William Henderson Myers & Sarah Jane Hash
wedding photo portrait
1878
Bloomington, Indiana

William Henderson Myers, born 19 July 1856 in Bloomington, Indiana; died 04 Dec 1897 in Waxahachie, Ellis Co., Texas.  He was the son of Henderson Allen Myers and Manerva S. Coatney.  He married Sarah Jane Hash 30 May 1878 in Bloomington, Indiana.

Notes for William Henderson Myers:
W.H. Myers was a big man with dark hair and huge blue eyes, according to Beulah Myers Burleson.
In 1897 he had the measles and worked in the rain until he took pneumonia and died at the age of 41 years, 4 months and 15 days. It is said that he thought he just had to get his work done no matter what. He is buried in Bloomington, Monroe Co., Indiana. 

After he died, his wife and children moved to Missouri where her sister was living.  Sarah Jane Myers moved to Grayson County, northwest of Pottsboro at the turn of the century and lived there until her death in 1944.

     Sarah Jane Hash Myers was a small framed woman, about 5' 6", with long, straight, black hair, which she wore in a bun, and she had blue eyes. She smoked a corn cob pipe or a clay pipe. She would always send or bring James H. Hash a can of tobacco and a pipe for Christmas, but he never used it. She was a member of the Locust Church of Christ, which then moved their building in her lifetime to the Willow Springs area a few miles away on land donated by the Driggers family, and across the road from the Clountz place.

    Sarah Jane "Aunt Jane" died from pneumonia on a Friday monring at 7:00 am at her daughter's house - Minnie Myers Clountz. She was 83 years, 11 months, 7 days., She was buried Saturday afternoon at 3:00 pm.  Leland Alton, minister of the Church of Christ, officiated.  Interment was under the direction of Short-Murray Funeral Home. View Obituaries below.

    Pallbearers were Dempsey Moon, Roy Moon, Walter Moon, Spencer Steadman, Roy Smith and Hugh Ballough.
    Joseph J. Henry and Tom Hash were her brothers; they had moved to Texas from Missouri before 1900.  Sarah and William H. Myers came to Texas in 1884.  They came to Sherman for only a year and then moved to Ellis County Texas.  After William H. Myers died in 1897 from pneumonia. brought on by complications from having the measles and working too hard when sick, Sarah Jane moved northwest of Pottsboro,Texas with her brothers and resided there until her death in 1944.
    Tom Hash died about a month before Jane did and is buried at the Locust Cemetery close to Pottsboro; his wife Ellie Avaline is buried next to him. There is only a rock that marks their graves.

    On the 1910 Census of Grayson County, Texas, Sarah Jane Myers states she is a farmer, renting on farm schedule 95.
    She was buried in the Georgetown Cemetery next to her daughter, Minnie Clountz, near Pottsboro, Grayson Co., Texas.

Sarah Jane Hash Myers Hash Family Sarah Jane Hash, born 30 January 1860 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana; died 07 January 1944 in Pottsboro, Grayson Co, Texas.   She was the daughter of James Hash and Mary Ratliff.

William Henderson Myers

William Henderson Myers, born 19 July 1856 in Bloomington, Indiana. He was the son of Henderson Allen Myers and Rachel Minerva Coatney. 

He married Sarah Jane Hash 30 May 1878 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana.   Before 1900, the family migrated to Ellis Co., Texas; there William died on December 4,  1897 in Waxahachie, Ellis Co., Texas. Sarah Jane is listed in the 1900 Ellis Co., census with her five children.  By April 1910, Sarah and her daughter, Abbie are living in Grayson Co. with a boarder, Charley Walker.