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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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HENRY MARTIN, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Joplin, was born in Cooper county, Mo., June 25, 1837, his parents, Joshua and Sarah (Edwards) Martin, being natives of Kentucky. In the spring of 1847 our subject moved with his parents to Jasper county, locating where he now resides. He went overland to California in the spring of 1854, and for three years engaged in gold mining in that state; then went to Oregon, but returned to California, and shortly afterwards to the states via the Isthmus of Panama. He stopped for a time in Cooper county, Mo., and returned to his present farm in 1867, where he has since remained, engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Martin was married in Cooper county, Dec. 8, 1861, to Miss Missouri, daughter of Jas. J. and J. J. (Wood) Stephens, natives of Kentucky, she being born Nov. 3, 1846. From this marriage there have been nine children: William Jefferson, born Nov. 16, 1862; Virginia Lee, born Feb. 8, 1864; Paris, born July 22, 1866, and died June 22, 1871; Henrietta, born June 22, 1868; Joshua, born May 28, 1870, and died July 11, 1870; Susan Effie, born Oct. 9, 1872; Mary A., born July 23, 1875; Charles T., born Aug. 11, 1877; and Upton, born Aug. 25, 1878, and died Oct. 9, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Baptist Church.
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