History of Macon County, Illinois.  With Illustrations Descriptive Of 
Its Scenery, and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and 
Pioneers.  Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Phildelphia, 1880.  
Reproduced through efforts of The Decatur Genealogical Society, 1972. p. 
202 [Unknown County].

WILLIAM J. MYERS was born in Marion county, Illinois, June 24th, 1843.  
His father, Emanuel Myers, was a native of Kentucky, and came to 
Illinois while he was yet a boy.  He was born in 1818, and married 
Martha D. Watson, a native also of Kentucky, and died in De Witt county, 
Illinois, in 1863.  He moved to Macon county in 1851, and in the spring 
of 1853 moved to De Witt county, where he remained until his death at 
the date above stated.
	The mother of William J. is still living in this township.  The 
subject of this sketch remained at home until the breaking out of the 
late war, when, in July of 1861, he enlisted in Co. "F," 2d Ill. 
cavalry.  The company was organized at Monticello.  He enlisted for 
three years, and was honorably discharged and mustered out, January 4th, 
1864, at New Iberia, Louisiana.  He then re-enlisted or was veteranized.  
His second enlistment dates January 5th, 1864.  He was mustered out and 
finally discharged at Jefferson Baracks, Mo., August 24th, 1865.  The 2d 
Ill. cavalry was attached for the greater portion of the time to the 
army of the Tennessee and in the department of the Gulf.  After the 
close of his army life, he returned home, and remained there, until the 
spring of 1874, when he came to section 7, in town 18, range 4 east, 
where he engaged in farming, and where he has since resided.
	On the fourteenth day of August, 1873, he was united in marriage 
to Miss Miriam, daughter of James and Elizabeth Querrey, whose parents 
are among the pioneers of Macon county.  Mrs. Myers was born in Macon 
county.  This union has been blessed with three children, whose names 
are Mary Florence, Olive Belle, and James Emanuel Myers.
	Politically, Mr. Myers is a republican.  He was elected justice of 
the peace in May, 1873, and was re-elected in 1878, and is at present 
serving in that official position.

Myers Querrey Watson
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De_Witt-IL LA Macon-IL Marion-IL MO TN

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