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Where is Leo Alfred Myers in 1910?

March 27th, 2011 2 comments

Leo Alfred Myers was born 22 Feb 1890 in Illinois. I have found him in 1900, 1920, 1930. I have his death record and his WWI Draft card. (Where he said 22 Feb 1885). I can’t find him in 1910. He may have been married by then; he may not. His first wife, Anna Mae/Fay Leslie, inconveniently died from complications of childbirth in 1929.

1900, Little Rock Ward 8, Pulaski, Arkansas:
Meyers, Alfred, head, Nov 1856, 43, Mich, Ohio, Ohio, tailor
Meyers, Lizzie, wife, May 1867, 33, Ind, Ireland, NY
Meyers, Leo, son, Feb 1890, 10, Ill, Mich, Ind <<<<<
Meyers, Parmer, son, Oct 1894, 15, Miss, Mich, Ind
Meyers, Jacob L, son, May 1897, 3, Miss, Mich, Ind

1920, Oakland, Alameda, California
Myers, Leo A, head, 35, Ill, Mich, Ind, machinist, shipyard
Myers, Anna F, wife, 26, Missouri, Ill, Ill
Note he’s still telling the world he was b. 1885, not 1890.

Widowed Leo Sr.:
1930, Township 11, Kern, California:
Meyers, Leo, head, Widowed, 40, Ill, Mich, Ind, engineer, shovel
Leo was 20 at first marriage

Semi-orphaned Leo Jr:
1930, Redwood City, San Mateo, California:
Brown, William, head, 64, Ky, Ky, Ky, electrician, dredging Co
Brown, Ann E, wife, 63, Indiana, N, Ireland, NY
Myers, Leo A, gr-son, 6/12, Calif, Ill, Kentucky

William Brown is Ann Elizabeth McCartney’s second husband. Ann’s first husband was Alfred Myers, who we saw in 1900. Ann uses Ann, Anne, Annie, Elizabeth and Lizzie as her whimsy strikes her, the wild fey creature.

Anna Mae/Fay Leslie says she is b. Missouri in 1920. The informant then was probably her husband or her. Her son’s 1930 says she was b. in Kentucky. The 1930 informant is probably her mother-in-law or her step-father-in-law. I’m thinking Missouri is the right one. The 1910, if I’m l’m lucky, will confirm one or the other; it may say Ohio or Arkansas, too.

Enlisted in the Army Nov 1 1907 at McDowell (Fort), CA by Lt Caswell in San Francisco, CA for 3 yrs as Leo A Myers born Chicago IL age 22 yr 8 mos occ: Rodman 6th Cav Co K and discharged Oct 31 1910 Ft Des Moines Iowa, Exp ser Sargt very good solider.
U.S Army Enlistments 1798-1914 or
Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; (NARA M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

In 1910 at Ft Des Moines (Troop K 6th Cavalry) in Bloomfield, Polk County Iowa listed in Ancestry’s index a Lee W Myen and corrected to Leo W Myen but age is 20 yr single born Illinois, father in Michigan and mother in Indiana – Solider in US Army