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20. Warren Henry MYERS ⁽¹⁷⁾⁽⁷⁷⁾⁽⁷⁸⁾⁽⁷⁹⁾⁽⁸⁰⁾ was born on Aug 25 1879 in Myers Mills, Clarion, County, PA.⁽¹⁸⁾⁽⁸¹⁾⁽⁸²⁾⁽⁸⁰⁾ Warren Henry Myers was born August 25, 1879, in Myers Mills, PA.
He died on Dec 30 1950 in Oil City, PA, Oil City Hospital.⁽⁷⁹⁾⁽⁸³⁾⁽⁸⁰⁾ Warren Henry Myers died Dec. 30, 1950. -- Grace Myers Obituary, T.H. Myers

Warren H. Myers, age 71, died in the Oil City Hospital at 3:30 am, Saturday, Dec. 30,1950. -- Warren Myers Obituary.
He 's funeral was on Jan 2 1951 in Oil City, PA.⁽⁸⁰⁾ Funeral was at the Steffee Funeral Home in Oil City, PA, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1951. The Rev. George H. Palmer, pasor of Grace Methodist Church, officiated. Pallbearers were Phillip and Charles Koos, Walter and Robert Rugh, and Harold and Lloyd Ashbaugh.
Warren Henry Myers was born on the Myers homestead in Clarion County, PA. Graduated from St. Petersburg H.S. in PA in 1899. Attended Clarion State Teachers' College. Taught school for one year at Wentlings Corners, PA. Spent entire married life in Oil City, PA, where he worked as electrician for Penna. Railroad. Was member of Grace Methodist Church, and was active in the Odd Fellows and Masonic Lodge No. 363. Died of sugar diabetes. Buried in Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, with his wife. -- T.H. Myers, Obituary of W.H. Myers.

Attended Blair's Corners School in 1893 with sister, Jennie (picture). -- - History of Wentlings Corners, p. 121

Went to Clarion Normal School and taught school thereafter. -- Jim & Dot Miller

Picture of Warren Myers on May 5, 1912, wearing his collar from the Odd Fellow Lodge in Blair's Corners. -- History of Wentlings Corners, p. 126

Warren Myers married Grace Rebecca Ashbaugh in 1901 and died on December 30, 1950. -- Obituary of Grace Myers

Following his retirement from the Penna. RR, he was engaged in the printing business in Oil City on Riverside Drive. He was a member of Grace Methodist Church, and a member of the Petrolia Lodge 363, F.&A.M., the Venango Lodge of Perfection, Pennsylvania Consistory of Pittsburgh, and Oil City Lodge, 589 I.O.O.F. -- Obituary of W.H. Myers.
He was married to Grace Rebecca ASHBAUGH on Nov 10 1901 in St. Petersburg, PA, Methodist Church.⁽¹⁸⁾⁽⁸¹⁾ Married Nov. 10, 1901. -- Family Bible, Myers family tree, F. Ashbaugh family tree., Obituary.

Married Sunday evening, November 10, 1901, in Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Clarion County, PA. -- Note on back of wedding picture in possession of Win Apel, 1997. As of Nov. 15, 1901, just days after their marriage, Warren Henry Myers and Grace Rebecca Ashbaugh lived at 108 West Front St., South Oil City, PA, according to an envelope to Mrs. W.H. Myers with the handwriting in the upper left in pencil: "First letter from my dear mother after my marriage."

21. Grace Rebecca ASHBAUGH ⁽¹⁷⁾⁽⁷⁹⁾⁽¹⁾⁽⁸⁴⁾⁽⁸⁵⁾⁽⁸⁶⁾ was born on Sep 12 1879 in Pilgraheim, PA.⁽⁷⁹⁾⁽⁸⁴⁾⁽⁸⁷⁾ ⁽⁸⁵⁾ Born September 12, 1879, in Clarion County, PA. -- Obituary

Grace Rebecca Ashbaugh was born September 12, 1879, in Pilgraheim, PA. -- Autobiography, F. Ashbaugh Family Tree, Ruth Ashbaugh.

She died on Jun 29 1966 in Vancouver, WA.⁽⁷⁹⁾⁽⁸⁸⁾ Died Wednesday in the Emerald Terrace Convalescent Home in Vancouver, WA. -- Obituary.

Grace Rebecca Ashbaugh died June 29, 1966, in Vancouver, WA, of a stroke. -- F. Ashbaugh Family Tree.
She died of a stroke. Grace Rebecca Ashbaugh was born in Pilgraham, PA, which is between Knox and Emlenton. -- T.H. Myers, Autobiography.

All of the children of Daniel Ashbaugh and Amanda Alsbach went to Pilgraheim School [after the family moved there in 1873], then to Salem, then to St. Petersburg in 1890 because it was a better school. Salem was a two-room school called "Academy." They went to Sunday School in Pilgraheim School, next at Salem 1.5 miles. -- Ruth Ashbaugh.

Grace attended St. Petersburg School in 1892-93 and, while there at the age of 13, wrote the following: "Autobiography of Grace Ashbaugh. Grace Ashbaugh was born in Pilgraheim, on September 12, 1879, and first attended school in a little school-house near her home. Her first teacher was Miss Nettie Baker, second Miss Mae Finley, third Mr. Scobert, fourth Miss Effie Finley, fifth Mr. Hockman. When at the age of 10 years she moved to Salem and went to school, to Miss Ella Blair and Mr. Snyder he was a very good teacher. Then she moved to St. Petersburg and went to school to Miss Sterner one term, and now her teacher is Miss Gouples she likes her, and thinks she will learn very much. Grace Ashbaugh has a kind Father and Mother. Her Mother was a school-teacher before she was married, and her Father is a carpenter. She has one brother and two sisters. Grace said she intends to change her name when she is 19 years old. She is going to marry rich and wear a diamond ring and have a party every night and never do a thing." -- Autobiography

Grace Rebecca Ashbaugh is listed as one of the persons on the front of an old photograph in the possession of Scott T. Apel, which shows the Lutheran Sunday School in St. Petersburg, PA, in 1895. The writing appears to be that of Grace Rebecca Ashbaugh Myers per Win Apel.

Grace Ashbaugh, after her marriage, rarely left her home. Regular attendance at church and occasional quilting bees were the only exceptions. She ordered all her groceries on the phone and had her husband, Warren, picked them up at the store. She did not even buy her own underwear. -- Twila Cromer, 8/9/98

Aunt Jenny, Jennie Myers, used to tell Dorothy Myers, wife of Jim Miller, when Jenny lived with Dorothy, that Grace Ashbaugh did not like Warren Myers, her husband. -- Twila Cromer, 8/9/98

She had several half-brothers and two sisters that preceded her in death. -- Obituary.

After her husband's death in 1950, lived with and was taken care of until her death by her son, Gordy, who never married. -- Win Apel

Grace Ashbaugh was living in Shelton, WA, as of Sept. 1962, but was expecting then to be leaving within a month. -- Grace Ashbaugh letter.
Children were:

i. Dorothy Irene MYERS⁽¹⁷⁾ was born on Oct 17 1902 in Oil City, PA.⁽¹⁸⁾ Birth date is contained in the Myers family Bible.

Dorothy Irene Myers was born on Oct. 17, 1902, West Front Street, Oil City, PA -- back of old photograph She died on Mar 29 1923 in Oil City, PA.⁽⁷⁸⁾ Died of tuberculosis at age 20. She died of tuberculosis.
10 ii. Theodore Henry MYERS.
iii. Mary Louise (Lou) MYERS⁽⁸⁹⁾⁽⁹⁰⁾⁽⁹¹⁾ was born on Jan 7 1906 in Oil City, PA.⁽¹⁸⁾⁽⁹⁰⁾ Birth date. -- Famiily Bible, Mary Myers Obituary

Born in Oil City, PA. -- Mary Myers Obituary

Mary Louise Myers was born on Jan. 7, 1906, 420 West 4th Street, Oil City, PA -- back of old photograph She graduated in 1924 in Oil City, PA, High School.⁽⁹⁰⁾ Graduated from Oil City, PA, High School in 1924.
She died on Nov 20 1969 in Cleveland, OH, St. Vincent's Charity Hospital, of cervix cancer.⁽¹⁷⁾⁽⁹⁰⁾ Date and place of death.
"Mary Louise Myers was an army nurse 1942-1945, serving in India and while in the service circumnavigated the world twice, once in each direction. Both trips over the Pacific by boat and both over the Atlantic by plane. Married Robert Price Nov. 23, 1946." -- T.H. Myers, Paper #8

"Mary Price, Oil City Native, Dies In Ohio: CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Mary Louise Myers Price, an Oil City native, who succumbed Wednesday in St. Vincent's Charity Hospital, Cleveland Ohio. She was born January 7. 1906 in Oil City and graduated from Oil City High School in 1924. Since November, 1955, she has lived In Vancouver. Mrs. Price served the Anny Nurse Corps for five years during World War II and with the Veterans Administration 21 years. She was a member of East Vancouver United Methodist Church, Eastern Star Holly Chapter 91, National Association of Retired Civil Employees and a life member of the University of Pennsylvania Nurses Alumnae Association. She is survived by one son, Richard Price of Vancouver; and two brothers, Theodore H. Myers of Knox, and George G. Myers of Shelton, Wash. Interment will be made in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Ore. Memorials should be made the American Cancer Society in lieu if flowers." -- Obituary

iv. Charlotte Anna MYERS⁽⁹²⁾ was born on Jun 10 1909 in Oil City, PA.⁽¹⁸⁾⁽⁹³⁾ Charlotte Anna Myers was born June 10, 1909. -- Myers family Bible, Whitling family tree.

According to back of an old photograph, Charlotte Anna Myers was born at home at 420 W. 4th Street, Oil City, PA. She died on May 7 1927 in Oil City, PA.⁽¹⁸⁾⁽¹⁷⁾ ⁽⁷⁸⁾⁽⁹⁴⁾⁽⁹⁵⁾ Charlotte Myers died of tuberculosis at age 17. -- Family Bible, T.H. Myers

Charlotte Anna Myers died May 9, 1927. -- F. Ashbaugh family tree, Whitling family tree.

There was a writeup of Charlotte in the high school yearbook, as she died shortly before she graduated from high school. -- Jim & Dot Miller.
She 's funeral was on May 9 1927 in Oil City, PA. Funeral services were held at the family home on May 9, 1927. Rev. J.H. Clemens, pastor of Grace church, officiated, assisted by Rev. K.C. Moore of Knox. Miss Gladys Biltz and William Taylor sang two songs: "In the Upper Garden" and "Just Inside the Easter Gates," accompanied by Mrs. Aurthur S. Blank, pianist. Several girls from her high school class, who were also Girl Reserves, acted as pallbearers. All wore the uniform of the Girl Reserves. -- Newspaper article in possession of Win Apel.
She died of tuberculosis. Charlotte Anna Myers was in the Oil City H.S. Class of 1927, but did not graduate. She died where she was born, at 420 West Fourth Street, Oil City, PA, at 2:30 pm, May 7, 1927. She attended only the first few months of school before "being seized a with the illness, a complication of diseases." She was a brilliant student, but quiet and reserved. She was a member of the Grace Methodist Church, a teacher in its Sunday School, member of the Epworth League, Girl Reserves of the Y.M.C.A. Funeral will be at 4:30, Monday, May 9, 1927, J.H. Clemens of Grace Church officiating, assisted by Rev. K.C. Moore of Knox.
v. George Gordon (Gordy) MYERS⁽¹⁾⁽⁹⁶⁾ was born on Jun 29 1915 in Oil City, PA, probably.⁽⁹⁷⁾⁽¹⁸⁾ George Gordon Myers was born June 29, 1915.
He died on Jul 15 1979 in Stevenson, WA, of suicide. Gordy Myers never married. He was active in the Boy Scouts and had an extensive stamp collection. His profession was a linotypist. He lived in Oil City, PA, for some time, and ran a printing shop there. It was this printing shop that Edwin and Marian took over shortly after they were married.

In late 1947 Gordy began experiencing times when he could not remember things, and an appointment was made for him with a psychiatrist in Pittsburgh, PA, by his sister, a nurse, Mary Lou Myers. Then, Gordy killed a man in Oil City in February 1949 by hitting him with an instrument. The man was the grandfather of a boy that was working in Gordy's print shop. He was found shortly after the killing in an unheated attic with only his shorts on. He was then sent away to a prison for the mentally insane near Williamsport, PA. When he was released in spring 1951, a trial took place in Oil City. The judge directed a verdict of not guilty, and he was not permitted to live in Oil City anymore.

After the trial he moved to Pittsburgh, PA, and lived with his brother Ted and Ted's wife Cora for a couple of years. He then moved with his mother, Grace, to Corry, PA (when he drove a black Packard) where is worked for a newspaper there as a linotypist. They moved there before April 1956, because they came down to Oil City, PA, in April 1956 for the funeral of Mark David Apel. They were living there in the summer of 1958, because Win Apel remembers visiting them in the summer when he was 8 years old.

Gordon and his mother then moved to Shelton, WA, sometime before 1962-63, and later to Vancouver, WA, until his mother's death in 1966. Gordy then stayed in Washington until his death in 1979. For some of that time he ran a store, "George in the Gorge," in Stevenson, WA, which is in the Columbia River Gorge.

In July 1979, after his death, Lorrie and Win Apel travelled from Boise, ID, to Stevenson, WA, to take care of his affairs for his four nieces, Marian, Dorothy, Flo and Twila Myers. Lorrie and Win cleaned up his apartment, went through his things, and found that he had been leading two lives--one with a family in the Stevenson area and another with a family in Carson, WA. In the latter, he attended the Methodist church, was an usher there, and was a Boy Scout leader; he went by the name of George. With the other family, he was known as "Gordy," had a room above the bar, and led a completely different kind of life. Win and Lorrie also met with his psychiatrist, who thought he was going to be sued for not watching him better. (Gordy once tried to commit suicide by threatening to jump off a bridge across the Columbia River before he was stopped.)