The Myra Esarey Evans Resource Room
A Reference Center for Esarey Family History Publications
Special credit, thanks, and affection is extended to Patsy Van Kesteren, daughter of Myra Idora Esarey Evans, for all content presented here, and especially for her dedication to the idea that the primary goal of her mother's life's work was to share an incredibly complex and deep history of family ties with all who desire to know about it.
Myra Esarey Evans, second child of Marcus Logan Esarey and Laura Pearson Esarey, was born in 1899 in Cannelton, Indiana. She made her father's dream of researching and assembling a comprehensive Esarey Family history her life's work.
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Esarey 1935
During his lifetime, Logan Esarey collected, preserved, and edited a great deal of family history, always attempting to make up for the family's disastrous house fire where so much assembled history was lost.
This volume, dated 1935, had genealogical charts, clippings and numerous images bound together in a nearly 600 page hardbound book. Until 2009, only this single copy of Logan's initial family history and genealogy existed.
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- Part 1 (322 pp - 13.1 MB)
- Part 2 (276 pp - 8.3 MB)
- Images Only (8.0 MB)
Myra Esarey Evans 1949
To address apprehension that the assembled records might again be lost, Myra created the first edition of "Logan Esarey: His Ancestors and Their Descendants" releasing 100 copies in mimeograph form in 1949.
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- Complete 1949 Volume (160 pp - 5.3 MB)
Myra Esarey Evans 1968
In 1968, after nearly 20 more years of intensive work, Myra issued the primary edition of "Logan Esarey: His Ancestors and Their Descendants."
This mimeographed volume, totalling 1069 pages, has enjoyed great success as one of the main genealogical resources of southern Indiana. It represents the almost unheard of goal of attempting to document each and every descendant of an early progenitor.
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- COMPLETE VOLUME - SEARCHABLE! (1069 pp - 41 MB)
- Full Text (Cover to p. 734 - 16.9 MB)
- Index (pp. 735-1069 - 4.2 MB)
- Images Only (600 KB)
Myra Esarey Evans 1975
Volume II of "Logan Esarey: His Ancestors and Their Descendants"
Rather than the ancestry and subsequent descendant lines of Logan Esarey's father (John Clark Esarey 1841-1924), this volume's cross-cutting focus was on Logan Esarey's mother Barbara Ewing (1840-1907). A progenitor, John Ewing (born 1660) was identified and family history brought forward.