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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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ELIAS T. COLEMAN was born in Tiskilwa, Bureau county, Ill., Feb. 9, 1840. Previous to the Rebellion our subject traveled quite extensively in New Mexico in 1860. The call for troops found him ready and he enlisted in the First Iowa Regiment in 1861, from Lucas county, serving the full term, four years and ten months. After the war he went to Marshall county, Ill. He was married in 1863, during the holidays of December, to Mary Burt, of Spring Bay, Woodford county, Ill., where she was born Aug. 17, 1846, and also raised. The names of the children are Edward R., Elmer, and Julia. The eldest son is a second Bogardus, having killed forty quails with forty shots, though he is not yet fifteen years of age. Mr. Coleman is a stone-mason by trade, and has a reputation of being second to none.

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