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GEORGE BURGOON, farmer and fruit-grower, section 14, post-office Carthage, was born in Ohio, Dec. 23, 1832. When a child his parents immigrated to Iowa, and settled at Allen Grove, in Scott county. In 1852 he sold out and went to Texas, settling in Tarrant county of the Lone Star State, where our subject was married Oct. 26, 1856, to Miss Letta J. Fortener, a native of Arkansas, At the breaking out of the civil war, though not in perfect accord with the secession movement, his interests were in the South, and his wife and family were in sympathy with the movement, and Mr. Burgoon reluctantly took up arms under the Palmetto Flag, being a member of Company A, Nineteenth Texas Cavalry, known as Bufford’s Texas Rangers. He participated in many campaigns, skirmishes, and engagements of different kinds. He served under Marmaduke in the Cape Girardeau raid, many brushes in Arkansas, and in the Red River campaign, where they had skirmishes and running fights for many consecutive days. His regiment was disbanded in Texas in May, 1865. Returning to his home in Tarrant county, he disposed of the residue of his property, and with his family came to Washington county, Ark., and stayed but a few months and then returned to Texas. Remaining there one year he came to Jasper county, Mo., in 1867, and has since been a permanent resident of this county. His farm consists of sixty acres, nicely situated two and a half miles from and in full view of the City of Carthage, on high and rolling ground. He has erected a cozy substantial stone house, and made many other material improvements. His family consists of four children: Alice, wife of Hiram Phillips; Florence R., wife of J. E. Hill; Mollie and Georgia.