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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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MRS. SARAH ZIMMERMAN, post-office Joplin, was born in Montgomery county, Mo. Jan. 1, 1851, and is the daughter of Wm. and Elizabeth Murphy, of Kentucky, and moved to Newton county, Mo., in 1860. They had ten children, our subject being the fifth child. In 1862 she moved to Kansas and remained until the end of the war, and then came to Jasper county, Mo., and was married to Henry Zimmerman, who was born in Pennsylvania, and who located on his present farm of eighty acres in 1874, which is very well improved. He died Sept. 10, 1879. Benjamin Murphy is now carrying on the farm for his sister. He is a young man of energy and pluck and soon bids fair to become one of the successful farmers of Jasper county. Mrs. Zimmerman is a member of the Baptist Church and well respected in the community.
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