Myers or Meyers, Simeon or Simon

Rank: Private

Unit: D Co, 2d Dragoons

Enlisted: November 26, 1835 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was 22.

Hometown: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Occupation prior to enlistment: Laborer

Campaign: Second Seminole War

Died: 10 June 1836

Cause of death: Disease unknown

Location of fatality: Tampa Bay, Florida

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Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida