This surname could have also been spelled as Meyers, and is often interchanged with that spelling.

Listed in the 1850 Census for Bates Co., MO, living in District No. 6, dwelling #143, as John D. Myers, a 44 year old farmer born in Pennsylvannia, with $700 of Real Estate. Enumerated with Sarah (a. 34, bp. KY), Mary (a. 23, bp. IN), Catherine (a. 19, bp. IN), Susan (a. 17, bp. IN), Dudley (a. 20, a laborer, bp. IN), John (a. 15, bp. IN), Windfird? (a. 13, bp. IN), Rebecca (a. 10, bp. IN), Van (a. 8, bp. MO). Also enumerated with this family is Elizabeth Rabourne (a. 15, bp. KY), Elihu (a. 13, bp. KY), William (a. 11, bp. KY), James (a. 7, bp. KY), and George (a. 5, bp. MO).

From the History of Bates County, Missouri, by W. O. Atkeson (Topeka-Cleveland:Historical Publishing Company, 1918), p. 282, under "Hudson Township":

John D. Myers came to Hudson township in 1842, and he became one of the forceful men of the early building days of the country.

In Jeanne Miller's notes there is a John D. Meyers (Myers) reference in the History of Cass and Bates County Missouri, p. 835 (Sutro q.977.8 C.). As well as on, p. 272, in regards to his marriage to Susan B. Myers. John D. Myers appears to have been a Judge of Bates County.

There was also a Wm. H. Myers mentioned in History of Cass and Bates County, p. 507, who crossed the Rocky Mtns. in 1853 to bring cattle to California, and returned in December of the same year.

The connection between this Myers family and the John J. Myers of the 1849 Hudspeth-Myers Party is not known at this time. This Myers (also Meyers) who acted as the scout for the 1849 party had come to California in 1846 as a member of John C. Fremont's California Battalion. From What I Saw in California, by Edwin W. Bryant (Ross & Haines, Inc, Minneapolis: 1967), p. 367:

J. J. Myers, sergeant-major, appointed lieutenant in January, 1847.

The was also a John H. Meyers, who bought lot #10, 109 square varas, in Sonoma on 2 June 1849 (recorded in Sonoma County Grants, Book B Page 14).