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John J. Shores is a Wilkes County, North Carolinian, and was born on the 7th of December, 1832. He is a son of William and Polly (Lyon) Shores, and grandson of Simeon Shores. William Shores was married about 1829, and removed to Jackson County, Mo., about 1840. Here he remained one year, and then located in Harrison County, of the same State. At the breaking out of the war he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained until its close. After residing alternately in Arkansas and Missouri, he died in the latter State, October 11, 1875, at the age of sixty-seven years. His wife was born in North Carolina, and died in Benton County, Ark., February 4, 1888. She was a daughter of John and Annie Lyon, and became the mother of seven children: Amanda (deceased), John, Lewis, Mary Ann (wife of John Long), William H. (deceased), James and Malinda (deceased). John J. Shores was reared on his father’s farm, and made his parents’ house his home until he was twenty-seven years of age, and then spent one year in farming and stock-raising in Jasper County. While residing in Jasper County, in 1860, he was married to Nancy Jane Davis, the eldest daughter of Anderson and Polly Ann Davis. She was born in Newton County in 1844, and became the mother of twelve children: Malinda, John E., Amanda Evaline, Charles Anderson, Lewis Albert, Maud Elizabeth, Jeptha M., Bessie May and Lucy Jane. Those deceased are Mary Alice, Polly Ann and William Franklin. Mr. Shores came to Benton County in 1866, and owns a fertile farm of 125 acres. During the war he was a Union sympathizer, and since the war has been independent in politics. He and wife worship in the Christian Church.