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LEONARD D. MYERS (deceased) was a native of Alabama, born May 1, 1821. He was reared in his native State and educated in the East Tennessee University at Knoxville. He removed to Columbia in 1845 and read law under Judge Edmund Dillahunty, and was admitted to practice at the Maury County bar in 1847 and remained in the practice of his profession here, until his death May 14, 1876. He married Sara H. Caruthers, of this county, a member of the distinguished family of that name, who, with four daughters, still survives him. He was an active Democrat but never aspired to political honors. He served as a private in the Confederate Army, in the Ninth Tennessee Battalion. Although not a member of any religious denomination he was a firm supporter of Christianity and contributed generously to all religious and charitable enterprises. He was an enterprising, liberal-minded citizen and was remarkable for a retentive memory. His mind was stored with legal lore, ready at his bidding, and he was acknowledged as the leading practitioner of the Maury County bar for a number of years and had a State reputation for legal ability. He was a man of strong convictions and manly resolutions, and was noted for his devotion to his friends, his nature revolted at anything that tended to lower the standard of higher manhood, and yet the gentler elements of his nature, guided by charity for all, softened the rude asperities of life.