Julia Grammar Barton Myers

Julia Grammar Barton was the only child born to Alcinda Gibson and Richard Walker Barton. Her father was a member of the Virginia General Assembly from 1823 to 1824, 1832 to 1835 and again in 1839. He was elected a Whig to the House of Representatives in 1840, serving from 1841 to 1843. Julia’s mother died when she was a child, and her father remarried when she was ten years old. Her stepmother, Caroline Marx, was the daughter of Joseph and Richea Myers Marx of Richmond. Two of Caroline’s sisters, Louisa and Judith, had married into the Myers family of Norfolk, respectively to Samuel and Myer. In 1851 Julia married Moses Myers II, son of Samuel and Louisa Marx Myers. His first wife, Mary Ella Chapman, had died in childbirth four years earlier. Moses and Julia spent their lives in Virginia and supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. They had seven children.

Julia Grammar Barton Myers

c. 1870