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FERDINANT OZMENT, farmer and stock-raiser, section 22, post-office Carthage. The subject of this sketch is one among the first settlers of this section of the country. He was born in Guilford county, N. C., Oct. 13, 1835, from which locality his father emigrated and settled in 1839, in what is now Madison township. He assisted in the organization of the county, and was one of the commissioners to locate the county seat. He crossed the plains to California in 1849, and was quite successful in the gold-fields. He returned to Jasper county, and at the breaking out of the war was considered in good circumstances. However, the strifes of contending armies despoiled him of much of his property and all of his livestock. He died in 1862. Young “Ferd” during this period naturally inclined in sympathy with the land of his fathers and did some hard service in the cause he advocated. He was a volunteer in Captain Darrow’s company of Colonel Slover’s Battalion, Price’s command, C. S. A. He participated in many battles and skirmishes in Missouri and Arkansas, and was very severely wounded through the body, and during the time had suffered material loss of property. His house was burned down and his family obliged to leave the state for protection. He returned to Jasper county shortly after the disbanding of the Confederate army, since which time he has been quite prosperous. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and takes an active interest in the education of the rising generation, and endeavors to discharge his duties to humanity to the best of his ability. He was married Oct. 8, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Cox, a native of Springfield, Ill. Of this union there are four children: Mary Ann, wife of H. W. Wilbur; Jefferson, Sarah F., and Burr H.