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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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DAVID STIERS was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1847. His father, John Stiers, came to Jasper county when the subject of this sketch was a mere lad, about the year 1850, and settled upon a farm near where Smithfield now stands, and where he died in 1858, and his wife in 1861. David Stiers married Matilda Forest March 23, 1873, who was born in Canada, in Jan., 1857, and was raised there. The names of their children are Vena M., Edgar, Olive, and Maude. Mrs. Stiers is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Stiers is by trade a blacksmith, and has worked in Seneca, Columbus, and Smithfield, but an attack of the measles rendered him so weakly that he has devoted the past few years to the drug business, in which he still is interested at Smithfield. He was among the first settlers of Jasper county, and remembers the Indians stealing apples from his father’s orchard long before the war. He has a good business, and is one of the most prosperous business men of his town.
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