Born in Sunbury, Ohio, on this date in 1848: great-grandfather Stephen Bennett Myers.His mother died when he was two. He moved with his father and stepmother to Oskaloosa, Iowa. His father died in 1864, from an illness he caught while an officer in the Civil War. Stephen may have accompanied his father to the war as a uniformed dependent, but that doesn’t seem to be documented. Read more …
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- Ancestral Sites in Norway
- Ancient History I: The First Millennium
- Ancient History II: 1000-1250
- Ancient History III: 1250-1500
- Early, Early Americans
- Anne Larsdatter Skurdal (1801-1890)
- Anne Samuelsdatter Bjerke (1845-1885)
- Samuel Jorgenson, AKA Samuelson(!)
- Ole Larson (1841-1908)
- Dan and Lillian Myers
- Myers, Drayer, Colby, Sprung: Back To the Revolution!
- Isaac Larson (1884-1969)
- Lovell & Reatha Larson
- Helene Olsdatter (1854-1927)
- Marte Bø: Great-Grandma, Murderess
- Philip Myers (1759-1835)
- Wyoming Captive
- Michael Myers (1768-1815)
- Smith Larson (1877-1922), WWI Vet
- Tracing the Slettens
- Martha Bennett (m. Myers, 1763- 1851)
- William Drayer (1859-1937)