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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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JOSEPH FLECK, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Huntington county, Penn., June 7, 1832, where he was reared and educated. His father, David, was a farmer and also a minister of the United Brethren Church and deceased since 1841. The subject of this sketch was married in March, 1866, to Rebecca A. Beers, who was born in the same county in Pennsylvania, in 1836. Their children are Nannie M., Ward, and Gary. Mrs. Fleck is a member of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Fleck came to Jasper county, Mo., in 1866, and settled upon his farm two miles east of Scotland. He owns a farm of 200 acres, about 100 improved, containing 200 bearing trees, and producing good crops the past season. His farm has been in cultivation some forty years, and under the present good management, will last many more. It is located in section 8, township 27, range 31, Jackson township. Mr. Fleck deals considerably in stock, and is one of the most enterprising and prosperous farmers of this section.
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