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Below is a family biography included in The History of Camden County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  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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Andrew Estes, a farmer of Adair Township, Camden County, was born in that county in 1843, and is a son of John G. and Lucy (Dodson) Estes. John G. Estes was born in Alabama in 1809. He was a farmer by occupation, and when young moved to Missouri, where he met and married Lucy Dodson, a native of North Carolina, who was born in 1816. Of the ten children born to them five are now living, viz.: Mary G. Smith, Susan Russell, Zilpha Foster, Penelope Gibson and Andrew Estes. Elizabeth Chitwood and Lucy Simpson (deceased) were married and reared families before their deaths. The paternal grandparents of our subject were Andrew and Mary (Gibson) Estes, natives of South Carolina, who removed from their native State to Tennessee, and in 1832 to Boone County, Mo., subsequently settling in Camden County. The maternal grandparents of Andrew Estes were James and Lucy (Davis) Dodson, who immigrated to Missouri from Tennessee. James Dodson was a physician, and Mrs. Dodson was a relative of Jefferson Davis. John G. Estes, father of our subject, died in 1862; his widow is still living in Camden County. Andrew Estes spent his early life in attending the common schools of his native county, and at the age of nineteen began life for himself as a farmer of the same county. July 4, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate army, Company A, Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry, under command of Col. Johnson and Capt. Charles Hawthorne. He participated in the battles of Springfield, Lexington, Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, and was taken prisoner near Fayetteville, Ark., in 1863; he was confined at the latter place three weeks, and was then taken to Springfield, Mo., where he remained until March, 1863, when he enlisted in the United States army, Company D, Eleventh Missouri Cavalry, Col. William D. Woods, Capt. Holstein, and served until discharged in August, 1865. In 1867 Mr. Estes married Mary Foster, who was born in Camden County, Mo., in 1847, and is a daughter of Williamson and Nancy (Brown) Foster, natives of Kentucky, whose four living children are James, Thomas, Leonard and Mary. Jonas Brown, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Estes, served in the War of 1812; his wife was Mary (Hart) Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Estes are the parents of nine children, viz.: Elizabeth, Nancy P., Martha E., Jenora, John W. Lucy A., Ethel and Eltha (twins) and Andrew A. Mr. Estes bought his present home in 1873; he owns 120 acres of good bottom land, of which forty acres are under cultivation. In politics he is a Democrat.

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This family biography is one of 46 biographies included in The History of Camden County, Missouri published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Camden County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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