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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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JOHN T. MAXEY was born in Bath county, Ky., June 8, 1830, and raised in Montgomery county. He married Elizabeth Ellington, of Morgan county, Ky., in October, 1853. The children’s names are Harry, Maud, Rebecca, Fannie, Oliver, and two not living, one of them James, who died Nov. 5, 1881. Mr. Maxey moved from Kentucky to Indiana in 1863, and in 1868 to Kansas, Cherokee county, settling in Waco, Jasper county, Mo., in 1881. Both Mr. and Mrs. Maxey are members of the Christian Church. In Cherokee county, Kas., he was one of the county commissioners, township trustee, and is the present justice of the peace of Waco. He has been formerly engaged in farming, but is now engaged with his son in baling hay and shipping grain, having shipped this year, 1882, about five hundred tons of hay. He was among the first residents of Waco, and owns one of its best and most comfortable residences. Mr. Maxey is a plain, straight forward dealing man, and inspires confidence in those whom he meets, and commands universal respect.
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