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DANIEL H. DeBOARD, farmer and stock-raiser, section 28, post-office Avilla, was born in Indiana, Oct. 4, 1846. When an infant his parents moved to Illinois, and eight years after moved to Marion county, Iowa. Our subject served his country during the war of the Rebellion, enlisting in November, 1862, in Company K, Third Iowa Cavalry, and though but sixteen years old at his enlistment, stood campaigning like a veteran, never being off duty a single day during his service. He participated in the Guntown raid, the battles of Ripley, Jackson, again at Guntown, Shiloh, Memphis, White Station, the campaign through Arkansas and Missouri, under A. J. Smith. He went from St. Louis to Louisville, Ky., where the regiment wintered. Campaigned through Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and into South Carolina, and was under fire nearly every day during these raids and forced marches. He was at Macon, Ga., when the news of the armistice reached them, and was mustered out at Atlanta, Ga., in April, 1865, but was not discharged until the August following, the government thereby getting some months’ service out of the boys without pay. Returning to his home in Iowa, he doffed the Union blue and donned the jeans of a farmer. He came to Missouri in 1868; staid a few months in Barton county, and from there went to Texas, where he staid one year. He became a resident of Jasper county, Mo., in 1870. He was married Nov. 26, 1874, to Miss Emma Black, a native of Macoupin county, Ill. They have one child, Mamie D., born June 5, 1876. Mr. DeBoard purchased the farm where he now lives in 1879, which consists of 200 acres, 130 acres under cultivation. He commenced without means, and has by persevering industry and hard knocks accumulated a nice property. He is known in the community as an honest, hard-working, and good citizen.