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Below is a family biography included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd in 1879. 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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HUPP, OLIVER PERRY, blacksmith and horse-shoer, is a native of Virginia, where he was born in the year 1833, and resided in the Old Dominion State for many a year, and where he became apprenticed to the trade of a blacksmith at an early age. Residing in Virginia when the war broke out, he joined the Southern forces under Early, and was subsequently transferred to the brigade under command of Stonewall Jackson. Since the war he has resided in Kane, Greene County, in the latter he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ashlock, daughter of Jesse Ashlock, by whom he had one child, not living. See business card elsewhere.
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