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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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SILAS A. STUCKEY was born in Bedford county, Pa., Dec. 16, 1850, removing with his father to Knox county, Ill., in 1853. He was married in Dec, 1873, to Sarah J. Jackson, a native of Jasper county, Mo., who was born in 1854. There is one child living, Pearl, and three dead. He, with his father, came to Jasper county in 1867, being among the oldest residents who have immigrated to the county since the civil war. For a number of years he engaged in farming, but in 1871 went in as a clerk for William Cooley in the Pioneer Grocery Store, at Smithfield. In 1876 he assumed a proprietary interest in the same business, continuing until 1881, when he disposed of his interests and took an interest in mining, which he still maintains. He is at present the principal of the Smithfield schools, which are in a flourishing condition.
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