Lesly MYERS b abt 1807 Greene Co. TN came to Rhea/Meigs Co. area by 1830’s with his first wife Indianna ? She died there and he remarried Mary GREGORY. Lesly served Union with his son Wm. R. Several other sons served the Confederacy. Some of the boys drifted away, into MO, GA and AL while Wm.R and Lesly remained. Wm. R. md. Eliz. C. CANTRELL while his sister Mary md. John P.W. CANTRELL and another bro. James M. md. Mary CANTRELL.
Children of Wm. R. MYERS left TN for TX in the mid 1880’s and entered Ind. Terr. bef. 1890. Some of their CANTRELL cousins came with them including Lillie Davis.
I would love to locate family from the branches who migrated to MO, GA and AL as well as any others. Contact me at: SYLB26a@prodigy.com
please contact me at woolfpac@prodigy.net as the email sylb26a is in the old formate, and no longer viable.
I see Edna Clack as a contributor. Her email woodchippy@aol.com is not active. I would like to make contact re James Rodgers and Margaret Woods of TN. Read on another loop that she has their wills. Trying to document their son, Joseph Rodgers m. Elizabeth Donaldson.
thanks.