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Born 1831, Randolph county
From History of Ray County, Mo. (1881)
JACOB T. CRAVEN.
Is a native of North Carolina. He was born in Randolph county, that state, in the month of May, 1831. He was educated in the district schools of his father's neighborhood, and, after leaving school, began the work of farming, and this has been his chief occupation. In 1853 Mr. Craven was married to Miss Sarah Wright, also of Randolph county, North Carolina. They became the parents of four children, all now living, and two married. Three years after his marriage he removed to Nodaway county, Missouri, and entering and improving & farm there, lived upon it till the outbreak of the great civil war. Mr. Craven was among the first to
As printed in History of Ray County, Mo. (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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