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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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PLEASANT PIERCY, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Guilford county, N. C., Sept. 13, 1825, where he was raised and educated. At the age of nineteen he removed to Ray county, Mo. His father, Bryant, was a carpenter by trade, and died in Clinton county, Mo., in 1847; his wife, Lydia, having died two months previous to her husband. Mr. Piercy was in the Ray county militia for a short time. He was married in March, 1848, to Virginia Taylor, who was born in September, 1831. Their children are as follows: Mary A., John, Monroe, Augustine, Abraham K., Thos. B., B., Sarah, Ziepha, and Daniel. The subject of this sketch became a citizen of Jasper county, Mo., in 1866, and settled where he now lives, four miles north of Carthage, in sections 22 and 15, in township 29, range 31, of Marion township. His farm comprises 320 acres, raising the past season, in 1882, 2,000 bushels of wheat, 1,000 of corn, and 250 of oats, besides 500 of apples. Mr. Piercy was among the early settlers after the war when things were dear and markets distant. He is a good business man and commands the respect of the community.
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