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Below is a family biography included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd in 1879. 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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DELNOTTE, J. E. farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 1, P.O. Berdan. Mr. Delnotte is a native of New Jersey, born in 1843. Motherless at the youthful age of twelve, and his father dying during his seventeenth year, and thus thrown upon his own resources at a time when others of like age had the comforts of a home, his was a hard lot for many years. Digressing a little from the subject in hand, John Delnotte, the father, was born in Mercer County, Ky., on the 16th of May, 1809; on attaining his majority he for a short time became a resident of Indiana, finding a location in Greene County as early as 1832; afterward a resident of Christian County, he there passed the remainder of his life in 1863; his wife, whose maiden name was Curry, a most estimable lady, departed this life in 1856. John, who heads this notice, passed his boyhood in Greene County, following agricultural pursuits; in 1870 he was united in marriage to Miss Martha E. Pinkerton, a daughter of James M. Pinkerton, by whom he has two children: James M., and Wm. E.
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