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Below is a family biography included in The History of Brown County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. 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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DUNCAN EVANS, farmer, P. O. Higginsport, was born in 1826, and raised in Pleasant Township, this county. His father, John B. Evans, was born in Kentucky in 1800, and in 1801 came with his parents to this township, settling four miles south of Georgetown, where he was raised and spent his life as a farmer. John B. was married, in 1823, to Sarah Moore, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Jonathan Moore, who emigrated to Brown County in 1805. Of their ten children seven are now living, five in Pleasant Township, one in Lewis Township, and one a physician in Colorado. Duncan is living on the old place; he learned the blacksmith trade in early life, and worked at it six years. In 1850, he was married to Mary A. Martin, a native of Brown County. She was born in 1832, and is a daughter of Samuel Martin. They have had eleven children, of whom the following survive: Emma F. (wife of J. J. Warner), Louella, Charlie, Sallie, Mollie and Jennie D.
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