Mary Ann MYERLY

  General Notes:

1842 BIRTH of Mary Ann Myerly

Mary Ann was a daughter of John B. Myerly and Emma Little

1850 CENSUS, Maryland, Carroll County, District 7 ("Mary," age 8, with parents, John, age 35, "Laborer," and "Emily," age 30)

1853 MIGRATION with parents from Carroll County, Maryland to Dixon, Lee County, Illinois

1854 MOVE from Dixon, Lee County, Illinois to Pine Creek Township, Ogle County, Illinois

1859 MARRIAGE of Mary Ann Myerly and Isaac Funk on December 1 in Pine Creek, Ogle County, Illinois by Rev. Isaac Hershey


See "Isaac Funk" for additional information




BOOK: HISTORY OF POWESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, Union Historical Company, Birdsall, Williams & Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1880, page 737:

DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP


MYERLY, Mrs. JOHN B.-- Section 15, P.O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Emma Little, and she was born in Carroll county, Maryland, August 15, 1820; and her husband was born in the same county, November 28, 1814. They were married in their native place March 25, 1838. Children were born to them as follows: Hester S. (born August 13, 1840), Mary A. (born April 15, 1842), David E. (born January 19, 1844), Ann Louisa (born February 22, 1846; married November 30, 1865, to James Hunter and died November 27, 1868), Rebecca S. (born October 10, 1848, married June 5, 1866, to James H. Judson, M.D.), Emma J. (born October 7, 1850), Lydia A. (born October 8, 1852; died February 28, 1853), John F. (born October 21, 1854), Franklin P. (born December 9, 1856), Noah E. (born January 21, 1859), Leavitt S. (born April 29, 1860), Martha E. (born April 12, 1862) and Hattie M. (born November 9, 1864). Mr. Myerly's ancestors were from Germany. He worked for his father until twenty-one years of age, and after marrying emigrated to Dixon, Illinois, in 1853, where he remained until September, 1854, when he moved to Ogle county, Illinois, and settled on a farm he had previously bought, and farmed there until he purchased and moved to the present estate, in September, 1854. He died suddenly December 19, 1869, leaving the entire estate to his widow. He was a member of the Dunkard Church and highly respected and honored for his many excellent qualities. Of unyielding business integrity and kind of heart, he enjoyed the most profound esteem and unbounded confidence of all his neighbors. He left to Mrs. Myerly eighty acres of good farming land. Mrs. Myerly is an intelligent Christian lady, a kind neighbor and affectionate mother.

Mary married Rev. Isaac FUNK, son of Samuel FUNK and Barbara NEWCOMER, on December 1, 1859 in Pine Creek, Ogle County, Illinois. (Rev. Isaac FUNK was born on January 20, 1837 in Carroll County, Maryland, died on September 18, 1877 in Poweshiek County, Iowa and was buried in Dresden Cemetery, Deep River Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa.)