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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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JOHN A. DELP, post-office Dudenville, was born Oct. 3, 1856, in Hawkins county, Tenn., and is the son of Daniel and Mary Delp, natives of Tennessee. Our subject is the youngest of five children, and he was reared on a farm and educated in Tennessee. At the age of fourteen years he went to Kansas, lived there one year, and then came to Jasper county, Mo. He worked by the month on a farm for three years, then returned to Tennessee, and was married to Miss Marinda Johnson, daughter of Nelson and Catharine Johnson, who were also natives of Tennessee. Mrs. Delp was the second of four children. In 1882 he moved to Jasper county. Mo., and is now carrying on a farm of 320 acres in Lincoln township, with his brother, who was born June 11, 1852, in Tennessee, and came to Jasper county, Mo., in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Delp have one child, named Ida M. They are both members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Delp and brother are both enterprising men and good neighbors and citizens.
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