and his wife, Lillie Stillwell, married Miss Nobie Webb, of Bryan, Texas. Their child was:
_______________ born ________________
Charley Myers, son of J. Allen Myers and his wife, Lillie Stillwell, married Miss Flora Woods of Somerville, Texas. Their children were:
_______________ born _________________
_______________ born _________________
Robert C. Myers (Bob) , son of Col. Robert C. Myers and his wife, Mary Harrison, married Cassie Parks. Their children were:
Arthur Myers
Mattie Myers
Bob Myers’ second wife was Miss Ola_____________ . They lived in Ft. Worth, Texas. Their children were:
___________________ born _________________
___________________ born _________________

Cornelius Roberson Myers (Neil) married Miss Florence Gammil. Their children were:
Cornelius Robertson Myers, Jr.
Adolph Myers
Robert Clanton Myers
Myrtle Myers
MARRIAGES:
Myrtle Myers married Henry Hill of San Angelo, Texas. Their children were:
Henry Hill, Jr.
Florence Hill
Bessie Myers was born July 1871. She married H. H. Holt in 1891. They lived in Waco, Texas. Their children died in infancy.
William Mills Myers (Willie) was born August 15, 1857. He married Miss Loula McKissell. Their children were:
Willie Myers, Jr.
Linna Myers
Lutie Myers
Joseph Allen Myers, II
MARRIAGES:
Linna Myers married a Rev. Crow, a Methodist minister.
Lutie Myers married a brother of Rev. Crow.
MYERS
Children of Col. David Myers and his wife, Phalby Mills, who left no descendants.
Elizabeth Myers was born in South Carolina in 1810 and married Major O’Haulon, a wealthy cotton and rice planter. They had no children.
David Frank Myers was born in South Carolina on December 31, 1910. He married Miss Martha Adams, a sister of Gov. Adams of South Carolina. They lived in Montgomery, Ala. Both died after the Civil War. They had no children.
William Mills Myers was born in South Carolina on March 7, 1804 and died August 7, 1869 at his come in Columbia, SC He was a lawyer by profession and lived in a magnificent residence which was burned. He was inherited the old German books and manuscripts, the Harpsichord and Swiss clock that Ru- dolph Myers brought to America with him from Switzerland. All of these things were lost. His first wife was Miss McLemore of SC and his second wife was Miss Laura Watson of SC. After his death, Laura Watson Myers married a man much younger than herself. William Mills Myers left no children.
Sarah A. C. Myers married a Mr. Woodward of SC. The Woodwards were of fine old Revolutionary stock, none better in all of South Carolina. They had no children.
Caroline L. Myers ?
Nancy Louisa Myers was born in South Carolina in 1816 and died in 1882 at her home in Barn well, SC. She married Capt. Joseph Duncan Allen of SC who was in the Mexican War. Both inherited large fortunes and lived lavishly in their elegant home in Barnwell, SC. He was a politician, They had no children of their own bur reared several nieces and nephews. They were buried in the Baptist Church-York in Barnwell, SC.
Catherine Hayne Myers born July 13, 1818, died in infancy.