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Asa Carlin, one of the oldest farmers of Capp’s Creek Township, Barry Co Mo., was born on August 4, 1818, in Harrison County, Va. He was reared in his native State, and resided there until 1856, when he came to Missouri, locating on the farm where his son W. M. Carlin, now resides. The former has ever since resided in this neighborhood, and now lives five miles south of Monett. He has been a very successful farmer, and now at the age of seventy years does the average work of a strong man. When he came to Stone’s Prairie, which now has 150 residences, it contained not more than a dozen families. At the age of eighteen he married Maria Gifford, by whom he became the father of nine children, as follows: William M., Rebecca (Mrs. T. P. Withers), Thomas (editor of the Empire at Peirce City), Abram (a merchant at Purdy), Gilbert (who died at Cassville), Jediah (who is in the harness business at Purdy) Evaline (Mrs. Lafayette Johnson, of Texas), Virginia (Mrs. Luther Brown) and Ellsworth Halleck (of Purdy). Mr. Carlin’s first wife died on December 25, 1880, and he was married a year later to Melissa Withers. In politics Mr. Carlin is a Republican, and in religion is a Baptist. During the war he was a firm Union man, and did service in the State Militia. He is a highly respected citizen, and has reared a large family, who are known all over the county and of whom he may be justly proud.