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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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J. H. RALSTON was born in McDonough county, Ill., Feb. 20,1839, and there for the most part raised. Enlisting from his native county he joined the Sixteenth Illinois Infantry, the first to enlist from that county. Married March 1, 1865, to Malisa Garrott, who was born in Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 14, 1840, coming to Illinois when ten years of age. Mr. Ralston came to Jasper county, Mo., in 1872, and lived on his farm until he accepted the superintendency of the poor-farm of Jasper county, located two and one half miles south of Carthage. As a testimonial of the acceptability of his services as superintendent of the county poor farm, the county court in creased his salary $100 per year, and this is the fourth term of his administration, filled with such acceptability to the county and credit to himself.
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