Dear Neal:
Some time back you mentioned to me that there was a Myron Carrier in
Michigan. I am still not sure whether this was or was not him. Myron's
eldest granddaughter, Inez Loy Lay told the story of him that is recorded in
the book of Verde Valley Pioneers (That is pretty close to the title if not
on. DOn't ave it in front of me) saying that he was from New York and had
settled or stayed in at least Nebraska and Michigan in addition to New York
before coming to Arizona. The fact that she specifically mentions Michigan
suggests that this might be him.
Myron apparently went with an older brother to settle in Nebraska about 1870
but his wife died sortly thereafter (apparently in New York so it was not a
sudden illness as they had time to go back). After that Myron Carrier
engaged in a number of activities including trapping in Utah and Wyoming
(according to Mr. Young who wrote "The Ghosts of Cleopatra Hill" and after
raising some money he went back to New York, attended a medical school
(which one as yet undetermined - from a previous communication with you a
learned there was a good number of them then) and sometime after completing
his studies, by 1884 anyway, he relocated to permanently to Camp Verde and
Jerome Arizona where he treated gunshot wounds, accidental and intenionally
inflicted and the usual list of horrendous frontier maladies and he
remarried. His daughters appear to have come out from New York around 1888.
The confirmation that this was the Myron Carrier in Michigan rests entirely
at this point on Inez Lay's account.
There was another Myron Carrier from Northwestern Pennsylvania who was
honored for his Civil War service on the monument you mentioned in a recent
post (with Scott Carrier) I think I managed to find who his father was once
and not seeing a connection with Anson Carrier of Floyd gave up the chase
(which was foolish on my part because that Myron's father could easily be an
uncle of the Myron Carrier of Oneida. There are three sons of John Carrier
of Floyd who either died or moved on between 1810 and 1820 and none of them
are accounted for so far. A younger son of John Carrier, Elias, lived next
door to Anson in the 1830's and 1840's and is presumably - though not proven
to be- an uncle. Census data from 1820 suggests Elias was not Anson's
father.)
I do not know where if anywhere Myron Carrier of Pennsylvania went though it
would be a good project to find out. I appreciate (as I know other Anson
Carrier descendants do as well) your continuing efforts to solve the mystery
of the "other" Carriers from Floyd.
Grady