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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in The History of Grundy County, Missouri published by Birdsall
& Dean in 1881.
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.
MRS. MARY JONES. Mary Wooley was born in Garrard county, Kentucky, January 24,
1810. Her father, William Wooley, came to Kentucky from Virginia at a very
early day; he died in February, 1830. Her mother's maiden name was Mary
Sutton, and she was also a native of Virginia, and became the wife of William
Wooley on May 26, 1807. They had a family of nine children, the subject of
this sketch being next to the eldest daughter. On April 2, 1829, Miss Mary
Wooley became the wife of James Simpson, a native of Kentucky, born in 1807.
In the fall of 1838 this young couple, together with his mother, five sisters
and one brother, came to Missouri; they remained one winter in Chariton
county, and in March, 1839, landed and made a permanent settlement in Grundy
county, and this venerable old lady still lives there, never having moved from
that now beautiful location, which on that dreary March morning in 1839 was an
unbroken wilderness, Her husband died July 23, 1857. She was married December
15, 1858, b. John H. Jones, a native of Virginia, born in September, 1807. He
died February 16, 1872. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Baptist Church and a
very intelligent lady; although now in the seventy-second year of her age, is
remarkably well preserved both mentally and physically. She has passed through
the many stages of development of Grundy county from its first beginning up to
its present prosperity. She settled here when this was a wilderness inhabited
only by Indians and wild animals. As an incident of courage and the realities
of pioneer life we give the following: One morning in 1839, while Mr. Simpson,
her husband, was attending the land sales she treed a catamount and kept it
treed until her sister went after "Uncle Billy Cornwell" to come and shoot it,
which was successfully done. This Christian lady is certainly entitled to
stand in the front rank of the old pioneers. Her sister Elizabeth was born in
Kentucky in 1891, and married O. P. White, a native of Illinois, born in 1819.
The family of Mr. White have long kept house for Mrs. Jones, and she still
resides with them. Mr. and Mrs. White have five children; namely, William,
born September 8, 1841; Sophia, born August 3, 1844; Sarah E., born November
8,1847, died January 8, 1861; James O., born October 4, 1850; Eliza C., born
July 22, 1855; and Georgia A., born October 9, 1861.
This family biography is one of 424
biographies included in The History of Grundy County, Missouri published
in 1881. For the complete description, click here:
Grundy County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps
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