John Goodwin Swartz Myers was born December 26, 1834 in South Carolina, the son of George and Leodicia Conwill Myers. He came to Itawamba County in 1858 with his widowed mother and siblings in a wagon train of settlers from Newberry District, South Carolina. This caravan, which also included the Shumpert and Elliott families, stopped and settled in the Carolina community of western Itawamba County. It is likely that the families in the caravan followed the migration of Joseph Goodwin Conwill and his wife Mary Shumpert who came from Newberry to Itawamba County in the 1830s.
According to a granddaughter of John Myers, the five families of the caravan bought 160 acres each of adjoining tracts of land. The men then went together and built log cabins for each of the families.
In 1860, the census-taker found the Myers family in Itawamba County:
Richmond post office
John Myers 25, single, farmer, born South Carolina
Lodica Myers 59, born South Carolina
Mary 28, born South Carolina
Joseph 22, single, house carpenter, born South Carolina
Neighbors were David and Isabella Shumpert, Ephraim and Elizabeth Wiygul, Rhoda Shumpert, and John and Susan Adderholt. In the previous 1850 census, the Myers family can be found enumerated in Newberry, South Carolina.
John Myers was appointed postmaster in 1861 at Bolands, a community now extinct but formerly existed in the Carolina-Evergreen area of Itawamba County, and also served as justice of the peace. John married Mary J. Shumpert. His brother, Joseph, never married and died during the Civil War.
- "Itawamba Connections", Mona Robinson Mills, 8/7/2009.
(www.itawambaconnections.blogspot.com)
According to a granddaughter of John Myers, the five families of the caravan bought 160 acres each of adjoining tracts of land. The men then went together and built log cabins for each of the families.
In 1860, the census-taker found the Myers family in Itawamba County:
Richmond post office
John Myers 25, single, farmer, born South Carolina
Lodica Myers 59, born South Carolina
Mary 28, born South Carolina
Joseph 22, single, house carpenter, born South Carolina
Neighbors were David and Isabella Shumpert, Ephraim and Elizabeth Wiygul, Rhoda Shumpert, and John and Susan Adderholt. In the previous 1850 census, the Myers family can be found enumerated in Newberry, South Carolina.
John Myers was appointed postmaster in 1861 at Bolands, a community now extinct but formerly existed in the Carolina-Evergreen area of Itawamba County, and also served as justice of the peace. John married Mary J. Shumpert. His brother, Joseph, never married and died during the Civil War.
- "Itawamba Connections", Mona Robinson Mills, 8/7/2009.
(www.itawambaconnections.blogspot.com)
John Goodwin Swartz Myers was born December 26, 1834 in South Carolina, the son of George and Leodicia Conwill Myers. He came to Itawamba County in 1858 with his widowed mother and siblings in a wagon train of settlers from Newberry District, South Carolina. This caravan, which also included the Shumpert and Elliott families, stopped and settled in the Carolina community of western Itawamba County. It is likely that the families in the caravan followed the migration of Joseph Goodwin Conwill and his wife Mary Shumpert who came from Newberry to Itawamba County in the 1830s.
According to a granddaughter of John Myers, the five families of the caravan bought 160 acres each of adjoining tracts of land. The men then went together and built log cabins for each of the families.
In 1860, the census-taker found the Myers family in Itawamba County:
Richmond post office
John Myers 25, single, farmer, born South Carolina
Lodica Myers 59, born South Carolina
Mary 28, born South Carolina
Joseph 22, single, house carpenter, born South Carolina
Neighbors were David and Isabella Shumpert, Ephraim and Elizabeth Wiygul, Rhoda Shumpert, and John and Susan Adderholt. In the previous 1850 census, the Myers family can be found enumerated in Newberry, South Carolina.
John Myers was appointed postmaster in 1861 at Bolands, a community now extinct but formerly existed in the Carolina-Evergreen area of Itawamba County, and also served as justice of the peace. John married Mary J. Shumpert. His brother, Joseph, never married and died during the Civil War.
- "Itawamba Connections", Mona Robinson Mills, 8/7/2009.
(www.itawambaconnections.blogspot.com)
According to a granddaughter of John Myers, the five families of the caravan bought 160 acres each of adjoining tracts of land. The men then went together and built log cabins for each of the families.
In 1860, the census-taker found the Myers family in Itawamba County:
Richmond post office
John Myers 25, single, farmer, born South Carolina
Lodica Myers 59, born South Carolina
Mary 28, born South Carolina
Joseph 22, single, house carpenter, born South Carolina
Neighbors were David and Isabella Shumpert, Ephraim and Elizabeth Wiygul, Rhoda Shumpert, and John and Susan Adderholt. In the previous 1850 census, the Myers family can be found enumerated in Newberry, South Carolina.
John Myers was appointed postmaster in 1861 at Bolands, a community now extinct but formerly existed in the Carolina-Evergreen area of Itawamba County, and also served as justice of the peace. John married Mary J. Shumpert. His brother, Joseph, never married and died during the Civil War.
- "Itawamba Connections", Mona Robinson Mills, 8/7/2009.
(www.itawambaconnections.blogspot.com)
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