ENYEARTS-The latter part of the Sixteenth Century, two brothers, younger sons of the Prince of Holland, of noble birth and great wealth, emigrated to America. The elder went to Pennsylvania and settled, the younger to New Jersey. About the year 1816, a descendant of the elder came west to Ohio and settled in Butler County. A few years later several families of Enyearts settled in Ohio, Warren, Butler, Montgomery and Miami Counties and some going to Indiana and Illinois.

The Enyearts are lineal descendants of the Black Prince, famous in English History, and of Louis XIV. of France, who, although perhaps very wicked and proud, well deserved the title of "Louis Le Grand" as he was called by the French people. With two such ancestors the Enyearts have every reason to keep a family record. William Enyeart, one of the descendants, married Jane Vorres. William was the father of twenty-one children; his descendants are James, Joseph, Silas, Benjamin, Thomas, Levi, Abraham, (sisters) Jane, Elenor, Margaret, (half brothers and sister), David, John, William and Jacob, Rebecca. A number did not come west; the writer cannot give the names of those. James Enyeart, son of William and Jane Enyeart, was born in Pennsylvania, 1787, and was married to Mary Kessler in the year 1809. He emigrated to Ohio about the year 1819, settled on a farm east of Troy, where he lived until his death, in 1831, and was buried in Knoop's graveyard, east of Troy, on Springfield Pike.

John L. Enyeart, son of James Enyeart, and familiarly known as "Long John," to distinguish him from a cousin of same name, was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, February 2nd, 1812, and came to Ohio with his parents in a road wagon, as there were no railroads then. He married Lydia Martindale, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Campbell Martindale, in the year 1840, and moved on the farm, formerly owned by his brother, one mile east of Troy, on the Springfield Pike. He, lived there until the year 1853, when he bought 160 acres one mile south of Troy on Dayton Pike. In March, 1864, he bought another farm, which is now in the corporation of Troy, and there lived until his death, January 25th, 1867; he was buried in the beautiful Riverside Cemetery. To this union ten children were born. Sarah married David Coppock, who moved to Superior, Nebraska, and both died there. Hester R. married H.H. Miller and they are both living in Mound City, Missouri. Thomas J. married Elizabeth E. Pearson; both live in Troy. Elizabeth A. married L.A.McDonald and lives in Troy. William died just after returning from the war. Martha married P. Feidt and lives in Sidney, Ohio. Rebecca S. married Daniel Elliott and died in May, 1883. Samuel died at the age of sixteen. John M. married Margaret O'Conner and both died a few years after their marriage. Mary E. married J.H.Racer and they live in Troy.