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John R. Briscoe, well known as a farmer of Crawford County, is a native of Sullivan County, Tenn., and was born in 1844. In his parents' family were five children, of whom he was the second. He is a son of Richard and Sallie E. Briscoe, and was reared a farmer. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate army, and served until his capture at Petersburg, Va., just before the surrender of the Confederacy, having received a gun-shot wound in the right shoulder at Drurie's Bluff, Va. After the war he sought his home, and in 1872 was married to Gertrude, daughter of William H. Medley. Of the three children born to this union two are living—Loula J. and Fannie M. Immediately after marriage the young couple immigrated to Crawford County, Mo., and settled on a farm of 160 acres of unimproved land, eighty-five acres of which Mr. Briscoe has cleared and has under cultivation, having erected a neat residence upon the same. As a result of industry, good management and economy Mr. Briscoe has been very successful as a farmer, and the 280 acres of which he is now the possessor are well fenced and stocked. He and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which they are respected attendants. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, heartily supporting the party of his preference.