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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 HAGGARD, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Sarcoxie, was born in Sevier county, Tenn., May 22, 1821; his parents, James and Mary (Atchley) Haggard, were natives of Virginia; father died in the winter of 1851 or 52. He was one of a family of nine children of Henry Haggard, of Virginia, who served during the Revolutionary War under the immediate command of Gen. Washington; mother died in the spring of 1846. When sixteen years of age our subject moved with his parents to what is now Bradley county, Tenn. He was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools and at home; came to Missouri in the fall of 1850, locating in this county, where he now resides. Having been born and raised in the South, where also were all his interests, his sympathies were of course with the Southern cause during the war; he did not, however, encourage secession. His position was the nearest possible neutrality; notwithstanding, he sustained great loss and thefts by both armies. Judge Haggard was married in Bradley county, Tenn., April 9, 1839, to Miss Anna, daughter of Elizabeth (Golden) Humbard, of Kentucky. From this union there have been eight children. Three are now living. One died in infancy; Elizabeth, born April 19, 1841, now wife of J. P. Boyd, of Sarcoxie; William H., born May 4, 1843, fell at the battle of Jenkins’s Creek, Ark., in May, 1864; Mary born April 4, 1846, died July 2, 1848; Minerva A., born Dec. 22, 1848, now wife of A. W. White of this township; Caswell D., born Sept. 1, 1851, died Sept. 7, 1856; James W., born March 4, 1856, a resident of Sarcoxie; and Andrew A. B., born Dec. 5, 1857, died Nov. 3, 1860. Judge and Mrs. Haggard are members of the M. E. Church. They have an excellent farm of four hundred and forty acres, situated about three miles northwest of Sarcoxie, mostly in a fine state of cultivation, well stocked and watered and fenced; fine residence, with yard set in shade trees; large barn recently erected, good bearing orchard, etc. In the fall of 1882 Mr. Haggard was elected county judge for the eastern district Jasper county. He is a man of excellent business qualifications, energetic and enterprising, possessing exceptionally good judgment, a practical farmer, and universally considered one of the most reliable and substantial citizens of Jasper county.

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