This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Myers Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/2066 Message Board Post: I'm not related to the following people, and have no further information about them, but I thought this may be of interest to someone: Thursday, October 6, 1864 N. C. ARGUS (Wadesboro’, Anson County, NC) -Died: Suddenly, near Byhalia, Miss., on the 2d ult., Absalom MYERS, formerly of Anson county, N.C. The deceased had formerly been Sheriff of Anson county and for several years a member of the Senate in the State Legislature of North Carolina and Counselor of said State. He was emphatically an honest man, and whilst in Mississippi he contributed largely to the Southern cause both in word and deed. He has left a large family in Mississippi to mourn his loss, and had seven sons in the Southern army, one of whom Col. George B. MYERS, was recently killed in an engagement with the enemy near Atlanta. (see the death notice of his son on this same message board) More NC newspaper abstracts can be found on my website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jganis/unionco/newspapers.html