Homer Byron Myler was born on April 18, 1855, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He was the third of eight children to parents Samuel and Sarah Ann [Cleland] Myler. In 1859, Samuel moved his family to Jefferson County, Ohio, where they settled in Warren Township. Homer's father, Samuel, was a farmer, a skilled woodturner, and the sexton of Spring Grove Cemetery in East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio.
At the age of 22 years old, Homer married 17-year-old Mary Aditha Bucey on March 23, 1878, in Jefferson County, Ohio. Together, they raised eleven children (6 boys, 5 girls) in East Liverpool. Homer was a farmer, worked as a sexton of Spring Grove Cemetery, as well as a kiln fireman for various pottery factories. Homer’s youngest brother, Ulysses Simpson Grant, was a potter for Homer Laughlin (renamed Fiestaware).
In 1910, upon the death of his daughter, Sarah Lowessa, Homer welcomed his son-in-law, Louis Earl Lonsway, and little granddaughters, Ruth Lillian (1904-1992) and Marian Elizabeth (1905-1976), into his home. Shortly after, Louis Earl contracted tuberculosis, and the family moved to Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, to be near the best tuberculosis hospital of its time, Boehne Camp Hospital. Louis Earl succumbed to this disease five years later. Homer and Sarah Ann continued to raise their granddaughters in Evansville. Homer worked as a kiln fireman at the National Pottery Factory in Evansville.
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