Husband: Nathaniel AYERS
Birthdate: 14 Oct 1804
Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Death date: 5 Jul 1877
Place of death: Clay Twp., Adair, Missouri
Burial: Adair County, Missouri, Bethel Cemetery
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown
Other Spouses: Sarah Ann Roseberry

Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown

Wife: Cylinda unknown
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Nathaniel AYERS, JR.
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1838
Birthplace: Graham Twp., Jefferson, Indiana
Death date: 5 Dec 1889
Place of death: Oakland City, Gibson, Indiana
Burial: Barton Twp., Gibson, Indiana, Lawrence Cemetery
Marriage date: 13 Jun 1858
Marriage place: Jefferson County, Indiana
Spouse's name: Susan Catherine ANDERSON

Child No. 2: Francis Marion AYERS
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1840
Birthplace: Graham Twp., Jefferson, Indiana
Death date: 17 Aug 1895
Place of death: Fountaintown, Shelby, Indiana
Burial: Van Buren Twp., Shelby, Indiana, Fountaintown Cemetery
Marriage date: 8 May 1861
Marriage place: Shelby County, Indiana
Spouse's name: Martha Rachel ROBINSON

Child No. 3: unknown AYERS
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1835/1840
Birthplace: prob Graham Twp., Jefferson, Indiana
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Documentation:
* Nathaniel AYERS, JR. & Francis Marion AYERS both served in the Civil War. Nathaniel served in Company H, 143rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, as a Private. Francis Marion served in Company E, 79th Regiment, Indiana Infantry. Nathaniel volunteered in the Indiana Infantry on 23 Jan 1865 for a term of one year. His physical description on his enlistment was given as him being 5'8" tall, with black hair, hazel eyes, and dark complexioned. He was a farmer at the time of his enlistment. He enlisted in Princeton, Gibson, Indiana and was mustered in at Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana. On 12 Sep 1888 he applied for pension for his service in the Civil War. He declared that in March of 1865 he contracted rheumatism from exposure in rain, snow and mud which resulted in disease of kidneys and back called lumbago. Also about the same time and place contracted chronic sore eyes from which he has never recovered, and that said rheumatism, didease of kidneys, lumbago and sore eyes were all contracted to exposure to Army life, and from which he is disabled to a large extent. That he was treated by the Regimental Surgeon at Tallahome, Tennessee & said surgeon is now dead. He was a farmer before his service and is now partially disabled. He signed his affadavit with his signature. Nathaniel AYERS, JR. was mustered out of service on 17 Oct 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee. He had been paid a bounty of $33.33 on enlistment and was owed $33.33 on release from service. They also owed him pay of $20.45, and had deducted 74c for a strap for one gun sling, 1 screwdriver and 1 wiper which he had lost.
* On 12 Jul 1890, Susan Catherine ANDERSON AYERS applied for a pension under Nathaniel Ayers, JR's Service Record from the the Civil War. She declared that he died on 3 Dec 1889 and Nathaniel's Pension Number was 673,031. Susan signed her affidavit by making her mark X. On 14 Nov 1898 she reapplied for her Pension under a later Act of Congress. She drew a Pension of $8.00 per month until she was dropped from the rolls on 4 Feb 1899.
* Susan was buried in Oakland City, Columbia Twp., Gibson County, Indiana in the Montgomery Cemetery.
* Francis Marion AYERS made wooden pumps on the farm of Samuel ROSEBERRY. He and other relatives lived in and about Fountaintown, Van Buren Twp., Shelby County, Indiana. In 1840 Nathaniel AYERS SR. was found on the 1840 Census, Indiana, Jefferson County, Graham Twp., Page 199 living next door to John Roseberry. Listed in his family was himself age 20-30, female 40-50, 1 male under 5 & 1 female under five. Francis Marion must have been born in 1840 after the Census was taken.
* In the Madison (IN) Courier of 9 January 1841, Page 3, Column 6 was printed a notification that his wife Cylinda 'AYERS should appear in court by the fourth Monday of March 1841 or the court would settle the divorce matter of "Nathaniel AYERS vs. Cylinda AYERS" in her absense. She apparently abandoned Nathaniel and her two sons, Nathaniel Jr., & Francis Marion AYERS. Nathaniel's 2nd wife must have raised the boys, because Fred Deibler, author of the Roseberry Family History, said he always knew the AYERS boys but hadn't known they weren't blood relatives until much later. It is unknown at this time where Cylinda went, and if she took the female child listed as under 5 on the 1840 Census with her when she ran away, or if the daughter died. She was not with Nathaniel Sr. on the 1850 Census of Graham Twp., Jefferson County, Indiana.
* Nathaniel AYERS Sr. married the 2nd time 4 Jul 1841, Jefferson County, Indiana to Sarah Ann Roseberry.