In 1848 Frederick Daniel Myers (1792-1865), known as "Daniel", applied for and received a federal land grant, which was granted in 1850, for an area that had originally been part of the Bazille Chastaing land grant. From Bureau of Land Management records, it appears that he may have joined his son John Henry Myers at this location, since the latter's land grant was issued one year earlier.

Here Daniel built his home in 1847, with the help of his family and neighbors, and planted crops such as rice (which had been a money-making crop in South Carolina and did well in some of the boggy areas of his land) and corn. He raised dairy cattle, and ran a grist mill, a sawmill, and a brick kiln.

Some uncertainty exists as to the birthplace of Daniel Myers. Some Myers family oral history held that he was an emigrant from Hamburg, Germany. This information, in fact, also appeared on the headstone that formerly stood above his grave. However, no family researcher has ever discovered documentation to substantiate this, although a large body of circumstantial evidence points towards his actually being of German-Swiss origin. The Myers resided in the Orangeburgh District of South Carolina, most likely since the early to mid-1700s.

The headstone that last marked his grave had been erected by a granddaugher, presumably Mary Myers Ramsay, in the 1920s to replace the old one. It is unknown as to whether or not she based her inscription of his birthplace on conversations she herself had with her grandfather when she was a child.

Rachael Dantzler Rhodes Myers (1794-1860) was born in Charleston, South Carolina. The Dantzlers and the Rhodes families were very early residents of the Carolinas and their lines have been very well documented. The former originated in Switzerland near Zurich and the latter, possibly, from Germany. (The actual surname may originally have been Rhode and was changed to Rhodes.) Nonetheless, as of this date, no family researchers have located her name among the records of the Rhodes and Dantzler families.