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Below is a family biography included in The History of Crawford County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888.  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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William Halliburton, probate judge, was born in Humphreys (now Benton) County, Tenn., September 15, 1823, and is a son of Samuel and Sarah (Barker) Halliburton, both natives of Wake County, North Carolina, who were married in Tennessee where they spent many years in the pursuit of agriculture. In 1839 the parents moved to Missouri, and two years later located in Crawford County, whence, in 1844, they moved to Arkansas, where the father died after a residence of two years; the mother spent her last days with her son, William, in Dent County, Mo., dying in 1863, in the seventy-second year of her age. The youngest but one in a family of nine children, William Halliburton received but a limited education, and remained with his father until twenty-one years of age. He was subsequently employed on a farm, and while in Dent County, Mo., in 1846, married Roxana Wilson, a native of Christian County, Ky., and four years later they moved to Steelville, where they kept a hotel. Mrs. Halliburton died in 1850, leaving two children, and in 1851 Mr. Halliburton married Lucy Anderson, a native of Crawford County, who became the mother of three children. In 1857 he returned to Dent County, and engaged in the grocery business and the following year was elected county clerk of Dent County, which position he held until 1861, when he enlisted in the Seventh Missouri Cavalry, State Guards, being appointed second assistant general division inspector. In the spring of 1862 he was commissioned and sent back to Missouri to raise troops for Gen. Price, and in July, 1863, was assigned the position of first lieutenant of Company C, Free Mason’s Battalion. He was relieved at Evening Shade, Ark., where he was captured and taken to St. Louis, Camp Chase, Johnson's Island, Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, Morris Island and Fort Pulaski. After the war he joined his family in Crawford County, Mo., where he has served four years as deputy sheriff and six years as deputy collector. He was elected probate judge in 1886, being a Democrat in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Halliburton are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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This family biography is one of 117 biographies included in The History of Crawford County, Missouri published in 1888.  For the complete description, click here: Crawford County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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