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REV. J. S. McABOY, is also one of the early settlers of Jasper county. He was born on the 22d day of June, A. D. 1811, in Fauquier county, Va. His father, Dr. Thomas McAboy, was a celebrated physician, who had but one brother, James, after whom the subject of this sketch was named; he was a Presbyterian clergyman of no ordinary ability. Mr. McAboy moved with his father from Virginia to Ohio in the spring of 1815, and settled in Athens county, where he obtained a good common school education under all the difficulties incident to a new country, and without one dollar of public school fund. He taught his first school before he was twenty years old, and at the age of twenty he entered the Ohio University as a student; remained there one year. In August of this year he was baptised and united with the Primitive Baptist Church, of which he has remained an honorable member. The next year he entered the Granville College, at Granville, Ohio, because it offered more favorable inducements, and remained there two years. In his 22d year he entered the ministry, and on the 26th day of August, 1834, was married to Miss Sarah A., daughter of Rev. Samuel Carpenter, of Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, and settled there. On the 3d day of March, 1842, his beloved wife died, and left him two lovely daughters, the eldest Maria Louise, born July 4, 1835, who at the age of twenty years was married to Capt. T. S. Slaughter, son of Judge Slaughter, of Lancaster, Ohio. Captain Slaughter served in the Union army through the Rebellion, part of the time as captain and the rest as provost marshal. They are now living in Johnson county, Kan., and are very prominent citizens there. His second daughter, Mary S., was born Dec. 10, 1838. She was first married to Mr. Philip Wellington, and afterwards to Dr. Gonzales, of Key West, Fla., where they now live as highly respected citizens. On the 15th of Nov., 1842, Mr. McAboy married a second time, marrying Miss Susie C. Pearce, daughter of Andrew Pearce, Esq., a prominent farmer of Fairfield county, Ohio, where he has been a justice of the peace for sixteen consecutive years. The offspring of this marriage was two sons, J. Hervey and John F., who are highly respected citizens. It is a fact generally known that the Primitive Baptists are not celebrated for the support they give their ministers, so he also engaged in civil engineering in the construction of canals and railroads, and spent twenty years in that business, and in the spring of 1866 he moved from Ohio to Jasper county, Mo., and settled on the farm on which he now resides in section 24, township 28, range 33. His farm consists of 320 acres, eighty acres in timber, forty in pasture, and 200 acres in cultivation, with good orchards of excellent fruit, four wells of living water, and good substantial farm buildings. When he first came to the farm he found that it had been devastated by fire during the war, especially the fencing, but he has now got it well improved and in a high state of cultivation, he has been fully alive to all the public issues of the times, both in politics and religion; has written many telling articles for the public press on both subjects. In politics he warmly espouses the cause of the National party. He has also prepared two books on religious subjects, which are now ready for the press. On the 7th day of July, 1870, his second and also beloved consort departed this life. Since then he has had a pleasant home with his eldest son, J. Hervey, and his excellent wife, where he has seven lively grandchildren to cheer his old age, all of whom love grandpa.