Lemuel Myers, a retired farmer, is a son of Henry and Rebecca (Stone) Myers, natives of Virginia. the former of German and the latter of English descent.  They emigrated to Ohio in 1810, and located in Licking County, where they spent their lives, both dying at the age of eighty-two years, on the farm where our subject was born and reared.  They raised a family of nine children, five boys and four girls.  The subject of this sketch was born in Licking County, January 1, 1816, and was raised on a farm, receiving but a meager education.  From the age of fifteen years until he was forty-five, he followed farming, and in winter taught singing school.  He has been a student of music all his life, and for forty years has sang in a church choir.  He is a large, powerful man, of the old pioneer type, and well remembers the time when roads even mud roads were scarce, and log rollings of frequent occurrence.  He has helped to carry logs every day, Sunday excepted, for three weeks at a, time, and was never known to shun his place at the handspike.  He has always been a strong temperance man, and to now an advocate of prohibition.  Of a peaceable nature, he shuns quarrels and. was never known to be engaged in a fight, although amply able to take care of himself, if assailed.  In 1842, he was appointed Captain of a company of militia, and was afterward promoted to the rank of Major.  He came to Ohio in 1842, and during his residence here has served as Infirmary Director and Trustee of Claibourne Township.  He has recently given up active life and retired to a nest and substantial home in Richwood, which, with the adjoining farm of 110 acres he owns.  He was married, July 1, 1837, to Elenora Gill, a native of Maryland, of English decent, by whom he had eleven children, seven now living.  The parents are both members - of the Methodist Protestant Church.  Mr. Myers was a Democrat until 1861, after which he was a Republican until he became a Prohibitionist.  He had three sons in the rebellion-William, S. sad O. S. in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Henry in the One Hundred and Eighty-second.