Constable Tom Myers - Tenaha



        Tom Myers was born May 1, 1912, to R. T. Myers and Mollie Hooper Myers in Shelby County.  He attended school in Paxton and loved to play basketball.  He owned a store in Paxton and later moved to LaPorte, Texas, where he owned his own business.  He moved back to Tenaha around 1951 and owned a service station and drove a school bus and later becoming Constable of Tenaha.  He was serving his second term when he died on September 14, 1972.  He served under Sheriff Leon Schillings and Maxie Eaves.
        He originally married Alpha Oates of Tenaha and they had two children, Peggy Langley of DeQuincy, Louisiana and Pat Crump of Joaquin, Texas.  Later he married Minnie Wilburn Stewart, who had two sons, Donald Stewart of Huxley and Arthur "Skeeter" Stewart of Tenaha


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