When Melissa Meyers was born about 1849, in Ohio, United States, her father, Daniel Myers, was 65 and her mother, Sarah, was 19. She married Pleasant Abernatha Bales on 16 June 1867, in Ray, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Richmond, Ray, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died in Raytown, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Irish (Cork, Wexford and Louth) and English: variant of Mayers .
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from Meyer . Compare Myers .
Americanized form of German Meyer , with excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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