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Personal data John O. (Ora) Nymeyer 

• He was born on September 20, 1859 in Balk, Friesland, Netherlands..
• He died on February 6, 1933 in Loving, Eddy, New Mexico, he was 73 years old.
• He is buried in Carlsbad Cemetery, Carlsbad, Eddy, New Mexico.
• A child of Arend Hendriks Nijmeyer and Fruike Barts Sijtzema

Household of John O. (Ora) Nymeyer

He is married to Katherine (Catherine) STIFFLER.

They got married on April 20, 1882 at Kosciusko County, Indiana, he was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Fred Nymeyer  1900-1981 
2. John Nymeyer  1897-1967
3. Bart A. Nymeyer  1902-1979 
4. Tina(Tena) Margaret Nymeyer  1906- 
5. William (Bill) Nymeyer  1904-2000
6. Nettie Nymeyer  1895-1978 
7. Ora Nymeyer  1884-1960 
8. Frank Nymeyer  1883-1959
9. Gertrude Nymeyer  1887-1962 
10. Zelda Nymeyer  1893-1983 
11. Edna Nymeyer  1891-1915 

Notes about John O. (Ora) Nymeyer

Pioneering in any new country is a job for a full-sized man, and making asuccess of it is a matter of years of patience, labor and endurance ofthe vicissitudes of such an existence. One of the very first permanentsettlers in the vicinity of Loving, Eddy County, in the Pecos Valley, wasJohn Nymeyer, who in 1889 paid a visit to the valley and purchased andfiled upon the land on which his present home is located. He took hisfamily there and began the long struggle for prosperity in 1890. At thattime Mr. Nymeyer was married and had a large family and left behind himconsiderable experience as a farmer in his native state of Indiana. Herepresented an old and prominent family of Elkhart County, Indiana, theNymeyers being of Dutch stock. Mr. Nymeyer was born in Friesland,September 20, 1859 and was seven years of age when the family came toAmerica and settled in Elkhart County, Indiana. His grandfather wasHendrick Nymeyer, who married Lamichje J(Y)unker. Aaron Nymeyer , fatherof John, had been a sailor, and when he tired of the sea he sought acountry home far inland and lived in Elkhart, Indiana for the rest of hislife. He is buried near New Paris, Indiana in that county. AaronNymeyer married Gertrude Sietsema. She died at the age of eighty-fiveand her husband at ninety-two. In their family were seven sons and three daughters. Lucy became the wife of Jacob De Friese, of a very prominentfamily of Elkhart, Indiana. B.A. Nymeyer is also well known in NewMexico, a civil engineer and a former county superintendent of EddyCounty. Henry lived at Goshen, Indiana. Johnannes died unmarried atBlackfoot, Idaho. Sarah was the wife of Yella Mines, of E; Paso, Texas.Jacob died near Ackley, Iowa. Maggie married John Jansonius and livedat Ackley, Iowa. Charles died at Ackley, leaving a family of fivechildren. The next in age was John Nymeyer. Frederick , the youngestchild was the first principal of the Carlsbad School and was countysuperintendent of education in Eddy County and was chief of police inGlove, Arizona.

John Nymeyer was reared on an Indiana farm, attended local schools, andfollowed farming there. He, his wife and three children , came to NewMexico (in about 1890) in search of health,(had stomach problems) and hasalways ascribed his recuperation and restoration to the waters of thePecos River. Mr. Nymeyer was one of the first five to take water of themain canal built through Eddy County, starting from Lake Avalon. He wasalso one of the first settlers to raise a crop, chiefly the sorghum cropwhich supplied the place with feed, usually brought in from Roswell. Hecontinued the growing of cane and kaffir corn for several years, andgradually developed much of his land with alfalfa, which continued themain crop of the vicinity until it was discovered that the Pecos Valleywas well adapted to cotton. Mr. Nymeyer did not raise a cotton cropuntil about 1915. He owned two alfalfa hullers for threshing the seed,so his self interest kept him identified with alfalfa somewhat longerthan other farmers in this vicinity.
There was probably no farmer in the valley in the early years when Mr.Nymeyer was there who could make a living for his family from farmingalone. My Nymeyer for five years worked for wages in the shops of theSanta Fe Railway at Carlsbad. This labor and other special effortsenabled him to tide over the period of stagnation during the 1890's.After he had his land growing abundant crops of alfalfa, marketconditions were such that the crop hardly paid for the labor. Alfalfa atone time when hauled twenty miles brought only three dollars a ton. Itwas in this situation that he began using alfalfa for feed. He had alarge family of his own to assist him in his operations and, therebysupplemented his regular profits and was enabled to make real progress.

My Nymeyer's first home for his famiy was a ten by twelve, one-roomhouse. That was followed by a four-room house, in which all of thethirteen children lived at one time. All of the children but three wereborn in New Mexico. In 1914 Mr Nymeyer buit his present seven-room housewith bath and other facilities, and with screened porches.
Mr. Nymeyer was a member of the first school board, organized at Loving,and served on that board sixteen years without a break. He was reared ademocrat, and voted his party ticket regularly until 1920, when hesupported President Harding.
He died of cancer.
A discrepancy on marriage date. I found in Indiana information it wasApril 23, 1882

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