When Emily V. Myers was born on 28 August 1851, in Cass Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States, her father, George Frederick Myers, was 38 and her mother, Hannah Rebecca Butin, was 33. She died on 18 September 1852, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Chillicothe Cemetery, Chillicothe, Wapello, Iowa, United States.
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Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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