Hamilton County , Nebraska was formed in 1870.
In the 1830s settlers began arriving in Iowa from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia. Iowa became a state in 1846.
Rosa May Long Myers was born October 1, 1879 in Aurora, Hamilton County, Nebraska. Her parents were John H. Long and Sarah Freestone .
She married Ted J. Myers. Ted was born in March, 1874 in Ohio. His parents were Lafayette and Mary A. Myers.
Rosa and Ted's children included:
Gladys Mildred Meyers Rector (1901),
Marie Meyers (1904),
Esther Meyers (1908),
and Ted Meyers (1910).
By 1900 they were living in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
When her brother's biography was written, she was a widow and lived at Council Bluff's, Iowa.
Rosa died on June 15, 1948 in Los Angeles, California.
Nebraska was not settled by many European-Americans until 1848. In the 1860s, the government took Native American land and opened it for homesteaders. Nebraska became the 37th state on March 1, 1867,