John Myers was born 1819 in Pennsylvania. He lived most of his adult years in Hammonton, New Jersey, as a brickmaker. According to The Story of Hammonton by William McMahon, "In October 1857, John Myers bought a farm, and soon built a house on Pleasant Mills Road. He engaged in the first brick making."*
His son, Samuel D., was born in Hammonton in 1846. He was a chemist in Philadelphia before leaving with his wife and family to travel to Sterling, Kansas to farm. Samuel arrived in Pensacola, Escambia, Florida sometime before 1887 as he purchased 26 acres in Escambia County in March of 1887.
* I came by this book by one of the strange coincidences that occur as you research your family roots. I had not been working on Ed's family history but a couple of weeks. I had been informed by Beverly Hewitt that there was mention of John Myers in this book. I was fooling around on the internet one day and was checking out genealogy resources on Ebay. There, with only a day left to the auction, was The Story of Hammonton. Of course, I was meant to get it. :)
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