Person:John Myers (68)

According to a Pedigree Resource File, John married Ruth Smart and had children: Henry Valentine 1804; Mary 1805-1872 MO m. Green Berry Thacker; Margaret 1808- m. Robert Foster; Sarah 'Sally' 1809- m. Thomas J. Craycraft; Elizabeth 1811-; George Washington C. 1813-1889 m. Sarah Hedrick; Joseph 1815-1860/4 MO; Nancy 1817- m. George T. Tribby; Mahala 1819- m. Wm. T. Tribby; and John 1822-1886 IN.

 "John K. Myers, New Richmond, is a son of John and Ruth (Smart) Myers, the former born in Pennsylvania, and the latter in Kentucky. John, the father of John K., early went to Kentucky, and there married. In 1846 his wife died, and he afterward moved to Missouri, where he died in 1858. Both were members of the Christian church. He served in the war of 1812. In the family were ten children, four of whom are living: George, in Kentucky; Sally, in Shelbyville, Indiana; Mahala (now Mrs. Mahala Tribby), with John K., in Montgomery county. Her husband is dead. John K. Myers was born April 5, 1822, in Nicholas county, Kentucky, and lived at home till thirty years of age. At that time in life he began for himself. His life has been mostly confined to the farm, yet partly in saw-milling. He left the land of his birth and came to Indiana, but soon returned to Kentucky. In 1863 he located in Montgomery county, Indiana, buying, in partnership with his nephew, Leander M. Tribby, eighty acres of land, which they farm together. Mr. Myers has never married.  He and sister belong to the Christian church. {H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County, IN, 1881, p 520; Google cache of <http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmontgo/persons/m/meyers-john-k.htm>; 19 Jan 2005}
 In the 1850 census in Fleming Co., Kentucky, John Myers is 28 farmer KY; with [father?] John Myers 71 Missouri; Presley 40 KY; and [aunt?] Betsy Smart 50 KY.  
 Son Henry Valentine remained in Nicholas Co.; daughter Mary Thacker is found in 1850 and 1860 in Ray Co., Missouri; Sally Craycraft is in Shelby Co., Indiana 1860 - 1900; George W. C. is found in Nicholas in 1850 and in Fleming Co. in 1860-80; Joseph is in Nicholas Co. in 1850 and in  Nancy Tribby is found in Nicholas Co. 1850 & 1860; Mahala Tribby is found in Nicholas Co. in 1860 and in Montgomery Co., Indiana in 1870; and John is found in 1860 in Nicholas Co. with sister Nancy Tribby and in Montgomery Co. Indiana in 1880 with sister Mahala.