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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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WILLIAM M. FRANKLIN, farmer, section 12, post-office Carthage, was born in Tuscaloosa county, Ala., Feb. 23, 1834. He went to Mississippi with his parents when ten years old, and there his father died. In 1856 he went to Texas and was there at the breaking out of the war. In 1861 he volunteered in Company E, Ninth Texas Cavalry, C. S. A., and participated in the battles of Elkhorn Tavern, the scout through the Indian nation, Shiloh, Iuka, Spanish Hill, Granada, Jackson, Rome, Franklin, Nashville, and hosts of skirmishes in which he took part under the Confederate banner. At the surrender he returned to his home in Texas, and was married in April, 1863, to Miss E. J. Kirk, a native of North Carolina. They are the parents of eight children: Mary, now Mrs. J. Hininger; Frances, Lewis W., Belle, Hettie, Lucy, Cora, and John. They came to Jasper county, Mo., in 1868, and staid but one year, then went to McDonald county, same state; from there to Barton county, Ark., and back to Jasper county in 1878, and purchased the farm he now owns and occupies. It consists of seventy acres well situated on high rolling ground two miles east from Carthage.
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