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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company 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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ALEXANDER L. GOOD, farmer, post-office Jasper, was born in Floyd county, Va. His father kept hotel and was widely known all over the county. Young Good has a good common school education. At the age of twenty-one he moved to West Virginia. He was married to Miss Louisa Ward, Feb. 23, 1859, born in Patrick county, West Va. Mr. Good farmed until the war broke out, and then enlisted in the Sixtieth Virginia Regiment, and went to White Sulphur Springs and joined Wise. Raided between White Sulphur Springs and the Galey River; went to Richmond, and was in the seven day’s fight. From there he went to West Virginia, and got captured and taken to Johnson’s Island. After he was paroled he returned home and fought under Breckenridge until the close of the war. He returned home and farmed until 1869; then moved to Jackson county, Mo., and farmed five years; then came to Jasper county in 1882, and bought forty acres, which he is now improving.
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