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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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JOHN W. WARE was born in Hancock county, Ohio, March 12, 1846, and raised there. His father, Tobias Ware, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1812, and is quite a strong man yet, living with his son. J. W. Ware was married March 10, 1872, to Pemelia Rothenbarger, who was born Feb. 27, 1854, on Turkey Creek, Jasper county, Mo. The children are Jacob W., Clarence, and Clara, who died July 15, 1882. Both are members of the Baptist Church, in good and regular standing. The subject of this sketch has a farm of eighty acres, about fifty under cultivation; forty acres in wheat averaged twenty-three bushels, beside good crops of corn and oats, and has a small orchard. Mr. Ware has a new house on his farm and the beginning of many good improvements. This farm is in section 2, township 28, range 34, and under the industrious hand of such a man will be one of the best in the country. Mr. Ware has not had the advantages of a school, but improves those advantages of public enterprise ever at one’s command.
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