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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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E. F. Avery, another enterprising and industrious farmer of Osage Township, was born in Londonderry, Rockingham Co., N. H., August 18, 1830, and is the son of Foster and Rebecca (Robinson) Avery, natives of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, respectively. The great-grandfather Avery was a native of Scotland, and on the Robinson side the ancestry can be traced back to the “Mayflower.” Foster Avery was but nine years of age when he went with his parents to New Hampshire, and in that State he passed his last days. He was a farmer by occupation. He was the father of eight children, four sons and four daughters. Jeremiah M., Ephraim F., Sarah, wife of Louis Stiles, of Massachusetts, and Eda A., wife of Nathaniel Ballou, who now resides in Iowa, are the ones now living. E. F. Avery was reared and educated in New Hampshire, and afterward went to Lowell, Mass., where he worked in a cotton-mill until twenty-one years of age. In 1851 he went to Wisconsin, locating in Waupaca County, where he remained for some time, and then moved to Eau Claire County. He continued to live there until 1871, engaged in farming, and then came to Laclede County, Mo. In 1872 he was employed on the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, where he remained until 1876, at which date he was employed on the Missouri Pacific Railroad as freight conductor. In 1878 he retired from the railroad business and moved on his farm in Laclede County, where he lived until 1886, when he moved to his present property in Camden County. This consists of 294 acres, with a good portion under cultivation, and is considered one of the finest farms in the county. Mr. Avery was married in 1851 to Miss Olive H. Cole, a native of Vermont. To them were born five children, four now living: Emma, wife of J. R. Pierce, is now residing in Wisconsin; Edna C, wife of John B. French, of St. Louis; Roy, married to Miss Effie T. Churchill, and Charles E. While living in Wisconsin Mr. Avery was chairman of the board of supervisors one term.

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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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