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- Genealogy of the Meyer Family (1890)
Catharine (daughter of Jacob, son of Gr. Meyer) was the oldest of the family, but the dates of birth or death were not discovered. She was married to John Meyer, and the couple moved on a tract of land in Brushvalley (Centre County. Pa.), which was purchased subsequently by grand- father Henry Meyer — brother-in-law of John. The latter was one of the first settlers in the Valley, and may have located in it as earl} - as the year 1792. He cleared consider- able land, and put up the first buildings on the tract near Elk Creek, and no doubt planted the apple trees there, some of which still (1889) remain — one measuring eleven and a half feet in circumference. John Meyer had erected an oil mill at Oil Gap, some distance east of Woodward, Pa., before he came to Brushvalley, and grandfather Henry Meyer had done the mill-wright work on it. From an old receipt in my possession, I find he sold his interest in his land to grand- father Henry Meyer, May 2, 1797, and moved to Kentucky,, where he erected a distillery. Very little was heard about the family afterwards. His brother Philip, his son-in-law Jacob Kreiger and Tobias Pickle moved to Kentucky at the same time, thence some, if not all, to Ohio. Father used to say that this John Meyer was a cousin of his father; but others denied it. I could not find the link of the relationship. He was a red-headed, raw-boned man, large stature; and had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was in the Battle of Brandywine, and was a brave soldier, but when the retreat began he soon outstripped all the rest running.
I have not a list of John's children, except a partial one furnished me by John P. Meyer, of Felicity, 0. He states that a Meyer family, who were cousins of his father (Philip) coming from the same place (Brushvalley), located near where his father settled. He names three brothers, viz.:John, George and Jacob ; and thinks there were three or four sisters, and mentions Susan and Mary. No doubt these were John's children. Philip could not have had any other cousins in that section. See page 43.
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, d. Abt 1808 (Age 76 years)