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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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THOMAS DAVIS, post-office Jasper, farmer. The subject of this sketch was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, March 13, 1887, and was the son of Samuel and Nancy Davis, natives of Virginia, who moved to Ohio at an early date. Our subject’s father, Samuel, worked in the salt mines, and at the age of twenty gave his father three barrels of salt to let him get married to Miss Nancy Young. By this union they had six children, our subject being the third child. He moved to Illinois at the age of fifteen and was there educated, working at home until twenty-five years of age. He was married to Miss Cecelia Hendricks March 3, 1864, and the same year moved to Jasper county, Mo. He built the first store in Midway, now Jasper, and kept store three years; then moved upon his present farm of 129 acres, which is well improved and well worked. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have three children: Mary E., Minnie M., and Charles A., and an adopted boy named George H. Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are members of the Dunkard Church and stand high in the community.
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