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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 FITZER, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Joplin, is a native of Ohio, born March 15, 1831. His parents, Joseph and Sarah (Woods) Fitzer, were also of the Buckeye State. During infancy our subject moved with his parents to Indiana, locating in Cass county, near Logansport. He came to Missouri and to his present location in 1868. He was married in Cass county, Ind., March 3, 1853, to Miss Mary, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Smith. Mrs. Fitzer died in November, 1865, and our subject was again married at Logansport, Ind., June 20, 1867, to Miss Mary, daughter of William and Julia (Burns) Stapleton, of Howard county, same state, but formerly of Michigan. Mrs. Fitzer was born Oct. 28, 1849, in Detroit county, Michigan. From this union there have been six children: Ione, born June 8, 1868; James, died in infancy; Daniel, born Feb. 10, 1872; Joseph, born Sept. 21, 1874; John Edmund, born March 7, 1878; Walter, born Jan. 23, 1880. Mr. Fitzer has a splendid farm, situated five miles west of Joplin, and is counted one of the most energetic and substantial farmers in Jasper county.
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