ENOCH MEYER

Company "K" - 7th W. Va. Infantry


Submitted by Martha Cross Sargent.


Enoch Myer4 (Henry3, Peter2, Henry1)

Born - Feb. 11, 1807 Moscow Mills, Allegany Co. MD, s/o Henry Myer and Julianna Snook
Died - Jan. 22, 1881 Pleasants Co. WV, COD - Heart Congestion
Buried - St. John's Episcopal Cemetery on Willow Island, Pleasants County, WV.
Married August 31, 1826 Allegany Co. MD

Dorcas Tabitha Ross
Born - June 24, 1807 Allegany Co. MD, Dau/of Robert and Rachel Ross
Died - After 1882, probably Newport, Washington Co. OH - No death record found.

Note for Enoch Myer:
Served as a Waggoner in the Civil War, Union Army, Co. K, 7th WV Infantry, discharged due to Rheumatism. Probably joined in Sistersville, Pleasants Co. WV with his sons who served in the same Company.

Note for Dorcas Tabitha Myer: Civil War pension records show a note sent to the Pension Board 1882, to send all further pension payments to Tabitha Myer at Lower Newport, Washington Co. OH

Note in Civil War Pension records says that the name is sometimes spelled MYERS

Children of Enoch and Dorcas Tabitha (Ross) Myer:

Jane Myer
Born - May 16, 1825 Allegany Co. MD
Died -
Married - Matthew P. Barnhouse Oct. 24, 1849 Harrison Co. WV(VA)

Mary E. Myer
Born - July 13, 1827 Allegany Co. MD
Died - Before 1840 Allegany Co. MD
Married -

Emma Onile Myer
Born - Feb. 23, 1829 Allegany Co. MD
Died -
Married - John Thomas Dawson June 30, 1848

Benjamin Franklin Myer
Born - Dec. 10, 1830 Allegany Co. MD
Died - Dec. 2, 1916 Moscow Mills, Allegany Co. MD
Married - Catherine Mary Green Aug. 28, 1852 Allegany Co. MD

Note for B. F. Myer:
Served in the Civil War from Sistersville, Pleasants Co. WV, Company K, 7th WV, Union Army

Julianna Myer
Born - Sept. 8, 1832 Allegany Co. MD
Died - July 20, 1919 Tyler Co. WV
Married - John Groves

Rachel Myer
Born - June 30, 1834 Allegany Co. MD
Died - After 1919
Married - William F. Barker Sept 26, 1854 Tyler Co. WV

William W. Myer
Born - Jan. 7, 1837 Allegany Co. MD
Died -
Married - Nancy G. Thomas b 1837 d 1910

Henry E. (Enoch?) Myer
Born - 1842 Allegany Co. MD
Died -
Married - Catherine Frances Calvert b 1842

Jacob H. Myer
Born - Oct. 12, 1840 Allegany Co. MD
Died - after 1880 Jackson Co. WV
Married - Rhoda ? b 1846

Note for Jacob Myer: Served in the Civil War, 7th WV Infantry, wounded in foot at Spotsylvania ?, May 12, 1864

Robert R. Myer
Born - Apr. 7, 1842 Allegany Co. MD
Died - June 3, 1864 Cold Harbor VA

Note for Robert Myer: Killed in the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, Co. C, 7th WV, Civil War.

Note: Robert Myer’sCivil War Medal, State of WV, presented to Danny P. Myer, 1998.

James Polk Myer
Born - May 14, 1845 Allegany Co. PA
Died - May 28, 1928 Pleasants Co. WV
Married - Barbara Ellen McMullen Oct. 16, 1873 Pleasants Co. WV

Note: See James Polk Myer File and Barbara Ellen McMullen File

Mary Belle Myer
Born - June 26, 1846 Allegany Co. MD
Died - Apr 28, 1925 WV
Married - Benjamin Davis May 28, 1865 Tyler Co. WV

Camilla (Carmelia) Myer
Born - Apr. 8, 1848 Allegany Co. MD
Died - Dec. 19, 1897 Tyler Co. WV
Married - William Holden Oct. 27, 1868 Tyler Co. WV

Lenora Myer
Born - Nov. 5, 1853 Tyler Co. WV(VA)
Died - Oct. 22, 1854 Tyler Co. WV