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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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JOSEPH S. KELLEY was born in Darke county, Ohio, Nov. 23, 1838. At the age of eleven his parents removed to Rock Island county, Ill., residing there from 1840 to 1870, and in the latter year he became a citizen of Jasper county, Mo. Our subject went at the country’s call, serving in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry, enlisting for a term extending from 1862 until August, 1865. He was married in the month of May, the 7th day, 1859, in Rock Island county, to Annie Fryar, of Darke county, Ohio, who was born May 1, 1837, leaving Ohio in 1855. The children’s names are Edward J., May M., Lewis A., and Ada. Mr. Kelley has a nice farm of eighty-two acres, in what is known as “Twin Grove,” a natural group of oaks. There are fifty acres under cultivation, and ten acres sown in 1882 to winter wheat averaged thirty bushels to the acre, and twenty-five acres of corn forty bushels. This farm has neat, well-built buildings, surrounded by a young bearing fruit orchard of one and a half acres. The whole appearance of the farm evinces industry, progress, improvement, and comfort, and is a great credit to its proprietor.
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