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JAMES R. ENYART, His farm consists of eighty acres of fine land, well improved since 1881, and situated in the heart of the great wheat-growing district of Jasper county. Mr. E. came to the county Dec 1, 1869, a poor man, and rented lands in the locality of his present farm until 1875, and then purchased eighty acres of raw land in section 6, lots 7 and 8, paying for the same after raising one crop of wheat. When he came to the county he was the sole possessor of the only reaper in Georgia City valley, it being of the McCormick pattern, and he harvested all the grain that was cut by machinery in that valley in 1869. Now there are some twenty self-binders and many combination reapers. The above subject is a native of Licking county, Ohio, born some ten miles east of Newark, Dec. 23, 1830, and was a son of Jabez and Mary (Reeder) Enyart. The father was a native of Summerset county, N. J., born Feb. 5, 1801, and with his parents moved to Licking county, Ohio, in 1804, and settled where our subject was born. James R. grew up on a farm and was educated at Kirksville, and began life as a farmer. He was married May 21, 1857, to Miss Lydia E. Myers, a native of Licking county, Ohio, born Sept. 17, 1832, being a daughter of Jacob and Amy (Farmer) Myers. Her father was a native of Virginia, born Oct. 3, 1786, and died May 13, 1850; her mother was a native of Bedford county, Pa., born March 7, 1794, and died Jan. 28, 1867. Both, with their parents, moved to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Licking county, where they were married Nov. 16, 1816, and raised a family of twelve children: Mary, Amanda, John, Lewis, C. C., Angeline, Julia, Amos, Jacob, Lydia E., Amy, and W. H. H. Mr. and Mrs. Enyart moved to Macoupin comity, Ill., in 1862, and remained until 1867, and then farmed in Montgomery county, Ill., until they came to Missouri. This family consists of six children living: Mary A., Jabez D., Lydia J., Sarah C., James R, Jr., and Caroline L.; Samuel M. is dead, Mr. and Mrs. E. are members of the Baptist Church.