Exhibit 99.1

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date:     March 19, 2013
Company:  National Bancshares Corporation
          112 West Market Street
          Orrville, Ohio 44667
Contact:  Mark R. Witmer
          President and CEO
Phone:    330.682.1010
Fax:      330.682.4644

NATIONAL BANCSHARES CORPORATION APPOINTS JAMES R. SMAIL, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
OF THE BOARD

ORRVILLE, Ohio, March 19, 2013 ~ National Bancshares Corporation (OTC: NBOH)
today announced that its Board of Directors has elected James R. Smail as
Executive Chairman of the Board and of it`s subsidiary First National Bank.
Mr. Smail has been a member of the Board of Directors since April 21, 2009.
John W. Kropf will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Smail is 66 years old residing, with his wife Sue, in Wooster, Ohio
and Fort Myers, Florida and a native of Wayne County, Ohio with a forty-one
year background in Banking, Oil and Gas Production and Ranching. He is
Chairman of the Board and controlling shareholder of Monitor Bank of Big
Prairie, Ohio. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Bank of Oklahoma based
in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a past director of the Community Bankers
Association of Ohio. He is Chairman of the Board of J.R. Smail, Inc., an
oil and gas production/contracting company with assets in Ohio, New York,
Pennsylvania, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana and West Virginia. He is a past
President of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, past Chairman of its
Governmental Affairs Committee and a current member of its Executive
Committee. He is an immediate past member of the Board of Directors of the
Independent Producers Association of American and served on its Natural
Gas Committee. He is a past founder/Director of Northeast Ohio Natural
Gas Corporation, a natural gas utility corporation serving residential,
industrial and wholesale gas customers in Ohio. He is a former Director and
Executive Committee member of Gatherco, Inc., an Ohio gas gathering and
transport company and served as its Compensation Committee Chairman. He is
the immediate past Chairman of the Wayne County Republican Party and serves
on its Executive Committee and a past member of the Board of Trustees of
Ashland University and its Dauch College of Business. He is a member of
Grace Brethren Church of Wooster.

National Bancshares Corporation is the holding company for First National
Bank a federally chartered national bank formed in Ohio in 1881. First
National Bank has fourteen offices in Orrville, Wooster, Dalton, Kidron,
Smithville, Apple Creek, Mt. Eaton, Massillon, Lodi and Seville.
Additional information is available at www.discoverfirstnational.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including
certain plans, expectations, goals and projections, which are subject to
numerous assumptions, risks, and uncertainties.  Actual results could
differ materially from those contained or implied by such statement for
a variety of factors including: changes in economic conditions; movements
in interest rates; competitive pressures on product pricing and services;
success and timing of business strategies; the nature, extent, and timing
of governmental actions and reforms; and extended disruption of vital
infrastructure. All forward-looking statements included in this news
release are based on information available at the time of the release.
National Bancshares and its subsidiary, First National Bank assumes no
obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

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