Myers - George V.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Review Jan
27, 1910 p 5
In the death of George V. Myers, the
community loses one of its very best citizens. The writer of this sketch has
know him from young boyhood. When he was a lad of 17 or 18, he was a pupil of
mine in the public schools of Jackson Township, Fountain County. I remember him as an obedient, cheerful,
honest, gallant, kind-hearted boy. In
fact he was as a ray of sunshine in the school room and it has been my pleasure
as year rolled on to keep in touch with him and his good wife and these marked
characteristics followed him to his grave.
In any social event in the community George Myers added to its success.
His loss will be keenly felt in the Myers-Fine Reunion held annually in that
community for he was one of their very best entertainers. In public matters
that would be of interest to the community, he was always there with his
cheerful presence and his money. There
are a few narrow-minded people in the world who think that everybody that
accumulates a fortune is dishonest, tricky and stingy, but the subject of this
sketch is an example of honesty, hospitality and generosity, even though his
estate is one of the largest in Fountain and Montgomery counties. His home was
an ideal one with every modern convenience of a city home. The latch string was
always out and every one who entered his home was royally entertained. Mr.
Myers was a natural born financier. He came from that kind of stock. He
inherited a snug little sum of money and by judicious management it grew into a
vast estate. He was a man of fine physique always in excellent health until his
fatal illness preceding his death. I have often attributed his good health to
his work in nature’s garden, his optimistic views of life, his cheerful
disposition and his good conscience. He was brought up in the German Lutheran
Church and his religion was the only kind that should exist and that is the
practical kind. His devotion to his wife and two children was dimply beautiful.
No wish was ever expressed by either of them that was not gratified. Mrs. Myers
was a good, quiet and unassuming little woman and her husband was her all in
all. Their home life was an ideal one.
It seems sad, indeed that the boat on which they started life’s journey
together moved to peacefully and serenely along without scarcely a wave or a
ripple until it reached mid ocean, then all at once it was wrecked. Both
husband and wife sunk beneath the cruel waves at once. There is one grand,
beautiful thought amidst this surface of sorrow and that is they wer enot
separated long and they will now dwell together in that beautiful forever more
where partings are unknown. To the aged mother, Mrs. Bettie Carter, to the son
and duahgter, brothers and sisters, I extend my most sincere sympathy. MSE 205
South Walnut St, Crawfordsville, Ind. - kbz