Elizabeth Myers

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Myers was born in 1839, in Illinois, United States, her father, Simon Myers, was 21 and her mother, Sarah Ennis, was 22. She lived in Jackson, Illinois, United States in 1850.

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Family Time Line

Simon Myers
1818–1891
Sarah Ennis
1818–1864
Elizabeth Myers
1839–
Margaret Ann Myers
1845–
Hester Myers
1853–
Jacob Myers
1848–
Sarah Ann Meyers
1849–1927
John Myers
1849–1920

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  • Elisabeth Myers in household of Simon Myers, "United States Census, 1850"

World Events (8)

1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place

By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

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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