AT REST

Samuel Myers. an Old and Respected Citizen, of Olathe dies from the Infirmities of Old Age.

Samuel Myers died at his home in South Olathe on Saturday, September 3rd, 1892, aged 86 years, 4 months and 8 days. He had lived even longer than the full time allotted to the average man, and died peacefully, without a struggle, as a lamp would go out when there was no more oil to feed the flame.

Mr. Myers was born in Virginia in 1806, and was a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Myers, who removed into the then wilderness near Washington Court House, Fayette county, Ohio, where they continued to live until 1869. The subject of this sketch with his family came west in March 1869, finally locating in Olathe, Kansas, where the younger members of the family were raised and the old gentlemen passed his last days.

 In early life his educational advantages were not of the best, he having attended school in the now historical log cabin in which greased paper was used instead of panes of glass to let in light at the windows. With all these disadvantages, however, Mr. Myers was a well informed man and kept up with the times in which he lived. In 1838 Mr. Myers was married to Miss Elizabeth Green. There were eight children, born to them, all in Ohio, and are all now living except a daughter, Mrs. Mary Jones who was fatally injured in a cyclone which visited Washington Court House on September 8th, 1885.

The names and residences of the surviving children are as follows: Mrs. Maggie Ingrim, Mt. Sterling, Ohio; Miss Allie Myers, Olathe, Kansas; Lew W. Myers, Kansas City, Mo.; E. T. Myers. Grapeland, California; Mrs. Ada E. Noteman, of Kansas City, Mo.; Samuel G. Myers, Sioux City, Iowa; and O. C. Myers, Chanute, Kansas, all of whom were present at the funeral obsequies, except E. T. Myers of Grapeland, California.

Mr. Myers followed cattle raising during all his residence in Ohio, and could entertain his guests for hours with interesting anecdotes and reminiscences of a drover's life in driving his stock to market at Baltimore and Philadelphia at that early day before railroads had been constructed. His stock farm in Fayette county, Ohio, was part of a land grant tract ceded by the government to his father for services rendered in Indian wars during the last century.

 Mr. Myers early in life (1849) became a member of the Masonic order, and always during health, took an active interest in the meetings of his lodge.

 The funeral services were held at the family residence in South Olathe Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, conducted by Rev. A. W. Bishop, and a very large number of sympathizing friends were in attendance. The remains were escorted to the grave by Olathe lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M., as requested by the deceased, and he was laid to rest in Olathe cemetery according to the beautiful and impressive rites of the order of which he had so long been an honored member.

Olathe Mirror
September 8, 1892
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