PERSONS BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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PERSONS, Joseph O. - b: 1829 Genesee Co, NY
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 770
residence: Bear Creek Twp

Joseph O. Persons, farmer and stock raiser, section 34, was born in Genesee 
County, New York, July 13, 1829, and was the son of Joseph Persons, a native of 
Pennsylvania, and Betsy (Farwell) Persons, originally from New York. The former 
served in the war of 1812 and was wounded in the service and drew a pension 
until his death, which occurred in August, 1877. J. O. Persons divided his youthful 
days, until his sixteenth year, in his native county, between working on a farm 
and attending the common schools. In the fall of 1849 he went to Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, and clerked in a grocery store for three years. Having entered a piece 
of land in Dodge County, he commenced improving it but after working for six 
months he sold the place and went to Neosho, in the same county, and learned the 
tinner's trade, after which he embarked in the grocery business at that place and 
was appointed postmaster there. He continued in business for about eighteen 
years, and in 1869 he sold out and moved to Pierce County where he took a 
homestead and improved a farm, which after living upon it for nine years, he 
sold, and in the fall of 1878 came to Henry County, Missouri, and purchased where 
he now lives. Mr. Persons was married in Neosho, Wisconsin, January 9, 1854, to 
Miss Cornelia Haun, of New York. She died in Pierce County, Wisconsin, December 
4, 1873, leaving eight children: Alice E. (now the wife of D. Persons), Ella May, 
Dennis L., Alma V., (now Mrs. George Chapman), Francis H., Charles A., Reuben A. 
and James H. Mr. Persons was married in Neosho June 19, 1876, to Miss Louisa 
Wing, who was also born in New York. They are members of the M. E. Church. Mr. 
Persons served three years as justice of the peace in Neosho and also for eight 
years in Pierce County.

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