Jacob Moyers

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Joseph Moyers, Before 1775 - (?)
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Jacob Moyers, 03/27/1797 - 6/13/1863

Jacob Moyers - Short Bio

Jacob Moyers was born March 27, 1797 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was one of four known children born to Joseph Moyers, a native of Germany, who moved from Europe to the United States (Pennsylvania) in the eighteenth century. Jacob's two brothers were Willliam Moyers (circa. 1794 - ?) and Joseph (Jr.) Moyers (circa. 1800 - 1894). He also had at least one sister. Jacob moved with a brother and sister to the area near Cincinnati, Ohio in 1804 and worked from a young age as a farmhand there.

In 1818 Jacob married Sarah Rogers (March 16, 1802 - September 16, 1867), a native of Virginia. They were probably married in Ohio, where Jacob was working. In 1826 they moved to Greene County, Illinois, where several of their children were born, and in about 1839 they moved to Burlington Township in Des Moines County, Iowa. Two sons, Joel and John both died in 1839 after the move to Iowa.

A complete listing of the children of Jacob and Sarah Moyers includes:

Elizabeth Ann Myers (She never used the "o" in Moyers; went by the name Eliza), who was born December 20, 1820 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio and died May 30, 1861. Eliza married Jordan Albert Lakin, born December 1, 1817 in Pennsylvania; died July 29, 1869. Eliza and Jordan are buried in the Hopewell Cemetery in Greene County, Illinois. They had ten children; the descendants are listed under the above link to Elizabeth.

Joel Moyers, born July 20, 1822 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; died August 1, 1839 in Burlington Township, Des Moines County, Iowa. Joel is buried in the Loper Cemetery in Des Moines County, Iowa.

John Wifoley Moyers, born April 3, 1824 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; died August 7, 1839 in Franklin Township, Des Moines County, Iowa. John is also buried in the Loper Cemetery.

Samuel Nelson Moyers, born January 31, 1827 five miles north of Carrollton in Greene County, Illinois; died January 13, 1920 in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa. Sam married Lucinda Hopkins Deen, born June 15, 1824 in Lewis County, (West) Virginia; died November 9, 1909 in Mediapolis, Des Moines County, Iowa; they were married August 6, 1846 in Des Moines County, Iowa (see their links for further genealogy).

Andrew Jackson Moyers, born December 2, 1829 in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois; died March 30, 1862 in Franklin Township, Des Moines County, Iowa. Andrew married Mary Elizabeth Dean (1832/3 - ?) of Virginia, the daughter of Jacob D. Deen and Judith Cox, and the sister of Lucinda Deen who married Samuel Nelson Moyers. Andrew and Elizabeth Moyers had a daughter, Julia A. Moyers, born between 1854-1855, and a son who was born between 1849-1850. The son's name was ? W. Moyers (first initial was illegible on the 1856 Des Moines County, Iowa, census).

Susannah (Susan) Jane Moyers, born November 29, 1831; died July 25, 1892. Susan married James Morris Rexroat, who was born January 22, 1828 in Russell County, Kentucky and died October 6, 1914 in Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois. They were married September 8, 1850 in Des Moines County, Iowa at the home of Jacob Moyers (Susan's father). Susan and James Rexroat had eleven children. Their descendants are listed under the link to her name above.

George W. Moyers (an uncle to George W. E. Moyers who married Rebecca Pence), born December 25, 1832 in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois; died unknown in Salina, Kansas; George is buried in the Hawkeye Cemetery there. He married Elizabeth Ann Kurtz (May 31, 1840 to June 1926) in Oakville, Louisa County, Iowa in about 1857. She too died in Kansas and is buried in the Hawkeye Cemetery.

Benjamin Franklin Moyers, born March 7, 1836 in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois; died unknown. B. F. Moyers is said to have moved to Southwest Missouri by the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Jacob Josiah Moyers, born June 20, 1842 in Burlington Township, Des Moines County, Iowa; died unknown. Jacob was living in Illinois in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

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