Cleve B. Myers

On Nov. the 21 word was received by relatives that Cleve B. Myers of Farmers Branch had died in a sanitarium in Ft. Worth, from the amputating of one of his hands. He had been suffering from a cancer on his hand for the past six years and all that could be done for him was done, but at last death was his.
"Uncle Cleve as he was called by all  who knew him was 87 years old the 17 day of last May and for a number of years the relatives and friends had made that a picnic day for him by meeting at his home with well filled lunch baskets and making merry and "Uncle Cleve always was one of the merriest of the groupe.
Mr. Myers was born in Illinois  and in 1845 came to Texas with his parents and they settled near Carrollton where he lived until he moved to Farmers Branch at which place he lived until the time of his death. He is survived by his wife and eight children and a number of near relatives. He was buried in the Farmers Branch cemetery on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 21, Rev. C. W. Dennis holding the funeral services, and a large concourse of relatives showing the high esteem and respect they had for him.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, November 29, 1918
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Another Confederate soldier grave in the old Keenan Cemetery at Farmers Branch will be marked by the government according to a statement made this week by R. E. Sparkman of Italy when he approved an application by Miss Fronia Shuster for a granite marker for the grave of her grandfather, the late Benjamin C. Myers, native of Illinois and who located near Farmers Branch in about 1855.

At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in W. H. Witts Company. Darnell's Regiment 18th Texas Cavalry and served until the close of the war. Myers married Miss Penninah Fyke of Carrollton and the following children born of this union survive: Mrs. Sarah Ann Shuster, Farmers Branch: Mrs. Fannie Greenfield, Happy, Texas; and Tom Myers, Seymour County, Mrs. Myers was a well known early stockman in Dallas county.

An effort is being made by interested parties to see that all confederate graves are properly marked.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday June 19, 1942
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

B. C. MYERS
FARRIER
18th TEXAS CAV. C.S.A.
NOVEMBER 21, 1918

Keenan Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas