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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon
County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all
necessary research to document what is contained herein.
MYERS, HENRY C.
, was born Dec. 6, 1817, in Chambersburg, Pa., and came to Springfield, Ill., in 1838. In 1841 he went to Boone county, Mo., and was there married in 1843 to Eleanor D. Robards, a native of Lexington, Ky. Mr. Myers moved back to Springfield, Ill., where they had three children, one of whom died young--
FRANKLIN, born August 5, 1847, in Howard county, Missouri, was trained to the mercantile business by his father, and became his successor. He is now engaged in miscellaneous merchandising in Springfield, Illinois.
ELLA D., born in Springfield, resides with her mother.
Henry C. Myers was first in the grocery trade, changed to confectionery, and from 1861 to 1865 was sutler at Camp Butler. After the close of the rebellion he engaged in general merchandising, and died Jan. 24, 1871. Mrs. Eleanor D. Myers and her two children reside in Springfield, Illinois.
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