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ROBERT A. CONNELY, post-office Georgia City. His farm consists of eighty acres of fine land, situated in Georgia City Valley, on Blackberry Creek. The farm is improved up to a fair standard, his crop being principally wheat, the crop of 1882 averaging some twenty-five bushels per acre. The above subject settled where he resides in March, 1881, but having settled in Jasper county, Mo., in 1870, in section 22, township 27, range 34. That farm proving to be a mineral one he soon disposed of it and purchased where he now resides. Robert is a native of Monroe county, Ind., born Jan. 23, 1822. The father was a native of Virginia and when quite young moved with his parents to Montgomery county, Ky., where he married the mother March 2, 1818. She was a native of North Carolina, but was raised in Kentucky. In 1822 Robert’s parents settled in Indiana on a farm, the father having built the second log-cabin in Putnam county. There was a family of eight children, as follows: Thomas, Anther, Alexander, Robert, Gilmore, Margaret, Isabell, and Mariah. The above subject grew up in his native county on a farm. He was married Nov. 31, 1843, to Miss Marilda Evans, a native of Monroe county, Ind., born May 27, 1821, being a daughter of William and Martha (Berton) Evans, the father a native of Bath county, Ky., and the mother of east Virginia. They married in Kentucky and settled in Monroe county, Ind., in about 1822. Their family consisted of eight children, as follows: Susan, John, William H., Elizabeth, Marilda, Serena E., James, and Martha. Mr. and Mrs. Connely settled on a farm in Indiana and remained until 1855; then moved to Atchison county, Kan., and improved a farm of 160 acres, remaining until 1870; then came to Jasper county, Mo. They have a family of six children living: Louena, born Dec. 28, 1844; Harrison T., born Feb. 20, 1848; Anther L., born Dec. 21, 1850, and died Aug. 22, 1878; James M., born July 21, 1852; Melonia, born March 22, 1855; Margaret J., born Dec. 22, 1857; William B., born Feb. 13, 1860.