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Thomas R. Funk, an enterprising farmer of Knox County, is a native of the same county, and was born June 2, 1842, and is the fourth child of a family of nine (one deceased) of Samuel and Christinia (Stample) Funk, natives of Virginia, where they were reared, married and lived until after the birth of their first child, when they immigrated to Hancock County, Ill., from where, at the expiration of a year, they moved to Knox County, Mo. (1839), settling upon a farm in Lyon Township, where the mother is still living. The father died September 11, 1864. He came of a strong and hardy family, and was one of thirteen children, all of whom lived to be over fifty years of age. He was a farmer, to which occupation he devoted his time after leaving his native State. Our subject was reared at home, and received a common-school education. When he reached the age of twenty-two years he began farming for himself, and a year later married Mary E., daughter of William and Susan Campbell; she was born in Knox County, Mo., in 1847, and married to our subject January 1, 1865. This lady was the mother of six children, and died May 14, 1884. March 24, 1885, Mr. Funk married Rachel, daughter of Moses and Hannah Frazier, and born in Indiana, in 1849. To this marriage one child was born. The living children of our subject are Iva C. (wife of Thomas Fisher), Lee Oliver, Harvey Thomas, Jessie M., Samuel Albert and Annie May. Mr. Funk is an active and enterprising man, and the result of his labor and good management is a fine farm of 240 acres, well improved, and under a good state of cultivation, with fine buildings well and pleasantly situated. Mr. Funk is a well-respected citizen, a member of the Republican party, and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. He belongs to the F. & A. M., Edina Lodge, No. 291. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.