Nathaniel Garner was an employee of Gilbert Royston’s, of about the same middle age, both before and during Royston’s tenancy of Clermont Farm in 1939-1948. He had worked for Gilbert during his tenancy at the Arthur Lee farm prior to Clermont. Nathaniel, or “Skeeter” as he was known to all, has not been found in the U.S. Census of 1940 for Clarke County, but he was living in Clermont at that time.

John R. Bell and his family were the tenants who managed Clermont Farm during World War I and the following period, about 1915 to 1928 or 1929, roughly 13 years. When he and his wife Emma came to Clermont in 1915, they had three children: a son, Ammie, 14, a son, Joseph, 12, and a daughter, Sarah, 8. In the 1920 Census, when they are listed in the tenant house on the hill near the Main Barn, a fourth child, Mary 4, and a fifth, Edith May, had been added.

In 1948, about 100 years after Edward McCormick started farming, Gilbert L. Royston was retiring from the farming business, having operated Clermont since 1939 on a 50-50 share basis with its owners, the grandchildren of Edward McCormick through his son, Admiral A.M.D. McCormick. The Royston family lived in the tenant house (ca. 1917) overlooking the farm, opposite the bank barn of the same year.