page 234-35
George W. MYERS is a native of Spring River Township, Lawrence Co., Mo., born February 7, 1837, son of George R. MYERS and Amelia (ANDERSON) MYERS, both natives of Tennessee, and who came from near Memphis in 1834 and made a settlement the first two years in Pike County, Mo. In the spring of the following year the father located on Centre Creek, Lawrence Co., Mo., and there made a home. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and died in 1842. The mother followed him to the grave in 1862. She was a good Christian woman, and reared a family of five sons and five daughters. George Rattz Myers was the son of a merchant of Germany, who made a home for himself and family in Pennsylvania, after the Revolutionary War. The subject of this sketch was the fifth child born to his parents, and the second son. He grew to manhood in Missouri, and at the age of twenty-two went to Colorado and engaged in mining, where he remained fourteen years. He then spent six years in Montana, Dakota, Idaho, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, California, Old Mexico and New Mexico. In 1879 he returned to
Missouri, and purchased his present property, which consists of 120 acres, with good buildings, etc. He married Miss Mary E. COSTLEY, daughter of Young COSTLEY and Cassie (ETHRIDGE) COSTLEY, both natives of Lawrence County, Mo. To this union were born two sons and three daughters: William F., Hettie May, Dora Bell, Alice Elizabeth and George Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are members of the Baptist Church, and Mr. Myers is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He is serving his second term as school trustee of his district.
Return to Lawrence County Biographies