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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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BOLAND G. CHITWOOD, born in Marion county, Ill., Dec, 22, 1839, and with his father farmed for several years in Texas. Married in April, 1863, to Mary Puffer, who was born in Tennessee, and raised in Illinois. The names of the children are Ardelia F., Harvey, Ella, Eva, Eddie, Leona, Has a farm of seventy acres, about fifty-five cultivated. Twenty-seven in wheat averaged twenty-four bushels to the acre; fourteen of corn averaged forty-five bushels to the acre; seven of oats averaged sixty bushels to the acre. There is a good orchard of three and one half acres, beginning to bear. Both are members of the Baptist Church. The subject of this sketch came to this county in the spring of 1867. The farm is one and one-fourth miles northeast of Smithfield, in township 28, range 34, and section 1. There are three of the Chitwood brothers who own adjoining farms and are among the most prosperous farmers of the community.
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