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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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PETER, JOHN S. farmer and stock raiser, Sec, 34, P.O. White Hall. Mr. Peter has been a resident of Greene County forty-one years; he was the youngest son of John and Sarah Peter, and accompanied them to Madison Co., Ill., near Monticello in 1829, where the family remained two years, and then moved to Greene County, locating on the farm now owned by the subject of this sketch, who received a good common school education, partly under the instructions of L. E. Worcester; in his twenty-fifth year he was married to Miss Susan Culver, a daughter of S. H. Culver; by his father he was deeded an 80 acre tract of prairie and 30 of timber; this he disposed of to Anthony Potts; several years after purchasing the valuable tract he now owns; Mr. Peter once owned a thousand acres in Montgomery County. Feb. 1, 1863, Mrs. Peter departed this life; to the care of the husband nine children were left, six now living; in 1866 Mr. Peter was married to Mrs. Mary Smith, a daughter of Andrew Finley and relict of Jesse Smith, of Upper Alton; Mrs. Peter is the mother of two children by first marriage; the farm property now comprises 140 acres, considerable having been sold; in 1840 Mr. Peter made the brick and helped to build his present residence.
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