Excerpt from The Poems of John Francis Myers: Together With Biography John Grove Myers, the father of John F. Myers, was born in Christian county, Kentucky, in the year 1799, was the son of Henry Myers and Catherine negley-myers who were born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and were sturdy scions of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Henry Myers was a man of sterling worth and irreproachable character, a mechanic and farmer, his wife Catherine Myers was a lady possessing a high order of intellect, and they raised a family who were an honor to their memory. John Grove Myers had much natural talent for mechanics, music and poetry, was a fine vocalist, taught vocal music in his early man hood, and was a man of much intellectual ability, industrious, temper ate, honest and affable. He wrote many poems, which were printed in ballad form, nearly all of which have been lost, the few which the author has been able to collect were mostly in manuscript, among his old papers (be having passed to spirit life in 1869) and they will appear in this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.