Submitted by
Mayme Hause

 

Jarret Myers & Mary Price Myers

     Jarret Myers, b September 8, 1824, Hall Co. GA, d April 27, 1874 Falls Co. TX, was the son of John C. Myers of GA and Nancy Mullin/Mullen of SC. Jarret married about 1844 in Walker Co., AL to Mary Lou Price, b October 1828, d 1918 Maxwell, Pontotoc Co. OK. She was living with her grandparents, Joseph Price, b 1780 Chester Co. SC and Mary Dorsey, b 1781 SC, d 1850 Walker Co. AL, as well as other orphaned grandchildren.

     Mary Lou's parentage is unknown as she was about 2 when she went to live her grandparents. As we research the names of the Dorsey family, we think Mary Lou's mother could have been Mary Price and unknown father. But in the household of Joseph was his daughter Nicie Dorsey, who married the brother of Jarret, George Washington Myers. Nicie moved to Texas and then OK after the Civil War when her husband died. Mary Lou had the unique relationship of being a niece and a sister-in-law to Nicie Dorsey.

     Jarret and Mary Lou moved to Kickapoo, Anderson Co. TX, along with about 17 other family members of the two families. All came to the East Texas area surrounding Anderson Co. The first child Sarah Elizabeth to be born in Texas. The family moved when Rebecca Louisa was about 3 months old to Falls Co. TX. Jarret died and Mary Lou along with her family continued to farm her land until about 1903, when she moved to the OK area where Nice Dorsey Myers with some of her children were residing. Mary Lou died during the terrible 1918 Influenza, as well as other members of the Myers family. The children of Jarret & Mary Lou Price Myers were:           

     Nicie Jane Myers, b September 9, 1845, d August 22, 1913, married Zachariah Taylor on September 28, 1865 in Anderson, TX.

    Margaret N. "Maggie" "Sis", b 1849, d October 14, 1943, married Saunders John Smith on March 21, 1873 in Falls County, TX.

    Telitha, b 1850, d 1850 in Walker Co. AL.

    Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie", b January 18, 1856, d July 10, 1940, married William D. Smith, (brother to Saunders Smith), on November 4, 1875 in Falls County, TX.

    Henry Roberson, b November 27, 1858, d August 12, 1937, married Texanna Kring on July 30, 1882 in Erath County, TX.

    Thomas Jefferson, Sr., b January 22, 1864, d November 14, 1955, married first to Laura Duncan on July 30, 1890 in TX. He married second to Lena Collins on September 27, 1902 in Waco, McLennan County, TX.

    George Thomas, b 1865, d 1870, buried in Carolina Cemetery, Falls Co. TX,

    Rebecca Louisa "Lou", b October 7, 1868, d July 30, 1959, married P. W. Adams on December 17, 1887 in Falls County, TX.

    Mary Jessie "Molly", b January 5, 1871, d January 9, 1960, married first to J. Henry Carmichael in 1888 in TX. She married second to Nelson L. Bowers in 1907.