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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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JOSHUA SHAFFER, post-office Webb City, business farmer and stock-raiser, was born March 15, 1843, in Fairfield county, Ohio, and is the son of John S. and Sarah Shaffer, natives of Ohio, They were the first settlers of Lancaster. Of ten children the subject was the seventh child, and was reared and educated in Ohio. He graduated in Springfield in the winter of 1866, and in 1867 he came to Jasper county, Mo., to look at the country, and the following year he returned to Ohio, but soon came back to Jasper county and engaged in farming. On July 1, 1868, he was married to Miss Fannie Koontz, daughter of Judge Koontz, who was one of the leading men of Jasper county. Mrs. Shaffer was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1848, and was there reared and educated; she moved with her parents to Jasper county, Mo., in 1857. In 1868 our subject located on his present farm of one hundred and eighty acres in section twenty-seven, and has one hundred and thirty-eight acres in other parts of the township; his present farm is well improved and well watered, and has a splendid orchard. Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer have four children, named Stella, John F., Harry G., and Russell.
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