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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-19-000764
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20190101
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20190102
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20190102

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000792966
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SAVINGS INSTITUTION, FEDERALLY CHARTERED [6035]
		IRS NUMBER:				341469491
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			OH
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-38084
		FILM NUMBER:		19502600

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		307-11 N DEFIANCE ST
		CITY:			ARCHBOLD
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			43502
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4194462501

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		307-11 NORTH DEFIANCE ST
		CITY:			ARCHBOLD
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			43502
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<P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
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<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CURRENT
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) January<U></U>&nbsp;1, 2019 </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>F<SMALL>ARMERS<U></U></SMALL>&nbsp;&amp; M<SMALL>ERCHANTS</SMALL> B<SMALL>ANCORP</SMALL>, I<SMALL>NC</SMALL>. </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">001-38084</FONT></B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">34-1469491</FONT></B></TD></TR>
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Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report) </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Check the appropriate box below
if the Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below): </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Pre-commencement</FONT> communications pursuant to Rule <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">14d-2(b)</FONT> under the Exchange Act (17 CFR <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.14d-2(b))</FONT> </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13e-4(c)</FONT> under the Exchange Act <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">(17-CFR</FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.13e-4(c))</FONT> </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (&#167;230.405 of this
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growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a) of the Exchange
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Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In connection with the consummation of the mergers referenced in Item 8.01
below, effective January&nbsp;1, 2019, Andrew J. Briggs, who had been the Chairman of Limberlost Bancshares, Inc. (&#147;LBI&#148;) and President of Bank of Geneva (&#147;BOG&#148;), has been appointed to the Boards of Directors for both
Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants Bancorp, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) and The Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants State Bank, the Company&#146;s wholly owned subsidiary bank (&#147;F&amp;M Bank&#148;). The committees of the Boards of Directors on which
Mr.&nbsp;Briggs will serve have not yet been determined. Mr.&nbsp;Briggs has no familial relationship with any other director or executive officer of the Company or F&amp;M Bank and has not engaged in any transactions with such persons, the Company
or F&amp;M Bank, other than entering into an letter agreement that establishes an at will employment relationship with F&amp;M Bank under which he will serve as the First Senior Vice President of Business Development, which is not deemed to be an
executive officer position of F&amp;M Bank. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&nbsp;8.01. Other Events. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants Bancorp, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) announced in a January&nbsp;2, 2019 press release that on January&nbsp;1,
2019 it completed the acquisition of Limberlost Bancshares, Inc. (&#147;LBI&#148;) and its subsidiary, Bank of Geneva (&#147;BOG&#148;), both of Geneva, Indiana as a result of the merger of LBI with and into the Company and the merger of BOG with
and into The Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants State Bank, the Company&#146;s wholly owned subsidiary bank. BOG reported balance sheet assets of approximately $291&nbsp;million at September&nbsp;30, 2018. Following the acquisition, the assets of the
Company total approximately $1.5&nbsp;billion. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&nbsp;9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><B>F<SMALL>ARMERS</SMALL>&nbsp;&amp; M<SMALL>ERCHANTS</SMALL> B<SMALL>ANCORP</SMALL>, I<SMALL>NC</SMALL>.</B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Marty Filogamo</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Senior Vice President &#150;
Marketing Manager</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants Bancorp, Inc.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(419) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">445-3501</FONT> ext. 15435</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Andrew M. Berger</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Managing Director</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SM Berger&nbsp;&amp; Company, Inc.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(216) <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">464-6400</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>andrew@smberger.com</U></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants Bancorp, Inc. Completes Merger </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>with Limberlost Bancshares, Inc. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Andrew Briggs Appointed Director of Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants Bancorp, Inc. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARCHBOLD, OHIO, January&nbsp;2, 2019. Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants Bancorp, Inc. (&#147;F&amp;M&#148;) (NASDAQ: FMAO), the holding company for The
Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants State Bank (&#147;F&amp;M Bank&#148;), announced today it has completed the merger of Limberlost Bancshares, Inc. (&#147;Limberlost&#148;), Geneva, Indiana, the holding company for Bank of Geneva (&#147;BOG&#148;), into
F&amp;M and the merger of BOG into F&amp;M Bank. Simultaneous with the close of the transaction, Andrew Briggs, the former Chairman of Limberlost was added to F&amp;M&#146;s and F&amp;M Bank&#146;s Board of Directors. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The merger, which was previously announced on August&nbsp;20, 2018, was approved by all appropriate regulatory agencies, as well as the shareholders of
Limberlost. Under the terms of the agreement between the parties, Limberlost shareholders will receive 1,830 shares of F&amp;M common stock plus $8,465 in cash for each share of Limberlost common stock. Limberlost had 1,000 shares of common stock
outstanding as of the closing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Lars B. Eller, Chief Executive Officer and President of F&amp;M Bank, stated, &#147;This transaction significantly
increases F&amp;M&#146;s presence in northeast Indiana. Customers in the Geneva, Berne, Monroe, Monroeville, Portland and Decatur markets will benefit from our expanded services, while providing the convenience of local decision makers throughout
our office network. We are excited to welcome the customers, employees and shareholders of Limberlost to F&amp;M.&#148; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Andrew Briggs, the former
Chairman of Limberlost, stated, &#147;The combination of these two strong institutions, which have similar cultures and values, creates a compelling opportunity for future growth. We are very pleased to join the F&amp;M family.&#148; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The system conversion and BOG office signage will transition to F&amp;M Bank on or about January&nbsp;21, 2019. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As a result of the merger, F&amp;M Bank will have a total of 30 full-service office locations, 20 in Ohio
and 10 in Indiana, with total assets of approximately $1.5&nbsp;billion. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>About Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants State Bank: </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants State Bank is a local independent community bank that has been serving Northwest Ohio and Northeast Indiana since 1897. The
Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants State Bank provides commercial banking, retail banking and other financial services through its 30 offices. Our locations are in Fulton, Defiance, Hancock, Henry, Lucas, Williams, and Wood counties in Northwest Ohio. In
Northeast Indiana, we have offices located in Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Jay and Steuben counties. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Safe harbor statement: </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Farmers&nbsp;&amp; Merchants Bancorp, Inc. (&#147;F&amp;M&#148;) wishes to take advantage of the Safe Harbor provisions included in the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements by F&amp;M, including management&#146;s expectations and comments, may not be based on historical facts and are &#147;forward-looking statements&#148; within the meaning of Section&nbsp;27A of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and Section&nbsp;21B of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Actual results could vary materially depending on risks and uncertainties inherent in general and local banking conditions, competitive factors
specific to markets in which F&amp;M and its subsidiaries operate, future interest rate levels, legislative and regulatory decisions or capital market conditions. F&amp;M assumes no responsibility to update this information. For more details, please
refer to F&amp;M&#146;s SEC filings, including its most recent Annual Report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT> and quarterly reports on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-Q.</FONT> Such filings can be viewed at the
SEC&#146;s website, www.sec.gov. </P>
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