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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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DOSSETT, MRS. SARAH E. widow of Wm. H. Dossett, Sec. 35, P.O. Schutz Mill, was born in Lincoln Co., Tenn., Oct. 6, 1830. She was married twice: first June 26, 1851, to Joseph Sheff, and April 1, 1869, to Wm. H. Dossett, who died June 2, 1876. She has four children living: George A. Shelf, born Nov. 12, 1854; Rufus Sheff, born Jan. 12, 1857; Joseph H. Sheff, born March 24, 1862; William W. Sheff, born April 21, 1866. William T. Sheff (deceased), born Nov. 5, 1852; Catharine Sheff, born Feb. 3, 1859, died April 23, 1859. She has twenty acres of land about a mile east of Happyville on the C. & A. R.R. Her father was born in Georgia in 1799, and died in Scott Co., Ill., March 15, 1873. She has one granddaughter, Mary Francis Sheff, born June 26, 1877.
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