Mathias A Myers has been a tough one to find. There just don't seem to be many records out there.
According to later censuses, he was born November of 1854.
He was the son of Perry Myers from Mississippi and Perry's first wife, Sarah Price. The first 3 sons were born in Mississippi, but by 1854 they had moved to Nacogdoches, Texas where Mathias was born. His mother, Sarah, died in 1860 in Nacogdoches. I haven't been able to find where she was buried.
Perry remarried to Susan A. Spivey and had more children.
Mathias married Sarah Francis (Fannie) Welch, our Eliza Jane Welch's half sister. By 1900 Eliza Jane had moved in with them and later met and married my great grandfather, William Holloway Pettey.
Mathias and Sarah Francis moved to Shelby County, Texas where they lived out the rest of their lives.
While searching for clues to the Welch-Willis line, I discovered that there was a gentleman named David Myers who had come to the same point in his research. I gave him a call and had a great conversation with him. He knew about Mathias and Fannie, but didn't realize that Fannie had a sister (listed on the 1890 census) - Eliza Jane Welch.
He did tell me, however, what he knew about the Myers.
He told me that he placed the combined stone on Fannie's grave so that his father, who wanted to visit it, could see them together - although they were not actually buried together.
Fannie is buried in the Ramah Cemetery in Teneha, Shelby County, TX. Mathias's name is on the same stone, but below it are the words, "buried North Jericho Cem." which is located in Center, Texas. I can't find any record of his burial.
According to my genealogy program, Mathias was the husband of my "half great great aunt."
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