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Obituary J. S.
Myers, Dallas Pioneer, Passes at 94
Funeral services for John Simeon Myers, 94, who drove cattle from Dallas
to Kansas seventy-six years ago, and was the son of the first ordained Baptist
minister of Dallas County, will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Union Baptist
Church at Carrollton, near where he was born.
Mr. Myers died Friday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. M. Broadhurst, 3208
Cole.
His father, the Rev. John M. Myers, native of Kentucky, who moved to
Dallas County from Illinois and settled in the Peters Colony in 1823, where he
established a headright on which he lived and farmed until 1857, helped to
establish one of the first churches in the county, the Union Baptist Church,
located near Carrollton. In 1849, he was ordained to preach there.
John Simeon Myers' grandfather was the first Baptist minister to preach in
Dallas County after he settled here in 1945. His first sermon here was a funeral
discourse preached in 1946.
Mr. Myers married Miss Marie Virginia Cooper, member of a pioneer Dallas County
family.
One of his trips with cattle for the Kansas market was made when he was 18 years
of age. There were 1,000 head of cattle collected from the Dallas community and
the trail drivers had to cross rivers with them. Later he drove oxen to wagons
that hauled lumber and other building materials from Shreveport, La., to Dallas.
Mr. Myers, whose life was spent as a cattleman, farmer and real estate operator,
moved from Carrollton to Denton, then to Mineral Wells and back to Dallas during
his career. He was a strong supporter of good roads and was one of the
principal boosters of the establishment of an interurban line from Denton
to Dallas.
He is survived by a son, A. F. Myers, Fort Worth; five daughters, Mrs.
Broadhurst, Mrs. B. L. Barnwell, Rome, Ga.; Mrs. W. O. Mathis, Mineral Wells;
Mrs. A. B. Culbertson, Fort Worth, and Mrs. Robert Thaxton of Burkburnett.
Burial will be in the Perry Cemetery.
The Dallas Morning News - January 8, 1944
The Carrollton Chronicle - January 14, 1944
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