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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in the Carroll County, Missouri History published in 1911 by B. F.
Bowen & Company.
These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing
ancestors or filling in the details in 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.
JEFFERSON J. EARP. The subject of this sketch was born in
Tennessee March 16, 1851, and was a son of James M. and Mary Ann (Whittemore)
Earp, natives of Tennessee and members of old families of the part of the
state in which they lived. James M. Earp, whose birth occurred on the 20th day
of January, 1828, moved to Carroll county, Missouri, in 1857, where he spent
the remainder of his life, dying on June 3, 1906, his wife preceding him in
the year 1904. Jefferson J. Earp was about six years old when his parents
moved to Missouri and from that time until his lamented death he lived in
Carroll county and in various ways was identified with the interests of the
same. He received a good education in his youth and at the age of twenty-two
entered upon what proved to be an exceptionally successful career as a
teacher, a calling in which he acquired great proficiency both as an
instructor and disciplinarian. His popularity is attested by the fact of his
having been retained for a number of successive terms in the same districts
and his work in the school room was such as to satisfy the most critical and
exacting.
Mr. Earp made a careful study of child life and knew how to adapt his teaching
to the capacity of his pupils. By gaining their love and confidence he
experienced little difficulty in directing their minds and while developing
their intellectual powers he also aimed to improve their moral natures so that
they might grow up sytntlletrically developed men and women, capable of
meeting life's duties and realizing high and noble destinies. Mr. Earp had
proper conceptions of the dignity of his calling and during the fourteen years
devoted to the same he rose to a high place among the successful teachers of
the county and gained a reputation second to few if any of his compeers. He
always kept in touch with public affairs, was deeply interested in the leading
questions of the times and his reading and observations led him to take broad
views of men arid things and to form well grounded opinions on matters of
public interest. He was a Democrat in politics and as such was elected county
commissioner, which office he held by successive re-elections for a period of
eight years. He proved a very capable and obliging official and lost sight of
self in his desire to subserve the interests of the public. He was a careful
student of the sacred Scriptures and devoutly religious and for a number of
years held membership with the Baptist church, the teachings of which he
exemplified in his relations with his fellowmen.
Mr. Earp was married on October 28, 1891, to Mary Katherine Queen. daughter of
Capt. O. B. and Sarah A. (Scott) Queen, the union being without issue. The
life of Mr. Earp was one of high ideals and fraught with much good to those
with whom he mingled and to the public at large. He gave his influence and
assistance to all worthy enterprises, did his duty at all times freely and
fearlessly and ever stood for what made for the best interests of his kind. He
died on January 14, 1907, and his loss was greatly deplored by all who knew or
came within the sphere of his influence.
Capt. O. R. Queen, father of Mrs. Earp, was born in Washington, D. C., in the
year 1823 and grew to maturity in that city. He married, when a young man,
Sarah A. Scott, whose birth occurred in the national capital January 2, 1825,
and some time before the late Civil war came to Carroll county, Missouri,
where he spent the remainder of his life. He enlisted in the Union army as a
private at the beginning of the war and by a series of promotions finally rose
to the rank of captain, in which capacity he served under Colonels Philips and
Crittenden and earned an honorable record as a soldier. Returning to Carroll
county at the expiration of his period of service, he located in Carrollton,
where his death occurred in the year 1876; Mrs. Queen survived her husband
nearly twenty years, departing this life January 22, 1905. Captain and Mrs.
Queen had a family of twelve children, the following of whom grew to maturity
and became well known in their respective communities: Henry J., of Long
Beach, California: Mary Katherine, widow of J. J. Earp; Richard P., who lives
in California; Edwina, who occupies the old home; Cora B., wife of G. J.
Peltier, of Carrollton; Alice G., deceased; Carrie A., now Mrs. Minor Hale, of
Carroll county, and Scioto, who married Doctor Scott, but is now deceased.
This family biography is one of 306
biographies included in the History of Carroll County, Missouri published by
B. F. Bowen & Company in 1911. For the
complete description, click here:
Carroll
County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps
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