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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 SWART was born in Tompkins county, N. Y., July 3, 1832, and was raised on a farm and educated in New York. In 1854 he went to Wisconsin, and was there one season, when he returned to his old home, and himself and brother bought a threshing machine and returned to Wisconsin, where they engaged in threshing and farming until 1862. He was married Oct 1, 1857, to Alvina Daniels, also a native of New York. In August, 1862, Mr. Swart enlisted in Company E, Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry, and was in the army over three years. He was sick about six months after he enlisted, and then joined his regiment at Lake Providence, La., and went to Vicksburg and was in the siege for forty-seven days and nights; was at the capture of Natchez, and then returned to Vicksburg. He was there taken sick, and with a lot of others sent to Cairo, Ill, until able to do duty, and was on detached duty until the end of the war. Was with General Blair as body-guard; in Sherman’s march to the sea and around to Washington. He was mustered out in August, 1865, and returned to Springfield, Ill.; then to McHenry county, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising until 1868, when he moved to Jasper county, and settled in McDonald township; was there four years, and then moved to Sheridan township, locating on a farm. Soon after sold his lease, and located on his present farm of 160 acres, all under cultivation; has also 160 acres of wild land, all under fence, and fifteen acres of timber, all in section 14, range 30, township 30. The stream Coon Creek runs through his farm; has four spring branches running through each of his eighty acres; has a good orchard, yard, house, barn, and granary, and is considered to be one of the best farms in Sheridan township. He can raise from 16 to 18 bushels of wheat, and about 40 bushels of corn to the acre, and has raised 75 bushels of corn to the acre, and can raise all kinds of vegetables. The farm is situated five miles east of Jasper, eight miles southwest of Golden City, and fifteen miles from Carthage. Mrs. Swart died July 22, 1878, and left three children: Ellen E., Eliza E., and May.

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