"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884" CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884. F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE WAYNE TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN. PAGE 897 HIRAM MYERS, farmer and stock grower, youngest son of Lewis and Catherine (Cooper) Myers, natives of Kentucky and Virginia respectively, and of German extraction, was born in Montgomery County, KY., December 4, 1820. His parents came into Indiana in 1824 and located in Wayne Township upon land now partly occupied by the town of Gosport. At the end of about four years, they removed into Morgan County, where subject resided until the spring of 1866. Coming thence into Wayne township, he settled upon the land he has since owned and occupied. May 17, 1849, he was married to Kitura Wilson, whose father Thomas O. Wilson, died in May 1883 at the age of eighty five years. By her, subject had born to him six children; first an infant not named (deceased), William Henry, Mary Louisa, wife of John M. Whitaker, Thomas Jefferson, John W., and Laura Jane, widow of Joseph Asher. Mr. Myers is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, an active, wide awake Democrat in politics and a consistent member of the Christian Church. The only office of trust or profit he ever sought he obtained and was for one term Trustee of Ray Township in Morgan County. From the "Virgin Woods" of Indiana, he has made two good farms- one in Morgan and the other in Owen County. He now owns a fine farm of 455 acres where he lives and another of about fifty acres near by,both well improved, cultivated stocked and equipped. When Hiram Myers was about two years of age, his father died, leaving the family poor, so what he has; he has acquired by the industry of himself and a prudent, faithful Christian wife. DATA ENTRY: Debbie Jennings