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NATHAN S. CARNAHAN. post-office Georgia City, farms in section 6, township 29, range 33. His farm consists of 140 acres of fine valley land, noted for its wheat and corn. His wheat crop for 1882 averaged twenty-two bushels per acre, also having seven acres of volunteer wheat that averaged sixteen bushels per acre. The farm is surrounded and sub-divided by hedge fence, Mr. Carnahan having improved this farm from its raw state. He is a native of Coshocton county, Ohio, born Jan. 2, 1839, being a son of Adam and Harriet (Smith) Carnahan, both natives of Westmoreland county, Penn. The father, and two of his brothers, in an early day, went to Coshocton county, Ohio, and purchased a large body of land, where he married the mother, she having gone there with her parents. They had a family of nine children, as follows: Amanda, George, Nathan, Eliza, Allen, Adam, Alexander, Mary M., and Caroline. The above subject was raised on a farm. On the breaking out of the late war he responded to the first call for three months’ men, and enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving his full time. In 1862 he enlisted in Company M, Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and did service in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. He was with General Sherman at Atlanta and many raids in that part of the South. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, in August, 1865, returning to his native place, and soon came to Jasper county, Mo., locating in Carthage. He was married Dec. 20, 1868, to Miss Sarah F. Taneyhill, a native of Jackson county, Mo., being a daughter of William and Harriet (McCoy) Taneyhill. Mrs. Carnahan was raised by her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah McCoy, at Carthage. Mr. and Mrs. Carnahan have a family of five children: Harriet, Charles, Grant, William A., and John.