Helen Oliver (daughter of William Oliver and Jane Hope) was born 06 July 1833 in Merrie Law, Roxburghshire, Scotland2123, and died 29 March 1908 in Middlebury, Elkhart Co, IN2124, 2125. She married Andrew W Myers on 17 April 1856 in Niles, St Joseph Co, IN2126, son of Jacob Myers and Lydia Utz.
Notes for Helen Oliver: Hellen (Oliver) Myers was born in Roxburghshire Scotland in 1833, daughter of William Oliver and Jane Hope. Her parents emigrated in 1836/1837, settling in Mishawaka, IN. She told her granddaughter Helen Mather that she dropped her doll into the Atlantic Ocean on the crossing. Her father died before 1850, when she was found living with her brothers and sister in the household of John and Jane Rodger at age 17. Her mother's obituary verifies she married John Rodgers and was the mother of Hellen. The Olivers were shepherds in Scotland, related to the Chilled Steel Plow inventor James Oliver of Mishawaka, IN. She married Andrew Myers when she was twenty-two, mothered three children, Will, Mary, and Ida. They moved from town to town, he was a miller. Her marriage ended in separation or divorce (no record found) as her husband alternately drank heavily and then was saved at church tent revival meetings. He was unfaithful. She lived with her son John, and then daughter Ida after her divorce, and died there at age seventy-four in 1907. She had cancer. She is buried in Middlebury, IN. References: Birth-Immigration-Parents:National Archives NY NY Passenger list from Liverpool, Eng 12 Aug 1837, ship master Charles Barthing, born in Scotland, father a laborer. Also Index to Passenger Lists film M-261 roll 74, arrived Aug. 1837 on ship Henry Kneeland from England. Birth-Immigration-Marriage-Children-Death: Obituary of Helen Myers, Middlebury Independent;Middlebury,IN; March 1907;Scrapbook of daughter Ida Myers Mather. Mother:Obituary of Mrs. Jane Rogers, Mishawaka Enterprise;Mishawaka, IN; April 1893. Marriage- Wedding certificate, Niles MI, 17 April 1856 Death-Children-Spouse:Obituary;Middlebury Independent;March 1907. Tombstone Middlebury, IN cemetery Census:1840 US living with parents in St. Joseph Co. IN age grp 5-10 ( age 7) p. 78, line 3, National Archives Microfilm M-704, roll 94. Census-1850 US living in Penn Twp. Mishawaka, St, Joseph Co. IN with mother Jane and her new husband John Rodgers, her Oliver brothers and sister and a baby Jane Rodgers. Ellen is 17 years, attended school within the year.Line 14, family 160, dwelling 160. N.A. film M-432, roll 171. Census-1860 US living in IN, Elkhart Co.,Middlebury Twp., age 27 with husband and son Will pg 250 family 579, dwelling 579, line 23. N.A. film M-653, rl 256 Census-1870 US living in IN, Elkhart Co, Cleveland Twp age 35, born in Scotland, lives with husband and children.Pg. 191, Family 39, dwelling 38, line 28, N.A. film M-593, roll 311. Census- 1880 US living in MI, St. Joseph Co., Mendon Village age 46. Pg 4, Family # 41, husband a stockdealer, line 13. N.A. film T-9, roll 603. Census- 1900 US living in IN, Elkhart Co, Middlebury Twp, with daughter Ida and #18 family Mather, age 64, separated from Husband, states born March 1836 in Scotland, line 76, p.13. N.A. film T-623, roll 369. !Children: Listed in notes of husband, Andrew Myers
More About Helen Oliver: Burial: Unknown, Middlebury Cem, Middlebury, IN.
More About Helen Oliver and Andrew W Myers: Marriage: 17 April 1856, Niles, St Joseph Co, IN.2126
Children of Helen Oliver and Andrew W Myers are:
+Ida Jane Myers, b. 12 September 1864, Constantine, St. Joseph Co., MI2127, d. 17 May 1957, Dauphin, Dauphin Co, PA2128, 2129.
Helen Oliver (b. 06 July 1833, d. 29 March 1908)
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