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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JOHN C. POWELL, farmer and stock-raiser, section 4; post-office, Reeds; is a native of southwest Missouri, born in Lawrence county, Dec. 21, 1844. Was there reared, and received a common school education. Moved to Polk county, Mo., with his parents during the war of the Rebellion, where he was married Sept. 28, 1865, to Miss Frances Appleby, a native of Dade county, Mo., reared and educated in Polk county, Mo, By this union there are six children. Their names are Everett H., Sarah J., Leora E., John S., John R., and an infant. Mr. Powell became a resident of Jasper county, Mo., in 1867, located at Sarcoxie, and engaged in farming, living there until 1873, when he purchased the farm where he now lives, which consists of seventy-five acres, sixty-two acres well improved, with good house, barn, orchard, etc. His parents were natives of Tennessee and settled in southwest Missouri in 1839.
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