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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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WASHINGTON L. SCOTT, merchant and farmer, of Scotland, was born in Overton county, Tenn., Feb. 12, 1839, where he was reared and educated until eighteen years of age, when he came to Jasper county. Allen Scott, his father, immigrated to Dade county, Mo., in 1859, and to Jasper county in 1866, and is now deceased. The subject of this sketch was married in November, 1860, to Eliza J. Maberry, who was born in Dade county in 1843. Their children are as follows: Thomas L., Minnie B., Cory D., Early E., Arlington V., and George F. Both are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Scott enlisted in the Confederate army in Brown’s Regiment of Missouri Rangers under Livingston. Mr. Scott is interested in the mining land at Scotland, and proprietor of a store at the same place, where he began business in 1872, and is the acting postmaster. The mining lands, more fully described elsewhere, are located in sections 1 and 12, of township 27, range 31, of Jackson township. Mr. W. L. Scott is one of a large family of children, whose mother is still living with them. He is one of the early settlers of Jasper county.
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