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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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W. J. McCRAY. He is a native of Whiteside county, Ill., born Nov. 23, 1843, being a son of Martin and Margaret (Crum) McCray, the father a native of Kentucky and the mother of Indiana, both going to Illinois when quite young and there married and settled on a farm. They had a family of five children, the above subject being the second, and was raised and educated in his native county. In the fall of 1868, then a single man, he went to St. Louis; then by stage to Springfield Mo.; then walked to Carthage, Mo., having but a few hundred dollars in cash. For the first few years he engaged in trading in livestock and finally purchased a farm in Duval township and began farming, and after many exchanges he settled where he now resides. He was married Jan. 22, 1871, to Miss Lucy Moran who was born May 4, 1847, and a native of Ireland, being a daughter of Timothy and Catharine (Boils) Moran, both natives of Ireland. Mrs. McCray, when three years of age came with her parents to America and settled near Norwalk, Huron county, Ohio, and remained until 1857; then moved to Harrisonville, Mo., afterwards to Kansas, and settled in Duval township Jasper county in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. McCray have a family of five children: Nellie, born Oct. 27, 1871; Fanny, born Feb. 8, 1874; Anther, born May 16, 1878, Alice, born Aug. 17, 1880; and Iva, born July 30, 1882.
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