Ephraim L. Mayberry
He whose name initiates this review is one of the popular young men and efficient officials of his native county, maintains his home in the City of Ironton, and is the incumbent of the position of assistant county surveyor.
Mr. Mayberry was born in Windsor Township, Lawrence County, on the 16th of September, 1880, and is a son of John and Martha (Calliflower) Mayberry, both likewise natives of Lawrence County, where the former was born in 1856 and the latter in 1861—dates that indicate that the respective families were founded in this county in the pioneer days. John Mayberry received his education in the public schools and as a young man was a successful and popular teacher in the schools of Lawrence County. He and his wife now reside on their well improved farm in Windsor Township, and he is giving special attention to fruit culture, having on his place a fine orchard of 5,000 apple trees. The four children are Bertha, Owen, Ephraim L. and Irwin.
Ephraim L. Mayberry continued to attend the public schools of his native county until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and thereafter he was for five years engaged in teaching, as one of the efficient and popular representatives of the pedagogic profession in Lawrence County. In 1905 he was graduated in the Northwestern Ohio Normal University, at Ada, Hardin County, and from this institution he received the degree of civil engineer. Thereafter he was identified with government contract work on the Ohio and Allegheny rivers until 1909, since which time he has held the position of deputy county surveyor of Lawrence County, an incumbency in which he has accomplished a large amount of important work.
Mr. Mayberry renders allegiance to the republican party, he and his wife are members of the First Baptist Church of Ironton. and he is affiliated with the local lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity.
On the 16th of July, 1906, Mr. Mayberry was united in marriage to Miss Grace Reed, daughter of John W. Reed, of Scottown. Lawrence County, and their three children are John B.. Ben E., and Joseph D.
From "A Standing History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio" by Eugene B. Willard, Daniel W. Williams, George O. Newman and Charles B. Taylor. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, 1916