Phalby Myers

From the book The Millers of Millersburgh (online on Googlebooks):

Chapter VIII. Phalby Mills and Colonel David Myers.

Phalby Mills, daughter of Eleanor Morris and Major William Mills, married Colonel David Myers, son of John Jacob Myers and grandson of Rudolph Myers.

Phalby Mills Myers was born September 24, 1782, died July 26, 1854, at Fort Marion, twelve miles below Columbia, South Carolina, and was buried beside her husband in the family cemetery, two miles from Fort Marion. Her son, William Mills Myers and others are buried there. Fort Marion, the ancestral home, was named for Gerieral Francis Marion, who had his headquarters there. This house of Colonel and Mrs. Myers was built about 1810, of brick made on his plantation. Some say that it was built prior to the Revolutionary War. It is still (1903) owned by one of his grandsons, John Austin Myers. Fort Marion was burned in the winter of 1903. It caught fire by sparks from the chimney falling on the shingles which were very old and dry. It burned in the day time. Phalby Mills Myers was a woman of very vigorous mind.

Colonel David Myers was born November 28 or 29, 1768, and died March 3, 1835. Colonel Myers owned plantations on the Congaree and Wateree Rivers. He represented his county for many years in the legislature, both in the senate and the lower house. He was colonel of a regiment in the War of 1812, and was a man of great influence and wonderful energy. He was a Whig. He married Phalby Mills, of North Carolina, December 24, 1798. Their home, Fort Marion, was the center of great hospitality. Many of the most prominent men and families were lavishly entertained there, as well trained servants were plentiful. David Myer's father, John Jacob Myers, died March 29,1804, in his summer home, called "Safe Gotha," near Platte Springs, Lexington District, South Carolina. He first served as lieutenant and afterwards as major in the Revolutionary War. He owned much land in different districts and married Catherine Von Enfinger of Saxony in 1764.

The oil portrait of Mrs. David Myers, painted when she was quite old, is owned by her great-grandson in Vicksburg, T. C. Catchings.

The children of Colonel and Mrs. David Myers were: John Jacob Myers the Second, Mary Ellen, Claiborn Clifton, Elizabeth, David F., William Mills, Sarah A. C., Caroline L., Nancy Louise, Catherine Hayne, and Robert C. Myers, the youngest of the eleven children. Chapter IX.

The descendants of John Jacob Myers, the second son of Colonel David Myers and his wife, Phalby Mills.

Dr. John Myers was born in South Carolina, January 29, 1800, and married, on June 9, 1825, Sarah English Peay, daughter of Colonel Austin F. Peay of South Carolina. Dr. Myers was assistant surgeon of a regiment which escorted Lafayette from the North Carolina line to Columbia, South Carolina. He graduated in medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and was rich by inheritance from his father and father-inlaw. He resided in Winsboro, South Carolina. The children of John Jacob Myers were, Nicholas Peay, born November 25, 1841; Franklin, born June 4, 1838, and died in 1894, his wife dying previously; William Robert, who died July 25; 1838; Dr. Thomas Jefferson; Mary Eliza; Nicholas Peay, who was born October 18, 1834, and died October 20, 1840; Eugene Phalby; Sarah L.; Dr. Marion Mills; and John Austin Myers.

Dr. Thomas Jefferson Myers, son of Dr. John Jacob, was born August 9, 1826, in Florida, and married Carrie Perry, of South Carolina, October 12, 1852. She died 1854. He married three times. On the 20 of September, 1894, he married a widow from France. His child by his first wife was Carrie Myers, who married John Lee, of Florida, and who has one child, John Lee, Jr. Dr. Thomas Jefferson Myers was wounded in battle during the Mexican War, from which he suffered the remainder of his life. He died about 1908 and the United States Government placed a marble headstone at his grave in Florida, as a Mexican War soldier. He was also a major in the Civil War, in the command of General Forrest.

Mary Eliza, daughter of Dr. John Jacob Myers, was born June 5, 1828, and married Dr. Joseph G. Jenkins, of South Carolina, January 5,1845. He died December 22, 1862. Their children were: Nicholas Austin, born October 18, 1845; Joseph G., born February 13, 1847; Sarah English, born July 27, 1848, who married Stanmore Watson of Columbia, South Carolina; Thomas Bracy, born May, 1850; Eugenia, born March 30, 1851; John, born October 13, 1853, and died 1863; English, born April 29, 1855; James; born September 26, 1856, and died November 23, 1871; Benjamin Edward, born June 30, 1858, and died 1881; Margaret Cattrell, born August 25, 1860, and died 1872; and Jefferson Myers Jenkins, born May 4, 1862, and died September 9, 1862. Vaughnville was the plantation postoffice of Mrs. M. E. Jenkins. She moved with her son, Captain J. G. Jenkins, to Greenville, South Carolina.

Eugenia Phalby, daughter of Dr. John Jacob Myers, was born November 9, 1829, and died June, 1904. She married Thomas Bracy, November 5, 1844, who was her first husband. Her second husband was Dr. Nicholas Alexander Talley, whom she married February 26, 1852. Dr. Talley was born in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, October 27, 1827, and died July 6, 1897. Mrs. Talley died June, 1904. Their children were, Eugenia; Amy, who married Preston Cunningham, and whose daughter, Celeste, is par excellence in music; twins, Celeste; Dr. Alexander N.; and Lawson Clay Talley. Eugenia Talley married Thomas Hassell Gibbs, grandson of (Colonial) Governor Gibbs of South Carolina. Dr. A. N. Talley was a very distinguished, greatly beloved physician in Columbia. He died in the summer of 1877 and was buried with elaborate ceremonies and honors.

Sarah L. Myers, daughter of Dr. John Jacob Myers, was born May 10, 1831, and married, July 31, 1848, Edward L. Patterson, son of Hon. Angus and Mrs. Hannah F. Patterson, of Barnwell. Hon. Angus Patterson was United States Senator from South Carolina. Their children were, Dr. Abner Bethune, who married Miss Sophia

; Joseph; Allen; Nicholas; Alfred Alrich; Nannie; Sarah

English; Edward; Hannah Frizelle; Isabella; David Myers; and James Patterson. Dr. A. B. Patterson was born in South Carolina 1851. He lived in Atlanta, Georgia, for awhile, but returned to South Carolina in 1891 to resume the practice of medicine. His children were Edward and Sophia Patterson, who was nicknamed "Be Bee." Joseph Patterson was born in South Carolina, 1855 and married Jane Allen, of South Carolina. He was a dentist. Nicholas A. Patterson was born in South Carolina in 1849. He was a lawyer in Florida. Alfred A. Patterson, a dentist of Atlanta, Georgia, was born in South Carolina, 1867. He married Miss Marie, daughter of Mrs. Charles Kerrison of Charleston, South Carolina, June 19, 1900. He afterwards moved to Charleston. Nannie Patterson was born in South Carolina in 1861 and married Mr. Burkett of Atlanta in October, 1882. Sarah English Patterson was born in 1863 and married William Tillinghast, attorney at law, of South Carolina. They had one child, Ivy, who married Clifton Harrison of Atlanta in 1896. Edward Patterson, M. D., was born in South Carolina, in 1859 and practised his profession in Barnwell, South Carolina. He married Miss Kate Allen, of South Carolina. They moved to Florida about 1880. Hannah Patterson was born in 1865 and married Pierce Allen of Allendale, South Carolina. They had four girls.

Dr. Marion Mills Myers, son of Dr. John Jacob Myers, was born February 1, 1840, and married and lived in Texas. He had several children.

John Austin Myers, son of Dr. John Jacob Myers, was born October 5, 1832, and died June, 1905, at Fort Marion, South Carolina. He married Mary English Peay, of South Carolina. Their children were William Rudolph, Holmes, Nicholas and John. She died May 18, 1899, aged fifty-seven, at their home in Fairfield County, South Carolina. She was a member of the Episcopal Church and a daughter of Colonel N. A. Peay of South Carolina.

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