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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883. 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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CHARLES and SAMUEL SIGLER, farmers, in section 32, township 30, range 32, post-office Medoc. Their farm consists of eighty acres of improved land. Both are natives of Gallia county, Ohio. Charles was born Nov. 16, 1819, and Samuel Aug. 29, 1826, being sons of John and Mary (Brown) Sigler. The father was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He went to Virginia and married the mother, that being her native state. They settled in Gallia county, and afterwards in Greene county, Ohio. The family moved to Vermillion county, Ill., in 1842, being the year the father died, leaving a family of nine children: Nancy, Margaret, Anda, John, Charles, George, Mary, Samuel, and Lyda. The above subjects began life as farmers and settled where they now reside in October, 1868. During the late war Samuel enlisted in Company E, Seventy-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served some three years. He was married Aug. 1, 1850, to Miss Harriet Watt, a native of Pickaway county, Ohio, born Dec. 20, 1833, who was a daughter of David and Mary (Thiece) Watt, both natives of Pickaway county, Ohio. Her father was born Nov. 13, 1805, and married in 1832; her mother was born June 23, 1814. There was a family of eleven children: Harriet, Wm., H., Charles E., Samuel M., Rachel M., James H., Lyda A., Sarah E., Isaac W., David F., and Mary E. The family came to Missouri in 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Sigler have a family of six children living, as follows: Sarah E., born May 3, 1853; Mary A., born June 9, 1856; Amos, born Jan. 27, 1858; Alice, born Aug. 6, 1861; James, born Dec. 14, 1864; and John, born Dec. 15, 1866; Charles was born Jan. 12, 1851, and died Feb. 24th of the same year.
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