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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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J. B. SIMPSON, lessee of the Bellville Mines, was born in Scott county, Ill., July 4, 1846. His father, Josiah Simpson, was a native of the Empire State. His mother, Mary (Riggs) Simpson, was born in Ohio. During infancy our subject moved with his parents to Peoria, Ill., where he received a liberal education. In 1864 he returned to Scott county and engaged in farming. He went to Cherokee county, Kan., in 1888, and shortly after embarked in the grocery business at Pleasant View. He went to Brownville in 1863, and continued in the grocery business at that place two years. He came to Jasper county in the fall of 1875 and opened up a grocery at Joplin; afterwards he was similarly engaged at Short Creek, and more recently at Bellville. He leased the mines he now works in the fall of 1881, and has since been engaged quite extensively in mining operations. Mr. Simpson was married in Pleasant View, Kansas, March 19, 1873, to Miss Nellie, daughter of Allen and Jane (Wood) Hopkins, of Cherokee county. Mrs. S. was born June 22, 1852, and died Dec. 26, 1881, at Bellville. They had two children: Troubador, born Oct. 30, 1874, died Sept. 29, 1878; and Maudie C., born Nov. 27, 1876.

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