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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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IRA J. MARTIN, post-office Maple Grove. Among the rising young men of Jasper county is the subject of this sketch. His birthplace is Cass county, Ind., and the date Oct. 4, 1858, and he was reared on a farm and educated in Cass county and in Jasper county, Mo., to which place he moved with his parents in 1869. He worked out by the month on a farm until 1874, and then commenced to farm for himself. Oct. 4, 1881, he was married to Miss Erassmy, daughter of Erasmus and Elizabeth Chedester, natives of Indiana. She was born May 15, 1866, and was married in New Buffalo, Mich., in 1881. By this union they have one child, Mabel M. Mr. Martin now has a fine farm of 120 acres, all under cultivation, good orchard, and good house, and fair out-buildings, the farm being well watered. Mr. Martin is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and a good farmer.
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