William Henry Myrick, Sr. - Are they the same?

Thank you, Private User

Same listed parents and seem to be brothers. But they're Meyricks. Perhaps the ways of the Welsh carried far into America. Usually, though, when two sons had the same name, it was a case where the older child had died before the younger was born. Wondering if they might, in fact, be cousins.

They are not the same. William Henry Myrick, Sr. was born 1820 and William H. "Billy" was born 1823. Not sure what the H. stands for in Billy's name. There were four brothers- James born 1814, William Henry. Sr. and Jeremiah Pinkney born 1820 and William H. "Billy born 1823

If both Williams are sons of this couple, it makes sense they should both be MP'd, I think