John McNutt Myers

8 August 1850–30 September 1921 (Age 71)
Brookville, Brookville Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States

The Life Summary of John McNutt

When John McNutt Myers was born on 8 August 1850, in Brookville, Brookville Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States, his father, William Myers Sr, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Elmira Stout, was 18. He married Frances Aldora Orr on 31 October 1874. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Belle Prairie Township, Rush, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Gardner Township, Johnson, Kansas, United States in 1900. He died on 30 September 1921, in Huntington, Huntington Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Gardner, Johnson, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

John McNutt Myers
1850–1921
Frances Aldora Orr
1856–1901
Marriage: 31 October 1874
William Alonzo Myers
1875–1948
Martha May Myers
1877–1968
Thomas Harvey Myers
1881–
Ethlyn Agnes Myers
1883–1952

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    31 October 1874
    • Children

    (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (14)

    +9 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1857
    Age 7
    Historical Boundaries: 1857: Johnson, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Johnson, Kansas, United States
    1863
    Age 13
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 20
    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Myres
    Miers
    Miars
    Mires
    Myer

    Sources (8)

    • John M Myers in household of William Myers, "United States Census, 1860"
    • John M Myers, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
    • John M Meyers in household of William Meyers, "United States Census, 1870"

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