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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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JAMES HIGHWOOD was born in Kent, England. His father’s name was Henry, and his mother’s, Mary, and they came to Delaware county, Penn., and later, about the year 1849, they removed to Clarke county, Ohio, where his father died in May, 1882, and his mother in 1874. Mr. Highwood’s family is the only one of that name who ever immigrated to America. The subject of this sketch was married in Clarke county, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1860, to Mrs. Osborn, who was born in Marion county, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1838, and raised there. The names of the children are Wallace and Ruma. In the spring of 1865 he removed to La Salle county, Ill., and from there to Jasper county in 1870, and settled on his farm where he now lives, just east of Smithfield in section 12, township 28, and range 34. Both are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. The farm consists of eighty acres mostly under cultivation, with good buildings and young orchard. This farm was a wild waste when Mr. Highwood began his improvements, and now produces fine crops.
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