James Richard Myatt Funeral rites for James Richard Myatt, 87, were held Friday afternoon, August 22 at 2 o'clock at the Ohde Funeral Home, With the Rev. Lester Moore of the Manning Methodist Church officiating. Ray Pratt was soloist and Bonita (Mrs. H.W.) Hagedorn, organist.

Burial was in the Manning Cemetery. William Whitcher, Albert Juels, Dan Wingrove, Roger Nissen, Sib Livingston, and Emil Ruhde were pallbearers.

Mr. Myatt died Wednesday night, August 20, 1958, at St. Catherine's Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.

Son of Benjamin and Lutitia (Gregg) Myatt, he was born December 10, 1870, in Jackson County, Iowa. While he was a small child, the family moved to Carroll County, to a farm northeast of Manning, later moving into Manning proper.

Mr. Myatt was one of the first rural mail carriers out of Manning. He married Lila Blair in 1905, at Manning. In 1915, the couple moved to a farm in Wisconsin, returning to a farm east of Manning in 1930. In 1944, they moved into town. The last month they had spent with their daughter in Omaha.

Surviving are wife, Lila, and four children: Don, York, Nebraska; Ben F., Omaha, Nebraska; Mrs. Herb (Letha) Swanson, Ladysmith, Wisconsin; and Mrs. Charles (Louise) Boardman, Omaha; 7 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Mollie Hockett, Chicago.

James R. Myatt, 78, Herded Cattle on Manning Site Before Town Built
Carroll Daily Times Herald, July 21, 1949
Newest member of the Carroll Daily Times Herald Three Quarter Century Club is James R. Myatt, 78, of Manning, who herded cattle on the present site of Manning before the town was started.

Mr. Myatt, a retired farmer, was born December 10, 1870, at Lost Nation, Clinton County, Iowa. He was five years old when he came to Carroll County with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Myatt.

The family settled on a "raw" 40-acre tract in Washington Township. Later, they sold this land and bought a farm in what is now Ewoldt Township (originally it was Warren Township).

Mr. Myatt was a rural mail carrier at Manning at the time of his marriage June 7, 1905, to Lila Blair. The wedding took place in the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blair. Mr. Blair served on the Manning police force for a long time.

Mr. Myatt said that he started out on his mail route with horse and buggy at 8:30 each weekday morning. If the weather was good, he finished his work at 4:30 p. m. When the weather was had, he often came home after dark.

On his wedding day, he returned home in plenty of time for the 6 o'clock ceremony. He had a home in readiness for his bride, who had taught the second grade in the Manning public school for nine years.

In 1916, Mr. Myatt resigned as mail carrier to take up farming. Mr. and Mrs. Myatt and family went to Ladysmith, Wisconsin, where they farmed for 15 years. Then returning to Manning, they lived on the home farm two miles east of town, staying there until their son, Donald, returned from the army and took over the place. "Every morning, we go out to the farm to fix up the house for our son, who is batching," Mr. Myatt said.

Mr. and Mrs. Myatt live at 105 Madison Street, Manning.

Besides their son, Donald, the couple has three other children: Mrs. Herb Swenson (Letha), Ladysmith, Wisconsin; Mrs.; Robert Olbertz (Louise), Spirit Lake; and Ben Myatt, Omaha. There are five grandchildren.

Mr. Myatt has one sister, Mrs. Grant Hockett (Mollie) of Chicago who is three years younger than he. They were the only two children in the Ben Myatt family. Mr. Myatt is a constituent of the Methodist Church.