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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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JAMES E. WILLOUGHBY, farmer, section 21, post-office Reeds, was born in Allen county, Ky., Jan. 3, 1844. His parents immigrated to southwest Missouri and settled on Jenkins Creek in Jasper county when he was seven years of age, where he spent his time until the breaking out of the civil war. Though a young man and reared to pro-slavery ideas he was from the first a strong Union man, and he early became a member of Captain Yamal’s Company, Forty-second Regiment E. M. M., and subsequently went into the quartermaster’s department, and served Uncle Sam in that capacity four years in Kansas and Arkansas. At the close of the war he returned to Jasper county, and was married Jan, 3, 1867, to Miss Martha A. Hood, a native of Jasper county, daughter of J. N. Hood, deceased. Of this union there are four children: Eldora, born April 10, 1870; Belle, born May 30, 1872; Austin, born July 20, 1874; and Hattie, born May 25, 1881. The year after his marriage he came to live at his present residence. His farm consists of eighty acres well situated on the Sarcoxie and Carthage road.
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