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Z. T. Brawford, real estate and loan agent of Unionville, is a native of Schuyler County, Mo., and was born November 18, 1846, and is n son of Spotswood D., a native of Augusta County, Virginia, and Martha (Brasfield) Brawford, a sister of James M. Brasfield. Spotswood D. was the son of a large slave holder, who lived and died in Augusta County, Va., and about 1842 located in Schuyler County, Mo., where our subject was born, and engaged in the mercantile trade at Tippecanoe, but, after the county seat was moved to Lancaster, he moved his store to that place. Z. T. was an only child, and at the age of eight months lost his mother, afterward making his home with his maternal grandparents, in Putnam County, where he lived upon a farm until January 2, 1862, when he enlisted in the Second Missouri Cavalry, serving until his discharge March 10, 1865. He then embarked in the mercantile business at Unionville, in December, 1865, and continued in that business for two years. He then filled a clerkship for two years, and then engaged in the stock trade. In 1872 he was appointed county clerk. In 1874 he was elected to the office of county clerk, and re-elected in 1878, serving until January, 1883. He now owns a farm in Wilson Township, to which he devoted his attention until January, 1887, when he engaged in the real estate and loan agency business. In 1874 he married Deborah Brasfield, nee Campbell, a native of Muskingum County, Ohio, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. He is a member of the F. & A. M. and A. O. U. W.