VANCE BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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VANCE, I. M. - b: 1844 Fayette Co, OH
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 709
residence: Big Creek Twp

I. M. Vance, farmer and stock feeder, section 11, was born in Fayette County, 
Ohio, February 2, 1844. His parents, were B. H. Vance, born in Ohio in 1812, and 
Adeline (Myers) Vance, a native of the same state. The former was a farmer and 
stock dealer by occupation, and followed the stock business for a number of 
years. He removed with his family to Missouri in 1858 and located in Cooper 
County, where he lived about nine years, coming thence to Johnson County in 
1867 and to Henry County in 1868. I. M. Vance spent his youth on a farm. He was 
married in Cass County in March, 1870, to Miss Cyrena Cain, a native of Adams 
County, Illinois, but who was reared in Harrison County, Missouri. She was a 
daughter of Ephraim Cain. They have six children: Loella, Cora E., Anna Kate, 
Walter S., Frank and Henry B. Mr. Vance purchased and moved on his present farm 
in 1872. He has 183 acres of land, with 160 acres fenced and in a good state of 
cultivation, well improved, etc. He enlisted in April, 1863, in the Missouri State 
militia cavalry and served till discharged in September, 1865. He participated in 
the fights of Price's raid from the Osage to Jefferson City, some sixty days, with 
skirmishing every day, and he was also in a number of other important 
engagements.

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