(Veteran)

DEATH OF T. S. MYERS

It is with a feeling of unusual sadness that we are called upon to record the death of another good man, a soldier who has responded to the last roll call and gone to the rest promised to those who are faithful to the end.

Thomas Stewart Myers was born in Ohio, March 1, 1837, and moved to eastern Iowa in 1849. Later, he moved to Madison county, Iowa, where he enlisted in the Twenty-third Iowa volunteers in July, 1862. He was a member of Grant’s Army throughout the campaign around Vicksburg. In the fall of 1864 he was sent to the hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, where he remained seven months but did not fully regain his health and was honorably discharged in April 1865.

He was married March 1, 1866, to Mary McDaniel, who survives him. They resided on a farm in Madison county, Iowa, until 1883, when they moved to Ponca, Neb., remaining there until a year and a half ago, when they came to Blair in order to be near their son, Prof. W. H. Myers.

Mr. Myers was a member of Blair Post G.A.R. and a faithful, conscientious member of the Methodist church. He died on Monday morning at 9 o’clock from troubles incident to his life as a soldier and the hardships and exposure with which all soldiers are familiar.

Funeral services were conducted at the home by his pastor, Rev. C. P. Lang, where many beautiful flowers banked the room and casket sent by friends of the deceased and of the family, fitting tributes to the life of an honorable, just man, a soldier and a Christian, and the body laid to rest in the Blair cemetery.

The schools were closed for the afternoon in respect to the deceased and family.

The wife and son have the consolation of knowing that a true husband and father has entered into his reward.

Note: Since the actual death date was not given, the news article date was used.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~