This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pM1.2ACIB/656.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: people moved west, don't rule out the possibility; maybe on a bounty or some other land proposition, following the civil war many couples move west on land grants, etc, mine did; I have a Mary Elizabeth Meyers I am researching, born PA, Philadelphia area. Died there too. Her father is Henry Meyers. Henry's first and last born of ten kids got bounty on grandfather's revolutionary war efforts and settled in the midwest.