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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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WILLIAM J. KNIGHT, farmer, was born in Spottsylvania county, Va., Dec. 7, 1828, removing to Ohio with his father, Reuben L. Knight, in 1831, where he was reared and educated. In 1862 he enlisted at Toledo, Iowa, in the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, Company E, serving three years, having settled in Tama county, Iowa, in 1859. The subject of this sketch was married Oct. 5, 1854, to Dorcas Hockrett, who was born in Clinton county Dec. 10, 1832. Their children are Reuben J., Nathan, Elizabeth, Oscar, Lewis, and Charles. Both Mr. and Mrs. Knight are members of the Quaker Church. In 1870 Mr. Knight returned to Ohio, and in 1871 immigrated to Nebraska, becoming a citizen of Jasper county, Mo., in 1873, settling four miles northwest of Carthage. On his farm of eighty acres he raised the past season 1,250 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of corn, and other grain. He has a fine young orchard started. His farm is in section 19, township 29, range 31, of Marion township. Two of his children are teachers in the county, and Mr. Knight is thrifty, industrious, and prosperous.
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